Dr. phil. Andreas Hölzl

Education and Universities

2021–now

• Ongoing Habilitation, Linguistics
• University of Potsdam
• German Research Foundation (DFG)

2017–2020

• Postdoc, Linguistics
• University of Zurich
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

2013–2017

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics
• Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)
• German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung)

2009–2010

• Chinese Studies
• Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• China Scholarship Council (CSC)

2006–2013

• Magister Artium (M.A.), Sinology, Linguistics, Indo-European Linguistics
• Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)

Further Scientific Activities

2022–now

• Postdoc representative of the SFB1287

2022

• Paris, petites invitations, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), 2022.10.24-28

2021–now

• Member of the Editorial Board – Advances in Historical Linguistics – Language Science Press

2019–now

• Contributor to the Linguistic Bibliography, Brill

2016–2017

• Research assistant at the Institute of Sinology, LMU

2015–now

• Proofreader and reviewer for Language Science Press, Berlin

2014–2015

• Lecturer at the Institute of General and Typological Linguistics, LMU

Research Interests

• Language typology (e.g., negation, questions, morphosyntax)
• Areal linguistics (e.g., mixed languages, linguistic convergence)
• Diachronic linguistics (e.g., grammaticalization, etymology)
• The description of endangered and recently extinct languages
• The linguistic diversity of Asia (e.g., Tungusic, Sinitic)

Selected Publications

Books

• Hölzl, Andreas. 2018. A typology of questions in Northeast Asia and beyond: An ecological perspective (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 20). Berlin: Language Science Press. https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/174 , https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1344467

Edited Volumes

• Hölzl, Andreas & Thomas E. Payne (eds.). 2022. Tungusic languages: Past and present. (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 32). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7025328 https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/355
• Hölzl, Andreas & Peter-Arnold Mumm. 2018. Klasse Person: Festschrift für Wolfgang Schulze [Class(y) Person: Festschrift for Wolfgang Schulze]. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 15. (Special issue.)
• Hölzl, Andreas, Matthias Klumm, Mara Matičević, Thomas Scharinger, Johannes Ungelenk & Nora Zapf (eds.). 2015. Politik der Metapher [The politics of metaphor] (Languagetalks 4). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.

Journal Papers

• Hölzl, Andreas. 2022. The etymology of “Manchu”: A critical evaluation of the riverside hypothesis. International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 4(2). 160-208. https://doi.org/10.1163/25898833-00420028
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2021. Longjia (China): Language Contexts. Language Documentation and Description 20. 13–34. http://www.elpublishing.org/itempage/224
• Cathcart, Chundra, Andreas Hölzl, Gerhard Jäger, Paul Widmer & Balthasar Bickel. 2020. Numeral classifiers and number marking in Indo-Iranian: A phylogenetic approach. Language Dynamics and Change 2020. 1–53. https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-bja10013
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2020. Bala (China). Language snapshot. Language Documentation and Description 19. 162–170. http://www.elpublishing.org/PID/217
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2020. The unknown history of Cognitive Linguistics. Academia Letters. Article 8. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL8
• Hölzl, Andreas & Yadi Hölzl. 2019. A wedding ceremony of the Kyakala in China: Language and ritual. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 16. 87–144. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-180657
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2018. Udi, Udihe, and the language(s) of the Kyakala. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 15. 111–146.
• Hölzl, Andreas & Peter-Arnold Mumm. 2018. Vorwort [Preface]. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 15. xv–xx.
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2017. New evidence on Para-Mongolic numerals. Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 96. 97–113. https://doi.org/10.33340/susa.70222
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2016. Towards a new typology of questions. Bavarian Working Papers in Linguistics 5. 17–28. https://doi.org/10.5282/ubm/epub.25194
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2015. A typology of negation in Tungusic. Studies in Language 39(1). 117–157. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.39.1.05hoe

Selected Book Chapters

• Hölzl, Andreas & Thomas E. Payne. 2022. Introduction. In Andreas Hölzl & Thomas E. Payne (eds.), Tungusic languages: Past and present, 1-20. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7053359
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2022. ‘What’s your name?’ in Tungusic and beyond. In Andreas Hölzl & Thomas E. Payne (eds.), Tungusic languages: Past and present, 89-148. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7053365
• Hölzl, Andreas. to appear. The complexification of Tungusic interrogative systems. In Dankmar Enke, Thilo Weber, Larry Hyman, Johanna Nichols & Guido Seiler (ed.), Language change for the worse (Studies in Diversity Linguistics). Berlin: Language Science Press. https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/292
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2018. Constructionalization areas: The case of negation in Manchu. In Evie Coussé, Peter Andersson & Joel Olofsson (eds.), Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar, 241–276. Amsterdam: Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.21.c9
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2015. Ecological metaphors. In Andreas Hölzl, Matthias Klumm, Mara Matičević, Thomas Scharinger, Johannes Ungelenk & Nora Zapf (eds.), Politik der Metapher (Languagetalks 4), 173–191. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.

Bibliographies

• Hölzl, Andreas. 2022. Tungusic languages / Langues toungouses. In Anne Aarssen, René Genis & Eline van der Veken (eds.), Linguistic Bibliography of the year 2021. Leiden: Brill. https://brill.com/view/title/61917
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2021. Tungusic languages / Langues toungouses. In Anne Aarssen, René Genis & Eline van der Veken (eds.), Linguistic Bibliography of the year 2020. Leiden: Brill. https://brill.com/view/title/60213
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2020. Tungusic languages / Langues toungouses. In Anne Aarssen, René Genis & Eline van der Veken (eds.), Linguistic Bibliography of the year 2019. Leiden: Brill. https://brill.com/view/title/57528

Selected Talks

• Hölzl, Andreas. accepted. Describing a recently extinct language: The case of Longjia (Sino-Tibetan). Vielfaltslinguistik 5, 2023.05.19-20, Hamburg.
• Hölzl, Andreas & Nina Adam. accepted. Consequences of head-argument order for syntax. Memorial workshop on Gisbert Fanselow’s Contributions to Syntactic Theory, 2023.04.27-29, Berlin.
• Hölzl, Andreas. accepted. Case marking in Sinitic OV languages: Synchrony and diachrony. Explaining the cross-linguistic distribution of argument-coding patterns, 2023.03.21-23, Potsdam.
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2022. Longjia: An archaic Sinitic language. Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l’Asie orientale, CRLAO Paris, 25 October 2022.
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2022. A typological profile of Longjia, an archaic Sinitic language. 14th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT), 2022.12.15–17, Texas at Austin.
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2022. Diachronic changes in constructional networks: Evidence from Manchuric nominal morphology. Diachronic Construction Morphology, 2022.11.03, 04, 10, 11, Online.
• Adam, Nina, Andreas Hölzl & Andreas Schmidt. 2022. Aspects of the OV/VO alternation. Alternatives, Contexts, and Variation, Workshop of the linguistic CRCs, 2022.07.04-05, Berlin.
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2022. Unusual word order features in Longjia and Caijia. Syntax Semantics Colloquium, SFB 1287 – Limits of Variability in Language, 2022.07.26, Potsdam.
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2022. The etymology of “Manchu”: A critical evaluation of the riverside hypothesis. The 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 25), 2022.08.01–05, Oxford.
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2022. The deictic day-name system in Manchu: Diachrony and typology. Second Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA 2): Time in endangered languages and endangered languages through time, 2022.05.03–05, Venice.
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2021. Morphosyntactic asymmetries in question answer sequences: Egophoricity and beyond. Conversational priming in language change (International Workshop), 2020.12.3–4, Cologne.
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2021. The Eynu language. Language contact in the Altaic world: A multiperspective approach (International Workshop), Charles University, 2021.11.19–20, Prague.
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2021. Prenasalization in Longjia. The 34th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics (JLAO 34), 2021.07.07–09, Paris.
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2021. The Lu(ren) languages of Guizhou, China. 9th International Constrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 9), 2021.05.20–21, Santa Margherita-Portofino.
• Hölzl, Andreas. 2020. Language obsolescence in retrospect: The case of Alchuka. First Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA 1), 2020.09.02–03, Venice.
• Hölzl, Andreas & Yadi Hölzl. 2019. Chinese Kyakala: The language and its sources. Using Manchu sources (International Workshop), Institute of Sinology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 2019.09.17–18, Munich.
• Hölzl, Andreas & Yadi Hölzl. 2019. The endangered languages of the Manchus. Endangered languages in Northern Asia (International Workshop), Institut of Turcology, Free University of Berlin, 2019.11.29–30, Berlin.
• Hölzl, Andreas & Chundra Cathcart. 2019. Sortal numeral classifiers in Central Asia. 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT 13), 2019.09.04–06, Pavia.