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Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution

Stefan Schnell

Stefan Schnell, Dr.

  • Senior Researcher
  • Distributional Linguistics Lab
  • Department of Comparative Language Science
  • University of Zurich

The focus of my work lies in the investigation of morphosyntactic variation in diverse languages. I therefore use quantitative corpus linguistic methods to approach the two main goals in his research. First, a contribution to a better understanding of universal and language-specific aspects of language use and second, elucidating the elucidate the relationship between variation in language use and the distribution of linguistic structures across human languages.

Since 2006 I have been conducting fieldwork on Vanua Lava in North Vanuatu to document and describe the Oceanic language Vera'a which is one of two still actively used languages on the island alongside Vurës. For further information on my work click on the link.