		Philosophische Fakultät
	Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel	Seminar für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft

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Dr. Stefan Schnell

1 Contact

Fax: ++ 49 431 880 7405
Email: sschnell(at)linguistik.uni-kiel.de

2 Background and current work

I trained in general-comparative and Slavic linguistics, completing an MA at Kiel University in 2006 with a thesis on Russian action nominal constructions, focussing on the realization of arguments in these constructions and argument structure inheritance.

Since November 2006 I have been a PhD student on the VolkswagenStiftung-funded DoBeS project "Documentation of Vures and Vera'a, the two surviving endangered languages of Vanua Lava, Vanuatu", focussing on the documentation and grammatical description of the Vera'a language. In my PhD thesis I examine how and to what extent animacy and referentiality (the 'Referential Hierarchy') is reflected in various parts of the grammar of this language (working title: "Animacy and Referentiality in Vera'a, an Oceanic language of Northern Vanuatu").

Since April 2010 I have been working as a half-time lecturer at the Department of General and Comparative Linguistics of Kiel University and will complete my PhD thesis in the very near future.

3 Research interests

Morpho-syntax of Austronesian, in particular Oceanic languages

Morpho-syntax of Slavic languages

Typological aspects of these languages

Practice and methodology of language documentation

Scalar approaches in descriptive linguistics and linguistic typology

Argument structure and argument realization in natural discourse

4 Publications

Monographs

In prep.

A grammar of Vera'a, an Oceanic language of North Vanuatu

Edited Volume

2011	(With Geoffrey L.J. Haig, Nicole Nau, Claudia Wegener). Documenting endangered languages: achievements and perspectives. Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Articles

Under Review

Referential hierarchies in three-participant constructions in Vera'a. In: Referential hierarchies in three-participant constructions. Special issue of Linguistic Discovery, in memory of Anna Siewierska edited by Eva van Lier.

2011	(With Geoffrey L.J. Haig, Nicole Nau, Claudia Wegener). Introduction. In: Haig et al. (eds.). Documenting endangered languages: achievements and perspectives. Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter., 1-14.

2011	(With Geoffrey L.J. Haig, Claudia Wegener). Comparing corpora from endangered language projects: Explorations in language typology based on original texts. In: Haig et al. (eds.). Documenting endangered languages: achievements and perspectives. Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter., 55-86.

Other

In Progress

(With Marc Vores, George Atkins, Sabine Hess): A multi-media documentation of Vera'a. (working title). Nijmegen: DOBES-MPI. Link

2011	(With Geoffrey Haig): Annotations using GRAID (Grammatical Relations and Animacy in Discourse). Introduction and guidelines for annotators. Version 6.0. Available here.

Presentations & Talks (Selection)

2011	'Data from language documentations in research on referential hierarchies'. Invited statement at the workshop Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization. MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Nov 3-4, 2011.

2011	'Pronominal reference in Vera'a discourse'. Paper presented at the International Workshop on the Languages of Vanuatu. Australian National University, Oct 20 -23, 2011.

2011	'Morpho-syntactic annotation of texts with GRAID'. Presentation at the workshop Exploiting DoBeS corpora for research in the typology of referentiality. University of Erfurt, Oct 14-15, 2011.

2011	'Explaining differences in Referential Density'. Presentation in the linguistic colloquium Linguistische Werkstatt at Bamberg University. Bamberg, June 1, 2011.

2011

'Animate pronoun attraction in Vera'a three-participant constructions'. Paper presented at the Workshop on referential hierarchies in three-participant constructions., Lancaster University, May 20-22, 2011. In prep for publication in Linguistic Discovery special issue on three-participant constructions.

2010	(with Geoffrey Haig & Claudia Wegener): 'Animates and pronouns - a cross-corpus study of patterns in narrative discourse'. DoBeS Workshop Nijmegen: Advances in Documentary Linguistics., Nijmegen, Oct 14 - 15, 2010.

2009	(with Geoffrey Haig): 'From text to typology: towards implementing quantitative typology on corpora from endangered languages'. Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2., SOAS London, Nov 13th - 14th, 2009.

2009	(with Geoffrey Haig): 'From text to typology: towards implementing quantitative typology on corpora from endangered languages'. DoBeS Workshop Nijmegen: Language Documentation - its role in linguistics, anthropology and language maintenance., Nijmegen, Oct 15 - 16, 2009.

2009	'Documentation, analysis and writing of TAM markers in Vera'a'. 1st International Conference on Languag Documentation and Conservation, Manoa Campus, Honolulu, March 12 -14, 2009.

2009	'PhD in linguistics on an interdisciplinary language documentation project'. Graduate Students in Language Documentation and Conservation, workshop at the 1st International Conference on Languag Documentation and Conservation, Manoa Campus, Honolulu, March 12th-14th, 2009.

2008	'The Benefactive-Possessive Continuum in Vera'a'. DoBeS Workshop Nijmegen: Language Documentation Methods in Focus., Nijmegen, Jun 12th - 13th, 2008.

2007	'The particle 'i in Vera'a, Vanua Lava'. Emalus Linguistics Circle, Pacific Language Unit at the Emalus Campus of the University of the South Pacific, ort Vila, May 28th, 2007.

2006	'Nominalisierung im Russischen'. Slavistische Studentenkonferenz, Institut für Slavistik der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Juli 2006.

2003	'"Verba meteorologica" v russkom jazyke'. Trudy po russkoj i slavjanskoj filologii. Lingvistika., Tartu, March 2003.

5 Fieldwork

Dec 2006 - Oct 2007	in Vanuatu (approx. 7,5 months on Vanua Lava)

Nov 2008 - Feb 2010	in Vanuatu (approx. 3,5 months on Vanua Lava)

6 Teaching

I have been teaching the following courses at the Departement of General and Comparative
Linguistics of Kiel University:

Winter 2011/12	Language Typology
	Language and Society

Summer 2011	Corpus linguistics
	Syntax

Winter 2010/11	Language Typology
	Language and Society

Summer 2010	Semantics
	Syntax

Summer 2009	Semantics

Summer 2008	Structure of a non-Indo-European language: Vera'a

Winter 2007/08	Introduction to Linguistics
	The languages of Vanuatu

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