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:
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2021 | Universidad de Sonora:
University of Tübingen:
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2015-18 | Leiden University:
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2014 | Kazan Federal University:
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2013 | IMPRS Human Origins (An international Max Planck research school):
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2013 | IMPRS Human Origins (An international Max Planck research school):
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2012 | IMPRS Human Origins (An international Max Planck research school):
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2011 | 16th European Maya Conference (Copenhagen):
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2011 | IMPRS Neurocom (An international Max Planck research school):
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2010 | 3L International Summer School on Language Documentation and Description, Leiden:
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2005-09 | Leiden University:
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2008 | 13th European Maya Conference (Paris):
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2007 | Vigésima séptima semana de vida y lengua mixes:
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2006 | Kulturarvens Forskerskole, Copenhagen:
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2006 | Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity:
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2003 | Depto. de Letras y Lingüística, Universidad de Sonora:
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2003 | Workshop adjacent to the Fifth World Archaeological Congress, Washington:
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2002 | 7th European Maya Conference (London):
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2001 | Depto. de Letras y Lingüística, Universidad de Sonora:
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1999 | 4th European Maya Conference (Copenhagen):
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1996 | Museo Goeldi, Belem, Pará, Brazil:
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1994-99 | Dept. of Native American Languages and Cultures, University of Copenhagen:
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Refereeing
Funding agencies
- Project referee for National Science Foundations:
- 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: the Academy of Finland (two [panel member], 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-)
- Special researcher (consultant) for Institute for Asian and American Studies, Dankook University, Seoul, South Korea) (2007-)
- Consultant for Den Store Danske Encyclopædi – Danmarks Nationalleksikon (1999-2001)
Journals and publishers
* = on 2-4 occasions, ** = on 5 or more occasions
- Multidisciplinary Journals: *Advances in Complex Systems, *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, **International Journal of American Linguistics, Journal of Greek Linguistics, Journal of Historical Linguistics, **Journal of Language Contact, Journal of Language Evolution, *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, Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics & Phonetics, *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, Вопросы языкового родства / Journal of Language Relationship.
- Physics journals: *Europhysics Letters, International Journal of Modern Physics C, **Physica A.
- Computer science journals: *Computational Methods in Science and Technology, *Computer Speech and Language, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, PeerJ Computer Science.
- Anthropology journals: Cambridge Archaeological Journal, *Current Anthropology, Food Culture and Society, Tidsskriftet Antropologi.
- Journals on the science of religion: The Journal of Religious History.
- Americanist journals: *Ancient Mesoamerica, *Estudios de Cultura Maya, Iberoamérica, Journal of Ethnobiology, 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
- Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE): 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
- Von der Gabelentz Award of the Association for Linguistic Typology, 2013.
- Academia Europaea Prizes for Young Russian Scientists, 2017.
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
- 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-)
Member of Ph.D. advisory committees
- Laurenz Hillmann: [A topic related to prehistoric- and historic carrying capacity in Europe]. University of Kiel (ongoing).
- Darja Jonjić: [A topic relating to Russian dialectology]. University of Kiel (ongoing).
- Arjan Mossel: [A topic related to toponomy as a clue to prehistory in Highland South America]. Leiden University (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
- Rammie Cahlon: [A topic in Quechuan historical linguistics]. Hebrew University (ongoing).
- 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 (2023-04-25)
- Scopus: 23 (2022-05-17)
- Google Scholar: 40 (2023-04-04)
Some links to news reports on my research
- https://www.uni-kiel.de/de/unizeit/uz/news/wortstatistik#
- https://www.newyorker.com/elements/lab-notes/why-nouns-slow-us-down-and-why-linguistics-might-be-in-a-bubble
- http://videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund/to-tredjedele-af-verdens-sprog-bruger-ens-lyde-i-mange-ord
- https://nplus1.ru/news/2016/09/13/languages
- https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2016/09/evidence-for-pervasive-sound-symbolism-across-thousands-of-languages
- http://www.nporadio1.nl/wetenschap-techniek/1364-waarom-de-neus-neus-heet-2
- http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/r-is-for-red-common-words-share-similar-sounds-in-many-languages/
- https://www.mpg.de/10731041/language-sound-meaning-coincidence
- http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21707183-researchers-uncover-ancient-links-between-majority-worlds
- https://pnas.altmetric.com/details/11966153/news
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3782145/Languages-alike-think-Two-thirds-world-use-similar-sounds-common-words.html?ITO=1490
- http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-13/linguists-discover-humans-have-‘universal-language’/7841134
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/09/12/a-nose-by-any-other-name-biology-may-affect-the-way-we-invent-words/
- http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/society-culture/146031-many-languages-use-similar-sounds-common-objects
- http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160216-did-the-maya-create-the-first-comics
- http://www.focus.it/cultura/storia/i-maya-hanno-inventato-i-fumetti
- http://detektor.fm/wissen/forschungsquartett-big-data-und-sprachwandel
- http://www.20min.ch/wissen/news/story/Kriege-befeuern-den-Wortschatz-28081007
- http://derstandard.at/2000006544942/Sprachevolution-Staendige-Veraenderungen-stabiler-Kernwortschatz
- http://www.extremnews.com/nachrichten/vermischtes/ba35150d60b7fbb
- http://www.l-iz.de/Bildung/Forschung/2014/10/Ngram-Gesellschaftliche-Veraenderungen-im-Wortgebrauch-57656.html
- http://www.spektrum.de/news/unruhige-zeiten-beschleunigen-wortschatzwandel/1312235
- http://www.mpg.de/8685662/sprachen_wortschatz
- http://www.strf.ru/material.aspx?CatalogId=222&d_no=90026#.VGo5Lcm9YXZ
- http://inosmi.ru/world/20141103/223982869.html
- http://www.insidescience.org/content/massive-study-shows-how-languages-change/2096
- http://www.mpg.de/8685282/language-kernel-lexicon