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Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution Distributional Linguistics Lab

South / South East Asia

  • Contact: Kellen Parker Van Dam
  • Team: Balthasar Bickel, Paul Widmer, Chundra Cathcart, Stefan Schnell, Kellen Parker Van Dam, Jessica Ivani, Chiara Barbieri, Mathias Jenny, Anna Graff

Sal historical linguistics

Ongoing work investigating the historical relationships between the various Sal languages spoken in China, Northeast India and Myanmar, as well as their position within Sino-Tibetan as a whole. This project seeks out to develop a reliable dated phylogenetic tree and linguistic database of the Sal languages.

  • Contact: Kellen Parker van Dam

Myanmar and Thailand

Documentation and description of various languages of Myanmar and Thailand, with a focus on Austroasiatic (Mon, Palaungic), Tai (Shan, Thai), and Burmese varieties. Language contact and language use in different communities, including diachronic data where available. The overall aim of the research is to understand the dynamics of cultural and social interactions in the area as reflected in the languages and their development.

Data from earlier projects available on the DCLS server (Burma Zone, V1).

More information at https://sites.google.com/view/mathiasjenny/home/research.