Uni-Tübingen

Dr. Marisa Köllner (until Sep 2023)

Scientific Coordinator


Biography

Dr. Marisa Köllner (née Delz) is a Linguist specialized in the field of computational historical linguistics with a focus on language contact, borrowing and the resulting language change. Her research focuses on the application and adaptation of phylogenetic and computational models into the field of historical linguistics. 

Dr. Köllner is the current Scientific Coordinator at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Tracking Linguistic, Cultural and Biological Trajectories of the Human Past" at the University of Tuebingen. Within the Center her research should be widened with respect to other fields in order gain deeper insights in the driving factors of language contact and lexical borrowing in the history of languages, societies, and human evolution.

Dr. Köllner completed her Bachelor and Master in General Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics in Tuebingen.
In parallel, she completed her second Master degree in Computational Linguistics at the University of Tuebingen
In 2021, Dr. Köllner received her doctoral degree in General Linguistics at the at the Department of Linguistics in Tuebingen.


Selected Publications

Köllner, Marisa. Automatic Loanword Identification Using Tree Reconciliation. Diss. Universität Tübingen, 2021.
Marisa Köllner und Johannes Dellert: Ancestral state reconstruction and loanword detection In Bentz, Christian, Jäger, Gerhard & Yanovich, Igor (eds.) (2016). Proceedings of the Leiden Workshop on Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics. University of Tübingen, online publication system.
Marisa DelzMismatches between phylogentic trees in Historical Linguistics. Master thesis, University of Tübingen, April 2014.
Marisa Delz and Johannes Wahle : Four for one - Four different Studies Resulting in one concept called Multiple-Network-Population. In McCrohon, L., Thompson, B., Verhoef, T., and Yamauchi, H. (2014) The Past, Present and Future of Language Evolution Research: Student volume following the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Tokyo: EvoLang9 Organizing Committee, pages 75-82, Tokyo, 2014.
Marisa DelzA theoretical approach to automatic loanword detection. Master thesis, University of Tübingen, September 2013.