I am a linguistic typologist working with corpus-based and phylogenetic methods for studying language diversity. My current research adds this angle to the SFB 1102 IDeaL project in order to explain cross-linguistic patterns in information distribution. For the 3rd Phase of SFB 1102 funding, Luigi Talamo and I have beep preparing CIEP+, the Corpus of Indo-European Prose and more. Read more about CIEP here.
My research program spans from work on inferring phylogenetic relationships (phylogenetic trees)…
- for example, on the Dravidian language family, see here;
- for a recent paper on accounting for reticulation when inferring phylogenies, see here;
…to using these trees to do quantitative typology using phylogenetic comparative methods. I have worked on a variety of topics using these methods, among others;
- on motion event encoding, see my PhD thesis;
- on numeral typology, see here, I am also involved in Numeralbank, a work in progress containing information on the numeral systems of 1000s of languages;
- on the ecology of language diversity, joining Chris Bentz, see here and here;
- recent work that will appear soon in Linguistics and Language Dynamics and Change includes work on Bantu gender systems with Francesca Di Garbo
- work on Indo-European negative existential constructions with Shahar Shirtz, see here and here.
But I have worked on other topics too:
- see here for the presentation of BDPROTO, a database comprising phonological inventory data from 257 ancient and reconstructed languages, including a case study on rates of change of consonantal and vocalic systems;
- see here for a paper on modeling vocabulary using approximate Bayesian computation, methodology usually employed in population genetics;
- and see here for a study on source and goal marking in various European languages
Some of these papers can be found on one of the outlets below. If you need a copy of something and can’t find it, please write to me.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Annemarie_Verkerk
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=SHeP1a4AAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=sra
https://iuni-saarland.academia.edu/AnnemarieVerkerk
http://humans-who-read-grammars.blogspot.de/search/label/Annemarie
You can find some videos by me here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC81w93RNWTlj1UB_OOxOVoQ
Contact: annemarie.verkerk[at]uni-saarland.de
