ISW Colloquium

  • Days  :  Monday | 16:00-17:00
  • Location  :  UniTobler F 011

Fall Semester 2025

 
Slot Dates Speaker Title
1

22.9.

Robin Meyer (Université de Lausanne)

2

29.9.

Cristian Juárez (ETH Zürich)

3

13.10.

Borja Herce (Universität Zürich)

4

20.10.

James Kirby (LMU München)

5

03.11.

Zakaria Muhammad (UniBE)

6

17.11.

Katharina Gayler (Universität Köln)

7

01.12.

Katrin Karl (UniBE)

8

08.12.

Andrey Shluinsky (Humboldt Universität Berlin)

Spring Semester 2025

 
Slot Dates Speaker Title
1 24.2. Mareike Wulff (U Sydney) Interdisciplinary Language Documentation: Pig Slaughtering and other incidents among the Lhokpu speakers in Bhutan
2 10.3. Pascal Gerber (UniBE, ISW)

The Importance of Being Buddhist – The Non-tibetospheric Profile of the Kiranti Languages

3 17.3. Dagmar Jung (UZH)

Classificatory verbs: acquisition and use in Dene Sųłıné

4 31.3. Sergey Say (U Potsdam)

Genealogical and areal patterns in the distribution of bivalent valency class systems

5 7.4. J Drew Hancock (UniBE, ISW)

Incorporation Processes and the Development of Trans-Mississippian Verb Stems

6 28.4. Aimée Lahaussois (CNRS-HTL)

Interjection counting in Kiranti descriptions

7 12.5. Giorgia Troiani (Nazarbayev U)

Testing the perception of Intonation Unit boundaries in naturally occurring conversation

8 19.5. Sebastian Nordhoff (BBAW/LSP)

Open Text Collections

Fall Semester 2024

 
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

Steven Moran & Tiena Danner (UniNE/ U Miami)

Type-ology is dead; or, The comparative method cannot tell us how languages evolve

Spring Semester 2024

Fall Semester 2023