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20 Dec 2018
New paper by Florian Sommer on the morphology of definiteness marking in Baltic (open access)
14 Dec 2018
Francesco Gardani to give talk at the 29th Congrès international de linguistique et philologie romanes in Copenhagen
14 Dec 2018
Francesco Gardani to give talk at ICHL24 in Canberra
12 Dec 2018
Florian Sommer defended PhD thesis
4 Dec 2018
Manuel Widmer to give presentation in Brussels
4 Dec 2018
Paul Widmer published paper on Tocharian
29 Nov 2018
Rik van Gijn receives ERC Consolidator grant
29 Nov 2018
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.
28 Nov 2018
The Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich, has signed an MoU with the Department of Linguistics, Yangon University of Foreign Languages, Myanmar.
14 Nov 2018
Master's program Evolutionary Linguistics approved by the Executive Board of the University of Zürich
12 Nov 2018
Steven Moran and Antonio Benítez-Burraco publish free Ebook "The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity"
5 Nov 2018
Steven Moran and Sabine Stoll presented their paper 'Variation sets in maximally diverse languages' at BUCLD
2 Nov 2018
Sabine Stoll gave talk at Neuroscience Center (U Geneva) on 'Language acquisition in maximally diverse languages'
30 Oct 2018
New paper: "Sanskrit Word Segmentation Using Character-level Recurrent and
Convolutional Neural Networks".
Authors: Oliver Hellwig and Sebastian Nehrdich (Hamburg)
25 Oct 2018
Manuel Widmer to give talk in Pavia
16 Oct 2018
New paper from Stuart Watson and Simon Townsend on the information content of wolf howls
8 Oct 2018
Michele Loporcaro, Francesco Gardani, and Alberto Giudici to give talk at Going Romance in Utrecht
4 Oct 2018
New paper by Francesco Gardani in Language and Linguistics Compass
2 Oct 2018
New SNSF grant on ergativity
2 Oct 2018
Francesco Gardani was elected member of the Executive Committee of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
25 Sep 2018
Damián Blasi taught a course on data science at NTNU
25 Sep 2018
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
24 Sep 2018
New publications by Andreas Hölzl 2018
24 Sep 2018
Andreas Hölzl and colleague organized workshop on Tungusic language family at SLE51
18 Sep 2018
Pied babbler paper makes Editor’s Choice in Behavioral Ecology
17 Sep 2018
Sabine Stoll to give two talks at WEF Meeting of New Champions in Tianjin, China
13 Sep 2018
Paul Widmer gives talk at workshop in Lausanne co-organized by groups from the Sorbonne, UMR Orient & Mediterranée, U Lausanne, and IVS
3 Sep 2018
Steven Moran and colleagues organized workshop at SLE51
3 Sep 2018
Steven Moran, Sebastian Sauppe, Nicholas Lester and Sabine Stoll presented at SLE51
28 Aug 2018
Fieldwork activities and workshops at YUFL in connection with Mathias Jenny's project on Burmese TV
23 Aug 2018
New paper on the drivers of linguistic diversity in Proc Roy Soc B by Bickel and colleagues
22 Aug 2018
New paper on the evolution of syntax by department members in PLoS Biology
13 Aug 2018
Mathias Jenny giving talk at the 13th International Burma Studies Conference in Bangkok
23 Jul 2018
Bickel gives keynote at a conference on «Morphosyntactic Misfits»
13 Jul 2018
Steven Moran interviewed for the Language Science Press blog
3 Jul 2018
Steven Moran and Michael Cysouw have published open source book "The Unicode Cookbook for linguists: Managing writing systems using orthography profiles"
29 Jun 2018
New paper on 'Meaning-refining acoustic variation in pied babbler recruitment cries' by Sabrina Engesser, Simon Townsend, et al.
29 Jun 2018
Bickel to give a plenary at the conference “Typology and Universals in Word Formation IV”
22 Jun 2018
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)
18 Jun 2018
The Swiss Paippalāda Project to hold workshop in Zurich on 21/22 June 2018
18 Jun 2018
Chundra Cathcart to present paper at 34th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, June 21, in Konstanz, Germany
30 May 2018
Thomas Zehnder hält einen Gastvortrag auf der Indologie der Uni Tübingen
22 May 2018
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
15 May 2018
Nouns slow down speech: newly discovered universal of language processing published by Bickel and colleagues in PNAS
7 May 2018
Steven Moran to present three co-authored papers at 11th Edition of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) in Miyazaki, Japan
4 May 2018
Francesco Gardani to deliver plenary talk at the 13th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting
4 May 2018
Francesco Gardani gave a talk on “Verb aspect borrowing in Istro-Romanian” at Stony Brook University
2 May 2018
The following papers by Chundra Cathcart appeared:
13 Apr 2018
Several department members to present at 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG) in Torun, Poland
13 Apr 2018
Florian Sommer and Paul Widmer give keynote at "A corpus and
usage-based approach to Ancient Greek: from the Archaic period until the
Koiné"
6 Apr 2018
Sabine Stoll talks about Citizen Science in Linguistics
20 Mar 2018
Thematic issue edited by Katarzyna Janic et al. published
12 Mar 2018
Manuel Widmer interviewed by SRF on occasion of the International Mother Language Day
14 Feb 2018
Mathias Jenny to give invited talk Yangon University of Foreign Languages (YUFL)
8 Feb 2018
New project and two new colleagues at the IVS
8 Feb 2018
New publication co-authored by Paul Widmer on clause linkage in Middle Welsh
6 Feb 2018
Mathias Jenny organizes panel on "Changing Environments: Language and Society in Myanmar"
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