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• Huber, E., Küntay, A. C., Bickel, B., & Stoll, S. (2026). The Agent Preference in Ontogeny: Predictability of Agent and Patient Roles in Child‐Directed Utterances Across Languages Cognitive Science, 50, e70147. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70147
• Brocard, S., Berton, C., Wilson, V., Bickel, B., & Zuberbühler, K. (2025). The perception of prosocial agents by chimpanzees and humans Royal Society Open Science, 12, 250916. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250916
• Ebert, C., Cathcart, C., Bickel, B., & Widmer, P. (2025). Usage-based evolutionary models reveal context-specific word order change in Indo-European Language Dynamics and Change, 15, 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-bja10039
• Ivani Jessica K., & Bickel, B. (2025). Databases for Comparative Syntactic Research In S. Barbiers, N. Corver, & M. Polinsky (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax (pp. 75–107). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009179362
• Van Ommen, S., Torres Orjuela, C., Dong, L. Q., Giraud Anne-lise, & Bickel, B. (2025). Telling Compounds and Phrases Apart in Vietnamese. A Random Forest Classification Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 23, 23–48. https://doi.org/10.6519/TJL.202509_23(3).0002
• Graff, A., Blasi, D. E., Ringen, E. J., Bajić, V., Bavelier, D., Shimizu, K. K., Pakendorf, B., Barbieri, C., & Bickel, B. (2025). Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact Science Advances, 11, eadv7521. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adv7521
• Egurtzegi, A., Blasi, D., Sauppe, S., Bickel, B., & Schnell, S. (2025). Discourse ergativity and human reference in Basque Studies in Language, 49 (3), online. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.23005.egu
• Inman, D., Chousou-Polydouri, N., Vuillermet, M., Parker van Dam, K., Easterday, S., Rose, F., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Baetscher, K., Cocaud-Degrève, O., Graff, A., Hardegger, S., Huber, T. C., Hong, T., Krasovskaya, D., Luffroy, R., Muheim, N., Müller, A., Nogina, A., Perrot, D. T., … Bickel, B. (2025). The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database Scientific Data, 12, 933. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05169-4
• Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Andrews, C., Huber, E., Meyer, M., Bickel, B., & Sauppe, S. (2025). Neural correlates of processing case in adults and children Brain and Language, 265, 105548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105548
• Brocard, S., Voinov, P. V., Bickel, B., & Zuberbühler, K. (2025). Spontaneous Encoding of Event Roles in Hominids Open Mind, 9, 559–575. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00202
• Herce, B., & Bickel, B. (2025). Paradigmatic complexity metrics as signals of phylogenetic relatedness Diachronica, 42, 1–46. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23004.her
• Graff, A., Chousou-Polydouri, N., Inman, D., Skirgård, H., Lischka, M., Zakharko, T., Barbieri, C., & Bickel, B. (2025). Curating global datasets of structural linguistic features for independence Scientific Data, 12, 106. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04319-4
• Egurtzegi, A., Sauppe, S., Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Martinez de la Hidalga, G., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Schlesewsky, M., Laka, I., Meyer, M., Bickel, B., & Andrews, C. (2025). The effect of animacy on the agent preference: Self-paced reading evidence from Basque Memory & Cognition, online. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-025-01698-w
• Cathcart, C., & Bickel, B. (2025). Linguistic evolution in time and space: Addressing the methodological challenges In L. Raviv & C. Boeckx (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution (pp. 391–421). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192886491.013.20
• Torres, C., Morand, M.-A., Sauppe, S., & Bickel, B. (2024). The Effects of Syntactic Dependencies and Speech Tempo on Macro-Rhythm Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 157–161. https://assta.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/No_32_Torres_Morand_et_al_2024_157_161.pdf
• Wilson, V. A. D., Sauppe, S., Brocard, S., Ringen, E. J., Daum, M. M., Wermelinger, S., Gu, N., Andrews, C., Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Bickel, B., & Zuberbühler, K. (2024). Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways PLoS Biology, 22, e3002857. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002857
• Bosshard, A. B., Burkart, J. M., Merlo, P., Cathcart, C., Townsend, S. W., & Bickel, B. (2024). Beyond bigrams: call sequencing in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) vocal system Royal Society Open Science, 11, 218–240. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240218
• Ebert, C., Bickel, B., & Widmer, P. (2024). Areal and phylogenetic dimensions of word order variation in Indo-European languages Linguistics, 62, 1085–1116. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0146
• Graff, A., Lischka, M., Zakharko, T., Furrer, R., & Bickel, B. (2024). Densify: An R package to reduce empty cells in dataframes of typological linguistic data Journal of Open Source Software, 9, 7024. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07024
• Bickel, B., Giraud, A.-L., Zuberbühler, K., & van Schaik, C. P. (2024). Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution Physics of Life Reviews, 50, 211–225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.003
• Brocard, S., Wilson, V. A. D., Berton, C., Zuberbühler, K., & Bickel, B. (2024). A universal preference for animate agents in hominids IScience, 27, 109996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109996
• Padilla-Iglesias, C., Blanco-Portillo, J., Pricop, B., Ioannidis, A. G., Bickel, B., Manica, A., Vinicius, L., & Migliano, A. B. (2024). Deep history of cultural and linguistic evolution among Central African hunter-gatherers Nature Human Behaviour, online. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01891-y
• Huber, E., Sauppe, S., Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Merlo, P., & Bickel, B. (2024). Surprisal from language models can predict ERPs in processing predicate-argument structures only if enriched by an Agent Preference principle Neurobiology of Language, 5, 167–200. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00121
• Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Sauppe, S., Andrews, C., Laka, I., Meyer, M., & Bickel, B. (2024). Incremental sentence processing is guided by a preference for agents: EEG evidence from Basque Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 39, 76–97. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2250023
• Jing, Y., Widmer, P., & Bickel, B. (2023). Word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses Diachronica, 40, 532–556. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.20035.jin
• Chousou-Polydouri, N., Inman, D., Huber, T. C., & Bickel, B. (2023). Multi-variate coding for possession: methodology and preliminary results Linguistics, 61, 1365–1402. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0021
• Sauppe, S., Næss, Å., Roversi, G., Meyer, M., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Bickel, B. (2023). An agent-first preference in a patient-first language during sentence comprehension Cognitive Science, 47, e13340. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13340
• Herce, B., Saldana, C., Mansfield, J., & Bickel, B. (2023). Naturalness is gradient in morphological paradigms: Evidence from positional splits Glossa, 8, online. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9280
• Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Andrews, C., Flecken, M., Laka, I., Daum, M. M., Meyer, M., Bickel, B., & Sauppe, S. (2023). The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension Open Mind, 1–43. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00083
• Barbieri, C., Blasi, D. E., Arango-Isaza, E., Sotiropoulos, A. G., Hammarström, H., Wichmann, S., Greenhill, S. J., Gray, R. D., Forkel, R., Bickel, B., & Shimizu, K. K. (2022). A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, 47. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2122084119
• Zuberbühler, K., & Bickel, B. (2022). Transition to language: From agent perception to event representation Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 13, e1594. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1594
• Saldana, C., Herce, B., & Bickel, B. (2022). More or Less Unnatural: Semantic Similarity Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Unnatural Syncretism in Morphological Paradigms Open Mind, 6, 183–210. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00062
• Bosshard, A. B., Leroux, M., Lester, N. A., Bickel, B., Stoll, S., & Townsend, S. W. (2022). From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76, 122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03224-3
• Egurtzegi, A., Blasi, D. E., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Laka, I., Meyer, M., Bickel, B., & Sauppe, S. (2022). Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning Brain and Language, 230, 105127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105127
• Mansfield, J., Saldana, C., Hurst, P., Nordlinger, R., Stoll, S., Bickel, B., & Perfors, A. (2022). Category Clustering and Morphological Learning Cognitive Science, 46, e13107. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13107
• Saldana Gascon, C., Herce, B., & Bickel, B. (2022). A Naturalness Gradient Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Morphological Paradigms Cognitive Science Society. Annual Conference. Proceedings, 44, 787–794. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8wv9f99x#main
• Cathcart, C., Herce, B., & Bickel, B. (2022). Decoupling Speed of Change and Long-Term Preference in Language Evolution: Insights From Romance Verb Stem Alternations Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), Kanazawa. https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3398549
• Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Nichols, J., Hildebrandt, K., Zakharko, T., & Bickel, B. (2022). Managing AUTOTYP Data: Design Principles and Implementation In A. L. Berez-Kroeker, B. McDonnell, E. Koller, & L. B. Collister (Eds.), The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management (pp. 632–642). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12200.003.0061
• Wilson, V. A. D., Zuberbühler, K., & Bickel, B. (2022). The evolutionary origins of syntax: Event cognition in nonhuman primates Science Advances, 8, abn8464. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abn8464
• Jing, Y., Blasi, D. E., & Bickel, B. (2022). Dependency Length Minimization and Its Limits: A Possible Role for a Probabilistic Version of the Final-Over-Final Condition Language, 98, 397–418. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.0.0267
• Widmer, M., Jenny, M., Behr, W., & Bickel, B. (2021). Morphological structure can escape reduction effects from mass admixture of second language speakers Studies in Language, 45, 707–752. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.19059.wid
• Jing, Y., Widmer, P., & Bickel, B. (2021). Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity Cognitive Science, 45, e13056. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13056
• You, G., Bickel, B., Daum, M. M., & Stoll, S. (2021). Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference Scientific Reports, 11, 16527. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95392-x
• Ranacher, P., Neureiter, N., van Gijn, R., Sonnenhauser, B., Escher, A., Weibel, R., Muysken, P., & Bickel, B. (2021). Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18, 20201031. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.1031
• Matsumae, H., Ranacher, P., Savage, P. E., Blasi, D. E., Currie, T. E., Koganebuchi, K., Nishida, N., Sato, T., Tanabe, H., Tajima, A., Brown, S., Stoneking, M., Shimizu, K. K., Oota, H., & Bickel, B. (2021). Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia Science Advances, 7, eabd9223. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd9223
• Bickel, B. (2021). Beyond universals and particulars in language Theoretical Linguistics, 47, 47–52. https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2021-2004
• Bugaeva, A., Nichols, J., & Bickel, B. (2021). Appositive possession in Ainu and around the Pacific Linguistic Typology, 1–46. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2021-2079
• Sauppe, S., Choudhary, K. K., Giroud, N., Blasi, D. E., Norcliffe, E., Bhattamishra, S., Gulati, M., Egurtzegi, A., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Meyer, M., & Bickel, B. (2021). Neural signatures of syntactic variation in speech planning PLoS Biology, 19, e3001038. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001038
• Neureiter, N., Ranacher, P., van Gijn, R., Bickel, B., & Weibel, R. (2021). Can Bayesian phylogeography reconstruct migrations and expansions in linguistic evolution? Royal Society Open Science, 8, 201079. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201079
• Seifart, F., Strunk, J., Danielsen, S., Hartmann, I., Pakendorf, B., Wichmann, S., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Himmelmann, N. P., & Bickel, B. (2021). The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages Linguistics Vanguard, 7, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0063
• Cathcart, C., Hölzl, A., Jäger, G., Widmer, P., & Bickel, B. (2020). Numeral classifiers and number marking in Indo-Iranian: A phylogenetic approach Language Dynamics and Change, 11, 273–325. https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-bja10013
• Collier, K., Radford, A. N., Stoll, S., Watson, S. K., Manser, M. B., Bickel, B., & Townsend, S. W. (2020). Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 287, 20192514. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2514
• Mansfield, J., Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2020). Category clustering: A probabilistic bias in the morphology of verbal agreement marking Language, 96, 255–293. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2020.0021
• Bickel, B. (2020). Large and ancient linguistic areas In M. Crevels & P. Musyken (Eds.), Language dispersal, diversification, and contact : a global perspective (pp. 78–101). Oxford University Press.
• Bickel, B., & Nichols, J. (2020). Linguistic Typology and Hunter-Gatherer Languages In T. Güldemann, P. McConvell, & R. Rhodes (Eds.), The Language of Hunter-Gatherers (pp. 67–75). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139026208.004
• Strunk, J., Seifart, F., Danielsen, S., Hartmann, I., Pakendorf, B., Wichmann, S., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., & Bickel, B. (2020). Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech Language Documentation & Conservation, 14, 423–461. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24926
• Moran, S., & Bickel, B. (2020). Rejoinder to Huijbregts’s: Biting into evolution of language Journal of Language Evolution, 5, 184–187. https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzaa005
• Lester, N., Bickel, B., Moran, S., & Stoll, S. (2019). Speech Rates Differentiate Nouns and Verbs in Child-Surrounding and Child-Produced Speech: Evidence from Chintang (M. M. Brown & A. Kohut, Eds.; pp. 280–293). Cascadilla Press. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/44/BUCLD44-23.pdf
• Blasi, D. E., Moran, S., Moisik, S. R., Widmer, P., Dediu, D., & Bickel, B. (2019). Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration Science, 363, eaav3218. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav3218
• Blasi, D., Cotterell, R., Wolf-Sonkin, L., Stoll, S., Bickel, B., & Baroni, M. (2019). On the Distribution of Deep Clausal Embeddings: A Large Cross-linguistic Study In A. Korhonen, D. Traum, & L. Màrquez (Eds.), Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 3938–3943). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P19-1384
• Seifart, F., Strunk, J., Danielsen, S., Hartmann, I., Pakendorf, B., Wichmann, S., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., de Jong, N. H., & Bickel, B. (2018). Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800708115
• Townsend, S. W., Engesser, S., Stoll, S., Zuberbühler, K., & Bickel, B. (2018). Compositionality in animals and humans PLoS Biology, 16, e2006425. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006425
• Derungs, C., Köhl, M., Weibel, R., & Bickel, B. (2018). Environmental factors drive language density more in food-producing than in hunter–gatherer populations Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 285, 20172851. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2851
• Stoll, S., Mazara, J., & Bickel, B. (2017). The acquisition of polysynthetic verb forms in Chintang In M. D. Fortescue, M. Mithun, & N. Evans (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis (pp. 495–514). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199683208.013.28
• Bickel, B., & Zúñiga, F. (2017). The ‘word’ in polysynthetic languages : phonological and syntactic challenges. In M. D. Fortescue, M. Mithun, & N. Evans (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis (pp. 158–185). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199683208.001.0001
• Bickel, B. (2017). Areas and universals In R. Hickey (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of areal linguistics (pp. 40–55). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107279872.004
• Townsend, S. W., Koski, S. E., Byrne, R. W., Slocombe, K. E., Bickel, B., Boeckle, M., Braga Goncalves, I., Burkart, J. M., Flower, T., Gaunet, F., Glock, H. J., Gruber, T., Jansen, D. A. W. A. M., Liebal, K., Linke, A., Miklósi, Á., Moore, R., van Schaik, C. P., Stoll, S., … Manser, M. B. (2017). Exorcising Grice’s ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 92, 1427–1433. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12289
• Widmer, M., Auderset, S., Nichols, J., Widmer, P., & Bickel, B. (2017). NP recursion over time: evidence from indo-european Language, 93, 799–826. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2017.0058
• Bickel, B. (2017). Belhare In G. Thurgood & R. J. LaPolla (Eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages (pp. 546–570). Taylor & Francis.
• Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Zakharko, T., Bierkandt, L., Zúñiga, F., & Bickel, B. (2016). Decomposing hierarchical alignment: Co-arguments as conditions on alignment and the limits of referential hierarchies as explanations in verb agreement Linguistics, 54, 531–561. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2016-0011
• Bickel, B., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Zakharko, T., & Iemmolo, G. (2015). Exploring diachronic universals of agreement: alignment patterns and zero marking across person categories In J. Fleischer, E. Rieken, & P. Widmer (Eds.), Agreement from a diachronic perspective (pp. 29–51). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110399967-003
• Bickel, B. (2015). Distributional typology: statistical inquiries into the dynamics of linguistic diversity In B. Heine & H. Narrog (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of linguistic analysis, 2nd edition (pp. 901–923). Oxford University Press.
• Stoll, S., Zakharko, T., Moran, S., Schikowski, R., & Bickel, B. (2015). Syntactic mixing across generations in an environment of community-wide bilingualism Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 82. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00082
• Zakharko, T. (2015). Digging deep: mining corpora for typological patterns and beyond (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-169758
• Schikowski, R., Bickel, B., & Paudyal, N. P. (2015). Flexible valency in Chintang In A. Malchukov & B. Comrie (Eds.), Valency Classes in the World’s Languages (No. 1; pp. 669–708). Mouton De Gruyter.
• Bickel, B., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Choudhary, K. K., Schlesewsky, M., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2015). The neurophysiology of language processing shapes the evolution of grammar: evidence from case marking PLoS ONE, 10, e0132819. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132819
• Bickel, B., & Gaenszle, M. (2015). First person objects, antipassives, and the political history of the Southern Kirant Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2, 63–86. https://doi.org/10.1515/jsall-2015-0003
• Bickel, B., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., & Zakharko, T. (2014). Typological evidence against universal effects of referential scales on case alignment In I. Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, A. Malchukov, & M. Richards (Eds.), Scales and Hierarchies: a cross-disciplinary perspective on referential hierarchies (pp. 7–44). De Gruyter Mouton. http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/247734
• Bickel, B. (2014). Linguistic diversity and universals In N. J. Enfield, P. Kockelman, & J. Sidnell (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (pp. 101–124). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139342872.006
• Bickel, B., Zakharko, T., Bierkandt, L., & Witzlack-Makarevich, A. (2014). Semantic role clustering: an empirical assessments of semantic role types in non-default case assignment Studies in Language, 38, 485–511. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.38.3.03bic
• Bickel, B. (2014). Sprachliche Vielfalt im Wechselspiel von Natur und Kultur In E. Glaser, A. Kolmer, M. Meyer, & E. Stark (Eds.), Sprache(n) Verstehen: eine interdisziplinäre Vorlesungsreihe (pp. 101–126). vdf Hochschulverlag.
• Collier, K., Bickel, B., van Schaik, C. P., Manser, M. B., & Townsend, S. W. (2014). Language evolution: syntax before phonology? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 281, 20140263. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0263
• Schikowski, R., Bickel, B., & Paudyal, N. P. (2013). Chintang Valency Patterns http://valpal.info/languages/chintang
• Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2013). Capturing diversity in language acquisition research In B. Bickel, L. A. Grenoble, D. A. Peterson, & A. Timberlake (Eds.), Language Typology and Historical Contingency (No. 104; pp. 195–216). John Benjamins Publishing Co. https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/tsl.104.08slo/details
• Witzlack-Makarevich, A., & Bickel, B. (2013). Towards a questionnaire on grammatical relations: a project bridging between typology and field linguistics Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology, 2, 124–134. http://ling.tspu.edu.ru/files/ling/PDF/articles/bickel_b._124_134_2_2_2013.pdf
• Gaenszle, M., Rai, I. P., Pettigrew, J., Rai, M., Bickel, B., Banjade, G., Bhatta, T. N., Lieven, E., Paudyal, N. P., & Stoll, S. (2013). Resisting the state in East Nepal: the `Chintang incident’ of 1979 and the politics of commemoration. In M. Lecomte-Tilouine (Ed.), Revolution in Nepal: an anthropological and historical approach to the People’s War (pp. 97–113). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198089384.003.0004
• Bickel, B. (2013). Distributional biases in language families In B. Bickel, L. A. Grenoble, D. A. Peterson, & A. Timberlake (Eds.), Language typology and historical contingency (No. 104; pp. 415–444). John Benjamins Publishing Co. https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/tsl.104.19bic/details
• Bickel, B., Iemmolo, G., Zakharko, T., & Witzlack-Makarevich, A. (2013). Patterns of alignment in verb agreement In D. Bakker & M. Haspelmath (Eds.), Languages across boundaries : Studies in memory of Anna Siewierska (pp. 15–36). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110331127.15
• Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2013). The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang In S. Stoll & E. Bavin (Eds.), The acquisition of ergativity (pp. 183–207). Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/tilar.9.07sto/details
• Schackow, D., Bickel, B., Rai, S. K., Sharma (Gautam), N. P., Rai, A., & Gaenszle, M. (2012). Morphosyntactic properties and scope behavior of ‘subordinate’ clauses in Puma (Kiranti) In V. Gast & H. Diessel (Eds.), Clause-combining in cross-linguistic perspective (pp. 105–126). De Gruyter. http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/181105
• Schiering, R., Bickel, B., & Hildebrandt, K. (2012). Stress-timed = word-based? Testing a hypothesis in Prosodic Typology Language Typology and Universals, 65, 157–168. https://doi.org/10.1524/stuf.2012.0010
• Bender, E. M., Schikowski, R., & Bickel, B. (2012). Deriving a lexicon for a precision grammar from language documentation resources: a case study of Chintang In M. Kay & C. Boitet (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) (pp. 247–262). Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Stoll, S., Bickel, B., Lieven, E., Banjade, G., Bhatta, T. N., Gaenszle, M., Paudyal, N. P., Pettigrew, J., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., & Rai, N. K. (2012). Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children’s usage and surrounding adult speech. Journal of Child Language, 39, 284–321. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000911000080
• Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2012). How to measure frequency? Different ways of counting ergatives in Chintang (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) and their implications In F. Seifart, G. L. J. Haig, N. P. Himmelmann, D. Jung, A. Margetts, P. Trilsbeek, & P. Wittenburg (Eds.), Potentials of language documentation: methods, analyses, utilization (pp. 84–90). University of Hawai‘i Press.
• Gaenszle, M., Bickel, B., & et al. (2011). Binomials and the noun-to-verb ratio in Puma Rai ritual speech Anthropological Linguistics, 53, 365–381.
• Bickel, B. (2011). Absolute and statistical universals In P. C. Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (pp. 77–79). Cambridge University Press.
• Bickel, B. (2011). Multivariate typology and field linguistics: a case study on detransitivization in Kiranti (Sino-Tibetan) In P. K. Austin, O. Bond, D. Nathan, & L. Marten (Eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 3 (pp. 3–13). SOAS.
• Bickel, B. (2011). Statistical modeling of language universals Linguistic Typology, 15, 401–414. https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2011.027
• Bickel, B. (2011). Grammatical relations typology In J. J. Song (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Language Typology (pp. 399–444). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199281251.013.0030
• Paudyal, N. P., Bickel, B., Schikowski, R., Stoll, S., Lieven, E., Banjade, G., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., Gaenszle, M., Rai, N. K., & Bhatta, T. N. (2010). Non-finite adverbial subordination in Chintang Nepalese Linguistics, 25, 121–132.
• Bickel, B. (2010). Capturing particulars and universals in clause linkage: a multivariate analysis In I. Bril (Ed.), Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy : Syntax and Pragmatics (No. 121; pp. 51–102). John Benjamins.
• Bickel, B., Rai, M., Paudyal, N. P., Banjade, G., Bhatta, T. N., Gaenszle, M., Lieven, E., Rai, I. P., Rai, N. K., & Stoll, S. (2010). The syntax of three-argument verbs in Chintang and Belhare (Southeastern Kiranti) In A. Malchukov, M. Haspelmath, & B. Comrie (Eds.), Studies in ditransitive constructions: a comparative handbook (pp. 382–408). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110220377
• Schiering, R., Bickel, B., & Hildebrandt, K. (2010). The prosodic word is not universal, but emergent Journal of Linguistics, 46, 657–709. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226710000216
• Rai, I. P., Bickel, B., Lieven, E., Banjade, G., Gaenszle, M., Rai, M., Paudyal, N. P., Rai, N. K., Stoll, S., & Bhatta, T. N. (2009). Mundum: a case study of Chintang ritual language In R. Mukherjee & M. N. Rajesh (Eds.), Locality, History, Memory: The Making of the Citizen in South Asia (pp. 20–33). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Locality--History--Memory--The-Making-of-the-Citizen-in-South-Asia1-4438-0188-7.htm
• Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2009). How deep are differences in referential density? In J. Guo, E. Lieven, N. Budwig, S. Ervin-Tripp, K. Nakamura, & Ş. Özçalişkan (Eds.), Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language: research in the traditions of Dan Slobin (pp. 543–555). Psychology Press.
• Bickel, B., & Nichols, J. (2009). Case marking and alignment In A. Malchukov & A. Spencer (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Case (pp. 304–321). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199206476.013.0058
• Bickel, B., & Nichols, J. (2009). The geography of case In A. Malchukov & A. Spencer (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Case (pp. 479–493). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199206476.013.0058
• Bickel, B., Hildebrandt, K., & Schiering, R. (2009). The distribution of phonological word domains: a probabilistic typology In J. Grijzenhout & B. Kabak (Eds.), Phonological domains: universals and deviations (pp. 47–75). Mouton De Gruyter.
• Wang, L., Schlesewsky, M., Bickel, B., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2009). Exploring the nature of the `subject’-preference: evidence from the online comprehension of simple sentences in Mandarin Chinese. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24, 1180–1226. https://doi.org/10.1080/01690960802159937
• Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Choudhary, K. K., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., & Bickel, B. (2008). Bridging the gap between processing preferences and typological distributions: initial evidence from the online comprehension of control constructions in Hindi In A. Malchukov & M. Richards (Eds.), Scales (No. 86; pp. 397–436). Institut für Linguistik der Universität Leipzig. http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~asw/lab/lab86/LAB86_Bornkessel_et_al.pdf
• Bickel, B. (2008). A refined sampling procedure for genealogical control Language Typology and Universals, 61, 221–233. https://doi.org/10.1524/stuf.2008.0022
• Bickel, B. (2008). On the scope of the referential hierarchy in the typology of grammatical relations In G. G. Corbett & M. Noonan (Eds.), Case and grammatical relations: papers in honor of Bernard Comrie (pp. 191–210). Benjamins.
• Bickel, B., & Witzlack-Makarevich, A. (2008). Referential scales and case alignment: reviewing the typological evidence In A. Malchukov & M. Richards (Eds.), Scales (No. 86; pp. 1–37). Institut für Linguistik der Universität Leipzig. http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~asw/lab/lab86/LAB86_Bickel_Witzlack.pdf
• Hall, T. A., Hildebrandt, K., & Bickel, B. (2008). Introduction: theory and typology of the word Moskovskii Gosudarstvennyi Oblastnoi Universitet. Vestnik. Seriya Lingvistika, 46, 183–192. https://doi.org/10.1515/LING.2008.008
• Bickel, B. (2008). Verb agreement and epistemic marking: a typological journey from the Himalayas to the Caucasus In B. Huber, M. Volkart, & P. Widmer (Eds.), Chomolangma, Demawend und Kasbek : Festschrift für Roland Bielmeier zu seinem 65. Geburtstag (No. 12; pp. 1–14). International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies.
• Bickel, B., & Nichols, J. (2007). Inflectional morphology In T. Shopen (Ed.), Language typology and syntactic description (revised Second Edition) (Volume 3; pp. 169–240). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511618437
• Bickel, B. (2007). Typology in the 21st century: major current developments Linguistic Typology, 11, 239–251. https://doi.org/10.1515/LINGTY.2007.018
• Bickel, B., Banjade, G., Gaenszle, M., Lieven, E., Paudyal, N. P., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., Rai, N. K., & Stoll, S. (2007). Free prefix ordering in Chintang Language, 83, 43–73. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2007.0002
• Bickel, B., Gaenszle, M., Rai, A., Rai, P. D., Rai, S. K., Rai, V. S., & Sharma (Gautam), N. P. (2007). Two ways of suspending object agreement in Puma: between incorporation, antipassivization, and optional agreement Himalayan Linguistics, 7, 1–18. http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/HimalayanLinguistics/articles/2007/PDF/HLJ07_Bickel_Puma.pdf
• Bickel, B., & Nichols, J. (2006). Oceania, the Pacific Rim, and the theory of linguistic areas Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 32S, 3–15. http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/bls/proceedings.html
• Janssen, D., Bickel, B., & Zúñiga, F. (2006). Randomization tests in language typology Linguistic Typology, 10, 419–440. https://doi.org/10.1515/LINGTY.2006.013
• Bickel, B. (2006). Clause-level vs. predicate-level linking In I. Bornkessel, M. Schlesewsky, B. Comrie, & A. D. Friederici (Eds.), Semantic role universals and argument linking: theoretical, typological and psycholinguistic perspectives (pp. 155–190). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219272.155
• Bickel, B., & Nichols, J. (2005). Fusion of selected inflectional formatives In M. Haspelmath, M. S. Dryer, D. Gil, & B. Comrie (Eds.), The world atlas of language structures (pp. 86–89). Oxford University Press.
• Rai, N. K., Bickel, B., Gaenszle, M., Lieven, E., Paudyal, N. P., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., & Stoll, S. (2005). Triplication and ideophones in Chintang In Y. P. Yadava (Ed.), Current issues in Nepalese linguistics (pp. 205–209). Linguistic Society of Nepal.
• Gaenszle, M., Bickel, B., Banjade, G., Lieven, E., Paudyal, N. P., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., Rai, N. K., & Stoll, S. (2005). Worshipping the king god: a preliminary analysis of Chintang ritual language in the invocation of Rajdeu In Y. P. Yadava, G. Bhattarai, R. R. Lohani, B. Prasain, & K. Parajuli (Eds.), Contemporary issues in Nepalese linguistics (pp. 33–47). Linguistic Society of Nepal.
• Nichols, J., & Bickel, B. (2005). Possessive classification and obligatory possessive inflection In M. Haspelmath, M. S. Dryer, D. Gil, & B. Comrie (Eds.), The world atlas of language structures (pp. 242–245). Oxford University Press.
• Bickel, B., & Nichols, J. (2005). Inclusive/exclusive as person vs. number categories worldwide In E. Filimonova (Ed.), Clusivity : Typology and case studies of the inclusive–exclusive distinction (pp. 47–70). Benjamins.
• Sharma (Gautam), N. P., Bickel, B., Gaenszle, M., Rai, A., & Rai, V. S. (2005). Personal and possessive pronouns in Puma (Southern Kiranti) In Y. P. Yadava, G. Bhattarai, R. R. Lohani, B. Prasain, & K. Parajuli (Eds.), Contemporary issues in Nepalese linguistics (pp. 225–233). Linguistic Society of Nepal.
• Nichols, J., & Bickel, B. (2005). Locus of marking (in the clause; in possessive noun phrases; and whole-language typology) In M. Haspelmath, M. S. Dryer, D. Gil, & B. Comrie (Eds.), The world atlas of language structures (pp. 98–109). Oxford University Press.
• Bickel, B., & Nichols, J. (2005). Inflectional synthesis of the verb In M. Haspelmath, M. S. Dryer, D. Gil, & B. Comrie (Eds.), The world atlas of language structures (pp. 94–97). Oxford University Press.
• Bickel, B., & Nichols, J. (2005). Exponence of selected inflectional formatives In M. Haspelmath, M. S. Dryer, D. Gil, & B. Comrie (Eds.), The world atlas of language structures (pp. 90–93). Oxford University Press.
• Bickel, B. (2004). Hidden syntax in Belhare In A. Saxena (Ed.), Himalayan languages : past and present (No. 149; pp. 141–190). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110898873.141
• Bickel, B. (2004). The syntax of experiencers in the Himalayas In P. Bhaskararao & K. V. Subbarao (Eds.), Non-nominative subjects (pp. 77–112). Benjamins.
• Bickel, B. (2003). Referential density in discourse and syntactic typology Language, 79, 708–736. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2003.0205
• Bickel, B. (2003). Belhare In G. Thurgood & R. J. LaPolla (Eds.), The Sino-Tibetan languages (pp. 546–570). Routledge.
• Bickel, B. (2003). Prosodic tautomorphemicity in Sino-Tibetan In D. Bradley, R. J. LaPolla, B. Michailovsky, & G. Thurgood (Eds.), Variation in Sino-Tibetan and South East Asian languages (pp. 89–99). Pacific Linguistics.
• Bickel, B. (2002). Autotypologizing databases and their use in fieldwork In P. K. Austin, H. Dry, & P. Wittenburg (Eds.), Proceedings of the International LREC Workshop on Resources and Tools in Field Linguistics, Las Palmas, 26 - 27 May 2002 (p. online). Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. http://www.mpi.nl/lrec/2002/
• Bickel, B., & Nichols, J. (2001). Syntactic ergativity in light verb complements Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 27, 39–52.
• Bickel, B. (2000). Deictic transposition and referential practice in Belhare Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 10, 224–247. https://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.2000.10.2.224
• Bickel, B. (2000). Unlogischer Aspekt : zur Bedeutungsstruktur von Aspekt und Aktionsart, besonders im Belharischen. In W. Breu (Ed.), Probleme der Interaktion von Lexik und Aspekt (ILA) (No. 412; pp. 1–20). De Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110924800/9783110924800.1/9783110924800.1.xml
• Bickel, B. (2000). Space, territory, and a stupa in Eastern Nepal: exploring Himalayan themes and traces of Bon In Y. Nagano (Ed.), New horizons in Bon studies (pp. 685–702). National Museum of Ethnology.
• Bickel, B. (2000). A fresh look at grammatical relations in Indo-Aryan Lingua, 110, 343–373. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0024-3841(99)00048-0
• Bickel, B. (2000). On the syntax of agreement in Tibeto-Burman Studies in Language, 24, 583–609. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.24.3.05bic
• Bickel, B. (2000). Person and evidence in Himalayan languages Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 23, 1–12.
• Bickel, B. (2000). Grammar and social practice: the role of ‘culture’ in linguistic relativity In S. Niemeier & R. Dirven (Eds.), Evidence for linguistic relativity (pp. 161–191). Benjamins.
• Bickel, B. (1999). From ergativus absolutus to topic marking in Kiranti: a typological perspective Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 25, 38–49.
• Bickel, B., Bisang, W., & Yādava, Y. P. (1999). Face vs. empathy: the social foundations of Maithili verb agreement Linguistics, 37, 481–518. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.37.3.481
• Bickel, B. (1999). Cultural formalism and spatial language in Belhara In B. Bickel & M. Gaenszle (Eds.), Himalayan space: cultural horizons and practices (pp. 75–104). Museum of Ethnography.
• Bickel, B. (1999). Nominalization and focus constructions in some Kiranti languages In Y. P. Yadava & W. W. Glover (Eds.), Topics in Nepalese linguistics (pp. 271–296). Royal Nepal Academy.
• Bickel, B., & Gaenszle, M. (1999). Introduction: cultural horizons and practices in Himalayan space In B. Bickel (Ed.), Himalayan space: cultural horizons and practices (pp. 9–27). Museum of Ethnography.
• Bickel, B. (1998). Converbs in cross-linguistic perspective [review article of Haspelmath and König, eds., Converbs in cross-linguistic perspective: structure and meaning of adverbial verb forms - adverbial participles, gerunds, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter 1995] Linguistic Typology, 2, 381–397.
• Bickel, B. (1998). Rhythm and feet in Belhare morphology (No. 287; Rutgers Optimality Archive). http://roa.rutgers.edu/article/view/297
• Bickel, B. (1997). Spatial operations in deixis, cognition, and culture: where to orient oneself in Belhare In J. Nuyts & E. Pederson (Eds.), Language and conceptualization (pp. 46–83). Cambridge University Press.
• Bickel, B. (1997). Aspectual scope and the difference between logical and semantic representation Lingua, 102, 115–131. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0024-3841(97)00004-1
• Bickel, B. (1997). The possessive of experience in Belhare In D. Bradley (Ed.), Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayas (No. 86; pp. 135–155). Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.
• Bickel, B. (1996). बेलहारे भाषा र यसको वक्तहरूबारे संक्षिप्त परिचय Bahubhasik Sayapatri, 3, 164–171.
• Bickel, B. (1995). In the vestibule of meaning: transitivity inversion as a morphological phenomenon Studies in Language, 19, 73–127. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.19.1.04bic
• Bickel, B. (1995). Relatives à antécédent interne, nominalisation et focalisation: entre syntaxe et morphologie en bélharien Bulletin de la société de linguistique de Paris, 90, 391–427. https://doi.org/10.2143/BSL.90.1.2002537
• Bickel, B. (1994). Mapping operations in spatial deixis and the typology of reference frames (No. 31; Max-Planck-Research Group in Cognitive Anthropology Working Paper).
• Bickel, B., & Rai, L. B. (1994). आठपहरीय जाती के हो? Jana Visvas Saptahik, 2, 3–4.
• Bickel, B. (1993). Belhare subordination and the theory of topic In K. H. Ebert (Ed.), Studies in Clause Linkage. Papers from the First Köln-Zürich Workshop (No. 12; pp. 23–55). Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft der Universität.
• Bickel, B. (1992). The marking of future time reference in Züritüütsch In Ö. Dahl, C. de Groot, & H. Tommola (Eds.), Future time reference in European languages (= Eurotyp Working Paper Series VI – Tense and Aspect 2) (pp. 73–84). Department of Linguistics, University of Stockholm.
• Bickel, B. (1992). Meaning beyond closed paradigms [review article of Göbelsmann, Claus (1988), Textanalysen zu Tempus (T), Aspekt (A) und Modalität (M) im Swahili] Swahili Language and Society : Notes and News, 9, 35–45.
• Bickel, B. (1991). Der Hang zur Exzentrik: Annäherungen an das kognitive Modell der Relativkonstruktion In W. Bisang & P. Rinderknecht (Eds.), Von Europa bis Ozeanien — von der Antonymie zum Relativsatz: Gedenkschrift für Meinrad Scheller (No. 11; pp. 15–37). Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft der Universität.