Forskning vid Uppsala universitet

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Language family histories can resemble genealogies, in which a constant process of diversification produces ‘family trees’. But it is also well-known that language histories are not always tree-like, and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

The project will attempt to shed new light on the history of French. In spite of at least 150 years of research, there are still many unsolved problems in French language history. This is particularly ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-02-06

Formulaic sequences (e.g. it can be seen that, put forward, come into play) are pervasive in academic language and offer an important means of differentiating written texts by discipline. This project ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-07-01 till 2019-06-30

The finite verb in Semitic is sometimes extended by an ending that involves a and/or nasalization, for example the Akkadian ventive, the energic in Arabic, Ugaritic, and Aramaic, as well as the so-called ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-01-01 till 2019-12-31

Why do people begin to write, and how do they know how and what to write?The project considers the development of the early alphabets in use by the various pre-Roman languages on the Apennine peninsula ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2015-12-31

The proposed research is a multifaceted investigation centering on problems in homogeneous dynamics and fundamental questions about lattices. We will focus in particular on problems which hold the promise ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2027-12-31

Under det långa tusentalet (ca 950-ca 1100 v.t.) uppstod i den ’bysantinska’ världen ett antal kärnberättelser som utgör basen för det vi idag kallar kristen ortodox kultur. En del var gamla berättelser ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2022-12-31

The purpose of this project is to enhance accessibility to and knowledge of a relatively little-used historical source — petitions — and to use this source to answer questions about people’s ways of supporting ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2014-12-31

The Bashkardî language spoken in three provinces of Iran: Hormozgan, Kerman, and Sistan and Balochistan. The language belongs to the western group of Iranian languages, with the total number of speakers ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-11-01 till 2015-11-30

The conference Biblia Arabica: The Arabic Bible and related texts among Jews, Christians and Muslims will take place in Uppsala in March 29-April 1, 2016. The aim of the conference is to foster an interest ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-03-29 till 2016-04-01

I samband med Koranens tillkomst översatte även judar och kristna sina heliga skrifter till arabiska med syfte att förstå och utveckla sina egna religiösa arv. Dessa texter har till stor del undgått vetenskaplig ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-01-01 till 2016-12-31

The classical Hebrew verbal system is one of the greatest problems of Semitic linguistics. It has been a topic of debates and academic discussions since the Middle Ages, and is still a puzzle in comparative ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-09-15 till 2016-09-16

Syftet med den planerade workshopen är att skapa en plattform för att inleda en diskussion om frågor rörande typologisk profilering av Sydasiens språkfamiljer. Sydasien omfattar sju länder (Indien, Nepal ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

The research program studies contact and symplectic topology and its relations to other geometric fields, in particular to physics inspired low-dimensional topology and knot theory. The main tool is theories ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Hur traderas kulturell kunskap mellan generationer? Vilka processer bidrar till att information bevaras när muntliga och skriftliga texter återskapas och förs vidare över såväl kortare som längre tidsperioder ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2017-12-31

Thousands of ciphers, enciphered historical manuscripts, are buried in libraries and archives. Our project will develop computer-aided tools for automatic and semi-automatic decoding of historical source ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-11-01 till 2015-11-30

The perfect occupies a special place within the verb systems of the world’s languages. It typically expresses features associated with tense, aspect, and aktionsart. As such, the perfect defies reduction ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2015-12-31

In the recent years, significant progress has been made in natural language processing and machine translation in particular. The launch of Google Translate is one example that demonstrates the growing ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

The project aims to provide a fuller documentation of Kunashi, a "definitely endangered" (UNESCO) unwritten and undescribed Tibeto-Burman language spoken in only one village - Malana - in the Kullu district ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The framework of string compactifications is of undisputed importance to connect string theory to the physics of our world, and has promoted progress in fields ranging from quantum gravity and cosmology ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-01-01 till 2018-12-31

Forskningsprojekt från 2011-01-01 till 2011-12-31

The Fourth International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL4) Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Iranian languages, June 17-19, 2011The purpose of this bi-annual conference ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The Fukaya category is a powerful invariant of exact symplectic manifolds in the form of an A-infinity category, the objects of which consist of (a suitable class of) its Lagrangian submanifolds, while ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2016-12-31

Function, content and form in interaction. Students? text-making in early school years. The main purpose of this project is to further develop ways to study and understand students? text-making in early ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Kilskrift är ett av världens äldsta skriftsystem. Den utgör även en av de största textmassorna av historisk dokumentation från den antika världen. Grova beräkningar uppskattar att det totala antalet ord ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2016-12-31

This project studies the mathematical models arising from a variety of imaging techniques. These problems are formulated mathematically as "inverse problems" where one deduces information about the differential ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Conserved quantities are important in various areas of physics, as in many cases they provide an essential characterization of a physical system. However, to define the mass, center of mass, angular and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

This project is in the area of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. The main emphasis is on the development of new geometrical ideas and concepts originating from the modern string theory and the quantum ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2014-12-31

This project is in the area of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. The main emphasis is on the development of new geometrical ideas and concepts originating from the modern string theory and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2016-12-31

During the past decade there has been an important development of the mathematical tools available for high-energy physics. I have participated in and contributed to this development of Generalized Complex ...