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The University of Neuchâtel is represented in the CLARIN-CH Consortium by Prof. Martin Hilpert, from the Institute of English Studies.


The community from the University of Neuchâtel provides CLARIN-CH language resources and expertise in language sciences, and it is actively involved in research projects involving language resources.

Language resources

1. The ORFEUS 1527-1559 databasis consists of the Correspondence of Cardinal Jean Du Bellay, published under the supervision of Prof. Loris Petris (Institute of French Language and Civilization). The ORFEUS data basis provides the essential information (numbering of the letter, date, place, author, addressee, publication, archival source, incipit) of each letter received or sent by Jean Du Bellay and published in the volume by Bourrilly and Vaissière (1905), the two volumes published by R. Scheurer (1969; 1973) and the five volumes edited by L. Petris and R. Scheurer.


2. Le glossaire du patois de la Suisse Romande. As the other three national vocabularies of the Swiss Confederation, its mission is to document the dialects of its linguistic domain as completely as possible, to carry out a lexicological analysis of them and to make this analysis accessible to the public and to the scientific world in the form of a large-scale dialectal dictionary that can now be consulted online.

3. OFROM (the Oral corpus of French from French-speaking Switzerland). OFROM is a text-sound aligned corpus, orthographically transcribed in Praat. It consists of 64 hours of recordings, 342 speakers and more than 1’000’000 words. The corpus is freely available under Creative Commons licence CC BY NC SA 4.0.

Faculties and Institutes involved in CLARIN-CH

Faculty of Human and Social Sciences

1. Institute of English Studies

Areas of expertise in the field of Linguistics:

• Cognitive linguistics
• Construction grammar
• Corpus linguistics
• Language change

2. Institute of French Language and Civilization

Areas of expertise:

• Corpus linguistics
• Didactics of French as a foreign language
• European literature, rhetoric and cultural history in the Renaissance and the early modern period (14th-17th centuries)
• Francophone literature and Western-Eastern relations
• French translations of the Bible
• French grammar-syntax and semantics
• History of language
• History and linguistic analysis of Protestant preaching (16th-18th century)
• Language comparison
• Law and literature, especially among magistrate-writers
• Linguistic variation
• Modern language didactics
• Regional French
• Spoken French
• Syntax and discourse in the 16th century

3. Institute of Language Sciences

3.1. Glossary of the patois of French-speaking Switzerland (GPRS)

Areas of expertise:
Based in Neuchâtel, the GPRS is one of the four national vocabularies of the Swiss Confederation and it:

• Describes the patois vocabulary as documented by the GPRS materials;
• Includes the related Romansh terms;
• Mentions some old attestations of these words, extracted from documents written before 1800, in patois, French or Latin;
• Provides a large number of place names and family names from the French-speaking part of Switzerland which have their source in the linguistic diversity of the region.

3.2. Center of Dialectology and The Observatory of French in French-speaking Switzerland (OFRS))

Areas of expertise:

• Franco-Provençal and Oïlic dialects
• Gallo-Roman dialectology
• Regional varieties of French in French-speaking Switzerland

3.3. Center of Applied Linguistics

Areas of expertise:

• Grammar and interaction
• Interactional linguistics (conversational analysis, anaphora, reference, topic and focus)
• Institutional interactions (language classroom, research interview)
• Second language acquisition (social interaction, acquisition and situated cognition)

3.4. Center of French Linguistics

Areas of expertise:

• Argumentation
• Corpus linguistics
• Digital Humanities
• Discourse connectives
• Modality
• Rhetoric
• Romance languages
• Statistical methods and tools
• Stylistics

3.5. The SNSF team in Historical Linguistics

Areas of expertise:

• Ancient Indo-European languages
• Corpus linguistics
• Computational methods and tools
• Didactics of ancient languages
• Digital Humanities
• Historical Linguistics
• Modality

4. Institute of German Language and Literature

Areas of expertise in the field of Linguistics:

• Cognitive grammar
• Constructional grammar
• Corpus linguistics
• Language change and grammaticalization
• Syntax and morphology of German

5. Institute of Spanish Language and Literature

Areas of expertise in the field of Linguistics:

• Constitution and history of the linguistic norm
• Hispano-American historical morphosyntax
• History of the Spanish language in America
• Historical phraseology of Spanish
• Medieval history of Hispanic Romance languages
• Orality and writing in ancient documents
• Spanish-American lexicology and lexicography
• Spanish-American enlightenment
• Transcription and elaboration of documentary sources

6. Institute of Communication and Cognition Sciences

Areas of expertise:

• Argumentation
• Cognitive anthropology
• Cognitive sociology
• Childhood socialization
• Developmental pragmatics
• Developmental psychology
• Discourse analysis
• Experimental pragmatics
• French linguistics
• Mixed methods (ethnography, experimental psychology, ethology)
• Pragmatics
• Pragmatics and cognition
• Politeness and face-management
• Political, journalistic and scientific rhetoric
• Semantics
• Semantics-pragmatics interface (speaker commitment, presuppositions, indexicality, contextual enrichment, procedurality, expressivity)
• Social cognition

7. Institute of Speech Therapy Sciences

Areas of expertise:

• Discourse, referential adjustment and underlying cognitive skills (theory of mind, executive functions) in healthy and pathological aging
• Flexional morphology, time reference and underlying cognitive skills (declarative and procedural memory, executive functions) in aphasia and neurodegenerative disorders
• The interplay between language and cognition, both in healthy adults and in acquired language disorders of vascular and neurodegenerative origin
• Development, validation and standardization of clinical tests to detect or diagnose language disorders associated with vascular or neurodegenerative origin
• Language acquisition and disorders, especially in early childhood and in multilingual children
• Phonological acquisition and processing in normal-hearing and deaf children

Faculty of Sciences

1. Institute of Statistics

Areas of expertise:

• Estimation methods in finite populations
• Foundations of inference in finite populations
• Precision estimation in complex designs
• Research on planning techniques with auxiliary information
• Sample coordination
• Treatment of measurement errors (non-response)
• Unequal probability designs

2. Institute of Informatics

Areas of expertise:

• Computational linguistics
• Natural Language Processing
• Corpus statistics
• Cross-language information systems (European and Asian languages)
• Machine learning
• Web information retrieval systems and its applications