Balthasar Bickel - Curriculum Vitae#


Degrees:
  • 2001 Dr. habil., General Linguistics, U. Zürich
  • 1997 Dr. phil., General Linguistics, U. Zürich
  • 1991 lic. phil., General linguistics, Philosophy and Russian, University Zürich\

Selected major grants in the last 5 years:
  • 2016 – 2019 Linguistic morphology in time and space (LiMiTS), SNSF Sinergia (with M Jenny, F Zuñiga, W Behr, P Widmer, M Loporcaro, and R Weibel)
  • 2016 – 2019 Ergativity in comprehension and production: language typology and processing, SNFS (with M Meyer)
  • 2011 – 2014 Towards a corpus-based typology of clause linkage: an analytical framework and case studies on non-local dependencies, DFG/SNFS (with V Gast)
  • 2009 – 2012 Differential agreement in Chintang and differential case marking in Nepali, DFG/ESF
  • 2009 – 2011 Distributional Typology: the theoretical and methodological foundations of a probabilistic approach to language typology, Volkswagen-Stiftung, Opus Magnum

Journal editing
  • 2009 – 2015 Studies in Language (with E König)

Current editorial boards
  • 2014- Conceptual Foundations of Language Science
  • 2013- Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics
  • 2012- Journal of Linguistic Geography
  • 2012- Edinburgh Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
  • 2009- Typological Studies in Language, Benjamins
  • 2009- Brill’s Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages, Brill
  • 2006- Folia Linguistica

Selected recent keynotes:
  • 2015 Kiranti in global perspective. 48th Int'l Conf. Sino-Tibetan Lang. and Ling., Santa Barbara
  • 2015 Modeling the diachrony of grammar: which data? which methods? Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics, Lorentz Center
  • 2015 Moving beyond Panini: causal theories in linguistics. Causality in the Language Sciences, Leipzig
  • 2014 Beyond universals: exploring the conditions of language. 36th Ann. Conf. German Ling. Soc., Marburg
  • 2012 The dynamics of areas and universals. KNAW Conf. on Patterns of Diversification and Contact, Amsterdam
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