Research Projects

URPP Funded Projects

PhD Projects
Typology of Pseudopartitive Constructions in Romance and Germanic	Binder, Larissa, MA
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

Postdoctoral Projects

Syntax and syntax-semantics interface of nominal expressions in cross-linguistic perspective

Ihsane, Tabea,

Dr.

A morphosyntactic atlas of varieties spoken in Gascony

Paciaroni, Tania,

PD Dr.

Third-Party Funded Projects

	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 link	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 link	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 link	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 link	01.10.2020– 30.09.2024
6	Experimental Morphosyntax of Romance languages	Johannes Kabatek	SNSF link	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 link	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 link	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 link	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 link	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 link	01.01.2016– 29.02.2020
13	SynMod - Modelling morphosyntactic area formation in Swiss German (link to project page)	Elvira Glaser, Robert Weibel	SNSF link	01.02.2013 01.04.2017