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URPP Language and Space (2013-2024)

Spatial Data Science Group

Projects Funded by URPP Language and Space and Executed by or with Involvement of the Language & Space Lab SDS Group

Project

Principal

Investigator

Period


Peoples with similar genes also tend to have similar grammar, but not necessarily similar words or sounds (link to project description)
Peter Ranacher 2019-2024
sBayey (link to project description) Peter Ranacher 2019-2024
Glottography - Mapping the world's languages Peter Ranacher 2023-2024
sBread Peter Ranacher 2023-2024

contactTrees: Detecting contact in linguistic phylogenetic trees (link to project description)

Peter Ranacher 2019-2022
Does phylogeography work? (link to publication) Peter Ranacher 2018-2020
"Global Language Areas": An interdisciplinary project for the exploratory analysis of typological language data to describe global relationships among languages and language families 

Curdin Derungs,

Balthasar Bickel

2013-2018
"Italian Dialect Residues": Spatial analysis to explain the distribution of northern Italian dialects

Curdin Derungs,

Michele Loporcaro

2013-2018
Online Dialectology

Curdin Derungs,

Elvira Glaser

2013-2018
"GiveMeMaps": Production of standardized and recognizable maps for the URPP Language and Space.

Curdin Derungs

2013-2018
"Ngram Geography": Extraction of geographic information from Ngram data. Curdin Derungs 2013-2018
"Landscape Freelisting": Analysis of spontaneously mentioned landscape terms, including the geographical context. Curdin Derungs 2013-2018
"Describe Your City": Physical and experiential space in spontaneous descriptions of urban places. Curdin Derungs 2013-2018
"Spatial Folksonomies": Extraction of structured geographic information from text. Curdin Derungs 2013-2018
"Situating Metaphors": Analysis of the metaphorical use of spatial terms in geographical literature 

Curdin Derungs,

Marianne Hundt

2013-2018

Spatial Data Science Group PhD Projects

Activities

Conference: Corpus in GIScience: Going Beyond Butterfly Collecting

Date: 28.08.2018
Location: Melbourne, Australien
 Organizers: Ekaterina Egorova, Kristin Stock, and Lesley Stirling 
Follow the link for details. 

Visualizing Linguistic Data

Date: 21.11.2014
Location: University of Zurich
Description: The workshop focused on state-of-the-art and innovative visualization techniques for linguistic data. 
Invited Speakers: André Skupin (San Diego), Alfred Lameli (Marburg), Michael Cysouw (Marburg)
Organizers: Curdin Derungs, Elvira Glaser, Johannes Kabatek, and Philipp Stöckle
 
 

Weiterführende Informationen

The First Law of Geography - and why it is a Nuisance

The First Law of Geography - and why it is a Blessing

Trees

What trees can tell us about language evolution (and what they cannot)

Four reasons for the First Law of Geography