2018
News list
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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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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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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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Francesco Gardani was elected member of the Executive Committee of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
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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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Andreas Hölzl and colleague organized workshop on Tungusic language family at SLE51
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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, 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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Mathias Jenny giving talk at the 13th International Burma Studies Conference in Bangkok
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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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Chundra Cathcart to present paper at 34th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, June 21, in Konstanz, Germany
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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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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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Manuel Widmer interviewed by SRF on occasion of the International Mother Language Day
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Mathias Jenny organizes panel on "Changing Environments: Language and Society in Myanmar"