04.10.2017National Geographic Explorer grant awarded to Sebastian Sauppe

Department member Sebastian Sauppe was awarded an Early Career Explorer Grant by the National Geographic Society to support a field trip to the Solomon Islands in early 2018. There, he plans to conduct research on sentence processing in Äiwoo, a language spoken in the Solomon Islands. The project is carried out in the context of an SNF-funded project on the processing of ergative structures, in collaboration with Åshild Næss (University of Oslo).