About the Author

Andreas Hölzl is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Comparative Linguistics of the University of Zurich. He holds a Magister Artium (M.A.) in Sinology and a PhD in General Linguistics from the University of Munich, where he worked as a research assistant and taught courses in both subjects. Since 2015 he has also been a devoted community proofreader for Language Science Press. He obtained a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation for his dissertation as well as from the German Academic Exchange Service and the China Scholarship Council for a one-year stay in China. His research interests include the Tungusic language family, the languages of Asia, language typology, areal linguistics, and general questions of evolution (human and linguistic).