Language typology and language documentation
Language typology is concerned with the characteristics of language and languages - their analysis, comparability, distribution and frequency. In language documentation, the linguistic repertoire of languages that are usually little or not yet described is collected, scientifically processed and analysed in descriptive, typological, linguistic-historical, literary or sociolinguistic terms. These closely interwoven areas are established at the Graz Linguistics Department through typologically orientated research projects on phonological, morphological, semantic and syntactic structures of different languages and varieties, associated documentation and archiving, as well as the creation and maintenance of language corpora and databases.
Svitlana Antonyuk (Institute for German Studies; Institute for Slavic Studies):
- Typological universals
- Typology of the applicative
- language variant
Jennifer Brunner (Institute for Linguistics):
- Language documentation: Central Pame (Mexico)
- Endangered Bantu languages in western Tanzania
- ATAM in the languages of the Comoros
Dina El Zarka (Institute for Linguistics):
Language documentation: Arabic dialects
Anneliese Kelterer (Institute for Linguistics):
Language documentation and language description: Chichimeco Jonaz (Oto-Pame, Mexico)
Veronika Mattes (Institute for Linguistics):
- Language documentation: Bikol (Austronesian; Philippines)
- Typological studies on reduplication and iconicity
- typological-comparative studies on language acquisition
Ineke Mennen (Institute for English Studies):
Comparative Linguistics: Prosody of Greek, German, Dutch and Welsh
Marko Simonovic (Institute for Slavic Studies):
- Documentation of non-standardised minority languages (Fiuman, Romani)
- Documentation of language contact phenomena
Ralf Vollmann (Institute for Linguistics):
- Case marking
- complex clauses
- Sino-Tibetan typology
- Hakka language documentation