Institut für Sprachwissenschaft

ISW Colloquium


Slot	Date	Speaker	Title
1	23.09.	David Bradley (La Trobe)	The Phylogeny of Sino-Tibetan
2	07.10.	Uta Reinöhl (ALU Freiburg)	Lexical tone in Kera'a
3	14.10., 09:00 - 10:00	Gwendolyn Hyslop (U Sydney)
4	21.10.	Neige Rochant (UNIL)	Why do we need a prosodic clitic? Insights from Pukur.
5	28.10.	Julie Marsault (Sorbonne)	Diminutive consonantal shifts in Native North American languages with a focus on Umóⁿhoⁿ
6	11.11.	Adam Tallman (FSU Jena)	The sociolinguistic ecology of Idi-Agob multilingualism
7	18.11.	Sebastian Sauppe (UZH)	On grammar and processing: Exploring the link between language structure and cognition (and language acquisition)
8	09.12., 12:15-13:15 in B186, followed by an Apéro	Steven Moran (UniNE/ U Miami)


Slot	Dates	Speaker	Title
1	26.02.	Stefan Schnell & Guido Linders (UZH)	Reference production across human languages
2	04.03.	Ilja Seržant (U Potsdam)	Towards a diachronic typology of DOM
3	18.03.	Hannah Hedegard (UniBE Anglistik)	Language Analysis in the Swiss Asylum System (LAITSAS): Towards Inclusive Collaboration and Best Practice
4	Mi 27.03.	Jeff Good (SUNY Buffalo)	Linguistic diversification across scales: Developing baseline assumptions for modeling language change in Bantu societies
5	08.04.	Katarzyna Janic (AMU Poznan)	Capturing form-function correlations in the domain of P demotion constructions: A semantic map approach
6	22.04.	Nadine Grimm (U Rochester)	Grammatical tone in the verb phrase of northwestern Bantu languages
7	29.04.	Linda Konnerth (UniBE)	SAP objects: Indexing and pronoun occurrence in two Trans-Himalayan languages
8	13.05.	Silvia Natale (UniBE Italianistik)	Progressive from a comparative perspective: Italian vs. (Swiss) German


Slot	Dates	Speaker	Title
1	25.09.	Sandra Auderset (UniBE)	Comprehensive database of sound changes reveals tree-like and wave-like processes in the Mixtec language family
2	09.10.	Fernando Zúñiga (UniBE)	Applicativizing preverbs in Germanic: English and German case studies
3	16.10.	Jocelyn Aznar	Is silence a linguistic sign? Basic Word Order, Silent Pauses, Speech Verbs and Interjecting in the production of Direct Speech
4	30.10.	Jeff Pheiff (UniBE GERM)	oooooh mein gott, es isch sooo geil! Lexical Variation in Adjective Intensification in (Swiss) German Dialects
5	06.11.	Chundra Cathcart (UZH)	Exploring the co-evolution of sound patterns and lexical items: a phylogenetic approach
6	20.11.	Jérôme Jacquin (UNIL)	Mixed Methods approaches in Corpus Pragmatics? A case study about Epistemic and Evidential Markers in French
7	27.11.	Pavel Ozerov (U Innsbruck)	Traditional concepts through the interactional prism: disentangling pragmatics and grammar into local communicative instructions
8	11.12.	John Mansfield (UZH)	Converging or diverging? Language history in what may be the world’s most diverse linguistic area