Johann-Mattis List

Johann-Mattis List
Born (1981-07-16) July 16, 1981 (age 43)
Kassel, Germany
Academic background
Alma materHeinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
ThesisSequence Comparison in Historical Linguistics (2013)
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Notable worksConcepticon
Websitelingulist.de

Johann-Mattis List (born 16 July 1981 in Kassel, Germany) is a German scientist. He is known for his work on quantitative comparative linguistics. List is currently professor at the University of Passau, Germany, where he leads the Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics.[1]

Education

List graduated summa cum laude from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in 2013. He completed his habilitation from the University of Jena in 2021, where he completed a dissertation titled Computer-Assisted Approaches to Historical Language Comparison.[2]

Career

Throughout much of his research career, List has worked on projects such as Cross-Linguistic Linked Data (CLLD), Lexibank,[3] and the Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP).[4] He has also co-authored various papers on computational language phylogeny, including on the Sino-Tibetan languages,[5][6] and has introduced the concept of incomplete lineage sorting in historical linguistics.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Johann-Mattis List". Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
  2. ^ Johann-Mattis List – Curriculum Vita.
  3. ^ List, Johann-Mattis; Forkel, Robert; Greenhill, Simon J.; Rzymski, Christoph; Englisch, Johannes; Gray, Russell D. (2022-06-16). "Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features". Scientific Data. 9 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01432-0. ISSN 2052-4463. PMC 9203750. S2CID 239629792.
  4. ^ Wichmann, Søren, André Müller, Annkathrin Wett, Viveka Velupillai, Julia Bischoffberger, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Zarina Molochieva, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitry Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Agustina Carrizo, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Patience Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013. The ASJP Database (version 16). http://asjp.clld.org/
  5. ^ Sagart, Laurent; Jacques, Guillaume; Lai, Yunfan; Ryder, Robin J.; Thouzeau, Valentin; Greenhill, Simon J.; Johann-Mattis List (May 2019). "Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (21): 10317–10322. doi:10.1073/pnas.1817972116. PMC 6534992. PMID 31061123.
  6. ^ "Origin of Sino-Tibetan language family revealed by new research". ScienceDaily. May 6, 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  7. ^ Jacques, Guillaume; List, Johann-Mattis (2019). "Why we need tree models in linguistic reconstruction (and when we should apply them)". Journal of Historical Linguistics. 9 (1): 128–167. doi:10.1075/jhl.17008.mat. hdl:21.11116/0000-0004-4D2E-4. ISSN 2210-2116. S2CID 52220491.
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