This year members of the URPP Language and Space were extremely
successful in raising external funds from the Swiss National Science
Foundation, SNSF.
The following research projects were approved in spring and
autumn 2015:
- AIS,
reloaded (Principal Investigator: Michele Loporcaro; Diego
Pescarini)
- The aural aesthetics of Táng poetry (Principal Investigator:
Wolfgang Behr)
- The imagery of Táng ‘poems on things’: a semiotic approach
(Principal Investigator: Wolfgang Behr)
- Interactive
discoveries: A video and eye-tracking based study of knowledge
construction in science centres (Principal Investigator: Wolfgang
Kesselheim; Barbara Neff, Yvonne Simon – Swiss Science Center
Technorama)
- Language description as filter and prisma: the individuality
of Slovene (Principal Investigator: Barbara Sonnenhauser)
- Linguistic
morphology in time and space (LiMiTS) (Principal Investigator:
Balthasar Bickel; Wolfgang Behr, Mathias Jenny, Michele Loporcaro,
Robert Weibel, Paul Widmer; Fernando Zúñiga; Curdin Derungs, Rik Van
Gijn, Francesco Gardani)
- Modelling
morphosyntactic area formation in Swiss German (SynMod),
prolongation (Principal Investigator: Elvira Glaser; Robert Weibel,
Philipp Stöckle, Péter Jeszenskzky)
- The morphosyntax of agreement in Jauer (Principal
Investigator: Michele Loporcaro; Sabine Stoll)
- Placenames in Canton St Gallen (Principal Investigator:
Elvira Glaser; Ross Purves)
- Regional
Linguistic Data Initiative (ReLDI) (Principal Investigator: Tanja
Samardžić; Maja Miličević, Nikola Ljubešić)
- Regional Variation in the Grammar of Standard German,
prolongation (Principal Investigator: Christa Dürscheid; Arne
Ziegler, Stephan Elspass)
- Vacational
Postcards: Spatial Reference and Exemplariness (Principal
Investigator: Heiko Hausendorf; Joachim Scharloth – TU Dresden)
- What’s up,
Switzerland (Principal Investigator: Elisabeth Stark; Christa
Dürscheid, Federica Diémoz, Crispin Thurlow, Silvia Natale, Beat
Siebenhaar; Simone Ueberwasser)