Sebastian Nordhoff

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

Tel.: +49 (341) 3550 - 332
Fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 333

  Email: sebastian_nordhoffeva.mpg.de

Research interests

• Language description and documentation (LDD)
• Software for LDD
• Electronic publication of linguistic data
• Languages of Sri Lanka
• Language contact
• Language change
• Lexical categories
• Syntactic categories

Research Projects:

Langdoc/Glottolog

The first aim of this project is to provide an exhaustive list of bibliographical references of descriptive work in linguistics ('Langdoc'). For understudied languages, we aim at having references to everything available on earth, while for better-studied languages, only the most extensive works are included. [more]

Electronic Grammaticography

Descriptive linguistic content is still usually presented in book form. This project explores ways how descriptive grammars can be published on the Internet. In a trivial sense, this can be made by publishing a pdf on the author's homepage. [more]

Language Contact in Sri Lanka

This project investigates the interaction between the languages of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has, among all linguistic areas, the decisive advantage of being rather small with regard to the languages concerned (half a dozen or less) and being geographically clearly defined, viz.. by the Indian Ocean. [more]

Curriculum Vitae
Publications