2024

• Bonifazi, Anna und Pinelopi Ioannidou. (erscheinend) 2024. Cross- and multimodal anaphoric references in mystery movies: a cognitive approach. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 12. 229–258.

• Kapitonov, Ivan & Margit Bowler. 2024. Some or other: Partitive disanaphors across languages. Journal of Semantics 0(0).

• Suter, Edgar. 2024. Benefactive constructions: A comparative study of the Huon Peninsula languages. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 42. 128–202.

• Bonmann, Svenja, Sonja Riesberg & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2024. Differential object marking in Western Malayo-Polynesian symmetrical voice languages. Linguistic Typology.

• Kapitonov, Ivan. 2024. Onomatopoeia in Kunbarlang. In Lívia Körtvélyessy & Pavol Štekauer (Hrsgg.), Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages, 265–276. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Aung Si, Samira Agnihotri & Chikkananjegowda Madegowda. 2024. Age and Gender-Related Variation in Plant and Animal Naming Ability in the Soliga/Solega Community of Southern Karnataka, India. Human Ecology.

• Spronck, Stef & Aung Si. 2024. The Trees Above: A Language-Based Analysis of Tree Agency in Two Indigenous Societies. Journal of Ethnobiology.

• Henlein, Alexander, Anastasia Bauer et al. 2024. An Outlook for AI Innovation in Multimodal Communication Research. In Vincent G. Duffy (Hrsg.) Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. HCII 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 14711). 182–234. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

• Bauer, Anastasia, Anna Kuder, Marc Schulder & Job Schepens (2024). Phonetic differences between affirmative and feedback head nods in German Sign Language (DGS): A pose estimation study. PLoS ONE 19(5): e0304040. 

2023

• Gayler, Katharina, Elsadig Omda Ibrahim Elnur & Isabel Compes. 2023. The tonal marking of number on nominals in the Wagi dialect of Beria. In Deborah Arbes (Hrsg.). Number Categories: Dynamics, Contact, Typology, 1–34. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Von Heusinger, Klaus & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2023. Prominenz: Rektoren, Sprache, Sprachwissenschaft. In Günter Blamberger, Ansgar Büschges, Thomas Krieg, Bettina Rockenbach & Andreas Speer (Hrsgg.), Universität im Wandel. Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Axel Freimuth, Rektor der Universität zu Köln zum Ende seiner Amtszeit 2005-2023, 391–400. Köln: Universität zu Köln.

• Gipper, Sonja & Alexandra Groß. 2023. Less than Confirming, and Doing More than That: Comparing Responses to Requests for Confirmation in German and Yurakaré. Contrastive Pragmatics (published online ahead of print 2023), 1–45.

• Gipper, Sonja, Katharina König, and Kathrin Weber. 2023. Structurally Similar Formats are Not Functionally Equivalent across Languages: Requests for Reconfirmation in Comparative Perspective. Contrastive Pragmatics (published online ahead of print 2023).

• Aung Si & Aung Kyawphyo. 2023. Patterns in fish naming ability in two fishing communities of Myanmar. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 19(34).

• Bonmann, Svenja. 2023. Parametric Syntactic Reconstruction. Noun Phrases in Iranian, Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European. Dissertation, Universität zu Köln.

• Bowler, Margit & Ivan Kapitonov. 2023. Quantification. In Claire Bowern (Hrsg.), The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages, 499–512. OUP.

• Kaland, Constantijn, Marc Swerts & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2023. Red and blue bananas: Time-series f0 analysis of contrastively focused noun phrases in Papuan Malay and Dutch. Journal of Phonetics 96. 101–200.

• Hellwig, Birgit, Shanley E. M. Allen, Lucinda Davidson, Rebecca Defina, Barbara F. Kelly & Evan Kidd (Hrsgg). 2023. The acquisition sketch project. (Language Documentation and Conservation Special Publication, 28.) Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

• Bauer, Anastasia. 2023. Schriftsprache und Mundbild in der Russischen Gebärdensprache. DAS ZEICHEN 37(120). 81–149.

• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2023. On the comparability of prosodic categories: why ‘stress’ is difficult. Linguistic Typology 27(2). 341–361.

2022

• Schneider-Blum, Gertrud, Sonja Riesberg, Birgit Hellwig & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2022. On resolving prominence conflicts – Exceptional case marking in Tima and Yali. In Chiara Gianollo, Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Sofiana I. Lindemann (eds.), Paths through meaning and form. Festschrift offered to Klaus von Heusinger on the occasion of his 60th birthday, 211-215. Köln: Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln.

• Hellwig, Birgit. 2022. Language acquisition and language socialization. In Svenja Völkel & Nico Nassenstein (eds.), Approaches to Language and Culture, 33–52. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110726626-002.

• Gipper, Sonja. 2022. Assertive content questions in Yurakaré conversations: Using indisputable facts to justify disputable claims, actions, and stances. Journal of Pragmatics 202: 28-47. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2022.09.006.

• Primus†, Beatrice, Franziska Kretzschmar, Klaus von Heusinger & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2022. Relating agent prominence to discourse prominence: DO-clefts in German. Linguistics 60(6): 1811-1853. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0276.

• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2022. On the comparability of prosodic categories: why ‘stress’ is difficult. Linguistic Typology 27(2): 341-361. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2022-0041.

• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2022. Against trivializing language description (and comparison). Studies in Language 46: 133-160.

• Frye, Henrike, Shirley Balar & Aung Si. 2022. Experiences with remote linguistic-ethnobiological fieldwork on bird names in the Qaqet language of Papua New Guinea. Language Documentation & Conservation 16. 341-363.

• Frye, Henrike. 2022. Child-directed Speech in Qaqet: A Language of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Canberra: ANU Press. DOI: http://doi.org/10.22459/CDSQ.2022.

• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & Sonja Riesberg. 2022. Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Totoli, a Western Austronesian language of Indonesia. In Anna Margetts, Birgit Hellwig & Sonja Riesberg (eds.), Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, 219-242. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Bressem, Jana & Claudia Wegener. 2022. Handling talk. Gesture 20(2). 219-253. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.19041.bre.

• Margetts, Anna, Sonja Riesberg & Birgit Hellwig (eds.). 2022. Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Aung Si & Ellison, Mark T. 2022. Inter-individual differences in Hindi–English code-switching: A quantitative approach. International Journal of Bilingualism.

• Tabain, Marija, Marc Garellek, Birgit Hellwig, Adele Gregory & Richard Beare. 2022. Voicing in Qaqet: Prenasalization and language contact. Journal of Phonetics 91. 101138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101138.

• Tabain, Marija & Birgit Hellwig. 2022. Qaqet. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. First View. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100321000359.

• Margetts, Anna, Katharina Haude, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Dagmar Jung, Sonja Riesberg, Stefan Schnell, Frank Seifart, Harriet Sheppard & Claudia Wegener. 2022. Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalization of bring and take. Studies in Language. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.19088.mar.

• Bardají i Farré, Maria, Sonja Riesberg & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2022. Limited control predicates in western Austronesia: stative, dynamic, or none of the above? Oceanic Linguistics 61(1): 118-165.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ol.2021.0026.

• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2022. Prosodic phrasing and the emergence of phrase structure. Linguistics 60(3): 715-743.

• Hellwig, Birgit, Rebecca Defina, Evan Kidd, Shanley E.M. Allen, Lucinda Davidson & Barbara F. Kelly. 2022. Child language documentation: The sketch acquisition project. Language Documentation and Conservation SP 25. 29–58.

• Barth, Danielle, Nicholas Evans, I. Wayan Arka, Henrik Bergqvist, Diana Forker, Sonja Gipper, Gabrielle Hodge, Eri Kashima, Yuki Kasuga, Carine Kawakami, Yukinori Kimoto, Dominique Knuchel, Norikazu Kogura, Keita Kurabe, John Mansfield, Heiko Narrog, Desak P. Eka Pratiwi, Saska van Putten, Chikako Senge & Olena Tykhostup. 2022. Language vs. individuals in cross-linguistic corpus typology. In Geoffrey Haig, Stefan Schnell & Frank Seifart (eds.), Doing corpus-based typology with spoken language data: State of the art (Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 25), 179-232. Honululu: University of Hawai'i Press.

• Gipper, Sonja. 2022. Tracing Ontological Shift in Interaction: The Role of Language Labels in the Co-Construction of Language Attitudes Among Yurakaré People. Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics 6, Special Issue: Postcolonial sociolinguistics. 125-159.

• Riesberg, Sonja, Maria Bardají i Farré, Kurt Malcher & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2022. Predicting voice choice in symmetrical voice languages. All the things that do not work in Totoli. Studies in Language 46(2): 453-516.

2021

• Ellison, Mark T. & Aung Si. 2021. A quantitative analysis of age-related differences in Hindi-English code-switching. International Journal of Bilingualism.
• Gipper, Sonja. 2021. La construcción interaccional de las actitudes lingüísticas de purismo: variación en el uso de elementos en castellano en conversaciones entre bilingües yurakaré-castellano. In Martina Schrader-Kniffki & Julia Montemayor Gracia (eds.), Espacios de contacto en la hispanofonía: Español y lenguas indígenas en el mundo globalizado, 231-258. Berlin: Peter Lang.
• Riesberg, Sonja, Kurt Malcher & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2021. The many ways of transitivization in Totoli. In Silvia Luraghi and Elisa Roma (eds.), Valency over time: Diachronic perspectives on valency patterns and valency orientation. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110755657-008.

• Compes, Isabel. 2021. The morphology of argument marking in the Wagi dialect of Beria. Studies in African Linguistics 50(2). 196-226. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32473/sal.v50i2.118531.

• Sonja Riesberg, in collaboration with Carmen Dawuda, Lucas Haiduck, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, and Kurt Malcher. 2021. A Yali (Angguruk) – English – German dictionary. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.

• Kapitonov, Ivan. 2021. A Grammar of Kunbarlang. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747058.

• Ellison, T. Mark & Aung Si. 2021. A quantitative analysis of age-related differences in Hindi–English code-switching. International Journal of Bilingualism. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069211028311.

• Agnihotri, Samira, C. Madegowda and Aung Si. 2021. Tiger becomes termite hill: Soliga/Solega perceptions of wildlife interactions and ecological change. Frontiers in Conservation Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2021.691900.

• Kapitonov, Ivan. 2021. Definiteness, Information Structure, and Indirect Modification in the Kunbarlang Noun Phrase. Languages 6(3). 111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6030111.

• Aung Si. 2021. Mangkuldalkuj seasons: A children's book in Iwaidja from Northwest Arnhem Land. Darwin: Aboriginal Resource Development Service.

• Kaland, Constantijn. 2021. Contour clustering: A field-data-driven approach for documenting and analysing prototypical f0 contours. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.

• 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). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0063.

• 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.

• Hellwig, Birgit. 2021. Initial observations on complex predicates in Qaqet children’s language. First Language 41(4). 406-429. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723720922004.

• Hellwig, Birgit. 2021. Children’s narratives in Papua New Guinea: A case study of Qaqet. In Christiane Bongartz & Jacopo Torregrossa (eds.), What’s in a narrative? Variation in storytelling at the interface between language and literacy, 99–120. Bern: Peter Lang.

• 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). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0063.
• 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.

2020

• Aung Si. 2020. Solega-English Dictionary. Bangalore: Aditya Printers.

• Hellwig, Birgit. 2020. Child language documentation: A pilot project in Papua New Guinea. Language Documentation and Conservation Special Publication 21. 23–42.

• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & Daniel Kaufman. 2020. Prosodic systems: Austronesia. In Carlos Gussenhoven & Aoju Chen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody, 370-383. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Aung Si. 2020. Patterns in the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge: A case study from Arnhem Land, Australia. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 16(52). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-020-00403-2

• Schneider-Blum, Gertrud & Birgit Hellwig. 2020. Property concepts in Tabaq: More than one road can lead to Rome. Faits de Langues 51. 63–78.

• 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2020-2043
• 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.06.009
• Gipper, Sonja. 2020. Repeating responses as a conversational affordance for linguistic transmission: Evidence from Yurakaré conversations. Studies in Language 44(2). 281-326. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.19041.gip
• 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.
• 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2019.02.003
• 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.
• Aung Si & Stef Spronck. 2019. Solega defenestration: The grammar of underspecified perspective shift in Solega, Pragmatics, 29(2): 277-301.
• 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.
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• 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.
• Aung Si. 2019. Flora-fauna loanwords in Arnhem Land and beyond - an ethnobiological approach, Aust. J. Linguistics, 39(2): 202-256.

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.
• Aung Si. 2018. Honeybees in the life and religion of the people of Arnhem Land, Australia. In T. Breyer & T. Widlok (eds.), The Situationality of Human-Animal Interactions. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. 185-202.
• 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
• Aung Si and Margaret Carew. 2018. Stingless honeybee (sugarbag) naming, identification and conceptualization in Arnhem Land – a lexicographic approach, Aust. J. Linguistics, 38(4): 519-548.
• 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. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1402559
• 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.) DOI: http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170354

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.
• 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. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025100314000243

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.