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Department of Comparative Language Science

2019

News list

  • New publication by Steven Moran and Christian Chiarcos

  • Merry Christmas!

  • New publication by Florian Sommer

  • New publication by Natalia Chousou-Polydouri

  • NCCR "Evolving Language" approved

  • TV report on Blasi et al. (2019)

  • New publication by Andreas Hölzl

    Hölzl, Andreas & Yadi Hölzl. 2019. A wedding ceremony of the Kyakala in China: Language and ritual. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 16. 87–144.

  • Andreas Hölzl gave invited talk at Freie Universität Berlin

  • 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

  • Balthasar Bickel to give lecture and teach workshop at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima

  • Yoko Yamazaki to give talk in Stockholm

  • Steven Moran elected to board of eLinguistics Foundation

  • New publication by Sascha Völlmin

  • Svenja Bonmann gave talk in Cologne

  • Sabine Stoll to give talks at Harvard and MIT

  • Department members @ BUCLD, Boston

  • Department member TP Dr. Carlotta Viti appointed full professor for Ancient Languages and Cultures at Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai Campus)!

  • New co-authored publication by Dagmar Jung

  • Florian Sommer gave a talk in Birštonas

  • IVS at UZH Agreement Conference

  • Welcome to Dr. Sakine Çabuk at IVS

  • Andreas Hölzl to give invited talk at University of Munich

  • New research from IVS members Sabrina Engesser and Simon Townsend, published in PNAS, sheds light on the building blocks of bird vocalisations

  • Yoko Yamazaki to give talk at conference "Issues in Baltic Linguistics"

  • Florian Sommer teaching at JeSSIE

  • 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

  • Bickel and Stoll to teach courses at Autumn School

    Bickel and Stoll are going to teach courses at the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies.

  • Welcome to new department members!

    Seven new members are joining our department in September. 

  • IVS members at ALT 2019 (Pavia)

    Several department members are going to contribute to ALT 2019, which will place in Pavia from September 4 to 6, 2019. Bickel, Cathcart, Egurtzegi, Hölzl, Jing, Mažara, Moran, Sauppe, Stoll, Vuillermet, M. Widmer and P. Widmer are involved in a total of nine presentations.

     

  • IVS members at SLE 2019 (Leipzig)

    Several department members participated in SLE 2019 (August 21-24, 2019, Leipzig). Bickel, Blasi, Cathcart, Egurtzegi, Mažara, Moran, Ring, Sauppe and Stoll were involved in a total of six presentations. Moran additionally organized a workshop on "Phonological (in)stability and language evolution". 

  • Article on Sabine Stoll’s research on comparative language development in Schweizer Familie

  • 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.

  • You & Mažara to present @ ICLC / Nishinomiya

  • IVS @ Association for Computation Linguistics Conference!

  • Jekaterina Mažara presented @ CogSci / Montreal

  • New Publication by Jekaterina Mažara and Sabine Stoll

  • New publication on speech planning in dialogue by Sebastian Sauppe

  • IVS at ICHL 24 in Canberra

  • Bickel gave a keynote on morphological dependencies at Surrey

  • Keynote by Sabrina Engesser at the University of Tokyo

  • New publications by Mathias Jenny

  • Stefan Dedio, Paul Widmer and Peter Ranacher (Geography Department UZH) developed a method for quantifying area formation processes.

  • Keynote by Sabrina Engesser at ENS Paris

  • IG-Arbeitstagung Ljubljana: Talks by Florian Sommer and Yoko Yamazaki

  • Hiram Ring, Mathias Jenny, Wei-Wei Lee and Rachel Weymuth to present at SEALS

  • Sonja Schnabel successfully defended her PhD

  • Chundra Cathcart to give talk at Bayes@Lund

  • New publication by Steven Moran

  • Johanna Nichols to give talk at UZH on 24 April 2019, 14.00h

  • Manuel Widmer to give talk in Vienna

  • Mathias Jenny to teach workshop at the Yangon University of Foreign Languages

  • Wei-Wei Lee and Rachel Weymuth gave talk in Helsinki

  • Steven Moran to give co-authored presentation in Helsinki

  • Newly advertised research positions at the Department of Comparative Linguistics

  • 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.

  • Publication in Science by author team including Damián Blasi, Steven Moran, Paul Widmer, and Balthasar Bickel

  • Steven Moran and Daniel McCloy (eds.) publish PHOIBLE 2.0 database (phoible.org)

  • Mathias Jenny, Hiram Ring, and André Müller to give talks at the AAS, Denver

  • Co-authored publication by Chundra Cathcart selected for inclusion in "The Best of Language: Volume III"

  • New volume on grammatical relations by Bickel and Witzlack-Makarevich

  • Bickel joins editorial board of the Journal of Linguistics

  • Nick Lester invited to teach courses at summer school

  • Manuel Widmer gave invited talk in Tübingen

  • Mathias Jenny to give two invited talks at the University of Yangon

  • Department features at 32nd CUNY Human Sentence Processing conference with three posters

  • Dagmar Jung presented her paper 'How to negate in Dene Suline' at SSILA/LSA