LANGELIN

Meeting Darwin's last challenge: toward a global tree of human languages and genes

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITY OF YORK    more Spiacenti, non ci sono informazioni su questo coordinatore. Contattare Fabio per maggiori infomrazioni, grazie.
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	3˙483˙590 €
EC contributo	3˙483˙590 €
Programma	FP7-IDEAS-ERC Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	ERC-2011-ADG_20110406
Funding Scheme	ERC-AG
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-12-01   -   2017-11-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA  Organization address address: Via Zamboni 33 city: BOLOGNA postcode: 40126 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Verdiana Cognome: Bandini Email: send email Telefono: +39 051 2099764 Fax: +39 051 2098115	IT (BOLOGNA)	beneficiary	1˙250˙390.00
2	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FERRARA  Organization address address: SAVONAROLA 9 city: FERRARA postcode: 44100 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Mauro Cognome: Vitali Email: send email Telefono: +39 0532 455747 Fax: +39 0532 455450	IT (FERRARA)	beneficiary	328˙800.00
3	UNIVERSITY OF YORK  Organization address address: HESLINGTON city: YORK NORTH YORKSHIRE postcode: YO10 5DD contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: David Cognome: Lauder Email: send email Telefono: +44 1904 32 29 46 Fax: +44 1904 324119	UK (YORK NORTH YORKSHIRE)	hostInstitution	1˙904˙400.00
4	UNIVERSITY OF YORK  Organization address address: HESLINGTON city: YORK NORTH YORKSHIRE postcode: YO10 5DD contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Giuseppe Cognome: Longobardi Email: send email Telefono: +44 1904322650 Fax: +44 1904 432108	UK (YORK NORTH YORKSHIRE)	hostInstitution	1˙904˙400.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Beyond its theoretical impact, the rise of molecular biology has brought about great progress also in the historical classification of species and populations. Sokal (1988) and Cavalli Sforza et. al. (1988, 1994) advocated a correspondence between some proposed language families and classical genetic markers, i.e. between biological evolution and transmission of cultural traits (languages), in agreement with Darwin’s (1859) prediction of an eventual isomorphy between trees of languages and populations. Their conclusions were variously criticised, and are especially undermined by the weakness of available language classification methods, mainly based on lexical (in a broad sense) material: these are either too narrow in scope (classical method) or probabilistically unreliable (Greenberg’s mass comparison) to provide solid long-range taxonomies to be matched against those of geneticists. We will address such issues with a radically new comparative method (Longobardi and Guardiano 2009) based entirely on grammatical evidence and on recent theoretical advances in formal and typological linguistics. The method ensures unprecedented standards of testability/replicability and can measure linguistic distances between even remote populations. Linguists and biologists will for the first time jointly select the populations most significant from either perspective for language/gene sampling. We will also adopt the newest powerful genetic tools of the last decade, both in terms of data (genome-wide studies of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, including uniparentally transmitted markers of the Y chromosome and of mitochondrial DNA) and of biostatistical methods to describe DNA diversity and interpret its relationships to linguistic diversity.'