2016
News list
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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 a Plenary talk at the Colloquium "The Grammar of Body Parts" at the PUCP in Lima, Perú
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Camilla Bernardasci and Stephan Schmid publish two new research articles in Studi AISV.
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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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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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Patrick McCormick held a talk on September 5th 2016 at the University of Chiang Mai
Title: Linguistic Evidence for Ethnic Origins: In Search of the “Unfindable”
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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
Balthasar Bickel and Sabine Stoll are teaching the courses "Cause and effects in the evolution of grammar" and "Language acquisition in a typological perspective" at the European Summer School in Linguistic Typology at Porquerolles, September 4 - 17, 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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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
For more information:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0158391
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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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New paper by Karnthida Kerdpol
New paper by Karnthida Kerdpol, Volker Dellwo, and Mathias Jenny published in "Manusya Journal of Humanities": Phonetic sources of sound change: the influence of Thai on nasality in Pwo Karen.
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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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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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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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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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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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Manuel Widmer to give a talk at the Symposium on evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement in Stockholm
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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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Two new projects launched: Processing of Ergativity and Morphology in Time and Space
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New paper by Stephan Schmid on the borrowability of bound morphemes in language contact
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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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New publication by Leemann, Kolly, Purves, Britain, and Glaser on using smartphone apps for crowdsourcing language change