Stefan Schnell

Stefan Schnell is a senior researcher and group leader of the Corpus-based Typology (CorTyp) group at the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich. Trained originally as documentary and field linguist, he has extensively worked on the Oceanic language Vera’a from North Vanuatu, documenting and describing its structure and usage. Moreover, Stefan has been advancing the newly emerging of corpus-based typology, where his research explores how speakers across diverse languages express events in discourse, focusing on the interplay between referential choice and sentence structure, including the investigation of variation in morphosyntax through quantitative corpus methods. As co-editor of the Multi‑CAST multilingual corpus, he contributes to advancing corpus-based typology and understanding of spoken language phenomena across typologically diverse contexts. https://stefanschnell.info/