Biography:Søren Wichmann

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Søren Wichmann
Born1964
Denmark
NationalityDanish
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Copenhagen
Academic work
InstitutionsLeiden University
Main interestsHistorical linguistics, linguistic typology
Notable worksASJP

Søren Wichmann (born 1964) is a Danish linguist specializing in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, Mesoamerican languages, and epigraphy. Since June 2016, he has been employed as a University Lecturer at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University, after having worked at different institutions in Denmark, Mexico, Germany and Russia, including, during 2003-2015, the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Wichmann's PhD dissertation, from the University of Copenhagen, treated the Azoyú variety of Tlapanec spoken in Guerrero, Mexico. He has written extensively about Mayan, Oto-Manguean and Mixe–Zoquean languages. He has done fieldwork on Mixe, Texistepec Popoluca and Tlapanec. Regarding Mixe–Zoquean, he has done comparative work resulting in the currently most accepted classification of the Mixe–Zoquean language family as well as a reconstruction of its vocabulary and grammar (Wichmann 1995). He also specializes in the study of Maya hieroglyphs — particularly the linguistic aspects of the deciphering of the Mayan script. Since 2007, Wichmann's work has increasingly focused on the development of quantitative methods in historical linguistics, including the development of the Automated Similarity Judgment Program.

Since its inception in 2011, Wichmann has been General Editor of Language Dynamics and Change.[1]

Selected books

  • Wichmann, Søren; Eric W. Holman (2009). Temporal Stability of Linguistic Typological Features. München: LINCOM Europa. 
  • Donohue, Mark and Søren Wichmann, ed (2008). The Typology of Semantic Alignment. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
  • Wichmann, Søren, ed (2004). The Linguistics of Maya Writing. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 
  • Wichmann, Søren (1995). The Relationship among the Mixe–Zoquean Languages of Mexico. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 

Selected articles

References

  1. Language Dynamics and Change. (Accessed May 2011)

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