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URPP Language and Space (2013-2024)

Projects

PhD Projects

Research Group: Areal Morphology

Project(s)

PhD Candidate

Spatiotemporal diffusion of morphological patterns in the Ancient Near East 

Efrat-Kowalsky,  Nour, Dr.

Studio sincronico e ricostruzione diacronica dello status del vocalismo atono nell’area di transizione tra la sezione meridionale e centrale della Calabria  

Idone, Alicia, Dr.

The impact of diachronic and diatopic interaction on morphology: a case study from Baltic  

Sommer, Florian, Dr.

Research Group: Systems of Nominal Determination in Contact (SyNoDe)

Project(s)

PhD Candidate

Typology of Pseudopartitive Constructions in Romance and Germanic 
Binder, Larissa

Partitives in Ibero-Romance: diachrony and language contact  

Gerards, David Paul, Dr. 

Corpus-based Study of the Post-positive Article in Torlak​

Vuković, Teodora, Dr. 
Differential Object Marking in Romanian-Spanish Bilinguals.Studying bi-directional crosslinguistic influence in a multi-method approach.
Zeugin, Senta

Research Group: Accommodation and Social Categorization

Project(s)

PhD Candidate

Development of accommodation in speech and language in early language acquisition  

Ibrahim, Omnia, Dr.
Structures in Child-Directed Speech and their Impact on Child-Language Acquisition
Ruest, Olivier, Dr.

Research Group: Interactional Spaces

Project(s)

PhD Candidate

Greetings within groups - interaction openings and social events

Diensthuber, Anita, Dr. 

Massively Multimodal Communication and Space: A Case Study of Video Game Livestreaming  

Meyer, Nathalie

Discussing the sermon: Uses of the church interior during the "Alpha"-service 

Öndüc, Serap

Lingering in Public. Interactive Practices of Spatial Production on Urban Squares in Zurich 

Steger, Antonia

Im Raum der Kunst: Voraussetzungen, Konfigurationen und Verfahren der interaktiven Bezugnahme auf zeitgenössische Installationskunst

Winiger, Sandra, Dr. 

Research Group: Spatial References

Project(s)

PhD Candidate

Landscape and language – Exploring approaches to extracting landscape perception

Bär, Manuel, Dr.
Interactions, Objects, Spaces: Interdisciplinary approach to vernacular practices in public places
Eiviler, Kristina, Dr.

Language and Space Lab

Project(s)

PhD Candidate

Interaktive Wissenskonstruktion im Science Center: Zur Rolle interaktiver Verfahren der Vermittlung multisensorialer Erfahrungen  Studying Multimodal Interaction in Augmented Reality Games: Methodological Reflections-"Pokémon Go Projekt"

Brandenberger, Christina, Dr.
Interactions, Objects, Spaces: Interdisciplinary approach to vernacular practices in public places
Eiviler, Kristina, Dr.

Interactive Processes and Configurations at Market Stalls in Istanbul and Zurich  

Hochuli, Kenan,  Dr.

Doing Reading in Interaction - A Conversation Analytical Investigation of the Interactive Use of Exhibit Texts in a Science Centre  

Hottiger, Christoph, Dr.

Travelling with Speakers Through Time and Space: Spatio-Temporal Modelling of Language Change

Neureiter, Nico, Dr. 

Approaching language variation in space: human judgements vs. corpus data 

Petrunina, Uliana

Morphological typology through massive parallel corpora

Ruzsics (Soldatova), Tatyana, Dr.

 

Postdoc Projects

Research Group: Areal Morphology

Project(s)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Neo-Aramaic dialects across Space and Time 
Coghill, Eleanor, Prof. Dr.
Morphology and Language Contact (Postdoc Project  as part of the SNSF Project LIMITS)
Gardani, Francesco, Prof. Dr.
Clitics in Northern Italian Dialect
Pescarini, Diego, Dr. 

Research Group: Systems of Nominal Determination in Contact

Project(s)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Syntax and syntax-semantics interface of nominal expressions in cross-linguistic perspective 
Ihsane, Tabea, Prof. Dr. 
A morphosyntactic atlas of varieties spoken in Gascony 
Paciaroni, Tania, Prof. Dr.

Research Group: Accommodation and Social Categorization

Project(s)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Code-mixing in Tuatschin (Rhaeto-Romance) 

Cathomas, Claudia, Dr.
Rhythmic accommodation in a dialect contact situation. Acoustic and Perception Studies in Grison and Zurich German
Pellegrino, Elisa, PD Dr.
Dialect contact and linguistic accommodation
Ruch, Hanna, Dr. 

Research Group: Interactional Spaces

Project(s)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Public Valediction. Grief in Virtual Space

Frick, Karina, Prof. Dr. 
Children's multimodal positioning in route direction interactions
Hübscher, Iris, Dr.

Research Group: Spatial References

Project(s)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Cities in a City. Mental Mapping and Naming Practices in an Urban Environment
Racca, Sara, Dr.

 

Language And Space Lab Projects

 

Project

Group

Principal

Investigator

Period

sBayey (link to project description)

Spatial

Data Science

Peter Ranacher 2019-2024
Glottography - Mapping the world's languages

Spatial

Data Science

Peter Ranacher 2023-2024
sBread

Spatial

Data Science

Peter Ranacher 2023-2024

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

Spatial

Data Science

Peter Ranacher 2019-2022
Does phylogeography work? (link to publication)

Spatial

Data Science

Peter Ranacher 2018-2020
Upstream Text Processing Text

Tanja Samardžić

2016-2021

The ArchiMob Corpus

Text

Tanja Samardžić,

Elvira Glaser

2014-2019
"Global Language Areas": An interdisciplinary project for the exploratory analysis of typological language data to describe global relationships among languages and language families 

Spatial

Data Science (at the time: GIS)

Curdin Derungs,
Balthasar Bickel
2013-2018
"Italian Dialect Residues": Spatial analysis to explain the distribution of northern Italian dialects

Spatial

Data Science (at the time: GIS)

Curdin Derungs,
Michele Loporcaro
2013-2018
Online Dialectology

Spatial

Data Science (at the time: GIS)

Curdin Derungs,

Elvira Glaser

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

Spatial

Data Science (at the time: GIS)

Curdin Derungs

2013-2018
"Ngram Geography": Extraction of geographic information from Ngram data.

Spatial

Data Science (at the time: GIS)

Curdin Derungs 2013-2018
"Landscape Freelisting": Analysis of spontaneously mentioned landscape terms, including the geographical context.

Spatial

Data Science (at the time: GIS)

Curdin Derungs 2013-2018
"Describe Your City": Physical and experiential space in spontaneous descriptions of urban places.

Spatial

Data Science (at the time: GIS)

Curdin Derungs 2013-2018
"Spatial Folksonomies": Extraction of structured geographic information from text.

Spatial

Data Science (at the time: GIS

Curdin Derungs 2013-2018
"Situating Metaphors": Analysis of the metaphorical use of spatial terms in geographical literature 

Spatial

Data Science (at the time: GIS

Curdin Derungs,

Marianne Hundt

2013-2018

Research Group: Areal Morphology

 

Project

Principal

Investigator

Funding

Source

Period

1

MIRA. Mappatura dell’Italo-Romanzo Antico

Michele Loporcaro
SNSF
link
01.06.2022– 31.05.2026
2
MULTICAST- A MULTIdisCiplinary Approach to prediction and Treatment of Suicidality (link to project page)
Guido Seiler
SNSF
link
01.01.2022– 31.12.2025.
3
Phonological and grammatical word domains in Indo-European: assessing evolutionary and spatial dynamics
Paul Widmer
SNSF
link
01.09.2021– 31.08.2025
5
Online Edition of the Paippalada Recension of the Atharva Veda (link to project page)
Paul Widmer
SNSF
link
01.03.2021- 28.02.2025.
6
AIS, the digital turn (link to project page)
Michele Loporcaro
SNSF
01.04.2021-31.03.2025
8
NCCR "Evolving Language" (link to NCCR page)
Balthasar Bickel
SNSF
01.06.2020– 31.05.2024
9
SHWITZER: Amish Shwitzer as a mixed language with closely related parents
Guido Seiler
SNSF
link
01.01.2020- 31.12.2023
10
Out of Asia: Linguistic Diversity and Population History (link to project page)
 Paul Widmer 
SNSF-
Sinergia
link
01.09.2019– 29.02.2024
11
Albanisch im Kontakt: Horizontaler Transfer und Identitätsstifung in der Mehrsprachigkeitspraxis (link to project description)
Barbara Sonnenhauser 
SNSF
link
01.05.2019– 31.07.2022
12
The prehistory of the Baltic preterit system- diachronic changes and morpho-semantics (link to project page)
Yoko Yamazaki 
Swedish
Research
Council
01.10.2018-30.09.2021
13
Ill-bred sons, family and friends: tracing the multiple affiliations of Balkan Slavic  (link to project description)
Barbara Sonnenhauser 
SNSF
link
01.07.2018- 30.06.2022
14
TraCeBa.(Dis-)entangling traditions on the Central Balkans: Performance and perception  (link to project description)
Barbara Sonnenhauser 
ERA.
Net RUS
01.07.2018-30.06.2021
15
AIS, reloaded (link to project page)
Michele Loporcaro
SNSF
link
01.10.2016– 30.09.2019
16
The Diachrony of Agreement Systems: Welsh – Breton – German (and other Germanic languages)
Paul Widmer
Jürg Fleischer
DFG
01.07.2016– 30.06.2019
17
LiMiTS: Linguistic morphology in time and space (link to project page)
Balthasar Bickel
SNSF Sinergia
01.02.2016– 30.04.2019
18
Case decay in the Balkan area
Max Wahlström
(University of Helsinki)
Kone Foundation
01.03.2016– 31.12.2016
19
The Zurich database of agreement in Italo-Romance (link to project page)
Michele Loporcaro
SNSF
link
01.10.2015– 30.09.2018
20
Possession in Vedic Sanskrit: Functional domains and inventory of linguistic expressions
Paul Widmer
SNSF
link
01.05.2015– 30.04.2018
21
SynMod:Modelling morphosyntactic area formation in Swiss German (link to project page)
Elvira Glaser
Robert Weibel
SNSF
link
01.02.2013- 01.04.2017
22
Areal dynamics as a cue to diachronic reconstruction  (link to project description)
Michele Loporcaro
Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
01.01.2013- 31.12.2014
23
Does syntactic microvariation across Campidanese correlate with dialect sub-areas? (link to project description)
Michele Loporcaro 
Regione Autonoma della Sardegna
 

 

Research Group: Systems of Nominal Determination in Contact

 

 

Project

Principal Investigator

Funding Source

Period

1 They worked their hardest to investigate the construction's history: Superlative Object Constructions in Late Modern American English Marianne Hundt
SNSF
01.06.2023– 30.06.2023
2

ProPoSaL - Prototypes and Parts-of-Speech: A cross-linguistic, multi-methods approach to categorization with a focus on Adjectives ( link to project page)

Marianne Hundt
SNSF
01.08.2022-31.07.2026
3 The Balkan sprachbund reconsidered. A multi-variate, historicist approach to the ‘prototypical’ case of a sprachbund Olivier Winistörfer (PhD project)
SNSF

01.09.2021– 31.01.2025

4 IdaRoE: Indirect direct articles in Romance and English

Marianne Hundt,

Elisabeth Stark

Seed money for joint workshop
01.06.2021– 31.12.2021
5 RurICan: Rural sociolinguistics in the Canary Islands: linguistic innovation and diffusion (link to project page) Carlota de Benito Moreno 
SNSF
01.10.2020– 30.09.2024
6 Experimental Morphosyntax of Romance languages Johannes Kabatek
SNSF
01.04.2019– 31.03.2023
7 Prepositions in English Argument Structure across Time and Space: A Corpus-based Evolutionary Construction Grammar Approach (link to project page) Marianne Hundt
SNSF
01.09.2018– 31.08.2023
8 DiFuPaRo- Distribution and Function of ‘Partitive articles’ in Romance: a microvariation analysis (Download  project poster (PDF, 1 MB) or presentation (PDF, 1 MB)) Elisabeth Stark
SNSF-DFG
01.06.2018– 31.05.2022
9 Looking for regularity and only finding chaos? Problems and challenges of morphosyntactic (micro)variation in Gallo-Romance dialectal studies Elisabeth Stark
SNSF conference contribution
01.09.2016– 30.09.2016
10 SPARCLING- Large-scale Annotation and Alignment of Parallel Corpora for the Investigation of Linguistic Variation (link to project page) Marianne Hundt & Martin Volk
SNSF
 
01.09.2016– 30.09.2017
11 Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Spanish: Emergence and tendencies of the current system Johannes Kabatek

 SNSF

link

01.04.2016– 31.03.2019
12 What’s up Switzerland? Language, Individuals and Ideologies in mobile messaging (link to project description) Elisabeth Stark
SNSF Sinergia
01.01.2016– 29.02.2020
13 SynMod - Modelling morphosyntactic area formation in Swiss German (link to project page)

Elvira Glaser, Robert Weibel

SNSF
01.02.2013 01.04.2017

Research Group: Accommodation and Social Categorization

 

Project

Principal

Investigator

Funding

Source

Period

1 The Role of Expressive Audio-Visual Information on Face-Voice and Voice-Face Identity Matching (link to study description)

Volker Dellwo,

Elisa Pellegrino

Stiftung für Wissenschafliche Forschung, UZH 01.09.2021–31.08.2024
2 Voice Identity Across Speaking-Styles in Persian: Factors Affecting Voice Recognition by Humans and Machines

Volker Dellwo,

Homa Asadi

ZHAW Leading House South Asia and Iran 04.05.2020–30.04.2021
3 Multi-modal Speech Sensing Based on 2D and 3D Optical and Acoustic Signals for Identity Recognition and Authentication Volker Dellwo

SNSF-Spark

link

01.02.2020–31.03.2021
4 The Dynamics of Indexical Information in Speech and its Role in Speech Communication and Speaker Recognition (link to project page) Volker Dellwo

SNSF

link

01.12.2019–30.11.2023
5 The Development of Verb-Initial Structures Cross-Linguistically: Insights from Austroasiatic (link to project page) Mathias Jenny

SNSF

link

01.02.2018–31.01.2021
6 Voice Theft: Chances and Risks of Digital Voice Technologies (link to project description) Volker Dellwo & Sascha Frühholz

SNSF Digital Lives

link

01.12.2018–30.11.2020
7 Predicting the Outcomes of Dialect Contact Using Agent-Based Modelling Hanna Ruch

SNSF Scientific Exchanges

link

01.11.2017–30.04.2018
8 The Greater Burma Zone – A Transitional Zone of Languages and Peoples (link to project page) Mathias Jenny

SNSF

link

01.03.2014–28.02.2018
9 WP Accommodation within NCCR Evolving Language, as part of project "cooperation" in theme 3 "social cognition" (link to NCCR page-Theme 3) J. Burkart, V. Dellwo NCCR Evolving Language ongoing

Research Group: Interactional Spaces

 

Project

Principal

Investigator(s)

Funding

Source

Period

         
1 Partizipation und Egalität - Diskurse um soziale Teilhabe und Solidarität sowie Diversität und Gleichberechtigung seit 1990 Porf. Noah Bubenhofer

SNSF (link)

and DFG

01.06.2022–31.05.2026
2 Variational Pragmatics of German: Comparing Communicative Patterns (link to project page) Prof. Christa Dürscheid

SNSF

link

01.01.2022–31.12.2024
3 Evolution menschlicher Interaktionskonstellationen als Basis der Evolution von Sprache Dr. Kenan Hochuli

SNSF Early Postdoc Mobility

link

01.01.2022–30.06.2023
4 Reflection on Digital Teaching (link to project description) Prof. Heiko Hausendorf UZH Digital Skills for You (DISK4U), swissuniversities 01.01.2021–31.12.2023
5 Architecture-for-interaction. Comparative case studies in the re-figuration of institutionalized communication: Counter, church interior and lecture hall (link to project page) Prof. Heiko Hausendorf

SNSF

link

01.04.2020–31.12.2023
6 Lernplattform Korpuslinguistik im Kontext der Germanistik (LeKoKo) Prof. Noah Bubenhofer, Dr. Daniel Knuchel UZH Kompetitiver Lehrkredit, Prorektorat Lehre und Studium 01.01.2021–30.06.2022
7  «So-Reden und Anders-Reden». Mehrsprachigkeit im Alltag – Schüler*innen erzählen, dokumentieren, erforschen (link to project description) Prof. Marie-Luis Merten, Prof. Barbara Sonnenhauser Partizipative Wissenschaftsakademie 01.01.2022–31.12.2022
8 The Evolution of Architecture for Interaction Dr. Kenan Hochuli Fellowship DFG Center for Advanced Studies, University Tübingen 04.2021 and ho09.2021
9 Neuere Sprachgeschichte Online - eine interaktive Lehr- und Lernumgebung (link to project description) Prof. Noah Bubenhofer, Dr. Daniel Knuchel UZH Digitale Lehre und Forschung 01.12.2020–31.07.2021
10 Visuelle Linguistik. Zur Genese, Funktion und Kategorisierung von Diagrammen in der Sprachwissenschaft Prof. Noah Bubenhofer

SNSF Open Access Funding

link

01.10.2020–31.03.2021
11 Chatbot-Toolkit für problemorientiertes Lernen in der Linguistik (link to project page)

Dr. Kyoko Sugisaki,

Prof. Heiko Hausendorf,

PD Dr. Wolfgang Kesselheim

UZH Kompetitiver Lehrkredit 01.01.2020–31.12.2020
12 Digitale Sprachressourcen. Empirische Analysen und Perspektiven (link to project page) Prof. Christa Dürscheid

SNSF

link

01.10.2018–31.10.2020
13 The Evolution of Genres Between Standardization and Variation: The Case of Picture Post Cards ( link to project page) Prof. Heiko Hausendorf

SNSF

link

01.04.2016–31.03.2020
14 Variantengrammatik des Standarddeutschen  (link to project page) Prof. Christa Dürscheid

SNSF

link

01.02.2015–30.09.2018
15 Schrift und Bild in der mobilen Kommunikation Prof. Christa Dürscheid Alfred Krupp Senior Fellowship 01.04.2018–30.09.2018
16 Academic E-learning Platforms as Virtual Spaces Prof. Heiko Hausendorf

SNSF

link

01.04.2012–31.12.2016
17 Mobile Teaching (link to project description) Prof. Heiko Hausendorf Stiftung für wissenschaftliche Forschung UZH 2013
18 |Workshop| Öffentlichkeit als Interaktion (link to workshop page) Antonia Steger Graduate Campus Workshop Contribution 01.07.2017–31.03.2018
19 Variational Pragmatics: Communicative Behavior in Germany and Switzerland (link to project page) Prof. Christa Dürscheid Strategische Partnerschaft UZH-FUB 01.01.2017–31.01.2018

Research Group: Spatial References

 

Project

Principal

Investigator

Funding

Source

Period

1 Language as a Window into Conceptualisations of Landscape: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Ross Purves

Cogito Foundation 01.03.2022–28.02.2023
2 Geovisual Analysis of VGI for Understanding People's Behaviour in Relation to Multi-faceted Context (EVA-VGI 2) Ross Purves

SNSF

link

01.10.2020–30.09.2023
3 TopSG- Local Toponyms of The Canton of St. Gallen
 Ludwig Rübekeil,
 Simone Maria Berchtold Schiestl, Ross Purves

SNSF

link

01.02.2019–31.01.2023
4 TopSG- Local Toponyms of The Canton of St. Gallen (link to project page)

Elvira Glaser,

Ross Purves

SNSF

link

01.02.2016–31.01.2019
5 TopZH- Die Siedlungsnamen des Kantons Zürich (link to project description) Elvira Glaser

SNSF

link

01.02.2016–31.01.2019
6 PlaceGen- Place-based Map Generalization

Robert Weibel,

Ross Purves

SNSF

link

01.06.2014–31.05.2018
7 Schaffhauser Namenbuch: Die Orts- und Flurnamen des Kantons Schaffhausen Elvira Glaser

SNSF

link

01.08.2013–31.01.2016
8 St. Galler Namenbuch: Die Siedlungsnamen des Kantons St. Gallen Elvira Glaser

SNSF

link

01.08.2012–31.08.2016
9 How Language Shapes Our Sense of Place

Ross Purves,

Flurina Wartmann

Cogito Foundation 2016

Language and Lab Projects

 

Project

Principal

Investigator

Funding

Source

Period

1

Non-randomness in Morphological Diversity: A Computational Approach Based on Multilingual Corpora (link to project page)

PD Dr. Tanja Samardžić

SNSF

link

01.09.2018– 31.12.2022
2

Interactive discoveries: A video and eye-tracking based study of knowledge construction in science centres

PD Dr. Wolfgang Kesselheim

SNSF

link

01.07.2016– 31.01.2021
3

Regional Linguistic Data Initiative (ReLDI)

 PD Dr. Tanja Samardžić

SNSF

link

01.05.2015– 30.06.2017