Frederic Blum
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 269
e-mail:
frederic_blum@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
About me
I am a PhD student at the group for "Computer-Assisted Language Comparison" and mainly study the history and diversity of South American Languages. My main research topic will be the history of the South American Pano-Takana language family and its relation with other language families of the area. Methodologically, I focus on Bayesian methodology to model phylolinguistic and typological patterns, and on combining the comparative method with these computational approaches.
Curriculum Vitae
| since 2022 | Doctoral researcher at MPI-EVA |
| 2019-2022 | Master of Arts in Linguistics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Master's thesis: "Initial lengthening of consonants in 25 typologically diverse languages" |
| 2018-2018 | Exchange student (DAAD Scholarship) at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru |
| 2015-2019 | Bachelor of Arts at Freie Universität Berlin in Language and Society (major) and Spanish Philology (minor) Bachelor's thesis: "Syntactic nominalization in Quechua" |
Publications & Presentations
Blum, Frederic and Paschen, Ludger. Lengthening at domain boundaries Talk presented at the workshop for Spoken- and Signed-language Corpus Studies in Linguistic Typology located at the 14th Conference of the Association or Linguistic Typology. Austin, USA, on 15-17 December, 2022
Blum, Frederic and Barrientos Ugarte, Carlos and Poirier, Zoe and Ingunza, Adriano. 2021. Una aproximación filolingüística a la clasificación interna del Quechua. Talk at the 5th reunion of the Red para el Estudio de las Lenguas Andinas (RELA), Tübingen, 12.09.2021.
Lehmann, Nico, Frederic Blum, and Elisabeth Verhoeven. 2021. "The collaborative Yucatec Maya corpus Cocoyum: A model corpus architecture for indigenous language corpus collections." Talk presented at the 7th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC). http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74447