Miriam Butt

Mailing Address:

Fachbreich Sprachwissenschaft
Universität Konstanz
Fach 184
78457 Konstanz
Germany
+49 7531 88 5109 (work)
+49 7531 88 5115 (fax)
E-mail: miriam.butt at uni-konstanz dot de

Current Research

I work primarily on Urdu (syntax, morphology, semantics, some phonology) by taking both synchronic and historical aspects into account. Urdu. Occasionally, I branch out to other South Asian languages or even work on German. Currently, I'm concentrating the morphology-syntax interface and on the history and distribuution of case in South Asian languages.

I am involved with PARGRAM, an effort to develop parallel grammars for English (PARC), German (IMS, Stuttgart), French (Xerox, Grenoble), Japanese (Fuji Xerox), Norwegian (Bergen), and Urdu. Malagasy and Welsh are being investigated by a project on Verb-initial languages.

Funded Projects:

Completed Projects (these were part of the SFB 471 at Konstanz):

Organizational Activities

A Workshop on Teaching Linguistics will take place in Konstanz July 20-22, 2009. I am also organizing the Fifth Fall School of the Computational Linguistics Section of the German Society for Linguistics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft).

Our 1st Fall School took place in September 2001 in Konstanz .
The second fall school took place September 22 to October 3, 2003 in Osnabrück.
The third fall school took place September 19 to 30, 2005 in Bochum.
The fourth fall school took place September 3 to 14, 2007 in Potsdam.
The fifth fall school returns to Konstanz and will take place September 7 to 19, 2009.

Teaching

As a professor for theoretical and computational linguistics, I currently teach both computationally and theoretically oriented courses.

For teaching materials, etc., go here.

For some interesting MA theses that I helped supervise, go here.

Editorial Activities (Mainly CSLI Publications)

New: The On-Line Journal of South Asian Linguistics is now accepting submissions!

LFG Conference On-Line Proceedings

The Proceedings of the First LFG Conference, XRCE, Grenoble.
The Proceedings of the LFG97 Conference, University of California, San Diego.
The Proceedings of the LFG98 Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
The Proceedings of the LFG99 Conference, University of Manchester.
The Proceedings of the LFG00 Conference, University of California, Berkeley.
The Proceedings of the LFG01 Conference, University of Hong Kong.
The Proceedings of the LFG02 Conference, National Technical University of Athens.
The Proceedings of the LFG03 Conference, University at Albany, State University of New York.
The Proceedings of the LFG04 Conference, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
The Proceedings of the LFG05 Conference, University of Bergen, Norway.
The Proceedings of the LFG06 Conference, Universität Konstanz, Germany.
The Proceedings of the LFG07 Conference, Stanford University, U.S.A.
The Proceedings of the LFG08 Conference, University of Sydney, Australia.

KONVENS 2006 Conference On-Line Proceedings

The Proceedings of the KONVENS 2006 Conference, Universität Konstanz, Germany.

Edited Volumes

NOTE: Ordering information for the books may be found at (CSLI Publications).

Books

More Books

Electronically available papers:

Theoretical

Computational

Extensive Handouts (not yet written up):

Overview Handouts

Slides of Talks (not yet written up):

Published (hard copy only) papers:

And there's even more information on the CV (.pdf)

Linguistics in Literature




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an unappropriated adjective in an illarranged sentence, he is always
willing to stand noun substantive to it himself.

Sir Walter Scott 
Rob Roy
Created: December 1996
Last updated: April 2009