In diesem Jahr haben Mitglieder des UFSP Sprache und Raum äusserst erfolgreich Drittmittel des Schweizerischen Nationalfonds eingeworben.
Folgende Forschungsprojekte wurden im Frühjahr resp. Herbst 2015 genehmigt:
- AIS, reloaded (PI: Michele Loporcaro; Diego Pescarini)
- The aural aesthetics of Táng poetry (PI: Wolfgang Behr)
- The imagery of Táng ‘poems on things’: a semiotic approach (PI: Wolfgang Behr)
- Interactive discoveries: A video and eye-tracking based study of knowledge construction in science centres (PI: Wolfgang Kesselheim; Barbara Neff, Yvonne Simon – Swiss Science Center Technorama)
- Language description as filter and prisma: the individuality of Slovene (PI: Barbara Sonnenhauser)
- Linguistic morphology in time and space (LiMiTS) (PI: Balthasar Bickel; Wolfgang Behr, Mathias Jenny, Michele Loporcaro, Robert Weibel, Paul Widmer; Fernando Zúñiga; Curdin Derungs, Rik Van Gijn, Francesco Gardani)
- Modelling morphosyntactic area formation in Swiss German (SynMod), prolongation (PI: Elvira Glaser; Robert Weibel, Philipp Stöckle, Péter Jeszenskzky)
- The morphosyntax of agreement in Tuatschin (PI: Michele Loporcaro; Sabine Stoll)
- Placenames in Canton St Gallen (PI: Elvira Glaser; Ross Purves)
- Regional Linguistic Data Initiative (ReLDI) (PI: Tanja Samardžić; Maja Miličević, Nikola Ljubešić)
- Regional Variation in the Grammar of Standard German, prolongation (PI: Christa Dürscheid; Arne Ziegler, Stephan Elspass)
- Vacational Postcards: Spatial Reference and Exemplariness (PI: Heiko Hausendorf; Joachim Scharloth – TU Dresden)
- What’s up, Switzerland (PI: Elisabeth Stark; Christa Dürscheid, Federica Diémoz, Crispin Thurlow, Silvia Natale, Beat Siebenhaar; Simone Ueberwasser)