29 July: Talk by Jekaterina Mažara and Sabine Stoll at CogSci 2021
Weitere News
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Cultural macroevolution of musical instruments in South America; new paper by Chiara Barbieri, Anna Graff et al.
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Talk by Olivier Rüst on the acquisition of case systems in typologically diverse languages: Children gradually generalize abstract grammatical rules
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New paper on dependency length minimization by Jing, Blasi and Bickel in Language
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Keynote lecture by Sebastian Sauppe
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New papers by Chundra Cathcart and colleague
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Talk by Eva Huber on "Differences between inflectional and derivational morphology: a study based on the predictability in a distributional vector space" at KONVENS21
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Talk on the Jinghpaw lexicon by Kellen Parker van Dam
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Talk on the reduplication of intensifiers in Ollo (Laju) and Kasik (Khapa Nocte) by Kellen Parker van Dam
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New paper by Guanghao You, Balthasar Bickel, Moritz M. Daum, and Sabine Stoll
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Guanghao You defended his PhD thesis
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"Is there a typological profile of isolates?" - Talk at SLE21
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Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference: new paper in Sci. Rep.
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Grammatical typology traces population history beyond individual families: new paper in Sci. Adv.
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Next-generation areal linguistics: new paper in J. R. Soc. Interface
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Paper on "Testing the Relationship Between Looking Time and Choice Preference in Long-tailed Macaques" by Vanessa Wilson et al.
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15th August at ICSNL56: Talk on "Coargument Sensitivity in the Pacific Northwest" by David Inman
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16 July at IASCL 2021: Poster presentation by Jekaterina Mažara and Sabine Stoll
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Talk on "The exponence and development of plurals in Nuuchahnulth" by David Inman at ICSNL56
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Talk on "Comparing sketch acquisition grammars of Dene and Inuktitut" by Dagmar Jung and colleague
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A new link in the Pacific Rim languages? New paper by Bickel and colleagues in Linguistic Typology
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Talk on "Stress and stem allomorphy in the Romance perfectum: emergence, typology, and motivations of a symbiotic relation" by Borja Herce at ISMo2021
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Talk on "Open vs closed classes in Pamean and the predictability of inflectional systems" by Borja Herce and colleagues at AIMM5
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Talk on "Is there a typological profile of isolates" by Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and colleagues at SLE2021
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Talk on "The diachrony of inflection classes: what can information-theoretic measures and quantitative approaches contribute to historical linguistics?" by Balthasar Bickel and Borja Herce at SLE2021
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Talk on "Conceptual Interdependence in Language Description, Typology, and NLP: Examples from Nuuchahnulth" by David Inman
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Talk on "Referential choice in transitive clauses in Austronesian" by Stefan Schnell and colleague at ICAL15
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Talk on "Interpreting the archaeological record to calibrate Arawakan linguistic phylogenies" by Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and colleagues at SALSA XIII
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Talk on "Mapping linguistic areas: a preliminary case study in Amazonia" by Marine Vuillermet, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and colleagues at SALSA XIII
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Keynote by Sabine Stoll at UBL5
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Keynote by Balthasar Bickel at UBL5
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Rolf Hotz to start a PhD at the University of Sydney
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Yingqi Jing received SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellowship
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Talk on "Neuro Proto-language Reconstruction" by Carlo Meloni and colleagues at NAACL
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New paper by Vanessa Wilson on the effects of rearing and AVPR1a genotype on the presence of autistic-like traits in chimpanzees
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Sabine Stoll will give a Keynote on June 3, 2021 at the VILA 4 conference
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New paper on Ancient Greek by Florian Sommer
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Bickel and colleagues at this year's Cultural Evolution Society Conference
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Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Kellen Parker van Dam, David Inman, Marine Vuillermet, Balthasar Bickel and colleagues will give a talk at SALSA
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Talk on "Quantitative detection of cognacy in the predictive structure of inflection clases" by Borca Herce and Balthasar Bickel at SIGTYP
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New publication by Florian Sommer on Lithuanian reflexives and IE word
domains
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New paper by Ebru Ger: "Relation of Infants’ and Mothers’ Pointing to Infants’ Word Comprehension and Latency to Find Referents"
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New paper by Guanghao You, Moritz M. Daum, and Sabine Stoll: "Processing Causatives in First Language Acquisition: A Computational Approach"
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Piera Filippi will give a talk at the Pufendorfinstitute
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Rachel Weymuth defended her PhD thesis
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Ebru Ger defended her PhD thesis
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New book chapter by Sabine Stoll & Robert Schikowski
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André Müller defended his PhD thesis
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Wei-Wei Lee defended her PhD thesis
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SNFS Grant for Karin Stüber
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Dagmar Jung to give a guest lecture in Toronto
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A visual stimulus for eliciting associated motion: paper by Marine Vuillermet
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Special issue on Source-Goal (a)symmetries across languages: edited by Marine Vuillermet and Anetta Kopecka
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State of the art on Source-Goal (a)symmetries across languages: paper by Marine Vuillermet and colleague
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Keynote lecture by Nour Efrat-Kowalsky: "What modern distribution can tell us about the past: Evidence from the Ancient Near East"
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Talk by Olivier Rüst on the acquisition of case systems: Host – case combinations are gradually generalized
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Talk by Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi on the role of case during scene apprehension for speaking
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Cross-linguistic patterns of morpheme order reflect cognitive biases: paper by Carmen Saldaña
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Talk on Ancient Greek participles by Florian Sommer
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Corpus-based phonetics: new paper by Bickel and colleagues
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Neural signatures of ergativity in speech planning: new paper by department members
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Rigvedische Komposita in der rekursiven Satzverknüpfung: new paper by Scarlata and Widmer
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New paper on linguistic phylogeography
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Balthasar Bickel talk in Jerusalem
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Dagmar Jung to give talk on doing remote fieldwork at the 2021 SSILA meeting
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New paper by Edgar Suter "The Asmat-Muli languages of southwestern New Guinea"
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New paper by Sebastian Sauppe: "Speaking for seeing: Sentence structure guides visual event apprehension"
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New paper by Chundra Cathcart
"Disentangling dialects: a neural approach to Indo-Aryan historical phonology and subgrouping"
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New paper on historical German-Lithuanian language contact by Florian Sommer
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Chundra Cathcart, Andi Hölzl, Paul Widmer, Gerhard Jäger and Balthasar Bickel published the latest results from an SNSF project on Indo-Iranian noun phrases in Language Dynamics and Change
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Talk by Sabine Stoll on documenting language acquisition
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New paper by Piera Filippi on Emotional Voice Intonation and the Origins of Speech Processing and Word-Meaning Associations
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New Paper by Carmen Saldaña Gascon on learning biases in person-number linearization
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Call combinations in dwarf mongooses: department members combine linguistic and biological expertise in a new paper in Proc B
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Morphological structure can escape reduction effects from mass admixture of L2 speakers: new paper to appear in Studies in Language
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New Paper by Kellen Parker Van Dam
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New paper by Manuel Widmer
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New paper by Kellen Parker Van Dam
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Guanghao You is to present his work on "Processing causatives in first language acquisition A computational approach"
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Talk by Christian Ebert at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
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Special feature on ‘Celebrating Linguistic Diversity’ in the latest Research*eu magazine presenting ERC research of the ACQDIV project from Sabine Stoll and her group.
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New open access paper from Vanessa Wilson on macaque gaze responses to a virtual monkey
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New paper from Vanessa Wilson on the facial Width-to-Height ratio in chimpanzees and links to age, sex and personality
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Vanessa Wilson gave an invited online talk in Moritz Daum's lab in Zürich's Psychology department
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Vanessa Wilson gave a talk at the annual NeuZü Meeting in Neuchatel
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Beta version of the Zurich online edition of the Atharvaveda Paippalāda online
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Andreas Hölzl to give an invited talk in Prague
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Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi gave talk at “Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact” Workshop
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Talk by Carmen Saldana on August 1st 9.20h EST at this year’s 42nd Annual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, within the session called “Comparative and Cultural Cognition”.
Title: "Rational After All: Changes in Probability Matching Behaviour Across Time in Humans and Monkeys".
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Andreas Hölzl to give invited talk in Szeged
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"In search of isoglosses: continuous and discrete language embeddings in Slavic historical phonology" by Chundra Cathcart and Florian Wandl
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«NFS Evolving Language: ein nationaler Forschungsschwerpunkt zur Sprache» auf dem Blog der SAGW
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A bias towards category clustering: new Language paper by Mansfield, Stoll & Bickel
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«Reading Minds», Artikel über Balthasar Bickel im UZH Magazin 1/20
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«Die Gedanken wären dann nicht mehr frei», SRF 1 Echo der Zeit Podcast mit Balthasar Bickel
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«Können Computer bald unsere Gedanken lesen?» Tagesanzeiger Interview mit Balthasar Bickel und Anne-Lise Giraud zum NCCR Evolving Language
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«Gefährlich wie die Atombombe», Weltwoche Interview mit Balthasar Bickel und Anne-Lise Giraud zum NCCR Evolving Language
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New publication by Anna Jancso, Steven Moran, and Sabine Stoll on the ACQDIV Corpus Database.
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New paper from Mael Leroux and Simon Townsend on call combinations in great apes and the evolutionary origins of syntax
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Dagmar Jung receives 4-year grant to continue work with Dene
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Austroasiatic syntax in areal and diachronic perspective
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Interview with Balthasar Bickel on the NCCR Evolving Language
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First treebank of Vedic Sanskrit released
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Kellen van Dam gave talk at NEILS
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New publication by Steven Moran
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New publications by Yoko Yamazaki
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New publications by Natalia Chousou-Polydouri
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New publication by Steven Moran and Christian Chiarcos
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Merry Christmas!
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New publication by Florian Sommer
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New publication by Natalia Chousou-Polydouri
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NCCR "Evolving Language" approved
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TV report on Blasi et al. (2019)
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New publication by Andreas Hölzl
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Andreas Hölzl gave invited talk at Freie Universität Berlin
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New publication by IVS members Stefan Dedio and Paul Widmer in collaboration with Peter Ranacher in Language:
Evidence for Britain and Ireland as a linguistic area
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Balthasar Bickel to give lecture and teach workshop at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima
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Yoko Yamazaki to give talk in Stockholm
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Steven Moran elected to board of eLinguistics Foundation
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New publication by Sascha Völlmin
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Svenja Bonmann gave talk in Cologne
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Sabine Stoll to give talks at Harvard and MIT
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Department members @ BUCLD, Boston
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Department member TP Dr. Carlotta Viti appointed full professor for Ancient Languages and Cultures at Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai Campus)!
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New co-authored publication by Dagmar Jung
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Florian Sommer gave a talk in Birštonas
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IVS at UZH Agreement Conference
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Welcome to Dr. Sakine Çabuk at IVS
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Andreas Hölzl to give invited talk at University of Munich
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New research from IVS members Sabrina Engesser and Simon Townsend, published in PNAS, sheds light on the building blocks of bird vocalisations
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Yoko Yamazaki to give talk at conference "Issues in Baltic Linguistics"
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Florian Sommer teaching at JeSSIE
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Mathias Jenny, Hiram Ring, Wei-Wei Lee and other members of the V1 project team are giving talks at the 8th ICAAL in Chiang Mai, August 29-31, 2019
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Bickel and Stoll to teach courses at Autumn School
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Welcome to new department members!
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IVS members at ALT 2019 (Pavia)
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IVS members at SLE 2019 (Leipzig)
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Article on Sabine Stoll’s research on comparative language development in Schweizer Familie
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Damián Blasi teaches a course in "Quantitative Typology" at a Winter School organized by the Department of Linguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
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You & Mažara to present @ ICLC / Nishinomiya
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IVS @ Association for Computation Linguistics Conference!
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Jekaterina Mažara presented @ CogSci / Montreal
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New Publication by Jekaterina Mažara and Sabine Stoll
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New publication on speech planning in dialogue by Sebastian Sauppe
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IVS at ICHL 24 in Canberra
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Bickel gave a keynote on morphological dependencies at Surrey
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Keynote by Sabrina Engesser at the University of Tokyo
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New publications by Mathias Jenny
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Stefan Dedio, Paul Widmer and Peter Ranacher (Geography Department UZH) developed a method for quantifying area formation processes.
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Keynote by Sabrina Engesser at ENS Paris
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IG-Arbeitstagung Ljubljana: Talks by Florian Sommer and Yoko Yamazaki
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Hiram Ring, Mathias Jenny, Wei-Wei Lee and Rachel Weymuth to present at SEALS
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Sonja Schnabel successfully defended her PhD
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Chundra Cathcart to give talk at Bayes@Lund
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New publication by Steven Moran
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Johanna Nichols to give talk at UZH on 24 April 2019, 14.00h
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Manuel Widmer to give talk in Vienna
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Mathias Jenny to teach workshop at the Yangon University of Foreign Languages
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Wei-Wei Lee and Rachel Weymuth gave talk in Helsinki
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Steven Moran to give co-authored presentation in Helsinki
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Newly advertised research positions at the Department of Comparative Linguistics
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An article by Nick Lester entitled,
"That's hard: Relativizer use in spontaneous L2 speech"
was just published in the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research.
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Publication in Science by author team including Damián Blasi, Steven Moran, Paul Widmer, and Balthasar Bickel
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Steven Moran and Daniel McCloy (eds.) publish PHOIBLE 2.0 database (phoible.org)
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Mathias Jenny, Hiram Ring, and André Müller to give talks at the AAS, Denver
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Co-authored publication by Chundra Cathcart selected for inclusion in "The Best of Language: Volume III"
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New volume on grammatical relations by Bickel and Witzlack-Makarevich
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Bickel joins editorial board of the Journal of Linguistics
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Nick Lester invited to teach courses at summer school
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Manuel Widmer gave invited talk in Tübingen
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Mathias Jenny to give two invited talks at the University of Yangon
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Department features at 32nd CUNY Human Sentence Processing conference with three posters
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Dagmar Jung presented her paper 'How to negate in Dene Suline' at SSILA/LSA
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New paper by Florian Sommer on the morphology of definiteness marking in Baltic (open access)
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Francesco Gardani to give talk at the 29th Congrès international de linguistique et philologie romanes in Copenhagen
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Francesco Gardani to give talk at ICHL24 in Canberra
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Florian Sommer defended PhD thesis
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Manuel Widmer to give presentation in Brussels
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Paul Widmer published paper on Tocharian
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Rik van Gijn receives ERC Consolidator grant
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The SNSF awards a 4-year SINERGIA grant “Out of Asia: Linguistic
Diversity and Population History” to a consortium of GIScientists,
geneticists and linguists, including IVS members Paul Widmer and
Balthasar Bickel. The project will start next year.
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The Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich, has signed an MoU with the Department of Linguistics, Yangon University of Foreign Languages, Myanmar.
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Master's program Evolutionary Linguistics approved by the Executive Board of the University of Zürich
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Steven Moran and Antonio Benítez-Burraco publish free Ebook "The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity"
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Steven Moran and Sabine Stoll presented their paper 'Variation sets in maximally diverse languages' at BUCLD
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Sabine Stoll gave talk at Neuroscience Center (U Geneva) on 'Language acquisition in maximally diverse languages'
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New paper: "Sanskrit Word Segmentation Using Character-level Recurrent and
Convolutional Neural Networks".
Authors: Oliver Hellwig and Sebastian Nehrdich (Hamburg)
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Manuel Widmer to give talk in Pavia
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New paper from Stuart Watson and Simon Townsend on the information content of wolf howls
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Michele Loporcaro, Francesco Gardani, and Alberto Giudici to give talk at Going Romance in Utrecht
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New paper by Francesco Gardani in Language and Linguistics Compass
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New SNSF grant on ergativity
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Francesco Gardani was elected member of the Executive Committee of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
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Damián Blasi taught a course on data science at NTNU
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Steven Moran and colleague published editorial "The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity" as part of their edited volume in Frontiers in Psychology
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New publications by Andreas Hölzl 2018
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Andreas Hölzl and colleague organized workshop on Tungusic language family at SLE51
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Pied babbler paper makes Editor’s Choice in Behavioral Ecology
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Sabine Stoll to give two talks at WEF Meeting of New Champions in Tianjin, China
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Paul Widmer gives talk at workshop in Lausanne co-organized by groups from the Sorbonne, UMR Orient & Mediterranée, U Lausanne, and IVS
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Steven Moran and colleagues organized workshop at SLE51
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Steven Moran, Sebastian Sauppe, Nicholas Lester and Sabine Stoll presented at SLE51
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Fieldwork activities and workshops at YUFL in connection with Mathias Jenny's project on Burmese TV
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New paper on the drivers of linguistic diversity in Proc Roy Soc B by Bickel and colleagues
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New paper on the evolution of syntax by department members in PLoS Biology
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Mathias Jenny giving talk at the 13th International Burma Studies Conference in Bangkok
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Bickel gives keynote at a conference on «Morphosyntactic Misfits»
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Steven Moran interviewed for the Language Science Press blog
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Steven Moran and Michael Cysouw have published open source book "The Unicode Cookbook for linguists: Managing writing systems using orthography profiles"
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New paper on 'Meaning-refining acoustic variation in pied babbler recruitment cries' by Sabrina Engesser, Simon Townsend, et al.
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Bickel to give a plenary at the conference “Typology and Universals in Word Formation IV”
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Mathias Jenny, Hiram Ring and Wei-Wei Lee to teach "Basics of field methods" at Yangon University of Foreign Languages and University of Mandalay (Myanmar)
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The Swiss Paippalāda Project to hold workshop in Zurich on 21/22 June 2018
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Chundra Cathcart to present paper at 34th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, June 21, in Konstanz, Germany
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Thomas Zehnder hält einen Gastvortrag auf der Indologie der Uni Tübingen
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Hiram Ring and Mathias Jenny gave a talk titled "Toward reconstruction of Austroasiatic syntax" at the 28th SEALS conference in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on May 17, 2018
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Nouns slow down speech: newly discovered universal of language processing published by Bickel and colleagues in PNAS
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Steven Moran to present three co-authored papers at 11th Edition of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) in Miyazaki, Japan
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Francesco Gardani to deliver plenary talk at the 13th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting
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Francesco Gardani gave a talk on “Verb aspect borrowing in Istro-Romanian” at Stony Brook University
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The following papers by Chundra Cathcart appeared:
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Several department members to present at 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG) in Torun, Poland
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Florian Sommer and Paul Widmer give keynote at "A corpus and
usage-based approach to Ancient Greek: from the Archaic period until the
Koiné"
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Sabine Stoll talks about Citizen Science in Linguistics
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Thematic issue edited by Katarzyna Janic et al. published
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Manuel Widmer interviewed by SRF on occasion of the International Mother Language Day
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Mathias Jenny to give invited talk Yangon University of Foreign Languages (YUFL)
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New project and two new colleagues at the IVS
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New publication co-authored by Paul Widmer on clause linkage in Middle Welsh
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Mathias Jenny organizes panel on "Changing Environments: Language and Society in Myanmar"
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New publication by Stefan Dedio and Paul Widmer on Old and Middle Irish
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Bickel, Stoll and Gardani lecturing at COEDL
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Bickel to give plenary at ALS Anniversary Conference
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Talks by department members at ALS
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Several talks by IVS members at ALT
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Mathias Jenny to give talk on "Verb initial structures as an archaic feature of Austroasiatic" at the ALT conference
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Mathias Jenny to give talk titled "In search of Austroasiatic - word order and clause structure" at University of Potsdam
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Sebastian Sauppe and Rik van Gijn receive funding for pilot project
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New publication by Paul Widmer on Tocharian
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National Geographic Explorer grant awarded to Sebastian Sauppe
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New paper by Sebastian Sauppe on German sentence production
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New research project sponsored by SNSF
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New book by Manuel Widmer
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DAI workshop to take place on 9 October 2017
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Vorträge von Mitgliedern des IVS auf dem "33. Deutschen Orientalistentag, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena"
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Stefan Dedio, Francesco Gardani, Peter Ranacher, Paul Widmer gave two talks at the workshop "New Approaches to Brittonic historical Linguistics"
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5'000 books into the NEBIS catalog until 31st August 2017
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“Borrowed Morphology”, edited by Francesco Gardani, Peter Arkadiev & Nino Amiridze, goes paperback
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Damián Blasi gave an invited talk at "Statistics of language: therories and experiments"
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New publication by Francesco Gardani
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Stefan Dedio, Manuel Widmer and Paul Widmer to give talks at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in San Antonio, Texas
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New publication by Manuel Widmer & Marius Zemp
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New paper from Simon Townsend on the dwarf mongoose alarm call system
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New paper from Sabrina Engesser and Simon Townsend on pied babbler call combinations
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Balthasar Bickel to give talk on the scope of evolutionary biases in language
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Charlotte Schweri defended PhD thesis
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New publication by Mathias Jenny
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Bickel to give a talk at an MPI Nijmegen workshop on new questions and methods in linguistics.
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Mathias Jenny to teach introductory courses in linguistics as visiting lecturer at the University of Mawlamyine, Myanmar.
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Talk by Bob Ladd and Stephan Schmid at PaPE
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Talks by Alys Boote Cooper and André Müller at the Chulalongkorn International Student Symposium on Southeast Asian Linguistics
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Mathias Jenny, Alys Boote Cooper & Paul Widmer gave talk at conference "Contact-driven multilingual practices"
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Talk by Stephan Schmid at ICLaVE 9
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AUTOTYP database released!
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Steven Moran gave a talk at the 25th Manchester Phonology Meeting
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Talk by Florian Sommer in Halle
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Stephan Schmid co-author of new paper on speech perception
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Damián Blasi gave invited talk at ENS
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New professor at the department: Welcome to Simon Townsend!
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New publication by Bickel on linguistic areas and universals
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Bickel and Derungs at Monte Verità Conference on Spatial Boundaries and Transitions
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Keynote by Damián Blasi at Paris-Sorbonne
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Florian Sommer giving invited talk in Bern
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IDG new paper
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Am 20. und 21. April halten mehrere Mitglieder des IVS Vorträge
auf dem 3. Indogermanistischen Forschungskolloquium in Wien
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Library network 'Bibliotheksverbund Platte' launched! Improved opening hours (Mon-Fri, 9-17) and facilities for students and staff
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Inaugural talk by Mathias Jenny on "Southeast Asian linguistic landscapes - unity in diversity", April 3, 2017, 18:15.
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New publication by Paul Widmer on argument selection and the
morphosyntax of the Breton and Brittonic verbal complex
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Stefan Dedio, Paul Widmer to present workshop paper at 23rd International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Thessaloniki)
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Phonetic variation in contemporary Spanish
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An article with the title "How Society Shapes Language: Personal Pronouns in the Greater Burma Zone" by André Müller and Rachel Weymuth has recently been published in "Asiatische Studien - Éudes Asiatiques" (Volume 71, Issue 1).
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Balthasar Bickel to give keynote at Conference on Phylogenetics Methods
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Language and Migration
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Balthasar Bickel in the UZH Magazin
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Rik van Gijn gives inaugural lecture
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PAZ in the Press
The Ticinese newspaper “Giornale del Popolo“ published a full paper report in its weekend issue of the 25th of February on the latest publication of the Phonogram Archives
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Mathias Jenny, Volker Dellwo, Paul Widmer to present their research at
Mandalay University, Myanmar
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Workshop „Linguistic diversity meets the brain“ to be held at IVS, 15-17 May 2017
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Recursion in language evolution: new paper by IVS team accepted by "Language”
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Stephan Schmid to present at AISV in Pisa
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Upcoming workshop on diachronic morphology (DIAMOR) organized by IVS members
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Michele Loporcaro and Francesco Gardani editors-in-chief of the new Oxford encyclopedia of Romance linguistics
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Sebastian Sauppe published a paper on the timing of turn-taking in dialogue
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SLE accepts all 5 workshops proposed by IVS departent members
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Damián Blasi gives invited talk at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany
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Bickel, Moran and Blasi give talks at workshop on genetics and animal vocal communication / human language
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Damian Blasi held an invited talk at TedLab at MIT
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Damian Blasi held a Plenary talk at the Colloquium "The Grammar of Body Parts" at the PUCP in Lima, Perú
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Damian Blasi held a course on Phylogenetic Methods at the PUCP in Lima, Perú
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New edited volume on switch reference by Rik van Gijn and Jeremy Hammond
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Paper by Damian Blasi et al is reported on in Nature
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New department member: Yingqi Jing
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Camilla Bernardasci and Stephan Schmid publish two new research articles
in Studi AISV.
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New publication by the Greater Burma Zone team:
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Phoneticians in Munich
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On 27 October 2016, Camilla Bernardasci presents the new publication of the Phonogram Archives: "Stòri, stralüsc e stremizzi. Registrazioni dialettali nella Svizzera italiana“
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4 new SNSF grants (100% success rate!) at IVS
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Three new department members: Katarzyna Janic, Tim Aufderheide, and Urban Zihlmann
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Balthasar Bickel and Taras Zakharko present new design principle for typological databases at PLM 2016
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Damián Blasi and colleagues published a paper in PNAS: "Sound–meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages".
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Florian Sommer and Paul Widmer to give presentations at the conference
“Back to the Root - The Structure, Function, and Semantics of the PIE
Root” (15. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft) in Vienna.
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Balthasar Bickel to give invited talk at Europen Summer School Workshop on Optional and Differential Case Marking
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Lithuanian-Swiss cooperation programme workshop in Zurich
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New encyclopedia entry on linguistic areas by Rik van Gijn and Pieter
Muysken
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Patrick McCormick held a talk on September 5th 2016 at the University of Chiang Mai
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Mathias Jenny and Paul Widmer to present papers at ICAAL workshop
"Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective" in Chiang
Mai.
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IVS members teaching at Porquerolles
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Stoll and Bickel contribute to a paper on intentionality in animal communication
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Dieter Studer-Joho and Adrian Leeman dialect experts on sf1 Einstein (25.08.16)
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Big show of the department at SLE 2016
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New paper on the role of prosody and word length in Middle Breton
versification by Paul Widmer
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Steve Moran gives talk "Quantitative Analysis of Dogon" at the Mini African Symposium at MPI for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.
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Just out! The brand new Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages
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Damián Blasi co-authored a paper on a large cultural, linguistic and ecological database D-Place
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Romance linguists in Rome: Camilla Bernardasci, Stefano Negrinelli, Diego Pescarini, Serena Romagnoli and Stephan Schmid to present at
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Damián Blasi co-authored a paper on a large cultural, linguistic and ecological database D-Place
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Mathias Jenny is teaching a course on "Introduction to linguistics and linguistic fieldwork for anthropologists" at the Mandalay University, Myanmar, August 1-12, 2016.
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Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell, in cooperation with the Myanmar Center, Chiang Mai University, are organizing a workshop on "Austroasiatic syntax in areal and diachronic perspective" at Chiang Mai University, Thailand, September 5-7, 2016.
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Balthasar Bickel elected President of the Linguistic Society of Switzerland and member of the Academia Europaea
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Several members of the IVS are giving talks at the 9th Days of Swiss Linguistics in Geneva on June 29 to July 1, 2016
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André Müller to give a talk titled "Mehrsprachigkeit bei den Kachin: wer spricht eigentlich was?"
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Mathias Jenny to give a talk titled "Sprachkontakt in Myanmar - die Rolle peripherer Sprachen und Völker"
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Balthasar Bickel to give a guest lecture in Mainz
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New paper by Karnthida Kerdpol
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Damián Blasi to give talk "What quantitative methods can do for the study of cross-linguistic patterns" at U Leipzig on 22 June 2016.
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New paper by Bickel & Zúñiga in press on what a 'word' might be (or not!) in polysynthetic languages.
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Per Baumann defended PhD thesis
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Steven Moran and colleagues to present the paper, "The Open Linguistics Working Group: Developing the Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud", at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016)
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Steven Moran, Robert Schikowski, Danica Pajović, Cazim Hysi and Sabine Stoll to present the paper "The ACQDIV Database: Min(d)ing the Ambient Language" at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016)
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Stephan Schmid gives lecture on Swiss-German Ethnolects at Université de Fribourg, 20.05.2016
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New publication on Hittite by Paul Widmer and Florian Sommer
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Marie-José Kolly presented a poster on intercoder reliability at r-atics 5
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Mathias Jenny and Patrick McCormick to give talks on "Verb-initial word order in Austroasiatic" and "Mainland Southeast Asia as a linguistic area" at the 26th SEALS conference in Manila
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Introduction to Old Prussian
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Stephan Schmid invited participant in workshop on the Spanish-speaking community in Switzerland at the University of Lausanne
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Sabine Stoll to give a talk on April 20 at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (UZH) on 'Universal principles in language acquisition: a new crosslinguistic approach’.
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Stephan Schmid invited participant at workshop on „Dialect Acquisition and Migration“ in Oslo
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Paul Widmer, Michiel de Vaan and Florian Sommer gave talks at the workshop "Historical and typological approaches to Baltic morphosyntax" in Vilnius.
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Mathias Jenny to give a talk on "Word order in Austroasiatic - what about verb-initial?" at the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, on April 14, 2016
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Paul Widmer co-authors a talk by Erich Poppe: “Middle Welsh Verbal Nouns and their Constructions. Some Variables for Classification”
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New paper on hierarchical agreement and co-argument sensitivity by Bickel and colleagues
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Patrick McCormick to give three talks in Seattle, WA (USA)
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Manuel Widmer to give a talk at the workshop "The development of argument-marking systems" in Nijmegen, March 31 – April 1
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New publication co-authored by Paul Widmer and Jürg Fleischer (Marburg)
on gender, agreement, and agreement morphology in Old and Modern Frisian
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New D-A-CH grant on the Typology of Vowel and Consonant Quantity in Southern German varieties
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Damián Blasi to give talk at Santa Fe Institute
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Manuel Widmer to give a talk at the Symposium on evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement in Stockholm
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Presentation at EVOLANG on animal syntax
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Marie-José Kolly successfully defended her PhD thesis on „The influence of speaker origin and individuality on rhythmic features of non-native speech“
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Mathias Jenny, Patrick McCormick, André Müller and Rachel Weymuth to give talks in panel "Rethinking the relationship between language and identity in Burma and beyond" (convenor: Patrick McCormick)
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Michele Loporcaro and Stephan Schmid invited speakers at workshop on sound change in Salamanca
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New publication by Mathias Jenny and San San Hnin Tun
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Linguistics and Genetics Workshop in March
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Commentary published in the Journal of Language Evolution by Steven Moran
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New paper by Damián Blasi and colleagues in the Journal of Language Evolution
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New article by Jekaterina Mazara & Sabine Stoll
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Two new projects launched: Processing of Ergativity and Morphology in Time and Space
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New department members: Sebastian Sauppe, Michèle Kolačková and Stefan Dedio
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Successful habilitation by Mathias Jenny
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New paper by Stephan Schmid on the borrowability of bound morphemes in language contact
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New paper by Bickel and colleagues on hierarchical alignment
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Stephan Schmid to give presentation on "VOT in L2 German“
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Stephan Schmid to give presentation on „Differenzierungsprozesse im Sprachgebrauch von Jugendlichen in der Deutschschweiz“ at the Colloque VALS-ASLA 2016 in Geneva
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Successful habilitation by Rik Van Gijn
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New publication by Leemann, Kolly, Purves, Britain, and Glaser on using smartphone apps for crowdsourcing language change
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New paper by Balthasar Bickel on large and ancient linguistic areas
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Phonogram Archives on the Radio
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Guest: Penny Brown
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Guests: Shanley Allen and Mary Elliott
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Special issue of Linguistic Discovery and two papers by Rik van Gijn
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Florian Sommer and Paul Widmer are granted funds by the Lietuvos Mokslo Taryba (Lithuanian Research Council)
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Daniel Friedrichs to give invited talks at University of Cambridge and UCL Speech Science Forum
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Damiàn Blasi gave talk in Cambridge at the Department of Phonetics
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Publication by Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly on the effect of dialect imitation on speech rhythm
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New book edited by Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Stephan Schmid & Volker Dellwo
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Patrick McCormick to give talk on “A Mon past for a modern nation: writing a minority history into and out of Burma" at St Anthony's College and SOAS
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Mathias Jenny receives ETH Global seed money for cooperation in research and teaching with Mandalay University (Myanmar)
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Florian Sommer and Paul Widmer to give presentations at the 12th International Congress of Balticists in Vilnius
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Balthasar Bickel to give keynote talk at conference on phylogenetic algorithms in linguistics
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27.10.2015 UNESCO World Day of Audiovisual Heritage: "Geschichten aus dem Dorfleben von Diepoldsau"
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Programme workshop Inheritance Hierarchies in Morphology online
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New publication by Rik van Gijn and colleagues on subordination strategies in Tupian languages
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Sandra Auderset and Manuel Widmer at Transalpine Typology Meeting in Lyon
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Damián Blasi, Steven Moran, and Sabine Stoll present at CRNS in Lyon
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Paul Widmer to give keynote at Arbeitstagung "100 Jahre Entzifferung des Hethitischen"
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Florian Sommer to present paper at European Conference of Iranian Studies
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New publication on Chintang by Robert Schikowski, Netra P. Paudyal, and Balthasar Bickel
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IVS at Scientifica
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New (temporary) help in our administration
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Damian Blasi, Manuel Widmer, Piar Karim, and Jekaterina Mažara to join our scientific staff
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5 talks by department members at SLE 2015
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Bickel and colleages to give talk on orangutan communication
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Balthasar Bickel to give plenary at Sino-Tibetan conference
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New paper by Bickel and colleages on how the brain shapes grammar
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10-14 August 2015: Phoneticians in Glasgow
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Workshop on inheritance hierarchies in morphology
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André Müller and Rachel Weymuth to give a talk
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Mathias Jenny to give a talk 6th International Conference on Austroasiatic Languages
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Mathias Jenny to give a talk at International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies
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New paper by Daniel Friedrichs and colleagues
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New paper on evolutionary trends in agreement system by Balthasar Bickel and colleagues
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New publication by Rik van Gijn
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New publication by Rik van Gijn
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ACQDIV kickoff workshop a success
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Edisyn VIII co-organized by Florian Sommer and Dieter Studer-Joho
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New publication by Paul Widmer
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Two talks in Sweden by Sabine Stoll
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Talk on reusing corpora by Robert Schikowski and Steven Moran
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New publication by Paul Widmer together with Jürg Fleischer and Elisabeth Rieken
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Mathias Jenny to give four talks at CRLAO/EHESS
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Balthasar Bickel to give guest lecture at U Stockholm
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Steven Moran and colleagues publish new online database 'Tsammalex'
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André Müller to give talk at SEALS
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Mathias Jenny to give talk at SEALS
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Balthasar Bickel to give talk at an interdisciplinary workshop on nativism in Edinburgh
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Interdisciplinary Workshop on Vocal Accomodation
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Paul Widmer and Florian Sommer to give a talk at the meeting of the Editing Avestan network in Berlin
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New SNF Grant on the Processing of Ergative Structures
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New publication by Mathias Jenny: "Syntactic diversity and change in Austroasiatic languages"
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Steven Moran presenting with Garland McNew "Visualizing WALS (and other) data"
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Seven members of the department to give talks at conference on linguistic diversity
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Research of the ERC Project ACQDIV on Aboriginal TV in Canada
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New project awarded by the SNF to Michele Loporcaro and Sabine Stoll
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Volker Dellwo on SRF "Kulturplatz Schweiz“
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Bickel to give invited talk at conference on causality in the language sciences
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New publication by Mathias Jenny
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Conference on Indo-European linguistics in Erlangen co-organized by Florian Sommer
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Mathias Jenny is to give a talk as invited speaker at the "Seminar on Language and Dialect Continuum in Myanmar"
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Dagmar Jung and Steve Moran will present a talk on "Documenting typological diversity for real: the need of language acquisition studies"
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Sprachgeschichte, in Schellack gepresst
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ZüKL-Podcast on speech rhythm with Stephan Schmid
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New paper by Stoll and colleagues on syntactic mixing
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New paper by Volker Dellwo and colleagues
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New paper co-authored by Volker Dellwo
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New paper by Volker Dellwo and colleagues
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Volker Dellwo will give a talk on "Can we identify speakers based on their rhythm?"
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Mathias Jenny is to give a talk on "Structural divergence in Burmese varieties"
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Stephan Schmid and Camilla Bernardasci to present at AISV 2015
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'Voice Äpp' by the UZH Phonetics Lab launched
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New paper co-authored by Paul Widmer on syntactic ambiguity in Middle Welsh
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New paper co-authored by Rik van Gijn on approaches to linguistic areas
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The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages edited by Mathias Jenny & Paul Sidwell published
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New paper by Salvatore Scarlata and Paul Widmer accepted for publication
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New paper challeinging the universality of referential hierarchies by Balthasar Bickel and colleagues
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New articles by Paul Widmer and Florian Sommer published
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Dr. Dr. Ilya S. Yakubovich to visit the Indo-European Studies
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Balthasar Bickel and Sabine Stoll to visit the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
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Sabine Stoll to give guest lecture at MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
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New paper on reduplication in Yurakaré by Rik van Gijn
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New paper co-authored by Florian Sommer
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New chapter on complexity by Steven Moran and Damián Blasi
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Jeffrey Heath visiting
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New book on phonological typology
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CfP workshop co-organized by Rik van Gijn
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New publication co-authored by Rik van Gijn
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Mathias Jenny, Patrick McCormick & André Müller will give a talk on "Tracing Patterns of Contact and Movement in the Greater Burma Zone"
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Sabine Stoll to present her research at SNF Tour de Suisse
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Research of Sabine Stoll on comparative language acquisition featured in the UZH magazine
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New publication by Rik van Gijn in Morphology
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New paper on the areal development of antipassives as first person object markers in the Himalays accepted for publication
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New paper on areas and universals by Balthasar Bickel accepted for publication
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New handbook chapter on language universals by Balthasar Bickel
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PHOIBLE by Steven Moran et al. released
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Department members to give talks at the IDG conference in Paris
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Workshop on "Partitivity in Romance and beyond" organised by Giorgio Iemmolo funded by SNF
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Department members give talks at the SLE conference in Poznań
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ACQDIV takes off
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Giorgio Iemmolo at SWL6 in Pavia, Italy
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Sabine Stoll appointed professor; starts ERC project
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Elena Lieven is visiting the Psycholinguistics Laboratory
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New publication: "Transitivity and affectedness in Mon" written by Dr. Mathias Jenny
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The paper "Speaker-individuality in Fujisaki model f0 features: implications for forensic voice comparison" was accepted by the International Journal of Speech Language and the Law
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Newar course
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The paper "The influence of speaking rate on Fujisaki model parameters" was accepted by the EURASIP Journal
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Emily Bender visiting
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Paul Widmer and Florian Sommer will give a talk at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
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Mathias Jenny to give plenary talk on Myanmar and Thailand
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Matilde Vida Castro is visiting the Phonetics Laboratory
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Johanna Nichols visiting
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New publication on language evolution
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8th Days of Swiss Linguistics at UZH
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Paul Sidwell visiting
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Balthasar Bickel to give talk at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
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Department of Comparative Linguistics to celebrate its foundation
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Volker Dellwo and Stephan Schmid at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid)
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Balthasar Bickel invited speaker at a conference on “Linguistic Microareas in South Asia”
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Stephan Schmid gives talk in Spain
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Sabine Stoll’s ERC project featured in the UZH News
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Giorgio Iemmolo invited speaker at the Conference "The diachronic typology of differential case marking"
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Visit by Noun-To-Verb-Ratio (NTVR) project team
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New book on South American languages with three papers by Rik van Gijn
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Special issue of 'Linguistics' edited by Giorgio Iemmolo
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Diana Schackow defended PhD thesis
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Mark Aronoff visiting our institute
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Harald Hammerström visiting our institute
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Robert Forkel visiting our institute
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New book co-edited by Rik van Gijn
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New publication by Leemann, Kolly, Werlen, Britain and Studer-Joho
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Balthasar Bickel to give plenary talk
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Article by Adrian Leemann, Volker Dellwo and Marie-José Kolly to be published in Forensic Science International
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Paper by Leemann, Dellwo, Kolly and Schmid at Speech Prosody 2014
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Paper by Leemann, Kolly and Dellwo at Speech Prosody 2014
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Talks by members of the department in New Delhi, India, February 17-19
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New paper by Roland Litscher published
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New paper by Marie-José Kolly and Volker Dellwo published
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New paper by Balthasar Bickel and colleagues accepted for publication
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Paul Widmer named professor of Comparative Indo-European Studies
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Sabine Stoll receives prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant
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Steven Moran giving talk at Dynamique du language (CRNS)
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Article by Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel published
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Article by Sabine Stoll and Elena Lieven published
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Article by Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel published
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Article by Sabine Stoll and Edith Bavin published
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Article by Mathias Jenny and San San Hnin Tun published
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New book co-edited by Sabine Stoll on acquisition of ergativity
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New book co-edited by Balthasar Bickel released
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Steven Moran giving talk at University of Stockholm
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Article by Giorgio Iemmolo in STUF – Language Typology and Universals
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Prof. Dr. Michele Loporcaro affiliated to General Linguistics
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New book co-edited by Sabine Stoll on acquisition of ergativity
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Kaius Sinnemäki visiting our institute
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Paul Sidwell visiting our institute
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Inter-university meeting on the Akan language
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Giorgio Iemmolo to give invited talk at the University of Leuven
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Robert Schikowski and Balthasar Bickel publish valency dictionary of Chintang
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Philippe Maurer co-publishes Atlas of Pidigin and Creole Languages
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Sabine Stoll to give talk at Freiburg workshop on language documentation
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Sabine Stoll to give guest lecture at University of Basel
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A new linguistic institute
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CfP workshop co-organized by Rik van Gijn on morphological complexity
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Tanja Samardžić and Hanna Ruch moving in
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Mathias Jenny receives a 3-year project grant from SNF
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Article by Bickel, Iemmolo, Zakharko, and Witzlack-Makarevich published
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Article by Steven Moran published
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Peter Trudgill visiting
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Rik van Gijn to give a talk at Meronym conference Mexico City
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Giorgio Iemmolo to give a talk at EACL8 in Paris
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Balthasar Bickel to give talk at 'The Cognitive Revolution 60 Years On'
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Two talks by members of the Department of General Linguistics at the 46th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split
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Giorgio Iemmolo and Rik van Gijn co-convenors of workshops at the 46th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split
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Steven Moran to present two papers at 2nd Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics in Pisa
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Sabine Stoll to give talk at conference 'From Hand to Mouth' in Zürich
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Balthasar Bickel to give talk at conference 'From Hand to Mouth' in Zürich
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Mathias Jenny to give talk at ICAAL 5 in Canberra
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Steven Moran at the 44th Poznań Linguistic Meeting
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Steven Moran to give talk at CALL in Leiden
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Zwei studentische Assistenzen gesucht
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Balthasar Bickel to give talk at Scientifica 2013
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General Linguistics at Scientifica 2013
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Steven Moran at ACL 2013 in Sofia
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Talks by members of the Department of General Linguistics at ALT10 in Leipzig
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Volker Dellwo, Agnes Kolmer, and Richard Wiese to host workshop at the 19th International Congress of Linguists in Geneva
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Tobias Weber to give talk at the 19th International Congress of Linguists in Geneva
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Sabine Stoll and Chintang Project in UZH News
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Steven Moran at Language Diversity Congress in Groningen
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Talk by Mathias Jenny at Chiangmai University
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Steven Moran and Jelena Prokic giving talk at the LIPP symposium on endangered languages
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New website on distributional typology launched
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Katharina Haude visiting our institute
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Mathias Jenny, Volker Dellwo, and Rachel Weymuth on YouTube
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Talk by Sabine Stoll at conference "Language Documentation"
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Article by Sabine Stoll in supplement of 'Spektrum der Wissenschaft'
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Workshop held by Volker Dellwo, Mathias Jenny, and Rachel Weymuth
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Keynote talk by Balthasar Bickel at conference "Language Documentation"
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Alena Witzlack-Makarevich receives honourable mention
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Workshop on "Landscape through the prism of language"
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Transalpine Typology Meeting
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Giorgio Iemmolo and Robert Schikowski at CASTL in Tromsø
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Taras Zakharko to give talk at ZAS in Berlin
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Three talks by members of the seminar at 23rd SEALS conference in Bankok
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Plenary talk by Mathias Jenny at the 23rd SEALS conference in Bangkok
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Alena Witzlack-Makarevich appointed junior professorship in Kiel
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Talk by Bill Foley
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Talk by Greville Corbett
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Talk by Katharina Haude
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Balthasar Bickel to give two talks at Charles University in Prague
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Sabine Stoll to give two talks at Charles University in Prague
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Taras Zakharko at the workshop on "Current Tendencies and Potentials in Language Documentation" in Campinas, Brazil
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Inventory of linguistic journals now available on the department library's homepage
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Interview with Volker Dellwo published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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"Dialäkt Äpp" by Mary-José Kolly and Adrian Leemann released
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Studentische Assistenz gesucht
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Ingrid Hove joins the department
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Giorgio Iemmolo and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich receive GRC for a workshop on landscape and language
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Workshop on Switch Reference organised by Rik van Gijn at next SLE
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Balthasar Bickel on the editorial board of “Journal of Linguistic Geography”
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Steven Moran co-author on a paper being presented at CUNY
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Publication by Steven Moran et al. in 'Language'
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Workshop organised by Giorgio Iemmolo at next SLE
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Steve Moran to present at "Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Areal Typology"
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Giorgio Iemmolo in Konstanz
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Talk by Paul Sidwell on "The Proto-Austroasiatic lexicon project"
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Talk by Seppo Kittilä on "Evidentiality in Finnish"
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Balthasar Bickel invited speaker at the KNAW Conference "Patterns of Diversification and Contact: a Global Perspective"
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Talk by Frank Zimmerer on "What massive reductions (do not) tell us"
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Mathias Jenny at the workshop on Mainland Southeast Asian Languages in Leipzig
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Steve Moran at the workshop on "Phylomemetic and Phylogenetic Approaches in the Humanities" in Bern
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Talk by Philippe Maurer on Portuguese-based creoles
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Giorgio Iemmolo at the workshop on "Clitics in Old Italian" in Pavia
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Two guest lectures by Nikolaus Himmelmann
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Balthasar Bickel at the workshop on "Phylomemetic and phylogenetic approaches in the humanities" in Bern
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Talk by Balthasar Bickel on linguistic diversity
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Giorgio Iemmolo awarded International Short Visit Grant from the SNF
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Workshop on simulation models for language change
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Steven Moran has joined the department
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Mathias Jenny to present a paper at the International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics
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Mathias Jenny presents a paper on Mon at the Austroasiatic workshop in Singapore
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Adrian Leemann, Volker Dellwo and Marie-José Kolly at Phonetik and Phonology 8 in Jena
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Fernando Zúñiga on Balckfoot in the UZH magazine
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Mathias Jenny to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Lanugages V in Dubrovnik
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Talk by Mathias Jenny on language contact and syntactic change in Zürich
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Keynote talk on diachronic universals of agreement systems by Balthasar Bickel
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Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Giorgio Iemmolo, Taras Zakharko and Balthasar Bickel to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Languages V
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Fernando Zúñiga to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Languages V
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Tobias Weber to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Languages V
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Tobias weber to present a paper on indirect diachronic explanations in typology
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Robert Schikowski to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Languages V
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National Science Foundation grant awarded
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Volker Dellwo, Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly to present paper on speaker identification
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Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly to present paper on the smartphone app "Dialäkt Äpp"
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Marie-José Kolly and Volker Dellwo to present paper on speech rhythm in foreign accents
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Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly to present paper on /l/-vocalization in Swiss German
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Postdoctoral research position
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Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel to present a paper at the workshop "Unpacking intentional communication in animals" in Zürich
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Taras Zakharko and Balthasar Bickel to present a paper at SLE 2012 in Stockholm
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Tobias Weber to present paper at SLE 2012 in Stockholm
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Mathias Jenny to present a paper at the SLE conference in Stockholm
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Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Balthasar Bickel and Fernando Zúñiga at SLE 2012
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Giorgio Iemmolo to present a paper at the SLE Conference in Stockholm
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Giorgio Iemmolo and Robert Schikowski at the EuroBABEL Final Conference
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Fernando Zúñiga appointed chair in linugistics at the University of Bern
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Two new publications by Balthasar Bickel
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Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel publish book chapter on "How to measure frequency?"
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Advanced student for research projected wanted
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Tobias Weber at the 12th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics
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Tobias Weber to present poster on non-canonical A marking
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Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Taras Zakharko to present paper on semantic role clustering
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Tobias Weber to present paper at SEALS conference
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Mathias Jenny to present paper at SEALS conference
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Stellenausschreibung
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Balthasar Bickel awarded 3-year grant by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
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Talk by Miriam Butt at the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium
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Talk by John Payne at the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium
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Paper by Giorgio Iemmolo on differential object marking in Chinese accepted for publication
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Giorgio Iemmolo awarded Postdoc grant
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Talk by Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky at the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium
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Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Giorgio Iemmolo at the "Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop" in Leipzig
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Talk by Johanna Nichols at the Linguistisches Forschungskolloquium
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Six new grants at the department!
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Talk by Sebastian Fedden
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Fernando Zúñiga invited speaker at LMU Munich
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Talk by Stefan Evert
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Talk by Sabine Stoll at the Linguistisches Forschungskolloquium
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Accepted for publication
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Accepted for publication
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Talk by Bruno Cartoni
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Guest lecture by Rik van Gijn
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Talk by Rik van Gijn (Nijmegen)
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Giorgio Iemmolo at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
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Guest lecture by Balthasar Bickel at LMU Munich
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Tobias Weber at the NEILS 7 conference
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Mathias Jenny at the NEILS 7 conference
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Fernando Zúñiga starts his SNSF Professorship
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Mathias Jenny promoted to Reader (Oberassistent)
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Giorgio Iemmolo defends his PhD thesis
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Sabine Stoll at the CLARIN project meeting in Cologne
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Balthasar Bickel is a discussant at this year's Nijmegen Lectures
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Reform of BA and MA curricula
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Talk by Walter Bisang (University of Mainz)
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Talk by Aris Xanthos
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Talk by Balthasar Bikel on multivariate typology at the Berner Zirkel für Sprachwissenschaft
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Plenarvortrag von Balthasar Bickel an der LDLT3 in London
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Vortrag von Balthasar Bickel an der Universität Genf
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Vortrag von Mathias Jenny bei der Siam Society in Bangkok
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Gastvortrag von Michael Cysouw
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Balthasar Bickel und Sabine Stoll am Workshop "Potentials of Language Documentation" in Leipzig
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Gastaufenthalt von David Denison
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Antrittsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
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Gastvortrag von Martin Haspelmath
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Wichtig: Tag der Lehre
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Vortrag von Taras Zakharko über ToolboxSearch am DoBeS Workshop Erfurt
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Vortrag von Mathias Jenny über Sprachkontaktphänomene in Burma
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Fernando Zúñiga Mitherausgeber der "Typological Studies in Language"
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Bibliothekskatalog online abrufbar
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Postdoc in Typologie
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Arbeitsstelle Psycholinguistik
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Stellenausschreibungen
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Neuer Seminarleiter
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Plenary talk at ALS by Sabine Stoll