Senior Researcher (Heisenberg Position)
Pariser Straße 1
10719 Berlin
Room: 1.05
Phone: +49 30 20192 407
seifart@leibniz-zas.de
ORCID
PD Dr. Frank Seifart is a senior researcher in the Research Area 3 'Syntax & Lexicon'. He works on a Heisenberg position in his projekt New empirical linguistics through integration of language documentation, comparative corpus linguistics, typology and language contact research (Empi-Ling). He was also PI in the ANR-DFG project DoReCo - Cross-linguistic phonetics and morphology using a time-aligned multilingual reference corpus built from documentations of 50 languages: Big data on small languages, is editor of the DoReCo database and was PI of the AP 2.1 of the BMBF joint project Quest: Quality - Established: Testing and application of curation criteria and quality standards for audiovisual, annotated language data.
Frank Seifart has been a private lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since December 2020.
How different are the approximately 7,000 currently spoken languages on the level of sound, form and meaning and where are the limits of diversity? Which processes lead to the differentiation and harmonisation of languages? Frank Seifart works on these questions with the help of databases, documentary linguistics and multimedia corpora, which he evaluates qualitatively and quantitatively. He focuses on comparative morphosyntax, semantics and prosody; language history and contact; and the Amazon languages Bora and Resígaro.
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Aktuell 15.03.2021
Staff talk invited 28.06.2023
Seifart, Frank & Ludger Paschen
Staff talk 28.06.2023
Stave, Matthew, François Pellegrino, Ludger Paschen, François Delafontaine & Frank Seifart
Staff talk invited 21.06.2023
Seifart, Frank
Staff talk 15.06.2023
Schnell, Stefan, Frank Seifart, Nils Schiborr & Geoffrey Haig
Staff talk 05.06.2023
Seifart, Frank
Publication 27.08.2022
Paschen, Ludger, Susanne Fuchs & Frank Seifart
Publication 25.08.2022
Seifart, Frank
Publication 25.08.2022
Seifart, Frank
Publication 29.07.2022
Seifart, Frank, Ludger Paschen & Matthew Stave (eds.)
Publication 15.06.2022
Seifart, Frank