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søren wichmann

Major Current Projects

PARTICIPATION IN FORMALIZED PROJECTS

Valency Classes in the World's Languages. Subproject of “Grammatik und Verarbeitung verbaler Argumente“, Forschergruppe 742 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.  See http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~va/. Collaborators: Andrej Malchukov, Iren Hartmann, and Bernard Comrie,

The Contemporary Middle American Calendar. Subproject of “Keeping the Days. Time and Identity in Middle America”, a NWO-funded project beginning in the summer of 2007. Collaborators: Maarten Jansen & Nikolai Grube (Principal Investigators), and others.

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NON-FORMALIZED ONGOING PROJECTS

New methods in historical linguistics. By applying computational phylogenetic methods to lexical and typological databases I try to develop new methods in historical linguistics. This involves evaluating the strength of different phylogenetic methods and types of data, developing methods for comparing differences among phylogenetic trees suitable for linguists, as well as methods for correlating linguistic data with data from archaeology and genetics. In 2007 a project on automated lexicostatistics took shape: the ASJP Project.

A grammar of Me'pá (Azoyu Tlapanec). Continuing my Ph.D. research I am working towards a reference grammar of the Otomanguean language, Tlapanec, more specifically the endangered variety of Azoyu, Guerrero.