2021

• Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk, Swintha Danielsen, Iren Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmann, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Balthasar Bickel. 2021. The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages. Linguistics Vanguard 7(1).
• Stephany, Ursula & Ayhan Aksu-Koç (eds.). 2021. Development of Modality in First Language Acquisition, a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Studies on Language Acquisition 54). Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter Mouton.
• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. under review. Against trivializing language description (and comparison).

2020

• Gipper, Sonja. 2020. Beyond committing and presupposing in Yurakaré conversations: Investigating the interactional functions of epistemic markers through their sequential distributions. Folia Linguistica 54(2). 371-404.
• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2020. Grammaticisation processes and reanalyses in Sulawesi languages. In Andrej Malchukov & Walter Bisang (eds.), Areal patterns of grammaticalization and cross-linguistic variation in grammaticalization scenarios. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1043-1075.
• Kendrick, Kobin H., Penelope Brown, Mark Dingemanse, Simeon Floyd, Sonja Gipper, Kaoru Hayano, Elliott Hoey, Gertie Hoymann, Elizabeth Manrique, Giovanni Rossi & Stephen C. Levinson. 2020. Sequence organization: A universal infrastructure for social action. Journal of Pragmatics 168. 119-138.
• Gipper, Sonja. 2020. Repeating responses as a conversational affordance for linguistic transmission: Evidence from Yurakaré conversations. Studies in Language 44(2). 281-326.
• Riesberg, S., Kalbertodt, J., Baumann, S., & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2020. Using Rapid Prosody Transcription to probe little-known prosodic systems: The case of Papuan Malay. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 11(1): 8. 1–35.
• Kaland, Constantijn & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2020. Time-series analysis of F0 in Papuan Malay constrastive focus. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020 (Online-Konferenz), 230-234.
• Casaretto, Antje, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Birgit Hellwig, Uta Reinöhl & Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2020. Roots of Ergativity in Africa (and Beyond). Studies in African Linguistics 49(1). 111–140.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2020. Initial observations on complex predicates in Qaqet children's language. First Language.
• Kaland, Constantijn C.L. & Stefan Baumann. 2020. Demarcating and highlighting in Papuan Malay phrase prosody. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 147(4), 2974–2988.
• Kaland, Constantijn. 2020. Offline and Online Processing of Acoustic Cues to Word Stress in Papuan Malay. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 147(2). 731-747.
• Hellwig, Birgit & Dagmar Jung. 2020. Child-directed language – and how it informs the documentation and description of the adult language. Language Documentation and Conservation 14. 188–214.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2020. Language contact in the West Chadic language Goemai. In Anthony P. Grant (ed.). Oxford handbook of language contact, 431-448. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2019

• Kaland, Constantijn. 2019. Acoustic correlates of word stress in Papuan Malay. Journal of Phonetics 74. 55-74.
• Kaland, Constantijn & Stefan Baumann. 2019. Different functions of phrase-final F0 movements in spontaneous Papuan Malay. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XIX), 1312-1316.  Melbourne, Australia.
• Kaland, Constantijn & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2019. Repetition Reduction Revisited: The Prosody of Repeated Words in Papuan Malay. Language and Speech 63(1). 31-55.
• Kaland, Constantijn, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Angela Kluge. 2019. Stress predictors in a Papuan Malay random forest. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XIX), 2871-2875. Melbourne, Australia.
• Martínez García, Nuria & Constantijn Kaland. 2019. The prosody of repeated mentions in Yucatecan Spanish. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XIX), 2494-2498. Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Asociation Inc.
• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2019. Lingüísitca de la documentación: Qué es y para qué sirve. In Lucía Golluscio et al. (eds.), Lingüística de la documentación, 65-96. Buenos Aires: Eudeba.
• Adelaar, Alexander. 2019. On the history of Malagasy terms for human body parts. In V. V. Sikorsky & B. A. Pogadaev (eds.), Малайско-индонезийские исследования Выпуск XXI [Malay-Indonesian Studies Issue XXI], 53-89. Moscow: Ekon-Inform.
• Gipper, Sonja. 2019. Life of =ti: Use and grammaticalization of a clausal nominalizer in Yurakaré. In Zariquiey, Roberto, Masayoshi Shibatani & David W. Fleck (eds.), Nominalization in Languages of the Americas, 363-390. John Benjamins.
• Riesberg, Sonja, Kurt Malcher & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2019. How universal is agent-first? Evidence from symmetrical voice languages. Language 95(3). 523-561.
• Kiss, Börge, Daniel Kölligan, Francisco Mondaca, Claes Neuefeind, Uta Reinöhl, Felix Rau & Patrick Sahle. 2019. C-SALT APIs – Connecting and Exposing Heterogeneous Language Resources. Präsentation bei der Digital Humanities 2019 (DH2019), Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 9 - 12, 2019.
• Kiss, Börge, Daniel Kölligan, Francisco Mondaca, Claes Neuefeind, Uta Reinöhl & Patrick Sahle. 2019. It Takes a Village: Co-developing VedaWeb, a Digital Research Platform for Old Indo-Aryan Texts. In Steven Krauwer & Darja Fišer (eds.), TwinTalks at DHN 2019 – Understanding Collaboration in Digital Humanities, 35-44.
• Kaland, Constantijn & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2019. Repetition Reduction Revisited: The Prosody of Repeated Words in Papuan Malay. Language and Speech 63(1). 31-55.
  DOI:10.1177/0023830918820044
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2019. Linguistic diversity, language documentation and psycholinguistics: The role of stimuli. In Aimée Lahaussois & Marine Vuillermet (eds.), Methodological tools for linguistic description and typology (Language Documentation and Conservation SP 16), 5-30.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2019. A grammar of Qaqet. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. (Mouton Grammar Library, 79)
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2019. Grammatical relations in Katla. In Alena Witzlack-Makarevich & Balthasar Bickel (eds.), Argument selectors: New perspectives on grammatical relations (Typological Studies in Language, 123), 511-531. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2018

• Hellwig. Birgit. 2018. Verbal derivation in Katla: The comitative. In Gertrud Schneider-Blum, Birgit Hellwig & Gerrit Dimmendaal (eds.), Nuba Mountain language studies: New Insights, 209-232. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
• Schneider-Blum, Gertrud & Birgit Hellwig. 2018. Reference tracking in Tima and its interplay with split ergative marking. Studies in Language 42.4. 970-993.
• Schneider-Blum, Gertrud, Birgit Hellwig & Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds.). 2018. Nuba Mountain Language Studies: New Insights. (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, 57). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2018. 'See this sitting one': Demonstratives and deictic classifiers in Goemai. In Stephen C. Levinson, Sarah Cutfield, Michael J. Dunn, Nick J. Enfield, Sérgio Meira & David Wilkins (eds.), Demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective, 134-149. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2018. Sprachenvielfalt – Sprachentod. Rezensionsaufsatz zu Nicholas Evans, Wenn Sprachen sterben – und was wir mit ihnen verlieren. Sprachwissenschaft 43.3. 365-371.
• Riesberg, Sonja, Asako Shiohara & Atsuko Utsumi. 2018. Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages. Berlin: Language Science Press.
• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2018. Meeting the transcription challenge. In Bradley McDonnell, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker & Gary Holton (eds.), Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998 (Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 15), 33-40.
• Riesberg, Sonja. 2018. Reflections on descriptive and documentary adequacy. In Bradley McDonnell, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker & Gary Holton (eds.), Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998 (Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 15), 151-156.
• Döhler, Christian. 2018. A grammar of Komnzo (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 22). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.1477799
• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2018. Some preliminary observations on prosody and information structure in Austronesian languages of Indonesia and East Timor. In Sonja Riesberg, Asako Shiohara & Atsuko Utsumi (eds.), Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages, 347–374. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.1402555
• Riesberg, Sonja, Janina Kalbertodt, Stefan Baumann & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2018. On the perception of prosodic prominences and boundaries in Papuan Malay. In Sonja Riesberg, Asako Shiohara & Atsuko Utsumi (eds.), Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages, 389–414. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.1402559
• Riesberg, Sonja. 2018. Optional ergative, agentivity, and discourse prominence. Evidence from Yali (TNG). Linguistic Typology 22(1). 17-50.
• Reinöhl, Uta & Antje Casaretto. 2018. When grammaticalization does NOT occur. Diachronica 35(2). 238-276.
• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P., Meytal Sandler, Jan Strunk & Volker Unterladstetter. 2018. On the universality of intonational phrases – a crosslinguistic interrater study. Phonology 35(2). 207-245.
• Kaland, Constantijn. 2018. Spectral tilt as a correlate of Papuan Malay word stress. In Katarzyna Klessa, Jolanta Bachan, Agnieszka Wagner, Maciej Karpiński & Daniel Śledziński (eds.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, 339-343. Poznań, Polen.
• Riesberg, Sonja, Janina Kalbertodt, Stefan Baumann & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2018. On the perception of prosodic prominences and boundaries in Papuan Malay. In Sonja Riesberg, Asako Shiohara & Atsuko Utsumi (eds.), Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages, 389-414. Berlin: Language Science Press.
• García García, Marco, Beatrice Primus & Nikolaus P. Himmmelmann 2018. Shifting from animacy to agentivity. Theoretical Linguistics 44 (1-2), 25-39. (pdf)
• Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk, Swintha Danielsen, Iren Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmann, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Nivja H. de Jong & Balthasar Bickel. 2018. Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Seifart, Frank, Julien Meyer, Sven Grawunder & Laure Dentel. 2018. Reducing language to rhythm: Amazonian Bora drummed language exploits speech rhythm for long-distance communication. R. Soc. open sci. 5: 170354. (Diese Publikation ist schon in SCIENCE besprochen.)

2017

• Riesberg, Sonja (ed.) in collaboration with Carmen Dawuda, Lucas Haiduck, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Kurt Malcher. 2017. A Yali (Angguruk) - German Dictionary. Wörterbuch Yali (Angguruk) - Deutsch. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.

• Suter, Edgar & Timothy Usher. 2017. The Kamula-Elevala Language Family. Language & Linguistics in Melanesia 35. 106-131.

• Gipper, Sonja. 2017. Pre-semantic pragmatics encoded: A non-spatial account of Yurakaré demonstratives. Journal of Pragmatics 120. 122-143.

• Mattissen, Johanna. 2017a: “5. Sub-types of polysynthesis”. In Nicholas Evans, Marianne Mithun & Michael Fortescue (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis, 70-98. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Mattissen, Johanna. 2017b: “40. Nivkh”. In Nicholas Evans, Marianne Mithun & Michael Fortescue (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis, 851-881. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Bressem, Jana, Nicole Stein & Claudia Wegener.  2017. Refusing, excluding, and negating manually: Recurrent gestures in Savosavo. Pragmatics 27(2). 173-206.

• Simard, Candide & Claudia Wegener. 2017. Fronted NPs in a verb-initial language – clause-internal or external? Prosodic cues to the rescue!. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2(1): 51. 1–32.

• Reinöhl, Uta & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2017. “Renewal: A figure of speech or a process sui generis?”. Language 93 (2). 381–413.
• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.  2017. Word Classes. In Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0159.xml.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2017. Verbal number in Goemai (West Chadic). Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 70.1. 7-27.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2017. Emotions in Goemai (Nigeria): Perspectives from a documentary corpus. In Anne Storch (ed.), Consensus and Dissent, 213-227. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2017. The "goe" in Goemai: The development of modifiers in a Chadic language. In Raija Kramer & Roland Kießling (eds.), Mechthildian approaches to Afrikanistik: Advances in language based research on Africa. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

• Hannß, Katja. 2017. The Etymology of Kallawaya. Journal of Language Contact 10/2.

• Montero-Melis, Guillermo, Sonja Eisenbeiss, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Sotaro Kita, Anetta Kopecka, Friederike Lüpke, Tatiana Nikitina, Ilona Tragel, T. Florian Jaeger & Juergen Bohnemeyer. 2017. Satellite- vs. verb-framing underpredicts nonverbal motion categorization: Insights from a large language sample and simulations. Cognitive Semantics 3(1). 36-61.

2016

• Gipper, Sonja. 2016. Constraints on choice of referring expression in Yurakaré. In Anke Holler & Katja Suckow (eds.), Empirical perspectives on anaphora resolution, 143-168. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter.

• Reinöhl, Uta. 2016. A single origin of Indo-European primary adpositions? Unveiling the Indo-Aryan branch-off. Diachronica 33 (1), 95-130.

• Reinöhl, Uta. 2016. Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2015

• Gipper, Sonja. 2015. (Inter)subjectivity in interaction: Investigating (inter)subjective meanings in Yurakaré conversational data. STUF - Language Typology and Universals 68/2, 211-232.

• Gipper, Sonja. 2015. Rezension des Buches Linguistics and Archaeology in the Americas: The Historization of Language and Society, hrsg. von Eithne B. Carlin und Simon van de Kerke (Brill). International Journal of American Linguistics 81: 297-299.

• Hellwig, Birgit & Marija Tabain. 2015. Goemai. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 45: 81-104.

• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2015. Notes on 'noun phrase structure' in Tagalog. In Jens Fleischhauer, Anja Latrouite & Rainer Osswald (eds), Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface, 315-337. Düsseldorf: dup.

• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & Beatrice Primus. 2015. Prominence Beyond Prosody - A First Approximation. In Amedeo De Dominicis (ed.), pS-prominenceS: Prominences in Linguistics. Proceedings of the International Conference, Viterbo: DISUCOM Press, 38-58.

• Mattissen, Johanna. 2015. Mit Empathie gegen die Ellipse – Wie im Japanischen doch Person markiert wird. In Yoko Nishina (ed.), Linguistische Berichte, Sonderheft 20: Sprachwissenschaft des Japanischen. Hamburg: Buske. 111-141.

• Riesberg, Sonja & Beatrice Primus. 2015. Agent prominence in symmetrical voice languages. STUF - Language Typology and Universals 68(4). 551-564.

• Schapper, Antoinette. 2015. "Wallacea, a Linguistic Area". Archipel 90, 99-151.

• Strunk, Jan, Oliver Walter, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2015. Lexicon discovery for language preservation using unsupervised word segmentation with Pitman-Yor language models. Technischer Bericht AUVIS-Projekt, Universität zu Köln und Universität Paderborn.

• Usher, Timothy & Edgar Suter. 2015. The Anim Languages of Southern New Guinea. Oceanic Linguistics 54/1, 110-142.

2014

• Danielsen, Swintha, Katja Hannß & Fernando Zúñiga (ed.). 2014. Word formation in South American languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.

• Gipper, Sonja. 2014. From inferential to mirative: An interaction-based account of an emerging semantic extension. In: Evie Coussé & Ferdinand von Mengden (Hrsg.), Usage-based approaches to language change. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

• Gipper, Sonja. 2014. Rezension des Buches Multi-verb constructions: A view from the Americas, hrsg. von Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & Pieter C. Muysken (Brill). International Journal of American Linguistics 80: 269-271.

• Gipper, Sonja. 2014. Intersubjective evidentials in Yurakaré: Evidence from conversational data and a first step toward a comparative perspective. Studies in Language 38/4 (2014), 792-835.

• Hannß, Katja. 2014. Reduplication strategies in Kallawaya. In: Danielsen, Swintha, Katja Hannß, und Fernando Zúñiga (Hrsg.), Word Formation in South American Languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. 163-180.

• Hannß, Katja und Pieter Muysken. 2014. Reduplication in Andean languages. In: Goodwin Gómez, Gale und Hein van der Voort (Hrsg.), Reduplication in indigenous languages of South America. Leiden: Brill. 39-76.

• Hannß, Katja. 2014. Rezension von Heggarty, Paul und David Beresford-Jones (Hrsg.), Archaeology and Language in the Andes. A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Prehistory (2012). In: International Journal of American Linguistics, 80/3. 418-420.

• Hannß, Katja (Comp.). 2014. A diachronic dictionary of Uru. Online.

• Hannß, Katja. 2014. The Uru of Ch’imu: an investigation of Walter Lehmann’s material. In: STUF - Language Typology and Universals 67/2. 175–211.

• Hannß, Katja. 2014. Plantas y hierbas de los callahuayas: Una aproximación etimológica. In: Ingrid Kummels and Karoline Noack (coord.), Las conexiones temporales, regionales y transatlánticas de los Andes y la amazonía: Personas y objetos como actores de una historia entrelazada. Nuevo Mundo - Mundos Nuevos.

• Haude, Katharina. 2014. "Animacy and inverse voice in Movima: a corpus study." Anthropological Linguistics 56(3-4): 294-314.

• Haude, Katharina. 2014. "Reduplication in Movima: a prosodic morphology approach", in: van der Voort, Hein and Gale Goodwin Gomez. Reduplication in South American Languages, 343-373. Amsterdam: Brill. (Final draft)

• Hellwig, Birgit. 2014. Goemai. In: Carol Genetti (Hrsg.), How languages work: An introduction to language and linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 391-403.

• Hellwig, Birgit & Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2014. tabaq: in a state of flux. Dotawo 1: 63-81.

  (with Gertrud Schneider-Blum) Tabaq: In a state of flux. Dotawo 1: 63-81.

  (with Gertrud Schneider-Blum) Tabaq: In a state of flux. Dotawo 1: 63-81.

  (with Gertrud Schneider-Blum) Tabaq: In a state of flux. Dotawo 1: 63-81.

• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2014. Asymmetries in the prosodic phrasing of function words: Another look at the suffixing preference. Language 90/4 (2014), 927-960. [Best Paper in Language Award 2014]

• Riesberg, Sonja. 2014. Passive actors are not adjuncts – Consequences for the distinction between symmetrical and asymmetrical Voice alternations. In: I Wayan Arka & N. L. K. Mas Indrawati (Hrsg.), Argument Realisations and Related Constructions in Austronesian Languages. Papers from 12-ICAL, Volume 2, 281-302. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.

• Riesberg, Sonja. 2014. Symmetrical voice and linking in western Austronesian languages (Pacific Linguistics 646). Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Samuelsdorff, Paul Otto. 2014. Methoden der Linguistik und Wege der sozialen Verständigung. Nümbrecht: Kirsch Verlag.

• Schapper, Antoinette (Hrsg.). 2014. The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar. Volume 1 (Pacific Linguistics 644). Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Enthält: Schapper, Antoinette. Introduction to The Papuan languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar. Volume 1. S. 1-22. Schapper, Antoinette. Kamang. S. 285-350. Schapper, Antoinette & Rachel Hendery. Wersing. S. 439-504.

• Schapper, Antoinette, Juliette Huber & Aone van Engelenhoven. 2014. The relatedness of Timor-Kisar and Alor-Pantar languages: A preliminary demonstration. In: Marian Klamer (Hrsg.), The Alor-Pantar languages: History and typology (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 3), 99-154. Berlin: Language Science Press.

• Schapper, Antoinette. 2014. Elevation in the spatial deictic systems of Alor-Pantar languages. In: Klamer (Hrsg.), 247-284.

• Schapper, Antoinette & Marian Klamer. 2014. Numeral systems in the Alor-Pantar languages. In: Klamer (Hrsg.), 285-336.

• Schapper, Antoinette et al. 2014. Numeral words and arithmetic operations in the Alor-Pantar languages. In: Klamer (Hrsg.), 337-374.

• Schapper, Antoinette, Marian Klamer & Greville Corbett. 2014. Plural number words in the Alor-Pantar languages. In: Klamer (Hrsg.), 375-412.

• Suter, Edgar. 2014. Kâte he 'hit' and qa 'hit': a study in lexicology. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 32 (2014), 18-57.

• Suter, Edgar. 2014. Das hethitische Phonem /xw/. Arbeitspapiere Köln.