Research at Uppsala University

• 1000 Years of Language Contact: Convergence and Divergence on Gotland

  Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31

  Language family histories can resemble genealogies, in which a constant process of diversification produces ‘family trees’. But it is also well-known that language histories are not always tree-like, and ...

• A new perspective on French Historical Phonology - What loan words in Breton can tell us.

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  The project will attempt to shed new light on the history of French. In spite of at least 150 years of research, there are still many unsolved problems in French language history. This is particularly ...

• Academic Writing in English as a Foreign Language: the Use of Formulaic Langauge and Disciplinary Variation

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-02-06

  Formulaic sequences (e.g. it can be seen that, put forward, come into play) are pervasive in academic language and offer an important means of differentiating written texts by discipline. This project ...

• The Allative in Semitic

  Research project from 2016-07-01 to 2019-06-30

  The finite verb in Semitic is sometimes extended by an ending that involves a and/or nasalization, for example the Akkadian ventive, the energic in Arabic, Ugaritic, and Aramaic, as well as the so-called ...

• Ancient writing reforms: the alphabet in development on the Apennine peninsula

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  Why do people begin to write, and how do they know how and what to write?The project considers the development of the early alphabets in use by the various pre-Roman languages on the Apennine peninsula ...

• Retracing Connections: Byzantine Storyworlds in Greek, Arabic, Georgian, and Old Slavonic (c. 950 – c. 1100)

  Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2027-12-31

  During the long eleventh century (c. 950–c. 1100 CE), a host of core narratives that form the substructure of what we know today as Christian Orthodox culture were established in the ‘Byzantine’ world. ...

• Speaking to One´s Superiors: Petitions as cultural heritage and sources of knowledge

  Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2022-12-31

  The purpose of this project is to enhance accessibility to and knowledge of a relatively little-used historical source — petitions — and to use this source to answer questions about people’s ways of supporting ...

• Bashkardî: Documentation and Analysis of an Endangered Iranian Language

  Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31

  The Bashkardî language spoken in three provinces of Iran: Hormozgan, Kerman, and Sistan and Balochistan. The language belongs to the western group of Iranian languages, with the total number of speakers ...

• Biblia Arabica: The Arabic Bible and related texts among Jews, Christians and Muslims

  Research project from 2015-11-01 to 2015-11-30

  The conference Biblia Arabica: The Arabic Bible and related texts among Jews, Christians and Muslims will take place in Uppsala in March 29-April 1, 2016. The aim of the conference is to foster an interest ...

• Christianity and Judaism in the Language of Islam: The Bible in Arabic and related texts produced by Jews and Christians under Islam

  Research project from 2016-03-29 to 2016-04-01

  Subsequent to the composition of the Quran, Jews and Christians translated their Holy Scriptures into Arabic as a means of understanding and developing their own religious traditions. These texts have ...

• Clause combining and the Biblical Hebrew verbal system: A monograph project

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  The classical Hebrew verbal system is one of the greatest problems of Semitic linguistics. It has been a topic of debates and academic discussions since the Middle Ages, and is still a puzzle in comparative ...

• Conference arrangement: International workshop on typological profiles of language families of South Asia

  Research project from 2016-09-15 to 2016-09-16

  The goal of the planned workshop is to create a forum to initiate a scientific discussion on issues concerning the typological profiles of the language families of South Asia. South Asia comprises seven ...

• Cultural evolution of texts

  Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31

  How is cultural knowledge passed down through generations? Which processes promotes the fidelity of transmission of written or oral texts over longer or shorter times? And what are the regularities in ...

• DECODE: Automatic Decoding of Historical Manuscripts

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  Thousands of ciphers, enciphered historical manuscripts, are buried in libraries and archives. Our project will develop computer-aided tools for automatic and semi-automatic decoding of historical source ...

• The Function and Semantics of the Perfect in Indo-European Languages

  Research project from 2015-11-01 to 2015-11-30

  The perfect occupies a special place within the verb systems of the world’s languages. It typically expresses features associated with tense, aspect, and aktionsart. As such, the perfect defies reduction ...

• Discourse-Oriented Statistical Machine Translation

  Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2015-12-31

  In the recent years, significant progress has been made in natural language processing and machine translation in particular. The launch of Google Translate is one example that demonstrates the growing ...

• Documentation of an endangered language: Kunashi

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  The project aims to provide a fuller documentation of Kunashi, a "definitely endangered" (UNESCO) unwritten and undescribed Tibeto-Burman language spoken in only one village - Malana - in the Kullu district ...

• Funding for Slovo: Journal of Slavic Languages, Literatures and Cultures

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

• Fourth International Conference on Iranian Linguistics, ICIL4

  Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2011-12-31

  The Fourth International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL4) Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Iranian languages, June 17-19, 2011The purpose of this bi-annual conference ...

• Function, content and form in interaction. Students´ text-making in early school years.

  Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  Function, content and form in interaction. Students? text-making in early school years. The main purpose of this project is to further develop ways to study and understand students? text-making in early ...

• Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW): Large-Scale Spatial Analysis of the Cuneiform Corpus (c. 3400 BCE to 100 CE)

  Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31

  Cuneiform is one of the oldest scripts in human history. It also ranks among the largest bodies of historical documentation from the ancient world. Rough estimates suggest the total word count of all cuneiform ...

• German-Jewish migration to Sweden - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on History, Identity & Religion

  Research project from 2014-11-05 to 2014-11-07

  The application concerns a conference on German-Jewish migration to Sweden. The conference is a cooperation between a number of interdisciplinary networks and scholarly associations: Forum for Jewish Studies ...

• Roundtrip to Hades. Visits to the underworld in the eastern mediterranean tradition

  Research project from 2014-10-09 to 2014-10-12

  The research initiation consists of an international conference, “Roundtrip to Hades: visits to the underworld in the eastern Mediterranean tradition”, taking place at Uppsala university October 9-12 2014 ...

• Heritage language and Swedish language development from preschool to primary school

  Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31

  More than 25% of Sweden’s preschool children are growing up both with Swedish and a minority home language. Whilst we know that there is a lot of individual variation in how these two languages develop ...

• Himalayan linguistic prehistory in a new light

  Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31

  Sino-Tibetan (ST) is one of the largest language families on earth, second only to Indo-European (IE) in number of speakers. However, when it comes to our basic facts about ST – how many languages there ...

• Language history in the Western world 1600-1800: the construction of the origi, development and kinship of hte indo-european and semitic languages

  Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2012-12-31

  This project aims to map out and analyse the pervasive theories, methods, conceptions and themes that characterize the views on the origin and development of languages in the 17th and 18th centuries. ...

• Language impairment or typical language development? Developing methods for linguistic assessment of bilingual children in Sweden

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  Many children in Sweden grow up in a multilingual setting. Some of these children are slow in their language development and are referred to a speech-language pathologist (SLP) for assessment and intervention ...

• Muhit al-Tavarikh: The Sea of Chronicles Forogh Hashabeiky & Mehrdad Fallahzadeh

  Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31

  Muhit al-tavarikh (The Sea of Chronicles) is a historiographical work from the 17th century, written in Bukhara, Central Asia. The author is Muhammad Amin b. Mirza Muhammad Zaman Bukhari (Sufiyani), who ...

• Neo-Aramaic languages across space and time

  Research project from 2018-10-05 to 2018-10-07

  The Neo-Aramaic languages are spoken by religious minorities indigenous to the Middle East. Research in this field has the advantage of a very long span of documented history. The wealth of evidence for ...

• Neural Pronoun Models for Machine Translation

  Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31

  Pronouns are challenging for machine translation (MT) because their use variesbetween languages and because anaphoric pronouns are subject to long-distanceconstraints outside the standard unit of MT. The ...

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