Calls: Transitivity and Labile Verbs in Typological and Diachronic Perspectives: Indo-European and Beyond: Call for Papers: Possible topics to be addressed at the workshop include (but are not limited to): • theoretical and descriptive aspects of labile… dlvr.it/TF5njG

Warmest congratulations to Samira Müller, who defended her wonderful Ph.D. dissertation with summa colors at AOI/UZH yesterday, and hat tip to Enno Giele (U. Heidelberg) and Christian Schwermann (U. Bochum) for generously supporting this wonderful project over the years.

📢New paper with Robert Bischoff 🥰🥳 We ask, how is mobility behaviour reflected in the archaeological record? Can we use SNA to recover it? "Hunter-gatherer mobility patterns influence the reconstruction of social networks from archaeological assemblages" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This paper in Royal Society Publishing was a long time in the making but so happy to see it out now! Huge congrats to Sabrina Engesser for an incredible amount of work! w/Sotaro Kita Amanda Ridley Stuart K Watson NCCR Evolving Language UZH Science ISLE Swiss National Science Foundation royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

New paper out PLOS Biology: using an artificial grammar-based approach we investigated the neuro-developmental origins of non-adjacent dependency learning w/Lin Cai,@babellab_vienna Stuart K Watson, Yasuyo Minagawa et al UZH Science NCCR Evolving Language Swiss National Science Foundation journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

📰🦍In gorillas, travel decisions are taken as a group! Learn more in the #article on our website, based on the recently published research of Larissa Nellissen ! In EN, FR and DE. Université Neuchâtel Comparative Cognition Neuchatel Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Musée de l'Homme Royal Society of Biology WWF evolvinglanguage.ch/great-leaders-…

Associate or Full Professorship in General Linguistics, U. Berne, focusing "on languages outside Europe and the Indo-European family" (apply by Dec 1). tinyurl.com/28hudx5c

I'm certainly partial, but I am very glad about this award of the The British Academy for Prof Erich Poppe thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medals/…

A century ago, Alfred Kroeber opposed racism and eugenics, advocated for Indigenous rights, and almost single-handedly invented cultural anthropology in the West. Yet four years ago, UC Berkeley removed his name from one of its buildings. altaonline.com/dispatches/a61…

New paper led by Alexandra B. Bosshard providing further support that primate vocal sequences are structurally more complex than previously thought! With @BalthasarBickel Evolutionary Cognition Group Paola Merlo and Chundra Cathcart NCCR Evolving Language Swiss National Science Foundation UZH Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Our new book chapter on the history of wheat. Genomics is revolutionizing the studies of wheat breeding and evolution, and also sheds light on the language/farming dispersal hypothesis. Thanks to the former member Moeko Okada doi.org/10.1007/978-98… URPP Evolution in Action NCCR Evolving Language

#OTD 201 years ago, Max Müller (1823-1900) was born 🥳 An expert on Sanskrit, India, the study of religion, and language evolution, a translator, and the first professor of comparative philology at Oxford. A street in New Delhi is named after him. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

First screening is coming! 16th of December, 17:00, premiere of the documentary «Finding First Peoples: the Mapuche» (66’ Language: Spanish Subtitles: English), at the Cinema of the Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich. Registration via email [email protected]

New article with University of Zurich Forensic Team led by Natasha Arora and Peter Resutik - We describe the genetic history of Walser communities in the Alps, an important historical migration, contributing to the linguistic diversity of Switzerland fsigenetics.com/article/S1872-…

Interesting results: genetic relatedness of Walser communities outside Upper Valais, genetic distinctiveness of some communities matching their geography and recent history, haplogroups G2a (Ychromosome) and W6 (mtDNA) of possible ancient substrate Paul Widmer NCCR Evolving Language

Merry Christmas from the IDP UK Team! 🎄 This drawing of a cross appears on a Tibetan manuscript from Dunhuang. Learn more about this manuscript and evidence of Christianity in early Tibet here. bit.ly/401snmO

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Full professorship in Indo-European linguistics and philology at EPHE/PSL, Paris: ephe.psl.eu/sites/default/… (apply by March 11)

A Swiss newspaper reported our study of biodiversity — in German! The damage from herbivore insects was reduced by integrating genomics, machine learning and physics. Nature Communications: doi.org/10.1038/s41467… ftmedien.ch/mit-genetische… URPP GCB, Universität Zürich

Discussion with Prof. Bickel, Director NCCR Evolving Language Prof. Stoll, Dr. Jung and Sonja on language acquisition and evolution in relation to newly started research on Gurung language acquisition. University of Zurich Swiss National Science Foundation youtu.be/9bWIEXsFBfo