Our working group conducts research on questions of typological language comparison and investigates less researched non-Indo-European languages, including the Mayan and Chibcha languages of Central America.

Experimental and corpus linguistic methods form the essential basis of the knowledge gained. The aim is to reduce the observed variation between languages to more abstract principles of the cognitive foundations of the language system.

Many speakers of different languages live in the urban area of Berlin. How can we support them in preserving their languages and promote contacts between language communities in Berlin and academics?