Anna Graff
annagraff.bsky.social
Anna Graff
@annagraff.bsky.social
sie/ihr | she/her

Postdoc @isle-uzh.bsky.social
Gemeinderätin der Stadt Zürich @spzuerich.ch
Bürgerliche Wende? Von wegen! Die Stadt Zürich sagt heute Ja zur Entlastung des Mittelstands und Stärkung des öV und Ja zur neuen Parkkartenverordnung. Die Stadtbevölkerung stimmt ebenso Ja zu mehr Klimaschutz und Nein zu Steuererleichterungen für Immobilienbesitzer:innen.
September 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our paper is out! We linked genetic and linguistic data to study how contact changes language and found consistent patterns of borrowing across contact situations
@balthasarbickel.bsky.social @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adv7521
Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact
Human population contact leads to consistently similar rates of linguistic borrowing, but effects vary across linguistic features.
www.science.org
August 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Reposted by Anna Graff
📰When populations meet, they exchange genes, but also language features. According to a new study by NCCR researchers, contact between human populations increases the resemblance between their languages to similar extents all over the world, but differently.

evolvinglanguage.ch/capturing-la...
Capturing language change through the genes - NCCR Evolving Language
When populations meet, they typically exchange genes. Their languages meet too, and such encounters can change languages. But how much do languages actually change through contact, and do these change...
evolvinglanguage.ch
August 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reposted by Anna Graff
*New linguistic data release* curated by @annagraff.bsky.social. We are already cooking interesting multidisciplinary analysis with this rich and solid resource... and you should try it, too! check the paper and the documentation www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nccrlanguage.bsky.social
Curating global datasets of structural linguistic features for independence - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Curating global datasets of structural linguistic features for independence
www.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM