Prof. Dr. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne
Tel: +49-221-470-2323
Fax: +49-221-470-5947
Office hours:
Tuesday 2-4 pm
(please make an appointment at the office by phone: +49-221-470-5639)
Monographs
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2001. Sourcebook on Tomini-Tolitoli Languages. General Information and Word Lists. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, xxii+436 pp.
Pages 0 - 45, 46 - 99, 100 - 177, 178 - 253, 254 - 327, 328 - 389, 390 - 436 - Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & John Wolff. 1999. Toratán (Ratahan). München: Lincom (Languages of the World, Materials 130), 118 pp.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1997. Deiktikon, Artikel, Nominalphrase: Zur Emergenz syntaktischer Struktur. Tübingen: Niemeyer (Linguistische Arbeiten 362), 330 pp.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1987. Morphosyntax und Morphologie. Die Ausrichtungsaffixe im Tagalog. München: Fink (Studien zur theoretischen Linguistik, Vol. 8), 207 pp.
(If you are interested to receive a free copy of this book, please send a request to sprachwissenschaft(at)uni-koeln.de, providing a shipping address for surface mail.) - Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1983. Linking im Tagalog, M.A. thesis, LMU München, Ms. XII + 141 pp.
Edited books
- Seifart, Frank, Geoffrey Haig, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Dagmar Jung, Anna Margetts & Paul Trilsbeek (eds.). 2012. Potentials of Language Documentation Methods, Analyses and Utilization (Language Documentation & Conversation Special Publication 3). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- Bowden, John, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Malcolm Ross (eds). 2010. A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space. Papers in honour of Andrew Pawley. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- Gippert, Jost, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Ulrike Mosel (eds.). 2006. Essentials of language documentation (Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs 178). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Adelaar, K. Alexander & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (eds.). 2005. The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge, xxii+841 pp.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & Eva Schultze-Berndt (eds.). 2005. Secondary predication and adverbial modification. The typology of depictives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xxv+448 pp.
- Bisang, Walter, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Björn Wiemer (eds). 2004. What makes grammaticalization. A look from its fringes and its components. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, vi+354 pp.
- Bowden, John & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (eds.). 2004. Papers in Austronesian dialectology and subgrouping. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Language Documentations
- 2017
Sonja Riesberg (ed.) in collaboration with Carmen Dawuda, Lucas Haiduck, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Kurt Malcher. A Yali (Angguruk) - German Dictionary. Wörterbuch Yali (Angguruk) - Deutsch. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. - 2009-2015
Jimmi Karter Kirihio, Volker Unterladstetter, Apriani Arilaha, Freya Morigerowsky, Alexander Loch, Yusuf Sawaki & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, DobeS Wooi Documentation, DobeS Archive MPI Nijmegen. - 2005-2010
Claudia Leto, Winarno S. Alamudi, Jani Kuhnt-Saptodewo, Sonja Riesberg, Hasan Basri & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, DoBeS Totoli Documentation, DoBeS Archive MPI Nijmegen. - 2005
- Grupu Peskiza Lian Waima’a, Hire alfabetun ene la li’a Waima’an [alphabet primer], Baucau: Publicações Matebian.
- Maurício C.A: Belo, John Bowden & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Manu Kumu Kai-hitu [story book for teenagers/adults], Baucau: Publicações Matebian.
- Maurício C.A: Belo, John Bowden & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Tunu kai-telu la li’a Waima’a [story book for children], Baucau: Publicações Matebian.
- Maurício C.A: Belo, John Bowden, John Hajek, Alexandre V. Tilman & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Glosário Waima’a Caisido [5-lingual glossary, ca. 2800 entries], Baucau: Publicações Matebian.
- 2002-2006
Maurício C.A Belo, John Bowden, John Hajek, Alexandre V. Tilman & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, 2002-2006, DoBeS Waima'a Documentation, DoBeS Archive MPI Nijmegen.(pdf) - Further corpora under construction, cp. "CELD Papua" node in The Language Archive.
Refereed articles and book chapters
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Bonmann, Svenja, Sonja Riesberg & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2024. Differential object marking in Western Malayo-Polynesian symmetrical voice languages. Linguistic Typology.
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Kaufman, Daniel & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2023 Suprasegmental Phonology. In Alexander Adelaar & Antoinette Schapper (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Western Austronesian Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Constantijn Kaland, 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. 101200. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101200
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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. | B05 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ol.2021.0026
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2022. Prosodic phrasing and the emergence of phrase structure. Linguistics 60(3): 715-743.
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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.
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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
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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
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2022. Against trivializing language description (and comparison). Studies in Language 46: 133-160.
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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.
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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, Band 2. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1043-1075.
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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.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2019. Lingüística de la documentación: Qué es y para qué sirve. In Lucía Golluscio et al. (eds.), Lingüística de la documentación, 65-96. Buenos Aires: Eudeba.
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Riesberg, Sonja, Kurt Malcher & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2019. How universal is agent-first? Evidence from symmetrical voice languages. Language 95(3). 523-561.
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Kaland, Constantijn & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2019. Repetition Reduction Revisited: The Prosody of Repeated Words in Papuan Malay. Language and Speech.
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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: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1402555
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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: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1402559
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García García, Marco, Beatrice Primus & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2018. Shifting from animacy to agentivity. Theoretical Linguistics 44 (1-2). 25-39.
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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.
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Reinöhl, Uta & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2017. Renewal: A figure of speech or a process sui generis? Language 93 (2). 381-413.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2017. Word Classes. In Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2016. What about typology is useful for language documentation? Linguistic Typology 20(3). 473-478.
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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.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2014. Asymmetries in the prosodic phrasing of function words: Another look at the suffixing preference. In Language 90/4. 927-960. [Best Paper in Language Award 2014]
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & Sonja Riesberg. 2013. Symmetrical Voice and Applicative Alternations: Evidence from Totoli. Oceanic Linguistics 52. 396-422.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2012. Linguistic Data Types and the Interface between Language Documentation and Description. In Language Documentation & Conservation 6, 187-207.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P., Sonia Christofaro, Nicholas Evans, Birgit Hellwig, Randy Lapolla, Hein van der Voort. 2011. The Georg von der Gabelentz Award 2009. Linguistic Typology 15(1). 1-3.
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Jung, Dagmar & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2011. Retelling data: Working on transcription. In Geoffrey Haig et al. (eds.), Documenting Endangered Languages, 201-220. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2010. Language endangerment scenarios: A case study from northern Central Sulawesi. In Margaret Florey (ed.), Endangered languages of Austronesia, 45-72. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Florey, Margaret Florey & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2010. New directions in field linguistics. Training strategies for language documentation in Indonesia. In Margaret Florey (ed.), Endangered languages of Austronesia, 121-140. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2010. Notes on Waima'a intonation. In Michael Ewing & Marian Klamer (eds.), East Nusantara : typological and areal analyses, 47-69. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2009. Notes on Tagalog Nominalism. Theoretical Linguistics 35. 115-123.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2008. Lexical categories and voice in Tagalog. In Peter Austin & Simon Musgrave (eds.), Voice and Grammatical Relations in Austronesian Languages, 247-293. Stanford: CSLI.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2008. Reproduction and preservation of linguistic knowledge: Linguistics’ response to language endangerment. Annual Review of Anthropology 37. 337-350.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & D. Robert Ladd. 2008. Prosodic Description: An Introduction for Fieldworkers. Language Documentation & Conservation 2(2). 244–274.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2007. La prosodia en la documentación lingüística. In John B. Haviland & José Antonia Flores Farfán (eds.), Bases de la documentación lingüística, 197-218. Mexico City: Instiuto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenes.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2006. Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for? In Jost Gippert, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Ulrike Mosel (eds.), Essentials of language documentation, 1-30. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2006. The challenges of segmenting spoken language. In Jost Gippert, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Ulrike Mosel (eds.), Essentials of language documentation, 253-274. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2006. Prosody in language documentation. In Jost Gippert, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Ulrike Mosel (eds.), Essentials of language documentation, 163-181. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2006. How to miss a paradigm or two: Multifunctional ma- in Tagalog. In Felix Ameka, Alan Dench & Nicholas Evans (eds.), Catching Language, 487-526. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2005. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar: Typological overview. In Karl Alexander Adelaar & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (eds.), The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar, 110-181. London: Routledge.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & Eva Schultze-Berndt. 2005. Issues in the syntax and semantics of participant-oriented adjuncts: an introduction. In Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Eva Schultze-Berndt (eds.), Secondary predication and adverbial modification. 1-67.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2005. Gram, construction, and class formation. In Clemens Knobloch & Burkhard Schaeder (eds.), Wortarten und Grammatikalisierung: Perspektiven in System und Erwerb, 79-93. Berlin: de Gruyter.
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Schultze-Berndt, Eva & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2004. Depictive secondary predicates in crosslinguistic perspective. Linguistic Typology 8. 59-131.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2004. Lexicalization and grammaticization: opposite or orthogonal? In Walter Bisang, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Björn Wiemer (eds.), What makes grammaticalization - a look from its components and its fringes, 21-42. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2002. Voice in two northern Sulawesi languages. In Fay Wouk & Malcolm Ross (eds.), The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems, 123-142. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2002. Voice in Western Austronesian: An update. In Fay Wouk & Malcolm Ross (eds.), The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems, 7-16. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2000. Towards a typology of typologies. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 53. 5-12.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1999. The lack of zero anaphora and incipient person marking in Tagalog. Oceanic Linguistics 38. 231-269.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1998. Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics. Linguistics 36. 161-195.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1998. Regularity in irregularity: Article use in adpositional phrases. Linguistic Typology 2. 315-353.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1996. Person Marking and Grammatical Relations in Sulawesi. In Hein Steinhauer (ed.), Papers in Austronesian Linguistics No. 3, 115-136. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics (=PL A-84).
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1996. Zum Aufbau von Sprachbeschreibungen. Linguistische Berichte 164. 315-333.
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1996. Demonstratives in Narrative Discourse: A Taxonomy of Universal Uses. In Barbara Fox (ed.), Studies in Anaphora, 205-254. Amsterdam: Benjamins (= TSL 33).
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Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1991. Tomini-Tolitoli Sound Structures. NUSA 33 (= James N. Sneddon (ed.), Studies in Sulawesi Languages, Part II). 49-70.
Handbook chapters, conference proceedings, etc.
- von Heusinger, Klaus & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2023. Prominenz: Rektoren, Sprache, Sprachwissenschaft. In Günter Blamberger, Ansgar Büschges, Thomas Krieg, Bettina Rockenbach & Andreas Speer (eds.), 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.
- 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.
- 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 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XIX), 2871-2875. Melbourne, Australia.
- Kaland, Constantijn, Christoph Bracks & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2018. Repetition reduction in Papuan Malay prosody. In Katarzyna Klessa, Jolanta Bachan, Agnieszka Wagner, Maciej Karpiński, & Daniel Śledziński (eds.), Proceedings 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018, 10-14. Poznań, Poland.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2018. Peran Teknologi dan Kerja Sama Tim dalam Pendokumentasian Bahasa (On the Role of Technology and Team Work in Language Documentation). Kongres Bahasa Indonesia XI. October 2018. Jakarta.
- Leh, Almut, Joachim Köhler, Michael Gref & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2018. Speech analytics in research based on qualitative interviews. Experiences from KA3. VIEW Journal of European Television History & Culture 7(14). 138-149.
- 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.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2016. ca. 30 Lemmata for Austronesian languages in: Metzler Lexikon Sprache, 5th edition
- 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.
- Evans, Nicholas, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Dejan Matić. 2015. A life of polysynthesis: Hans-Jürgen Sasse (1943-2015). Linguistic Typology 19. 327-335.
- Walter, Oliver, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Jan Strunk & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2015. Lexicon discovery for language preservation using unsupervised word segmentation with Pitman-Yor language models. Technical report of the AUVIS project, University of Cologne and University of Paderborn.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2014. Sprachenvielfalt als natürliches Experiment. Spektrum der Wissenschaft 5. 68-71.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2011. On linguistic uses of language documentations. In Carol Everhard & Elizabeth Mela-Athanasopoulou (eds.), Selected papers from the International Conference on Language Documentation and Tradition (7.-9. November 2008), 37-51.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & Uta Reinöhl. 2011. Review of Christoph Schroeder et al. (eds). 2008. Secondary Predicates in Eastern European Languages and Beyond. Linguistic Typology 15. 131-139.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2010. Taking up the 'Pawley challenge': speech formulae and linguistic theory. In John Bowden, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Malcolm Ross (eds.), A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space, 663-671. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2005. Tagalog. In Karl Alexander Adelaar & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (eds.), The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar, 350-376. London: Routledge.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2005. Tagalog. In Geert Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan & Stavros Skopeteas (eds.), Morphology. An International Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation, 1473-1490. Berlin: de Gruyter.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2005. Die austronesischen Sprachen: Einige strukturelle Charakteristika. In Wilhelm R. Baier & Christian Zinko (eds.), Die Sprache ist die Seele eines Volkes. Die großen Sprachfamilien, 85-94. Graz: Leykam.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2004. Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics. In Osamu Sakiyama & Fubito Endo (eds.), Lectures on Endangered Languages 5: from the Tokyo and Kyoto Conferences 2002, 37-83. [= extended version of Himmelmann 1998a]
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2004. On statives and potentives in western Austronesian (mostly Tagalog). In Paul Law (ed.), Proceedings of Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 11. 103-119. [ZAS Papers in Linguistics Nr 34, October 2004, Berlin]
- Hajek, John, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & John Bowden. 2003. Lóvaia: An East Timorese Language on the verge of extinction. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 160. 155-167.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & Karl Alexander Adelaar. 2003. Die austronesischen Sprachen. In Wilfried Seipel (ed.), Sprache (Der Turmbau zu Babel. Ursprung und Vielfalt von Sprache und Schrift 2), 81-85. Milano: Skira.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2002. Eine bedrohte Sprache in Osttimor. gbs-bulletin 7. 9-15.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2001. Articles. Article 62 in Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard König, Wulf Oesterreicher & Wolfgang Raible (eds.), Language Typology and Language Universals, 831-841. Berlin: de Gruyter.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & John Hajek. 2001. A report on the current sociolinguistic situation in Lautém (East Timor). Studies in Languages and Cultures of East Timor 4. 88-97.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1997. The paragogic vowel in Lauje (Tomini-Tolitoli): Phonology or Morphosyntax? In Cecilia Odé & Wim Stokhof (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, 81-104. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1993. Material Ambitions. Languages of the World 7. 66-68.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1992. Grammaticalization and Grammar. Arbeitspapier Nr. 16. Köln: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1991. The Philippine Challenge to Universal Grammar. Arbeitspapier Nr. 15. Köln: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1986. Morphosyntactic Predication. A functional-operational approach. akup 62. Köln: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, 66 pp.