New Co-editor Studies in Language (Benjamins)

[Paul Peranteau]

New Co-editor Studies in Language

Foundations of Language and John Benjamins Publising are pleased to 
announce that Balthasar Bickel has agreed to join Bernard Comrie as 
general editor of Studies in Language. Balthasar Bickel currently 
holds a chair position in linguistic typology and variation at the 
University of Leipzig (Department of General Linguistics). His core 
interest is the worldwide distribution of linguistic diversity. 
Current foci of research include the typological profile of the 
Himalayas and the Caucasus, which deviate from the surrounding 
Eurasian spread areas; the development of new methods for measuring 
and testing areal distributions and their historical development; and 
the implications of typological variance in the structure of 
grammatical relations for discourse style and language processing. 
His fieldwork experience began with Bantu and Turkish, but since the 
early 1990s his main focus has been on typological outlier languages 
in the Himalayas, where he has been engaged in extensive research on 
the Kiranti people of Eastern Nepal, and also on the neighboring 
Indo-Aryan languages (Nepali and Maithili). His most recent effort in 
this area is an interdisciplinary documentation project on Chintang 
and Puma. Balthasar Bickel is co-director (with Johanna Nichols at UC 
Berkeley) of the AUTOTYP research program for typological databasing, 
and he serves on the editorial boards of Folia Linguistica and 
Himalayan Linguistics. He is also a member of the Executive Committee 
of the Association for Linguistic Typology and the Linguistic 
Advisory Board of the Documentation of Endangered Languages Program (DOBES).

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