20.1409, FYI: New Co-editor Studies in Language (Benjamins)

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Subject: 20.1409, FYI: New Co-editor Studies in Language (Benjamins)

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Date: 13-Apr-2009
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: New Co-editor Studies in Language (Benjamins)
 

	
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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:10:27
From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: New Co-editor Studies in Language (Benjamins)

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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). 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics





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