Balthasar Bickel#
| Membership Number: | 4295 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ivs.uzh.ch/en/bickel.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - Full professor and chair, Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich
- 2002 - 2011 Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig
- 2001 - 2001 Extracurricular research professor, Department of General Linguistics, University of Zurich
- 1998 - 2001 Senior researcher, sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation, UC Berkeley
- 1995 - 1998 Postdoctoral researcher, University of Mainz
- 1992 - 1995 PhD Student, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Fields of Scholarship
- Linguistic typology
- Historical linguistics
- Areal linguistics
- Anthropological linguistics
- Language evolution
- Language processing
- Language acquisition
- Sino-Tibetan languages
- Languages of South Asia
Honours and Awards
- 2001 Förderungsprofessur, Swiss National Science Foundation
