Jesse Wichers Schreur
University lecturer
- Name
- Dr. J.G. Wichers Schreur
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- j.g.wichers.schreur@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Jesse Wichers Schreur is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Linguistics. In his research he focuses on languages of the Caucasus, in areas of language contact, typology and grammaticalisation.
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Fields of interest
- Descriptive and documentary linguistics
- Morphological theory
- Linguistic typology
- Language contact and areal linguistics
- Languages of the Caucasus
- Historical-comparative linguistics
- Digital Humanities
Research
In my current research (supported by FWO and carried out at KU Leuven), I research pluractionality (verbal plurality) in four East Caucasian languages spoken in Georgia.
University lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
Guest researcher
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
- Wichers Schreur J.G. (2025), Intensive language contact in the Caucasus: the case of Tsova-Tush. Berlin: Language Science Press.
- Majer D., Wichers Schreur J. & Smakman D. (2025), Georgian as a second language: a case study, Journal of Global Sociolinguistics 1(1): 91-98.
- Wichers Schreur J.G., Allassonnière-Tang M., Bellamy K.R. & Rochant N. (2022), Predicting grammatical gender in Nakh languages: three methods compared, Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads 2(2): 93-126.
- Bellamy K.R. & J.G. (2021), When semantics and phonology collide: Gender assignment in mixed Tsova-Tush–Georgian nominal constructions, International Journal of Bilingualism 26(3): 257-285.
- Wichers Schreur J.G. (2021), Nominal borrowings in Tsova-Tush (Nakh-Daghestanian, Georgia) and their gender assignment. In: Forker D. & Grenoble L.A (Eds.), Language contact in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 15-33.
- Kemna A.L. & Wichers Schreur J.G. (2019), Mangs wa, ait nich. Een vergelijkend onderzoek naar wet- en regelgeving ten aanzien van het gebruik van Nedersaksisch, Fries en Nederduits = Sometimes yes, but not always. A comparative investigation into laws and regulations regarding the use of Dutch Low Saxon, Frisian and German Low Saxon. Enschede: Kom voor Taal.
- Chiarcos C., Donandt K., Ionov M., Rind-Pawlowski M., Sargsian H., Wichers Schreur J.G., Abromeit F. & Fäth C. (2018), Universal morphologies for the Caucasus region, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, 7 May 2018 - 12 May 2018: European Language Resources Association (ELRA).