Research at the Department of General Linguistics in Bamberg

Research at the department has been empirical, and cross-linguistically oriented. We have dealt primarily with language data from lesser-described languages, which are not, or only distantly, related to the major languages of Western Europe. The main focus has been laid on languages of the Middle East (Turkic, Iranian, Semitic) and languages of the Caucasus (in particular Nakh-Daghestanian).
 
The work included publications and research projects on the following topics:

• Typological approaches to syntactic phenomena such as reflexives, experiencer constructions, and grammatical relations
• Historical syntax
• Documentation of endangered languages
• Language contact and areal typology
• The structure of discourse, corpus-based approaches to typology
• Syntactic annotation procedures