• EU-financed project on „Conversational Storytelling“

  On November 1st 2025, “STORYTEL - At the roots of multimodality: Learning from smartphone-based audiovisual recordings of conversational storytelling”, will launch. This three year Erasmus+ project is coordinated by the University of Cologne and involves the University of Bologna, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and the University of Murcia. The scientific and administrative team in Cologne includes: Anna Bonifazi (project manager, IfL DL),  Sonja Gipper (IfL ASW), Martine Grice (IfL Phonetik), Sandra Debreslioska (IfL DL), Juman Al-qaoud (IfL DL), Madeleine Frings (IfL DL), Felix Rau (DCH), Øyvind Eide (IHD), Lüder Schmidt (FG1) and Nina Kind (D7). 

   

• Millions in funding for research into indigenous languagest

  The Volkswagen Foundation is funding a project by Dr. Svenja Bonmann to analyse an unknown Central American writing system and attempt to assign it to a language / Approximately one million euros in funding over three years.

   

• Kleine Fächer im Portrait: Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

  Sonja Gipper and Birgit Hellwig introduce the subject of "General Linguistics" in a new blog post from kleinefaecher.de.

   

• The European Huns had ancient Siberian roots

  A linguistic study proves that the European Huns and their Asian ancestors spoke the same Palaeo-Siberian language. This result refutes the previously assumed Turkish.

   

News Archive of General and Historical Comparative Linguistics

• Coenen, Pascal. 2025. Non-canonical quantification in Old Persian: The adverb vasai̯. Folia Linguistica 59(3). 581–632. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2024-2039.
• Bonmann, Svenja and Simon Fries. 2025. Linguistic evidence suggests that Xiōng-nú and Huns spoke the same Paleo-Siberian language. Transactions of the Philological Society.
• Fries, Simon, Svenja Bonmann, Jakob Halfmann & Natalie Korobzow. 2025. Observations on Lines 1–3 of the Gāndhārī Part of the Dašt-i Nāwur Trilingual (DN IV). Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 175(1). 137–161.
• Coenen, Pascal. 2025 [2023]. Rigvedic báḍ: A presentative particle. Historische Sprachforschung, 136, 21-50.
• Casaretto, Antje. 2024. Secondary predicates and motion events: the rise of complex predicates in Vedic Sanskrit. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 11(1–2), 43–63.
• Bonmann, Svenja. 2024. Zum Ursprung des sog. ā-Konjunktivs des Latino-Faliskischen, Sabellischen und Venetischen. Glotta. Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache 100(2), 246–287.
• Suter, Edgar 2024. Benefactive constructions: A comparative study of the Huon Peninsula languages. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 42. 128–202.
• Hill, Eugen, Simon Fries, Natalie Korobzow, Laura Günther & Svenja Bonmann. 2024. Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto‑Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word‑Final Consonants. International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 6(2), 216–293.
• Wiemer, Björn, Eugen Hill, Daniel Kölligan & Jan-Niklas Linnemeier. 2024. Between the birth and death of future tenses. Related languages as a natural lab for research into grammatical change (LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Linguistics 58). München: LINCOM EUROPA.
• Fries, Simon and Natalie Korobzow. 2024. On the dating of sound changes and its implications for language relationship. The case of Proto-Yeniseian *p- > Ket h-, Yugh f-. Diachronica 41(4). 525–555. (Online first).