Research
The URPP Language and Space is dedicated to research on the fundamental connection of language and space on the basis of three points of intersection represented through the research topics Language in Space, Space through Language, and Space in Language.
Language and Space Lab
The Language and Space Lab is the core unit of the URPP engaged in advancing laboratory-style, interdisciplinary approach to the study of language. We study how language is shaped by the space in which it is used, from individual interactions to global geographical patterns.
SPUR Blog & Papers
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VI Wedisyn Meeting – Westmost Europe Dialect Syntax
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«Ober mal wett hürate?» oder die Geographie der Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik
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Dialect contact in real interactions and in an agent-based model
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Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia
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Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact
About us
Currently 26 participating professors are engaged within the URPP and more than 20 early career researchers who are carrying out a wide range of projects focused on the intersection of language and space within their focused research groups and in the Language and Space Lab.