Fernando Zúñiga - Curriculum Vitae#
Education
- 2011: Habilitation in General Linguistics, University of Zurich
- 2002: Ph.D. in General Linguistics, University of Zurich
- 1999: M.A. in General Linguistics, English Linguistics and English Literature, University of Zurich
- 1992: Business engineer and B.A. in Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Swiss National Science Foundation research grants
- 2016 Sinergia project: Linguistic Morphology in Time and Space. Project on South American languages.
- 2012 - 2015 Research Professorship: Islands in an ocean of (poly)synthesis and concatenative morphology: What linguistic theory and typology can learn from selected Amerindian languages.
- 2009 - 2013 Project support / Independent Basic Research: Mapudungun and Blackfoot: Inverse morphology and three-participant clauses. Part of the EuroBABEL collaborative research project Referential Hierarchies in Morphosyntax (RHIM) Description, Typology, Diachrony, hosted by the EuroCORES Program of the European Science Foundation.
- 2004 Individual support / Fellowship: Alignment in Makú languages and the genetic and areal stability of alignment: A contribution to the typology of morphosyntactic organization
Academic panel experience
- Co-editor of John Benjamins’s Typological Studies in Language series (2011-)
- Editorial board member of Linguistic Typology (2014-)
- Editorial board member of Italian Journal of Linguistics (2013-)
- Evaluating committee member of Línguas Indígenas Americanas (2010-)
- Consulting editor of Studies in Diversity Linguistics (2014 - 2016)
- Editorial board member of Studies in Diversity Linguistics (2017-)
- Advisory board member of Graduate School of Language & Literature (Class of Language), Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (2013 - 2014)