Dr. Joshua Wilbur
former Post-doc Linguistics Researcher (DFG)
Since August 2019: Visiting Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the Center for Digital Humanities and Information Society, University of Tartu, Estonia.
Member of the Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies.
Affiliated Postdoc at the Hermann Paul School of Linguistics
Office hours: by appointment
Belfortstr. 16, Room 3005, Tel. 0761/203-3219
Email: joshua.wilbur@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de
Pitesamisk ordbok samt stavningsregler (Pite Saami dictionary and orthographic rules)
Current Project
- Syntactic patterns in Pite Saami: A corpus-based exploration of 130 years of variation and change. (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Society))
Previous projects
- 2016: The Pite Saami Lexicography Project. (funded by the Norwegian Saami Parlament and Duoddara Ráfe Pite Saami Center from February through June 2016)
- 2008-2015: The Pite Saami Documentation Project. (funded from 2008-2011, 2013-2015 by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, part of the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project)
Research interests include:
- documentary linguistics
- morphophonology
- syntactic structures
- grammaticography
- lexicography
- language contact
- Saami languages
- ...
Previous teaching
Syntactic Strukturs in the Languages of Northern Europe (summer 2017)
The Morphology of Northern European Languages (summer 2016)
Pite Saami structure course (winter 2014/15)
Saami Research Colloquium (winter 2014/15, together with Michael Rießler)
Introduction to Morphology as exemplified by the languages of northern Europe (summer 2014)
Saami Research Colloquium (summer 2014, together with Michael Rießler)
Documentary linguistics and language technology: Theory and practice of applied research in "digital linguistics" (winter 2013/14, together with Michael Rießler)
Language documentation in Northern Europe (winter 2009/10)