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25.05.2012 Talk by Miriam Butt at the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium
Miriam Butt from the University of Konstanz will be a guest speaker at the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium. Her talk has the title "From spatial to subject marker".
Time: Friday, 25 May, 10:15–12:00.
Place: KOL-H-321, Rämistrasse 71.
22.05.2012 Talk by John Payne at the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium
John Payne from the University of Manchester is visiting the department. He will give a talk at the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium entitled "Towards a typology of noun phrase constituency".
Time: Tuesday, 22 May, 10:15–12:00.
Place: to be announced.
16.05.2012 Paper by Giorgio Iemmolo on differential object marking in Chinese accepted for publication
The following paper by Giorgio Iemmolo together with Giorgio Francesco Arcodia (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) has been accepted for publication. Arcodia Giorgio & Giorgio Iemmolo "Differential object marking and identifiability of the referent: a study of Mandarin Chinese". To appear in a special issue of Linguistics on "Differential object marking: theoretical and empirical issues" guest-edited by Iemmolo Giorgio and Gerson Klumpp.
10.05.2012 Giorgio Iemmolo awarded Postdoc grant
The department would like to congratulate Giorgio Iemmolo on receiving a postdoc grant from the Universiy of Zürich. He has been awarded the grant from the "Forschungskredit der Universität Zürich" for a project on "Case and agreement in comparison".
04.05.2012 Talk by Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky at the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (Universität Marburg) will give a talk on "Überlegungen zu einem neurobiologisch und sprachübergreifend plausiblen Modell des Sprachverstehens".
Time: Friday, 4 May, 10:15–12:00.
Place: KOL-H-321, Rämistrasse 71.
23.04.2012 Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Giorgio Iemmolo at the "Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop" in Leipzig
Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, and Giorgio Iemmolo will give a talk on "Patterns of alignment in verb agreement" at the "Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop", which will be held at the Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig on 27 April.
26.04.2012 Talk by Johanna Nichols at the Linguistisches Forschungskolloquium
Johanna Nichols (Department of Slavic languages, University of California at Berkeley) will give a talk on "The paleogeolinguistics of some attractor states in morphological typology".
Time: Thursday, 26 April 2012, 17:15-18:45.
Place: SOD 1-105, Deutsches Seminar, Schönberggasse 9.
04.04.2012 Six new grants at the department!
We are happy to announce that several members of the department were recently involved in succesful grant applications.
Mehr...30.03.2012 Talk by Sebastian Fedden
Sebastian Fedden will present a talk on "Pronominal indexing and alignment in the Alor-Pantar languages".
Time: Friday, 30 March 2012, 10:15–12:00.
Place: KOL-H-321, Rämistrasse 71.
26.03.2012 Fernando Zúñiga invited speaker at LMU Munich
Fernando Zúñiga has been invited to give a plenary lecture at this year's "Diskussionsforum Linguistik in Bayern". The Diskussionsforum takes place at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich from Monday 26 March to Tuesday 27 March.
Mehr...23.03.2012 Talk by Stefan Evert
Stefan Evert will give a talk on "Häufigkeit und Verteilung in der Korpuslinguistik".
Time: Friday, 23 March 2012, 10:15–12:00.
Place: KOL-H-321, Rämistrasse 71.
14.03.2012 Accepted for publication
The following paper by Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel has been accepted for publication: Stoll, S. & B. Bickel. "How to measure frequency? Different ways of counting ergatives in Chintang (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) and their implications." To appear in the proceedings of a conference on "Potentials of language documentation: methods, analyses, utilization.", ed. by Seifart, F., G. Haig, N. Himmelmann, D. Jung, A. Margetts, P. Trilsbeek, & P. Wittenburg, and to be published by the University of Hawai‘i Press, Manoa.
Mehr...14.03.2012 Accepted for publication
The following paper by Balthasar Bickel has been accepted for publication: Schiering, R., B. Bickel, & K. Hildebrandt. "Stress-timed = word-based? Testing a hypothesis in Prosodic Typology." It will appear in one of the upcoming issues of the journal Language Typology and Universals.
Mehr...09.03.2012 Talk by Bruno Cartoni
Bruno Carton will give a talk on "Corpus-based Contrastive Analysis of Discourse Connectives: Methods and Findings".
Time: Friday, 9 March 2012, 10:15–12:00.
Place: KOL-H-321, Rämistrasse 71.
28.02.2012 Guest lecture by Rik van Gijn
Rik van Gijn (Nijmegen) will present a lecture titled 'A sketch of Yurakaré (Bolivia)' as part of Fernando Zúñiga's lecture series on the Languages of South America.
Time: Tuesday, 28 February, 10:15–12:00.
Place: KOL E-18, Rämistrasse 71.
23.02.2012 Talk by Rik van Gijn (Nijmegen)
Rik van Gijn will give a talk on 'Comparative construction grammar: subordination strategies in South America' in the Graduiertenkolloquium Linguistik.
Time: Thursday, 23 February 2012, 16:15–17:45.
Place: ZUG-U-D31 (Seminarraum des Romanischen Seminars, Zürichbergstrasse).
11.02.2012 Giorgio Iemmolo at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
Giorgio Iemmolo will present a paper entitled "Are dislocated direct objects clause-external? Evidence from Differential Object Marking systems" at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (University of Berkeley, CA: 11–12 Ferbruary, 2012).
Mehr...03.02.2012 Guest lecture by Balthasar Bickel at LMU Munich
Balthasar Bickel will present a lecture at the Linguistisches Kolloquium of the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München.
Mehr...02.02.2012 Tobias Weber at the NEILS 7 conference
Tobias Weber will give a talk at the Seventh International Conference of the Northeast Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS 7), to be held on 2-4 February in Guwahati, Assam, India. The title of his talk is "Some notes on phonological properties of the languages of Northeast India".
02.02.2012 Mathias Jenny at the NEILS 7 conference
Mathias Jenny will give a talk at the Seventh International Conference of the Northeast Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS 7), to be held on 2-4 February in Guwahati, Assam, India. The title of his talk is "Northeast Indian - Southeast Asian connections: The case of 'give'".
Mehr...01.02.2012 Fernando Zúñiga starts his SNSF Professorship
Fernando Zúñiga starts his Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship (SNF-Förderungsprofessur). The associated research project is entitled "Islands in an ocean of (poly)synthesis and concatenative morphology. What linguistic theory and typology can learn from selected Amerindian languages".
Mehr...01.02.2012 Mathias Jenny promoted to Reader (Oberassistent)
Mathias Jenny has been promoted to the position of Reader (Oberassistent) as of 1 February 2012.
26.01.2012 Giorgio Iemmolo defends his PhD thesis
Giorgio Iemmolo will be defending his PhD thesis "Towards a typological study of differential object marking and differential object indexation" on 26th January.
Place: Department of Linguistics, University of Pavia, Italy.
Time: 26 January, 10am.
20.01.2012 Sabine Stoll at the CLARIN project meeting in Cologne
Sabine stoll takes part in the CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) project meeting of F-AG 3 Linguistische Feldforschung, Ethnologie, Sprachtypologie in Cologne.
09.01.2012 Balthasar Bickel is a discussant at this year's Nijmegen Lectures
Balthasar Bickel takes part in this year's Nijmegen Lectures as a discussant on 9 January, with Nicholas Evans (main lecturer), Michael Cysouw and Asifa Majid (co-discussants).
Mehr...28.12.2011 Reform of BA and MA curricula
The department has submitted a complete reform of the BA and MA curricula, allowing for more flexibility for students and integrating new courses on methods. For more information please contact our director of studies Mathias Jenny.
15.12.2011 Talk by Walter Bisang (University of Mainz)
Prof. Dr. Walter Bisang (Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) will give a talk on "Sprachliche Komplexität und Arealität: Ostasien, Westafrika und Kreolsprachen".
Time: 15. December 2011, 17:15.
Place: SOD 1-105, Deutsches Seminar, Schönberggasse 9, 8001 Zürich
16.12.2011 Talk by Aris Xanthos
Dr. Aris Xanthos (IMM, Université de Lausanne) is giving a talk On the measurement of inflectional diversity as part of the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium.
Time: Friday, 16.12.2011, 10:15-11:45.
Place: SOE-F-7, Schönberggasse 11, 8001 Zürich.
07.12.2011 Talk by Balthasar Bikel on multivariate typology at the Berner Zirkel für Sprachwissenschaft
Balthasar Bikel is giving a talk at the Berner Zirkel für Sprachwissenschaft (Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Bern). The title of the talk is Multivariate Typologie.
Time: Wednesday, 7.12.2011, 18:15.
Place: F-105, Hörraumtrakt Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36, 3012 Bern
19.11.2011 Plenarvortrag von Balthasar Bickel an der LDLT3 in London
Balthasar Bickel wird am 19. November einen Plenarvortrag an der Konferenz über Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory in London (School of Oriental and African Studies) halten. Thema des Vortrags ist Multivariate typology and field linguistics.
Mehr...15.11.2011 Vortrag von Balthasar Bickel an der Universität Genf
Balthasar Bickel wird am 15. November am Département de Linguistique der Universität Genf im Rahmen des Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique einen Vortrag halten mit dem Titel Variation and universals in referential density.
Mehr...15.11.2011 Vortrag von Mathias Jenny bei der Siam Society in Bangkok
Mathias Jenny wird am 15. November einen Vortrag über "The Forgotten Role of the Mons of Siam" vor der Siam Society in Bangkok halten.
Mehr...10.11.2011 Gastvortrag von Michael Cysouw
Dr. Michael Cysouw (LMU München) wird am 10. November im Rahmen des Graduiertenkolloquiums Linguistik einen Gastvortrag zum Thema Dynamic Typology halten. Zeit: Donnerstag, 10.11.2011, 16:15-17:45. Ort: ZUG-U-D31, Romanisches Seminar, Zürichbergstrasse 8.
04.11.2011 Balthasar Bickel und Sabine Stoll am Workshop "Potentials of Language Documentation" in Leipzig
Sabine Stoll und Balthasar Bickel nehmen als Vortragende am Workshop Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization in Leipzig teil. (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 3-4 November 2011)
Mehr...31.10.2011 Gastaufenthalt von David Denison
31. Oktober bis 4. November 2011: Gastaufenthalt von David Denison von der University of Manchester im Rahmen des Doktoratsprogramms Linguistik.
Mehr...31.10.2011 Antrittsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
Balthasar Bickel wird am 31. Oktober seine Antrittsvorlesung als Professor für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft halten. Der Titel der Vorlesung lautet Grammatik im Wechselspiel von Natur und Kultur. Zeit: Montag, 31. Oktober 2011, 17:00–17:45 Uhr. Ort: Aula, KOL G 201, Rämistrasse 71.
Mehr...27.10.2011 Gastvortrag von Martin Haspelmath
Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath (MPI EVA, Leipzig) wird am 27. Oktober im Rahmen des Graduiertenkolloquiums Linguistik einen Gastvortrag zum Thema Personenformen und Indexierung in der syntaktischen Typologie halten. Zeit: Donnerstag, 27.10.2011, 16:15-17:45. Ort: ZUG-U-D31, Romanisches Seminar, Zürichbergstrasse 8.
26.10.2011 Wichtig: Tag der Lehre
Am Mittowch, den 26. Oktober 2011, findet für alle Studierende der Allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft anlässlich des Tags der Lehre eine Informations- und Diskussionveranstaltung zum Studium statt. Zeit: 26.10.2011, 10:15–12:00. Ort: KOL-F-118, Rämistrasse 71.
15.10.2011 Vortrag von Taras Zakharko über ToolboxSearch am DoBeS Workshop Erfurt
Taras Zakharko stellt am 15. Oktober im Rahmen des DoBeS Workshops* ToolboxSearch vor, ein Software-Tool für flexible Suchanfragen an Toolbox-Korpora.
*Workshop on the exploitation of the DOBES archive for comparative research on referentiality, IBZ, University of Erfurt, 14–15.10.2011
12.10.2011 Vortrag von Mathias Jenny über Sprachkontaktphänomene in Burma
Dr. Mathias Jenny hält am 12. Oktober 2011 einen Vortrag im Berner Zirkel für Sprachwissenschaft an der Universität Bern. Der Titel des Vortrags lautet "Sprachkontaktphänomene in Burma".
10.10.2011 Fernando Zúñiga Mitherausgeber der "Typological Studies in Language"
Fernando Zúñiga ist zum Mitherausgeber der Reihe "Typological Studies in Language" beim Verlag John Benjamins ernannt worden (ab Nummer 101).
Mehr...21.09.2011 Bibliothekskatalog online abrufbar
Der Bibliothkeskatalog der Seminarbibliothek ist jetzt online abrufbar. Zur Verfügung gestellt werden eine Bücher- und eine Artikel-Abfrage.
Mehr...05.08.2011 Postdoc in Typologie
Das Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft schreibt eine Postdoc-Stelle in Typologie aus.
Mehr...01.08.2011 Arbeitsstelle Psycholinguistik
Am 01.08.2011 ensteht an der Philosophischen Fakultät die Arbeitsstelle Psycholinguistik. Ihre Leiterin wird Dr. Sabine Stoll.
01.06.2011 Stellenausschreibungen
Das Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft schreibt zwei Doktoratsstellen und eine Postdoc-Stelle aus.
Mehr...01.04.2011 Neuer Seminarleiter
Ab dem 1. April 2011 ist Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel Leiter des Seminars.