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Potential supervisors of a doctorate in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics and Phonetics at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences are listed below.
Co-supervisors don't have to be on this list. Every person with the right to confer a doctorate is eligible, be it internal (from this faculty), or external (other faculties of UZH, or any other university world-wide).
Refer to Promotions- und Betreuungsberechtigungen (only in German) for more details.

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Professors (Group 1)

Professors of 'Group 1' can act as main supervisors together with a co-supervisor
a - of the same 'Group 1'
b - of 'Group 2' below (TPs and PDs)
c - from a different university or faculty

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Behr
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies
Chinese historical linguistics, Chinese dialectology, linguistics of writing

Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
Department of Comparative Language Science
language typology, evolutionary language science, field linguistics, syntax, morphology

Prof. Dr. Noah Bubenhofer
Department of German and Scandinavian Studies
discourse analysis and cultural analysis, corpus linguistics and corpus pragmatics, recent language history, text-oriented digital humanities, visual linguistics, digitality and mediality, algorithms and language

Prof. Dr. Carlota de Benito Moreno
URPP Language and Space | Department of Romance Studies
variationist sociolinguistics and dialectology of Ibero-Romance languages, historical grammar of Ibero-Romance languages

Prof. Dr. Eleanor Chodroff
Phonetics and Speech Sciences, Department of Computational Linguistics
phonetics–phonology interface, corpus phonetics, speaker and language variation, speech perception, cognitive science

Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo
Phonetics and Speech Sciences, Department of Computational Linguistics
speech durational characteristics in the speech communication process, influence of the segmental content of speech for the perception of duration and speech rhythm, methods to extract rhythmic characteristics of speech from the speech signal

Prof. Dr. Christa Dürscheid
Department of German and Scandinavian Studies
grammatical theory, sociolinguistics, language education

Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling
Department of Computational Linguistics
language, technology and accessibility; multimodal language data processing; sign language; simplified language

Prof. Dr. Francesco Gardani
Department of Romance Studies
language contact, morphology, morpho-syntax, general linguistics, Italian linguistics, Romance linguistics

Prof. Dr. Nathalie Giroud
Phonetics and Speech Sciences, Department of Computational Linguistics
neurobiology of language, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, language in healthy and pathological aging, language and hearing impairment

Prof. Dr. Martin Glessgen
Department of Romance Studies
French linguistics, Gallo-Romance

Prof. Dr. Anja Hasse
Department of German and Scandinavian Studies
dialectology and sociolinguistics of German and Germanic varieties, historical linguistics of Germanic languages, lesser-known varieties of Germanic languages, morphology, language and dialect contact, field linguistics

Prof. Dr. Heiko Hausendorf
Department of German and Scandinavian Studies
pragmatics, linguistics of text and conversation

Prof. Dr. Marianne Hundt
English Department
Late Modern English syntax, grammatical change in present-day English, varieties of English, Indian English and English in the Indian diaspora, corpus-based research

Prof. Dr. Lena A. Jäger
Department of Computational Linguistics
machine learning for language data, (computational and/or experimental) cognitive science, (computational and/or experimental) psycholinguistics, clinical linguistics

Prof. Dr. Johannes Kabatek
Department of Romance Studies
Romance linguistics (synchronic and diachronic), Ibero-Romance languages, historical linguistics

Prof. Dr. Michele Loporcaro
Department of Romance Studies
Romance linguistics, Italian dialectology (phonology, morphology, syntax), historical linguistics, phonological, morphological and syntactic theory, historiography of (Romance) linguistics

Prof. Dr. John Mansfield
Department of Comparative Language Science
anthropological linguistics, grammatical typology, Australian Aboriginal languages

Prof. Dr. Marie-Luis Merten
Department of German and Scandinavian Studies
digitised communication spaces

Prof. Dr. Simone Pfenninger
English Department
second language acquisition, multilingualism, psycholinguistics

Prof. Dr. Daniel Schreier
English Department
language variation and change in English and beyond, sociolinguistics (historical and contemporary), English dialectology, contact linguistics, varieties of English around the world (better- and lesser-known)

Prof. Dr. Guido Seiler
Department of German and Scandinavian Studies
German linguistics, historical linguistics, dialectology, areal linguistics, language contact, grammar theory

Prof. Dr. Rico Sennrich
Department of Computational Linguistics
natural language processing, machine translation, deep learning

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Stark
Department of Romance Studies
Romance morphosyntax, sociolinguistic variation

Prof. Dr. Sabine Stoll
Department of Comparative Language Science
comparative language acquisition research, typology, corpus linguistics

Prof. Dr. Olga Timofeeva
English Department
medieval translation and language contact, Old English syntax, English historical linguistics, language identities and ideologies in the Middle Ages

Prof. Dr. Martin Volk
Department of Computational Linguistics
grammar and parser engineering, data-driven methods for NLP (corpora and treebanks), multilingual text analysis, cross-language information retrieval

Prof. Dr. Paul Widmer
Department of Comparative Language Science
Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, Celtic languages, ancient Indo-Iranian languages

 

Titular Professors and PDs (Privatdozent*innen) (Group 2)

TPs and PDs can act as main and co-supervisors, but only in combination with a professor (main or co-supervisor) of 'Group 1' above.

PD Dr. Chundra Cathcart
Department of Comparative Language Science
quantitative diachronic linguistics

Prof. Dr. Ulla Kleinberger
Department of German and Scandinavian Studies
media linguistics, business linguistics, multilingualism

PD Dr. Tanja Samardžić
URPP Language and Space | Department of Computational Linguistics
linguistic diversity in natural language processing

Prof. Dr. Gerold Schneider
Department of Computational Linguistics
Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, English Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Cognitive Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Karin Stüber
Department of Comparative Language Science
Indo-European languages, Celtic languages

PD Dr. Chiara Zanini
Department of Romance Studies
psycholinguistics and Italian linguistics

PD Dr. Thomas Zehnder
Department of Comparative Language Science
Vedic philology and linguistics, morphology of Indo-European languages, Hittite anthroponymy