Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Taras Zakharko are co-applicants in a project on noun vs verb frequencies across languages coordinated by Frank Seifart (Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) and funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Taras Zakharko is a co-applicant in a project on referentiality across languages led by Christian Lehmann (University of Erfurt) and funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Balthasar Bickel received a short-term grant from the Scientific & Technological Cooperation Programme Switzerland-Russia for a collabarative project with Prof. Andrej Filchenko (Tomsk State Pedagogical University, Dept. Siberian Indigenous Studies) on areal processes in languages of Siberia.
Volker Dellwo has received seed money from the ZüKL for a project on the perception of French prosody by German and Swiss German hearers.
Sabine Stoll and Gerold Schneider have received seed money from the ZüKL for a project on Ambiguity, Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition.
