General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne

Tel: +49-221-470-6328
Fax: +49-221-470-5947

E-Mail: sonja.gipper[at]uni-koeln[dot]de

Publications

Papers and Articles

• Gipper, Sonja. 2024. Request for confirmation sequences in Yurakaré. Open Linguistics 10(1): 20240026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2024-0026.
• Dekker, Peter, Sonja Gipper & Bart de Boer. 2024.  3SG is the most conservative subject marker across languages: An exploratory study of rate of change. In Jonas Nölle, Limor Raviv, Kristie E. Graham, Stefan Hartmann, Yannik Jadoul, Mathilde Josserand, Theresa Matzinger, Katie Mudd, Michael Pleyer, Anita Slonimska, Slawomir Wacewicz & Stuart Watson (eds.), The Evolution of Language, 109-117. Nijmegen: The Evolution of Language Conferences. 
• Gipper, Sonja & Alexandra Groß. 2024. Less than confirming, and doing more than that: Comparing responses to requests for confirmation in German and Yurakaré. Contrastive Pragmatics 5(1-2): 307–346. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10100.
• Gipper, Sonja, Katharina König & Kathrin Weber. 2024. Structurally similar formats are not functionally equivalent across languages: Requests for reconfirmation in comparative perspective. Contrastive Pragmatics 5(1-2): 195–237. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10097.
• 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
• Gipper, Sonja. 2022. The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yurakaré. In Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg & Birgit Hellwig (eds.), Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, 101-146. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Gipper, Sonja & Foong Ha Yap. 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.
• Gipper, Sonja. 2018. From similarity to evidentiality. Uncertain visual/perceptual evidentiality in Yurakaré and other languages. In Foolen, Ad, Helen de Hoop & Gijs Mulder (eds.), Evidence for Evidentiality, 257-280. John Benjamins.
• Gipper, Sonja. 2017. Pre-semantic pragmatics encoded: A non-spatial account of Yurakaré demonstratives. Journal of Pragmatics 120. 122-143.
• Gipper, Sonja. 2016. Constraints on choice of referring expression in Yurakaré. In Holler, Anke & Katja Suckow (eds.), Empirical perspectives on anaphora resolution, 143-168. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter.
• 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. 2014. Intersubjective evidentials in Yurakaré: Evidence from conversational data and a first step toward a comparative perspective. Studies in Language 38(4). 792-835.
• Gipper, Sonja. 2014. From inferential to mirative: An interaction-based account of an emerging semantic extension. In Coussé, Evie & Ferdinand von Mengden (eds.), Usage-based approaches to language change. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Enfield, N. J., Mark Dingemanse, Julija Baranova, Joe Blythe, Penelope Brown, Tyko Dirksmeyer, Paul Drew, Simeaon Floyd, Sonja Gipper, Rósa S. Gisladottir, Gertie Hoymann, Kobin Kendrick, Stephen C. Levinson, Lilla Magyari, Elizabeth Manrique, Giovanni Rossi, Lila San Roque & Francisco Torreira. 2013. Huh? What? – A first survey in 21 languages. In Hayashi, Makoto, Geoffrey Raymond & Jack Sidnell (eds.), Conversational repair and human understanding, 343-380. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Van Gijn, Rik, Vincent Hirtzel & Sonja Gipper. 2010. Updating and loss of color terminology in Yurakaré: An interdisciplinary point of view. Language and Communication 30. 240-264.
• Van Gijn, Rik & Sonja Gipper. 2009. Irrealis in Yurakaré and other languages: On the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category. In Hogeweg, Lotte, Helen de Hoop & Andrej Malchukov (eds.), Cross-linguistic semantics of tense-aspect-modality, 155-178. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Data Collections

• Gijn, Rik van, Vincent Hirtzel, Sonja Gipper & Jeremías Ballivián Torrico. 2011. The Yurakaré Archive. The Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/1839/8df587ed-3d6e-4db8-bfe5-4ecad5cef3a2.
• Gipper, Sonja & Jeremías Ballivián Torrico. 2014. Family Problems Yurakaré. Items Soc-Cog103 through SocCog-109 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. 
• Gipper, Sonja. 2023. SCOPIC Corpus Low German. Data Center for the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.18716/dch/a.00000026.
• Gipper, Sonja & Jeremías Ballivián Torrico. 2018. The Family Problems Picture Task in Yurakaré. Data Center for the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.18716/dch/b.00000009.
• Gipper, Sonja & Jeremías Ballivián Torrico. 2022. Yurakaré DoReCo dataset. In Seifart, Frank, Ludger Paschen and Matthew Stave (eds.). Language Documentation Reference Corpus (DoReCo) 1.2. Berlin & Lyon: Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft & laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (UMR5596, CNRS & Université Lyon 2). https://doreco.huma-num.fr/languages/yura1255 (Accessed on 12/09/2023). DOI:10.34847/nkl.7ca412wg
• Gipper, Sonja & Jeremías Ballivián Torrico 2023. Yurakaré language class recordings. Data Center for the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.18716/dch/a.00000022.
• Gipper, Sonja & Jeremías Ballivián Torrico. 2023. Yurakaré interviews on language infrastructure use. Data Center for the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.18716/dch/a.00000024.
• Gipper, Sonja & Jeremías Ballivián Torrico. 2023 (forthc.). Yurakaré Glottobank. Endangered Languages Archive. http://hdl.handle.net/2196/p88m9804-7505-6k4w-990n-b5n00239047x.
• Gipper, Sonja & Jeremías Ballivián Torrico. 2023. Yurakaré word list recordings. Data Center for the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.18716/dch/a.00000027.
• Gipper, Sonja, Jeremías Ballivián Torrico & Jildo Hinojosa. 2023. Yurakaré sociolinguistic interviews. Data Center for the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.18716/dch/a.00000023.
• Gipper, Sonja, Danielle Barth & Nicholas Evans 2023. SCOPIC Corpus Kölsch. Data Center for the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.18716/dch/a.00000021.
• Gipper, Sonja, Vincent Hirtzel, Jeremías Ballivián Torrico & Daniel Chávez Orosco. 2023. Yurakaré Covid-19 interviews. Data Center for the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.18716/dch/a.00000025.

Dissertation

• Gipper, Sonja. 2011. Evidentiality and intersubjectivity in Yurakaré: An interactional account. Dissertation, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. Nijmegen: MPI Series in Psycholinguistics.

Book Reviews

• Gipper, Sonja. 2018. Review of Swintha Danielsen, Katja Hannß & Fernando Zúñiga (eds.). 2014. Word Formation in South American Languages. International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) 84(2). 285-287.
• Gipper, Sonja. 2015. Review of Eithne B. Carlin & Simon van de Kerke (eds.). 2010. Linguistics and Archaeology in the Americas: The Historization of Language and Society. International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) 81. 297-299.
• Gipper, Sonja. 2014. Review of Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & Pieter C. Muysken (eds.). 2010. Multi-verb constructions: A view from the Americas. International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) 80. 269-271.
• Gipper, Sonja. 2013. Review of Alf Hornborg & Jonathan D. Hill (eds.). 2011. Ethnicity in ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing past identities from archaeology, linguistics, and ethnohistory. International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) 79. 303-305.

Outreach

• February 21, 2019
  Contribution to the Day of Mothertongue: "Uns Sproch es Heimat: Muttersprache ist Teil der Identität, aber keine Selbstverständlichkeit".
• May 21, 2018
  Interview in the newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau: “Fremde Sprachen erschließen uns andere Welten” (Foreign languages open other worlds for us)
• March 20, 2017
  (with Henrike Frye, Johanna Mattissen and Felix Rau) “Psst! Nicht verraten! Geheimsprachen für Euch entschlüsselt“ (Top secret! Secret languages decoded). Lecture at the Children’s University, University of Cologne
• July 17, 2015
  Interview in the radio show Piazza, Funkhaus Europa: “Die Botschaft der Sprache – von Worten der Ausgrenzung“ (The message of language – on words of exclusion)
• March 9, 2015
  (with Felix Rau and Gabriele Schwiertz) “Die 1000 Stimmen Amerikas: Ein Ausflug in die Sprachen der Indianer und Inuit” (The 1000 voices of America: An excursion to the indigenous languages of America.) Lecture at the Children’s University, University of Cologne
• July 05, 2014
  Interview in the Kölner Stadtanzeiger (regional newspaper): “Jugendsprache zeichnet sich durch Kreativität aus” (Youth language shows a high degree of creativity)
• February 27, 2014
  Interview in the radio show Leonardo, WDR5: “Die Wissenschaft vom Schimpfen und Fluchen” (The science of cursing and swearing)
• May 17, 2011
  Interview in the radio show Frührausch, KölnCampus, about endangered languages