Research Profile

I’m interested in language change and comparison. In my research, I combine methods and approaches from historical linguistics, typology, and language documentation. I develop workflows, databases, and analyses that are re-usable and reproducible for researchers and can be made useful to the communities that share their data.

I’m currently a post-doctoral researcher with Linda Konnerth. I have a PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA) and the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany). My dissertation is a collection of three articles on Mixtec(an) language history using qualitative and quantitative methods.

For more information, see my personal website.

Publications

Selected publications

2024 - Auderset, Sandra. Rates of change and phylogenetic signal in Mixtec tone. Language Dynamics and Change https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-bja10031

2024 - Auderset, Sandra & Eric W. Campbell. Mixtec sound change database. Journal of Open Humanities Data 10(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.184

2023 - Auderset, Sandra, Simon J. Greenhill, Christian T. DiCanio, Eric W. Campbell. Subgroup- ing in a ‘dialect continuum’: A Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of the Mixtecan language family. Journal of Language Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzad004

2023 - Tallman, Adam J.R. & Sandra Auderset. Measuring and assessing indeterminacy and vari- ation in the morphology-syntax distinction. Linguistic Typology 27(1), 113–156. https: //doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2021-0041

2021 - Auderset, Sandra. The antipassive and its relationship to person markers. In: Janic, Katarzyna & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.). Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and re- lated constructions. Typological Studies in Language 130. Amsterdam: Benjamins. https: //benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.130.12aud

Talks

Recent and upcoming talks

06/2024 - Sandra Auderset: Towards a diachronic account of grammatical tone in Mixtec. Language, Communication & Cognition lecture series, Department of Linguistics, Albert-Ludwigs- Universität Freiburg (invited)

04/2024 - Sandra Auderset: La estructura interna de la rama Mixtecana: Un estudio filogenético bayesiano. Seminario de Lenguas Mixtecanas y Amuzgas, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (invited)

09/2023 -  Sandra Auderset. Is tone change more irregular and rapid than segmental change? A Mixtec case study. 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics – Universität Heidel- berg

08/2023 - Sandra Auderset & Eric W. Campbell: Comprehensive database of sound changes reveals tree-like and wave-like processes in the Mixtec language family. 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

01/2023 Sandra Auderset, Simon L. Peters, Inî G. Mendoza: Limitations of intelligibility: Dynamic relations between Mixtec communities. Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indige- nous Languages of theAmericas (SSILA) – online

Teaching

HS 2024

  • Statistics for Linguistics using R
  • Einführung in die Historische Linguistik I: Sprachwandel
  • Linguistisches Kolloquium (Koordinatorin)

FS 2024

  • Linguistic Data Analysis using R
  • Einführung in die Allgemeine Linguistik II: Morphosyntax
  • Linguistisches Kolloquium (Koordinatorin)

CV

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Since August 2023
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Linguistics, University of Bern
September 2022 - July 2023 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Cultural and Linguistic Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
September 2022 – July 2019
 Doctoral researcher, Department of Cultural and Linguistic Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
September 2016 – June 2019
 PhD student and teaching assistant, University of California Santa Barbara
2022 PhD in Linguistics, University of California Santa Barbara
2015 MA in General Linguistics, University of Zürich
2013 BA in General Linguistics and Indo-European Linguistics, University of Zürich

A full CV can be downloaded from my website.