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 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, their documentation and archiving, as well as the creation and maintenance of language corpora and databases.

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The following linguists work in the field of language typology and language documentation:

Svitlana Antonyuk (Department of Psychology):

  • Typological universals
  • Typology of the applicative
  • language variant

Jennifer Brunner (Department of Linguistics):

  • Language documentation: Central Pame (Mexico)
  • Endangered Bantu languages in western Tanzania
  • ATAM in the languages of the Comoros

Cemile Celebi (Department of Theoretical and Applied Translation Studies):

  •  Bazayni Kurdish. Documentation and description.

Dina El Zarka (Department of Linguistics):

  • Language documentation: Arabic dialects

Agnes Grond (Department of Theoretical and Applied Translation Studies):

  • Bazayni Kurdish. Documentation and description.

Veronika Mattes (Department of Linguistics):

  • Language documentation: Bikol (Austronesian; Philippines)
  • Typological studies on reduplication and iconicity
  • typological-comparative studies on language acquisition

Lidia Mazzitelli (Department of Linguistics):

 

Ineke Mennen (Department of English Studies):

Comparative Linguistics: Prosody of Greek, German, Dutch and Welsh

Marko Simonovic (Department of Slavic Studies):

  • Documentation of non-standardised minority languages (Fiuman, Romani)
  • Documentation of language contact phenomena

Jelena Stojkovic (Department of Slavic Studies):

  • phonological typology (vowel alternations)

 

Ralf Vollmann (Department of Linguistics):

  • Case marking
  • complex clauses
  • Sino-Tibetan typology
  • Hakka language documentation