!!Balthasar Bickel - Curriculum Vitae
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__Degrees:__
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*2001 Dr. habil., General Linguistics, U. Zürich\\
*1997 Dr. phil., General Linguistics, U. Zürich\\
*1991 lic. phil., General linguistics, Philosophy and Russian, University Zürich\
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__Selected major grants in the last 5 years:__
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*2016 – 2019 Linguistic morphology in time and space (LiMiTS), SNSF Sinergia (with M Jenny, F Zuñiga, W Behr, P Widmer, M Loporcaro, and R Weibel)\\
*2016 – 2019 Ergativity in comprehension and production: language typology and processing, SNFS (with M Meyer) \\
*2011 – 2014 Towards a corpus-based typology of clause linkage: an analytical framework and case studies on non-local dependencies, DFG/SNFS (with V Gast)\\
*2009 – 2012 Differential agreement in Chintang and differential case marking in Nepali, DFG/ESF\\
*2009 – 2011 Distributional Typology: the theoretical and methodological foundations of a probabilistic approach to language typology, Volkswagen-Stiftung, Opus Magnum\\
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__Journal editing__
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*2009 – 2015 Studies in Language (with E König)
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__Current editorial boards__
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*2014- Conceptual Foundations of Language Science \\
*2013- Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics \\
*2012- Journal of Linguistic Geography \\
*2012- Edinburgh Studies in Theoretical Linguistics \\
*2009- Typological Studies in Language, Benjamins\\
*2009- Brill’s Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages, Brill\\
*2006- Folia Linguistica
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__Selected recent keynotes:__
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*2015 Kiranti in global perspective. 48th Int'l Conf. Sino-Tibetan Lang. and Ling., Santa Barbara\\
*2015 Modeling the diachrony of grammar: which data? which methods? Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics, Lorentz Center\\
*2015 Moving beyond Panini: causal theories in linguistics. Causality in the Language Sciences, Leipzig\\
*2014 Beyond universals: exploring the conditions of language. 36th Ann. Conf. German Ling. Soc., Marburg\\
*2012 The dynamics of areas and universals. KNAW Conf. on Patterns of Diversification and Contact, Amsterdam