Curriculum vitae

Place of birth: Copenhagen
Present position: Group Leader, Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, University of Kiel (Sept. 2021-)

Professional career

  • 2021 Visiting Professor, University of Tübingen (April-Aug. 2021)
  • 2018-2021 Researcher, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University, Leiden (Febr. 2018-Jan. 2021)
  • 2018-2020 Researcher, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources, Beijing Language University (May 2018-~June 2020)
  • 2017-2018 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of Tübingen (June 2017-Jan. 2018)
  • 2015-2017 Assistant Professor, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University, Leiden
  • 2016 Visiting Professor, Nankai University, Tianjin, China (July 11-15)
  • 2015-2016 Fellow, Center of Advanced Studies “Word, Bones, Genes, Tools”, University of Tübingen (Dec. 2015-Febr. 2016)
  • 2015-2022 Director, Laboratory of Quantitative Linguistics, Kazan Federal University (-March 2022)
  • 2014-2015 Research Fellow, Laboratory of Quantitative Linguistics, Kazan Federal University (Febr. 1-May 9, 2014; March 3-28, 2015)
  • 2009-2015 Senior Scientist, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
  • 2007-2011 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University
  • 2003-2009 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
  • 2005-2008 Assistant Professor, Languages and Cultures of Indian America, Leiden University
  • 2002-2005 Associate Research Professor, Dept. of General and Applied Linguistics, University of Copenhagen
  • 2003 Visiting Professor, Departamento de Letras y Lingüística, Universidad de Sonora (Nov. 9-18)
  • 2001-2002 Visiting Professor, Departamento de Letras y Lingüística, Universidad de Sonora
  • 2000-2001 Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
  • 1996-2000 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Native American Languages and Cultures, University of Copenhagen
  • 1996 Part-time teacher, Dept. of Native American Languages and Cultures, University of Copenhagen (spring semester)
  • Fall 1995 Visiting Scholar, Linguistics Dept., University of California, Santa Barbara

University Education

  • 1996 Ph.D. in Native American Languages and Cultures, University of Copenhagen. “Description and Typology of Some Grammatical Categories in Azoyú Tlapanec.”
  • 1993 Coursework at 1993 Linguistic Institute, The Ohio State University
  • 1992 M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen. “The Relationship between the Mixe-Zoquean Languages of Mexico.”
  • 1987-92 Studies at Dept. of Native American Languages and Cultures and Dept. of Linguistics (University of Copenhagen)
  • 1985 B.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen
  • 1982-83 Coursework toward a B.A. in English, Honor’s College, University of Oregon

Courses taught

    2022 University of Kiel
  • Arealtypologie Slavischer Sprachen
  • 2021 Universidad de Sonora
  • El análisis computacional de corpus
  • 2021 University of Tübingen
  • Language dynamics
  • Quantitative methods in linguistics
  • Linguistic typology
  • 2015-18 Leiden University
  • Introduction to quantitative methods in linguistics
  • Classical Nahuatl
  • Introduction to Lowland Mayan linguistics
  • Advanced typology2014 Kazan Federal University:
  • Quantitative methods in linguistics (12 lectures, March-April)
  • 2013 IMPRS Human Origins (An international Max Planck research school)
  • Computational historical linguistics (1 lecture)
  • 2013 IMPRS Human Origins (An international Max Planck research school)
  • The Automated Similarity Judgment Program (1 lecture)
  • 2012 IMPRS Human Origins (An international Max Planck research school)
  • The Automated Similarity Judgment Program (1 lecture)
  • 2011 16th European Maya Conference (Copenhagen)
  • Advanced Workshop on Nahuatl writing (with Alfonso Lacadena; 4 days)
  • 2011 IMPRS Neurocom (An international Max Planck research school)
  • Typological distributions (3 lectures)
  • 2010 3L International Summer School on Language Documentation and Description, Leiden
  • Introduction to the Tlapanec language (5 days)
  • 2005-09 Leiden University
  • Introduction to Nahuatl I-III
  • Introduction to Ch’orti’ I-II
  • Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs I
  • Writing systems
  • Mesoamerican languages (one block)
  • Overview of Mesoamerican cultures
  • Tlapanec (part of linguistics structure course)
  • 2008 13th European Maya Conference (Paris)
  • Classic Maya Grammar – Possessive expressions in Maya hieroglyphic texts and relevant extant Mayan languages (4 days, with Alfonso Lacadena and Albert Davletshin)
  • 2007 Vigésima séptima semana de vida y lengua mixes
  • Advanced Mixe (July 31-August 3, 2007)
  • 2006 Kulturarvens Forskerskole, Copenhagen
  • Contribution on Mesoamerican writing and other symbolic communication to the course “Visuel Viden? En perspektivering af aflæsning og tolkning af kulturgenstande som nonverbal viden” (May 2, 2006)
  • 2006 Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity
  • New approaches to language and prehistory from typology, genetics, and quantitative linguistics (March 20-21 & 23-24)
  • 2003 Depto. de Letras y Lingüística, Universidad de Sonora
  • Introduction to areal-typological linguistics (9 days intensive course, in Spanish)
  • 2003 Workshop adjacent to the Fifth World Archaeological Congress, Washington
  • Nahuatl writing (1 day workshop, with Alfonso Lacadena, assisted by Marc Zender)
  • 2002 7th European Maya Conference (London)
  • Classic Maya grammar (advanced workshop, 3 days, with Alfonso Lacadena)
  • 2001 Depto. de Letras y Lingüística, Universidad de Sonora
  • The dynamics of language in Eastern Mesoamerica during the first millenium A.D. (one semester seminar, in Spanish)
  • 1999 4th European Maya Conference (Copenhagen)
  • Classic Maya grammar (advanced workshop, 3 days)
  • 1996 Museo Goeldi, Belem, Pará, Brazil
  • Intensive course on comparative linguistics (3 days)
  • 1994-99 Dept. of Native American Languages and Cultures, University of Copenhagen
  • Structure and history of (Mesoamerican) studies
  • Nahuatl linguistics
  • Maya writing
  • Yucatec Maya linguistics
  • Native languages and cultures of the Americas
  • History and culture of the Aztecs
  • The Mesoamerican ballgame
  • 16th and 17th century sources on the Yucatec Maya
  • 16th and 17th century sources on the Native Peoples of Colonial Mexico
  • The Maya

Refereeing

Funding agencies

  • Austria: FWF, the Austrian Science Fund (one, 2017)
  • Belgium: FWO Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (one, 2012)
  • Canada: SSHRC, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (one, 2021)
  • Czechoslovakia: the Czech Science Foundation (two, 2017-)
  • Estonia: Estonian Research Council (two, 2017-)
  • Finland: Research Council of Finland (formerly the Academy of Finland) (two [panel member] + three [individual applications], 2019-)
  • France: AGR, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (one, 2012)
  • Germany: DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (four, 2015-)
  • Mexico: CONACyT, the Mexican Research Council (one, 2001)
  • Poland: National Science Centre, Poland (three, 2016-)
  • Serbia: SF, the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (one, 2022-)
  • Switzerland: SNF, Swiss National Science Foundation (two, 2010)
  • USA: U. S. National Science Foundation (thirteen, 1994-)
  • Remote referee for ERC, the European Research Council (three, 2008-)
  • Project referee for ELDP, Endangered Languages Documentation Project (two, 2014-)

Journals and publishers

    * = on 2-4 occasions, ** = on 5 or more occasions

  • Multidisciplinary Journals: *Advances in Complex Systems, Frontiers in Complex Systems, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, *Journal of the Royal Society Interface, *Nature, Nature Human Behavior, Palgrave Communications, *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B, **PLOS ONE, **Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., *Royal Society Open Science, SAGE Open, Science, Science Advances, *Scientific Data, *Scientific Reports.
  • Linguistics journals: Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, Amerindia, *Anthropological Linguistics, Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, Corpora, *Diachronica, Folia Linguistica, Frontiers in Communication, **International Journal of American Linguistics, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Journal of Greek Linguistics, Journal of Historical Linguistics, Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, **Journal of Language Contact, Journal of Language Evolution, *Journal of Language Relationship, *Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, *Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, *Language, Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, *Language and Speech, Language Documentation and Description, **Language Dynamics and Change, Language Resources and Evaluation, Language Variation and Change, Languages, Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics & Phonetics, Lexis, *Lingua, Linguistic Discovery, **Linguistic Typology, Linguistic Vanguard, *Linguistics, Mon-Khmer Studies, *Morphology, *Oceanic Linguistics, *Open Linguistics, Pragmatics and Cognition, Society for Caribbean Linguistics Occasional Papers, *Studies in Language, Tidsskrift for Sprogforskning, Transactions of the Philological Society.
  • Physics journals: *Europhysics Letters, International Journal of Modern Physics C, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: theory and experiment, **Physica A.
  • Computer science journals: *Computational Methods in Science and Technology, *Computer Speech and Language, *Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, International Journal of Computer Applications, PeerJ Computer Science.
  • Anthropology journals: Anales de Antropología, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, *Current Anthropology, Economic Botany, Food Culture and Society, *Journal of Ethnobiology, Tidsskriftet Antropologi.
  • Journals on the science of religion: The Journal of Religious History.
  • Americanist journals: *Ancient Mesoamerica, Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, **Estudios de Cultura Maya, Iberoamérica, Journal of the Institute of Iberoamerican Studies, Journal de la Société des Américanistes, *Latin American Antiquity, Latin American Indian Literatures Journal, *Tlalocan, Wayeb Notes.
  • Biology journals: Biology, PLOS Biology.
  • Psychology journals: Child Development, *Frontiers in Psychology, Learning and Individual Differences.
  • University publishers: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, *Cambridge University Press, Editorial UniSon, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, *Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Oklahoma Press, *University of Utah Press.

Conference program committees / abstract reviewing

  • International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang): Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2026 (Evolang26).
  • International Congress of Linguists (ICL): Poznan, Poland, 2024.
  • Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE): Bordeaux, Frankce, 2025 (SLE-58); Helsinki, Finland, 2024 (SLE-57); Athens, Greece, 2023 (SLE-56); Bucharest, Romania, 2022 (SLE-55); Athens, Greece, 2021 (SLE-54); Bucharest, Romania, 2020 (SLE-53); Leipzig, Germany, 2019 (SLE-52); Tallinn, Estonia, 2018 (SLE-51); Zürich, Switzerland, 2017 (SLE-50); Naples, Italy, 2016 (SLE-49); Leiden, Netherlands, 2015 (SLE-48); Poznan, Poland, 2014 (SLE-47); Split, Croatia, 2013 (SLE-46); Stockholm, Sweden, 2012 (SLE-45).
  • Kazan International Linguistic Summit (KILS): Kazan, Russia, 2020 (KILS 2020); Kazan, Russia, 2021 (KILS 2021).
  • 2nd International Conference on New Trends in Languages, Literature and Social Communications (ICNTLLSC), Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, May 18, 2022.
  • International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), Naples, July 27-31, 2015 (ICHL-22); Osaka, Japan, July 25-30, 2011 (ICHL-20).
  • Causality in the Language Sciences, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, April 13-15, 2015.
  • International Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Physical Sciences (IC-MSQUARE), Madrid, Spain, August 28-31, 2014.
  • Conference on Cognitive Modelling in Linguistics (CML): Milano-Marittima, Italy, September 14-21, 2013 (CML-14); Cala-d’Or, Spain, Sept. 6-13, 2020 (CML-21).
  • Computational approaches to the study of dialectal and typological variation, a workshop at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Opole, Poland, August 6-10, 2012.
  • Uncovering Language History from Multilingual Resources, a workshop at the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Avignon, France, April 23-24, 2012.
  • TextGraphs-4: Graph based Methods for Natural Language Processing, Suntec, Singapore 2009.

Prize award committees

  • Academia Europaea Prizes for Young Russian Scientists, 2017.
  • Von der Gabelentz Award of the Association for Linguistic Typology, 2013.

Journal editorship

  • Associate Editor of Journal of Ethnobiology (2020-2022)
  • Academic Editor of PLOS ONE (2018-)
  • Founder and General Editor of Language Dynamics and Change (2011-2018)

Member of editorial and advisory boards of journals

  • Frontiers in Psychology & Frontiers in Communication, Language Sciences section (EB, 2021-)
  • Journal of Language and Education (EB, 2020-)
  • Language Dynamics and Change (AB, 2019-)
  • Estudios de Cultura Maya (EB, 2015-)
  • Computational Methods in Science and Technology (EB, 2014-)
  • Open Linguistics (AB, 2014-)
  • Indian Ocean Review of Science and Technology (EB, 2013-)
  • The Open Anthropology Journal (EB, 2008-2013)
  • Tidsskrift for Sprogforskning (EB, 2008-2009)
  • Journal of Mesoamerican Languages and Linguistics (EB, 2007-2010)
  • Member of “Compass User Crew”, Language and Linguistics Compass (EB, 2009-)
  • Revista Asia y América (published by Institute for Asian and American Studies, Dankook University, Seoul, South Korea) (EB, 2007-)

Member of editorial boards of book series and encyclopedias

  • Colección Lingüística, Serie Textos en Lenguas Indígenas (published by Universidad de Sonora) (2021-)
  • Estudios de lenguas amerindias (published by Universidad de Sonora) (2015-)
  • Gramáticas (A series of grammatical description published by Universidad de Sonora) (2014-)
  • Brill’s Studies in Historical Linguistics (2011-)
  • Consultant for Den Store Danske Encyclopædi – Danmarks Nationalleksikon (1999-2001)
  • Topic editor (fagansvarlig) for Lex – Danmarks Nationalleksikon (2025-)

Member of Ph.D. advisory committees

  • Darja Jonjic: [A topic relating to Russian dialectology]. University of Kiel (ongoing).
  • Evandro Cunha: Contributions to the computational processing of diachronic linguistic corpora. Federal University of Minas Gerais & Leiden University, 2020.
  • Rita Eloranta: Mochica: grammatical topics and external relations. Leiden University, 2020.
  • Ilona Heijnen: Here it is. A Nahuatl translation of European cosmology: Context and contents of the Izcatqui manuscript in the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, Leiden University, 2020.
  • Matthias Pache: Languages of the intermediate area (Colombia and eastern Central America) and their connections to Mesoamerica and the Middle Andes. Leiden University, 2018.
  • Taraka Rama Kasicheyanula: Computational historical linguistics. University of Gothenburg, 2015.
  • Cédric Becquey: Diasysteme, diachronie: études comparées dans les langues cholanes. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, 2014.
  • Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo: Rituals of time: an analysis of the ritual practice of time of the long count calendar, the 260-Day Calendar, the 365-Day Calendar and the 52-Year Calendar in Mesoamerica. Oslo University, 2007.

Member of Ph.D. promotion or reading committees

  • Irasema Cruz Domínguez: Sistema de los demostrativos del zoque de Santa María Chimalapa, Oaxaca: morfosintaxis, semántica y pragmática. El Colegio de México, 2025.
  • Juventino Santiago Jiménez: Procesos de gramaticalización de verbos, sustantivos y demostrativos en el mixe de Tamazulápam. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (Mexico) (ongoing).
  • Jiménez Jiménez, Silviano: Estudios en la gramática de la oración simple y compleja en el zoque de San Miguel Chimalapa. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (Mexico), 2019.
  • Michael W. Swanton: A history of Chocholtec alphabetic writing. Leiden University, 2016.
  • Femke Swarte: Predicting the mutual intelligibility of Germanic languages from linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. University of Groningen, 2016.
  • Snježana Kondic: A grammar of South Eastern Huastec, a Mayan language from Mexico. University of Sydney & Université Lyon 2 Lumière, 2012.
  • Araceli Rojas Martínez Gracida: El tiempo y la sabiduría en Poxoyëm. Un calendario sagrado entre los ayook de Oaxaca. Leiden University, 2012.
  • Hans-Jörg Witter: Die gefiederte Schlange und Christus: eine religionshistorische Studie zum Mixtekisch-Christlichen Synkretismus. Leiden University, 2011.
  • Benjamin Maldonado Alvarado: Comunidad, comunalidad y colonialismo en Oaxaca, México. La nueva educación comunitaria y su contexto. Leiden University, 2010.
  • Frauke Sachse: Reconstructive description of Eighteenth-Century Xinka grammar. Leiden University, 2010.
  • Juan Julián Caballero: Ñuu davi yuku yata. Comunidad, identidad y educación en la Mixteca (México). Leiden University, 2009.
  • Ubaldo López García: Sa’vi discursos ceremoniales de yutsa to’on (Apoala). Leiden University, 2007.
  • Alex Geurdts: Grounding the Past: The praxis of participatory archaeology in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico. Leiden University, 2007.
  • Mariano Sanz: La categoría de tiempo en las inscripciones mayas del Período Clásico. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2007.
  • Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus: Eighteenth-Century Cholón. Leiden University, 2005.
  • Bodil Liljefors Persson: The Legacy of the Jaguar Prophet: An Exploration of Yucatec Maya Religion and Historiography. Lund University, 2000.

Internal member of M.A. advisory committees

  • Ilona Heijnen: Izcatqui – “here it is”. Initial study on an early colonial Nahuatl manuscript (ms 3523-2 Tropenmuseum) based on the Spanish astrological and agricultural almanac or Reportorio de Los Tiempos by Andrés de Li [1495]. Leiden University, 2009.
  • Bente Juhl Andersen: Pre-Hispanic subsistence strategies: a comparison between El Edén and other selected sites in the Maya lowlands. University of Copenhagen, 2001.
  • Jesper Nielsen: Making the man-made world alive: dedication rituals of the Maya – a survey of the epigraphic, iconographic, archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic sources. University of Copenhagen, 1998.
  • External member of M.A. advisory or promotion committees

    • Gregorio Tiburcio Cano: La flexión verbal en el me¹’phaa¹ de Zilacayotitlán: clases flexivas. CIESAS, México D. F. (ongoing).
    • Juan Clímaco Gutiérrez Díaz: Estructura de cláusula, predicación primaria y predicación secundaria en el mixe de Tlahuitoltepec. CIESAS, México D. F. (ongoing).
    • Abad Navarro Solano. El patrón de alineamiento en el me7phaa de Malinaltepec, Guerrero. CIESAS, México D. F., 2012.
    • Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo. Undersøkelse av way-hieroglyfen (T539) i inskripsjoner hos Maya fra den klassiske perioden (ca. 200 e.kr. – ca. 900 e.kr.): En kritisk analyse av sjamanisme, nagualisme og tonalisme. Oslo University, 2001.
    • Salomé Gutiérrez Morales: Duración vocálica en los verbos monosilábicos zoqueanos: consideraciones diacrónicas basadas en el popoluca de Soteapan y Texistepec, Veracruz. CIESAS, México D. F., 1993.

    Linguistic fieldwork

    • Ulterior Mixe. 6 weeks (2007-2008).
    • Cucapá (also called Cocopa) (Pozas de Arvizu, Baja California, Mexico). 1 week (2004).
    • Tlapanec (Azoyú, Guerrero, Mexico). 12 months (1991-1994, 2003-2004, 2007).
    • Ch’orti’ (Olopa, Guatemala). 2 weeks (1998).
    • Texistepec Popoluca (Veracruz, Mexico). 5 months (1993-1998).
    • Pira-Tapuyo, Tuyuca, and Desana (São Gabriel das Cachoeiras, Amazônas, Brazil), 7 weeks (1996).
    • Sierra Popoluca (Veracruz, Mexico). 1 week (1993).
    • Pastores Nahuatl (Azoyú, Guerrero, Mexico). 2 weeks (1993).
    • Zoque (Tabasco, Mexico). 2 weeks (1993).
    • South Highland Mixe (Tamazulapan and Ayutla, Oaxaca, Mexico). 2 weeks (1990).
    • Chiapas Zoque-NE dialect (Oxolotán, Tabasco, Mexico). 7 weeks (1988).

    Conferences organized

    • Workshop on environmental conditions in prehistory (c. 10,000 BP – present) – ecology, carrying capacity, and the landscape: integrating regional models and developing global databases, Kiel, Dec. 9, 2022 (with Oliver Nakoinz and Laurenz Hillmann)
    • Workshop on information extraction for the linguistic domain, Leiden, Nov. 1, 2018
    • State of the Art of Mesoamerican Linguistics, December 6-7, 2015, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    • Language Diversity and Prehistory, August 19, 2013, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (with Willem Adelaar)
    • The First Conference of ASJP and Language Prehistory (ALP-I), September 17-19, 2010, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (with Cecil Brown)
    • The Diachrony of Classification Systems, March 12-13, 2009, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar (with Bill McGregor)
    • The Swadesh Centenary Conference, January 17-18, 2009, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (with Anthony Grant)
    • The Typoloy of Stative-Active Languages, May 20-22, 2005, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (with Mark Donohue)
    • 4th European Maya Conference, October 9-13, 1999, Copenhagen (with several others)

    Grants

    • 2018-2020. “The Dictionary/Grammar Reading Machine: Computational Tools for Accessing the World’s Linguistic Heritage”. Project leader: Harald Hammarström; Principal Investigators: Marian Klamer, Stéphane Robert; Team Members: Markus Forsberg, Guillaume Segerer, Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Søren Wichmann. Funding: 768,196 EUR. JPICH Digital Heritage (under European Union’s 2020 Research and Innovation Programme). http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~harald/dream.html.
    • 2011-2016. “The Linguistic Past of Mesoamerica and the Andes: A search for early migratory relations between North and South America”. Principal Investigator: Willem Adelaar; Co-Investigator: Søren Wichmann. Funding: 2,600,612 EUR. Funding agency: ERC – European Research Council. http://mesandlingk.eu/about.
    • 2010-2013. “New Guinea’s place in Southeast Asia: a study integrating archaeology, linguistics and genetics”. Primary Investigator: Mark Donohue; Secondary Investigators: Tim Denham, Johanna Nichols, Martin Richards & Søren Wichmann. Funding: 274,701 EUR (402,000 Australian Dollar). Funding agency: ARC – Australian Research Council. https://researchers.anu.edu.au/projects/1272.
    • 2009-2012. “Valency classes in the World’s languages”. Applicants: Bernard Comrie, Andrej Malchukov, Martin Maspelmath, Søren Wichmann. Funding for two postdocs and a Ph.D. student. Funding agency: DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/valency/index.php.
    • 2007-2011. “Keeping the days. Time and identity in Middle America”. Applicant: Maarten Jansen; Co-Applicant: Nikolai Grube; Project Members: Wichmann, Corbey, Cammarota, Lüning, Korsten. Funding: 499,626 EUR. Funding agency: NWO.
    • 2006-2009. “Marked nominative and marked absolutive case system”. Applicant: Michael Cysouw; Project Members: Søren Wichmann, Orin Gensler. Funding for a postdoc and a Ph.D. student. Funding agency: DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
    • 2002-2003. “Comparative phonology of the Mayan languages in the light of recent epigraphic results”. Applicant: Søren Wichmann. Funding: 54,295 EUR (404,070 Danish kroner). Funding agency: The Carlsberg Foundation.
    • Grant for studies abroad. Applicant: Søren Wichmann. Funding: 3,695 EUR (27,500 Danish kroner). Funding agency: Martin Levys Mindelegat.
    • Grant for linguistic studies. Applicant: Søren Wichmann. Funding: 10,749 EUR (80,000 Danish kroner). Funding agency: Stud. mag. Per Slomann’s legat.
    • Grant for linguistic fieldwork in Tabasco, Mexico. Applicant: Søren Wichmann. Funding: 605 EUR (4,500 Danish kroner). Funding agency: Københavns Universitet, kontoen for Studerendes individuelle studierejser.

    Honors

    • Gold Medal of the University of Copenhagen, 1992, awarded for my M.A. thesis

    H-indices

    • Web of Science: 20 (2025-03-28)
    • Scopus: 27 (2025-03-28)
    • Google Scholar: 42 (2025-03-28)

    Last updated March 28, 2025

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