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The perception of prosocial agents by chimpanzees and humans Royal Society Open Science, 12(11), 250916. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250916
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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
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Telling Compounds and Phrases Apart in Vietnamese. A Random Forest Classification Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 23(23.3), 23–48. https://doi.org/10.6519/TJL.202509_23(3).0002
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Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact Science Advances, 11, eadv7521. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adv7521
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Discourse ergativity and human reference in Basque Studies in Language, 49 (3), online. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.23005.egu
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The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database Scientific Data, 12(1):933.
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Neural correlates of processing case in adults and children Brain and Language, 265:105548.
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Spontaneous Encoding of Event Roles in Hominids Open Mind, 9:559-575.
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Paradigmatic complexity metrics as signals of phylogenetic relatedness Diachronica, 42(1):1-46.
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Curating global datasets of structural linguistic features for independence Scientific Data, 12(1):106.
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Linguistic evolution in time and space: Addressing the methodological challenges In: Raviv, Limor; Boeckx, Cedric . The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 391-421.
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The effect of animacy on the agent preference: Self-paced reading evidence from Basque Memory & Cognition:online.
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The Effects of Syntactic Dependencies and Speech Tempo on Macro-Rhythm In: Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 2 December 2024 - 5 December 2024. ASSTA, 157-161.
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Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways PLoS Biology, 22(11):e3002857.
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Beyond bigrams: call sequencing in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) vocal system Royal Society Open Science, 11(11):218-240.
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Areal and phylogenetic dimensions of word order variation in Indo-European languages Linguistics, 62(5):1085-1116.
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Densify: An R package to reduce empty cells in dataframes of typological linguistic data Journal of Open Source Software, 9(101):7024.
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Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution Physics of life reviews, 50:211-225.
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A universal preference for animate agents in hominids iScience, 27(6):109996.
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Deep history of cultural and linguistic evolution among Central African hunter-gatherers Nature Human Behaviour:online.
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Surprisal from language models can predict ERPs in processing predicate-argument structures only if enriched by an Agent Preference principle Neurobiology of language, 5(1):167-200.
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Incremental sentence processing is guided by a preference for agents: EEG evidence from Basque Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 39(1):76-97.
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Word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses Diachronica, 40(4):532-556.
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Multi-variate coding for possession: methodology and preliminary results Linguistics, 61(6):1365-1402.
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An agent-first preference in a patient-first language during sentence comprehension Cognitive Science, 47(9):e13340.
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Naturalness is gradient in morphological paradigms: Evidence from positional splits Glossa, 8(1):online.
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The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension Open Mind:1-43.
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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.
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Transition to language: From agent perception to event representation Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 13(6):e1594.
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From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76:122.
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Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning Brain and Language, 230:105127.
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Category Clustering and Morphological Learning Cognitive Science, 46(2):e13107.
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Managing AUTOTYP Data: Design Principles and Implementation In: Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L; McDonnell, Bradley; Koller, Eve; Collister, Lauren B . The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management. Cambridge: MIT Press, 632-642.
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The evolutionary origins of syntax: Event cognition in nonhuman primates Science Advances, 8(25):abn8464.
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Decoupling Speed of Change and Long-Term Preference in Language Evolution: Insights From Romance Verb Stem Alternations In: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), Kanazawa, Japan, 5 September 2022 - 8 September 2022, JCoLE.
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A Naturalness Gradient Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Morphological Paradigms Cognitive Science Society. Annual Conference. Proceedings, 44(4):787-794.
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Morphological structure can escape reduction effects from mass admixture of second language speakers Studies in Language, 45(4):707-752.
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Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity Cognitive Science, 45(11):e13056.
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Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference Scientific Reports, 11(1):16527.
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Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia Science Advances, 7(34):eabd9223.
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Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18(181):20201031.
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Beyond universals and particulars in language Theoretical Linguistics, 47(1-2):47-52.
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Appositive possession in Ainu and around the Pacific Linguistic Typology:1-46.
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Neural signatures of syntactic variation in speech planning PLoS Biology, 19(1):e3001038.
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The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages Linguistics Vanguard, 7(1):1-14.
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Numeral classifiers and number marking in Indo-Iranian: A phylogenetic approach Language Dynamics and Change, 11(2):273-325.
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Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 287(1935):20192514.
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Category clustering: A probabilistic bias in the morphology of verbal agreement marking Language, 96(2):255-293.
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Linguistic Typology and Hunter-Gatherer Languages In: Güldemann, Tom; McConvell, Patrick; Rhodes, Richard . The Language of Hunter-Gatherers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 67-75.
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Rejoinder to Huijbregts’s: Biting into evolution of language Journal of Language Evolution, 5(2):184-187.
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Large and ancient linguistic areas In: Crevels, Mily; Musyken, Pieter . Language dispersal, diversification, and contact : a global perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 78 - 101.
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Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech Language Documentation & Conservation, 14:423-461.
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Speech Rates Differentiate Nouns and Verbs in Child-Surrounding and Child-Produced Speech: Evidence from Chintang In: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, 7 November 2019 - 10 November 2019. Cascadilla Press, 280-293.
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Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration Science, 363(6432):eaav3218.
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On the Distribution of Deep Clausal Embeddings: A Large Cross-linguistic Study In: Korhonen, Anna; Traum, David; Màrquez, Lluís . Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence: Association for Computational Linguistics, 3938-3943.
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Compositionality in animals and humans PLoS Biology, 16(8):e2006425.
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Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, (201800708):1-6.
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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(1885):20172851.
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The acquisition of polysynthetic verb forms in Chintang In: Fortescue, Michael D; Mithun, Marianne; Evans, Nicholas . The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 495 - 514.
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The ‘word’ in polysynthetic languages : phonological and syntactic challenges In: Fortescue, Michael D.; Mithun, Marianne; Evans, Nicholas . The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 158 - 185.
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Areas and universals In: Hickey, Raymond . The Cambridge handbook of areal linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 40-55.
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Belhare In: Thurgood, Graham; LaPolla, Randy J . The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2nd, revised edition). London: Taylor & Francis, 546-570.
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Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 92(3):1427-1433.
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NP recursion over time: evidence from indo-european Language, 93(4):799-826.
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Digging deep: mining corpora for typological patterns and beyond 2015, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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The neurophysiology of language processing shapes the evolution of grammar: evidence from case marking PLoS ONE, 10(8):e0132819.
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Flexible valency in Chintang In: Malchukov, Andrej; Comrie, Bernard . Valency Classes in the World's Languages. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 669-708.
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Exploring diachronic universals of agreement: alignment patterns and zero marking across person categories In: Fleischer, Jürg; Rieken, Elisabeth; Widmer, Paul . Agreement from a diachronic perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 29 - 51.
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First person objects, antipassives, and the political history of the Southern Kirant Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2(1):63-86.
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Syntactic mixing across generations in an environment of community-wide bilingualism Frontiers in Psychology, 6:82.
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Distributional typology: statistical inquiries into the dynamics of linguistic diversity In: Heine, Bernd; Narrog, Heiko . The Oxford handbook of linguistic analysis, 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 901 - 923.
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Linguistic diversity and universals In: Enfield, N J; Kockelman, Paul; Sidnell, Jack . The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 101-124.
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Sprachliche Vielfalt im Wechselspiel von Natur und Kultur In: Glaser, Elvira; Kolmer, Agnes; Meyer, Martin; Stark, Elisabeth . Sprache(n) Verstehen: eine interdisziplinäre Vorlesungsreihe. Zürich: vdf Hochschulverlag, 101-126.
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Semantic role clustering: an empirical assessments of semantic role types in non-default case assignment Studies in Language, 38(3):485 - 511.
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Typological evidence against universal effects of referential scales on case alignment In: Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina; Malchukov, Andrej; Richards, Marc . Scales and Hierarchies: a cross-disciplinary perspective on referential hierarchies. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 7-44.
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Chintang Valency Patterns Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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Resisting the state in East Nepal: the `Chintang incident' of 1979 and the politics of commemoration In: Lecomte-Tilouine, Marie . Revolution in Nepal: an anthropological and historical approach to the People's War. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 97 - 113.
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Patterns of alignment in verb agreement In: Bakker, Dik; Haspelmath, Martin . Languages across boundaries : Studies in memory of Anna Siewierska. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 15-36.
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Towards a questionnaire on grammatical relations: a project bridging between typology and field linguistics Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology, 2:124-134.
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Distributional biases in language families In: Bickel, Balthasar; Grenoble, Lenore A; Peterson, David A; Timberlake, Alan . Language typology and historical contingency. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 415-444.
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Capturing diversity in language acquisition research In: Bickel, Balthasar; Grenoble, Lenore A; Peterson, David A; Timberlake, Alan . Language Typology and Historical Contingency. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 195 - 216.
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The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang In: Stoll, Sabine; Bavin, Edith . The acquisition of ergativity. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 183-207.
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Morphosyntactic properties and scope behavior of ‘subordinate’ clauses in Puma (Kiranti) In: Gast, Volker; Diessel, Holger . Clause-combining in cross-linguistic perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter, 105-126.
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How to measure frequency? Different ways of counting ergatives in Chintang (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) and their implications In: Seifart, Frank; Haig, Geoffrey L J; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P; Jung, Dagmar; Margetts, Anna; Trilsbeek, Paul; Wittenburg, Peter . Potentials of language documentation: methods, analyses, utilization. Manoa: University of Hawai‘i Press, 84-90.
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Stress-timed = word-based? Testing a hypothesis in Prosodic Typology STUF, 65(2):157-168.
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Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children's usage and surrounding adult speech Journal of Child Language, 39(2):284 - 321.
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Deriving a lexicon for a precision grammar from language documentation resources: a case study of Chintang In: Kay, M; Boitet, C . Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Mumbai: Association for Computational Linguistics, 247-262.
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Statistical modeling of language universals Linguistic Typology, 15(2):401 - 414.
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Multivariate typology and field linguistics: a case study on detransitivization in Kiranti (Sino-Tibetan) In: Austin, Peter K; Bond, Oliver; Nathan, David; Marten, Lutz . Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 3. London: SOAS, 3-13.
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Absolute and statistical universals In: Hogan, Patrick Colm . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 77-79.
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Grammatical relations typology In: Song, Jae Jung . The Oxford Handbook of Language Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 399 - 444.
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Binomials and the noun-to-verb ratio in Puma Rai ritual speech Anthropological Linguistics, 53:365-381.
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Non-finite adverbial subordination in Chintang Nepalese Linguistics, 25:121-132.
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Capturing particulars and universals in clause linkage: a multivariate analysis In: Bril, Isabelle . Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy : Syntax and Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 51 - 102.
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The prosodic word is not universal, but emergent Journal of Linguistics, 46:657-709.
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The syntax of three-argument verbs in Chintang and Belhare (Southeastern Kiranti) In: Malchukov, Andrej; Haspelmath, Martin; Comrie, Bernard . Studies in ditransitive constructions: a comparative handbook. Berlin: De Gruyter, 382-408.
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Mundum: a case study of Chintang ritual language In: Mukherjee, Rila; Rajesh, M N . Locality, History, Memory: The Making of the Citizen in South Asia. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 20-33.
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Exploring the nature of the `subject'-preference: evidence from the online comprehension of simple sentences in Mandarin Chinese Language And Cognitive Processes, 24(7-8):1180 - 1226.
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Case marking and alignment In: Malchukov, Andrej; Spencer, Andrew . The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 304-321.
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The geography of case In: Malchukov, Andrej; Spencer, Andrew . The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 479-493.
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The distribution of phonological word domains: a probabilistic typology In: Grijzenhout, Janet; Kabak, Bariş . Phonological domains: universals and deviations. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 47-75.
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Verb agreement and epistemic marking: a typological journey from the Himalayas to the Caucasus In: Huber, Brigitte; Volkart, Marianne; Widmer, Paul . Chomolangma, Demawend und Kasbek : Festschrift für Roland Bielmeier zu seinem 65. Geburtstag. Halle (Saale): International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 1 - 14.
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A refined sampling procedure for genealogical control STUF - Language Typology And Universals, 61:221-233.
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Introduction: theory and typology of the word Linguistics, 46(2):183-192.
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On the scope of the referential hierarchy in the typology of grammatical relations In: Corbett, Greville G; Noonan, Michael . Case and grammatical relations: papers in honor of Bernard Comrie. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 191-210.
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Bridging the gap between processing preferences and typological distributions: initial evidence from the online comprehension of control constructions in Hindi In: Malchukov, Andrej; Richards, Marc . Scales. Leipzig: Institut für Linguistik der Universität Leipzig, 397-436.
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Referential scales and case alignment: reviewing the typological evidence In: Malchukov, Andrej; Richards, Marc . Scales. Leipzig: Institut für Linguistik der Universität Leipzig, 1-37.
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Free prefix ordering in Chintang Language, 83(1):43-73.
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Typology in the 21st century: major current developments Linguistic Typology, 11:239-251.
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Two ways of suspending object agreement in Puma: between incorporation, antipassivization, and optional agreement Himalayan Linguistics, 7:1-18.
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Inflectional morphology In: Shopen, Timothy . Language typology and syntactic description (revised Second Edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 169-240.
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Oceania, the Pacific Rim, and the theory of linguistic areas Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 32S:3-15.
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Clause-level vs. predicate-level linking In: Bornkessel, Ina; Schlesewsky, Matthias; Comrie, Bernard; Friederici, Angela D . Semantic role universals and argument linking: theoretical, typological and psycholinguistic perspectives. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 155 - 190.
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Randomization tests in language typology Linguistic Typology, 10(3):419-440.
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Inflectional synthesis of the verb In: Haspelmath, Martin; Dryer, Matthew S; Gil, David; Comrie, Bernard . The world atlas of language structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 94-97.
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Exponence of selected inflectional formatives In: Haspelmath, Martin; Dryer, Matthew S; Gil, David; Comrie, Bernard . The world atlas of language structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 90-93.
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Fusion of selected inflectional formatives In: Haspelmath, Martin; Dryer, Matthew S; Gil, David; Comrie, Bernard . The world atlas of language structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 86-89.
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Inclusive/exclusive as person vs. number categories worldwide In: Filimonova, Elena . Clusivity : Typology and case studies of the inclusive–exclusive distinction. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 47-70.
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Locus of marking (in the clause; in possessive noun phrases; and whole-language typology) In: Haspelmath, Martin; Dryer, Matthew S; Gil, David; Comrie, Bernard . The world atlas of language structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 98-109.
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Possessive classification and obligatory possessive inflection In: Haspelmath, Martin; Dryer, Matthew S; Gil, David; Comrie, Bernard . The world atlas of language structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 242-245.
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Worshipping the king god: a preliminary analysis of Chintang ritual language in the invocation of Rajdeu In: Yadava, Yogendra P; Bhattarai, Govinda; Lohani, Ram Raj; Prasain, Balaram; Parajuli, Krishna . Contemporary issues in Nepalese linguistics. Kathmandu: Linguistic Society of Nepal, 33-47.
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Personal and possessive pronouns in Puma (Southern Kiranti) In: Yadava, Yogendra P; Bhattarai, Govinda; Lohani, Ram Raj; Prasain, Balaram; Parajuli, Krishna . Contemporary issues in Nepalese linguistics. Kathmandu: Linguistic Society of Nepal, 225-233.
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Triplication and ideophones in Chintang In: Yadava, Yogendra P . Current issues in Nepalese linguistics. Kirtipur: Linguistic Society of Nepal, 205-209.
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The syntax of experiencers in the Himalayas In: Bhaskararao, Peri; Subbarao, Karumuri Venkata . Non-nominative subjects. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 77-112.
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Hidden syntax in Belhare In: Saxena, Anju . Himalayan languages : past and present. Berlin: De Gruyter, 141-190.
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Referential density in discourse and syntactic typology Language, 79(4):708 - 736.
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Prosodic tautomorphemicity in Sino-Tibetan In: Bradley, David; LaPolla, Randy J; Michailovsky, Boyd; Thurgood, Graham . Variation in Sino-Tibetan and South East Asian languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 89-99.
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Belhare In: Thurgood, Graham; LaPolla, Randy J . The Sino-Tibetan languages. London: Routledge, 546-570.
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Autotypologizing databases and their use in fieldwork In: Austin, Peter K; Dry, Helen; Wittenburg, Peter . Proceedings of the International LREC Workshop on Resources and Tools in Field Linguistics, Las Palmas, 26 - 27 May 2002. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, online.
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Syntactic ergativity in light verb complements Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 27:39-52.
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On the syntax of agreement in Tibeto-Burman Studies in Language, 24:583-609.
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Deictic transposition and referential practice in Belhare Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 10:224-247.
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Grammar and social practice: the role of ‘culture’ in linguistic relativity In: Niemeier, Susanne; Dirven, René . Evidence for linguistic relativity. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 161-191.
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Space, territory, and a stupa in Eastern Nepal: exploring Himalayan themes and traces of Bon In: Nagano, Yasuhiko . New horizons in Bon studies. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 685-702.
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Unlogischer Aspekt : zur Bedeutungsstruktur von Aspekt und Aktionsart, besonders im Belharischen In: Breu, Walter . Probleme der Interaktion von Lexik und Aspekt (ILA). Berlin: De Gruyter, 1-20.
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Person and evidence in Himalayan languages Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 23:1-12.
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A fresh look at grammatical relations in Indo-Aryan Lingua, 110:343-373.
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Cultural formalism and spatial language in Belhara In: Bickel, Balthasar; Gaenszle, Martin . Himalayan space: cultural horizons and practices. Zürich: Museum of Ethnography, 75-104.
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Introduction: cultural horizons and practices in Himalayan space In: Bickel, Balthasar . Himalayan space: cultural horizons and practices. Zürich: Museum of Ethnography, 9-27.
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Face vs. empathy: the social foundations of Maithili verb agreement Linguistics, 37:481-518.
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From ergativus absolutus to topic marking in Kiranti: a typological perspective Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 25:38-49.
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Nominalization and focus constructions in some Kiranti languages In: Yadava, Yogendra P; Glover, Warren W . Topics in Nepalese linguistics. Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy, 271-296.
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Rhythm and feet in Belhare morphology Rutgers Optimality Archive 287, University of California, San Diego.
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The possessive of experience in Belhare In: Bradley, David . Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayas. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 135 - 155.
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Aspectual scope and the difference between logical and semantic representation Lingua - An International Review of General Linguistics, 102:115-131.
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Spatial operations in deixis, cognition, and culture: where to orient oneself in Belhare In: Nuyts, Jan; Pederson, Eric . Language and conceptualization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 46-83.
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बेलहारे भाषा र यसको वक्तहरूबारे संक्षिप्त परिचय Bahubhasik Sayapatri, 3:164-171.
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Relatives à antécédent interne, nominalisation et focalisation: entre syntaxe et morphologie en bélharien Bulletin de la société de linguistique de Paris, 90(1):391 - 427.
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In the vestibule of meaning: transitivity inversion as a morphological phenomenon Studies in Language, 19:73-127.
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Mapping operations in spatial deixis and the typology of reference frames Max-Planck-Research Group in Cognitive Anthropology Working Paper 31, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
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Belhare subordination and the theory of topic In: Ebert, Karen H . Studies in Clause Linkage. Papers from the First Köln-Zürich Workshop. Zürich: Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft der Universität, 23 - 55.
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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.
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The marking of future time reference in Züritüütsch In: Dahl, Ö; de Groot, C; Tommola, H . Future time reference in European languages (= Eurotyp Working Paper Series VI – Tense and Aspect 2). Stockholm: Department of Linguistics, University of Stockholm, 73-84.
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Der Hang zur Exzentrik: Annäherungen an das kognitive Modell der Relativkonstruktion In: Bisang, Walter; Rinderknecht, Peter . Von Europa bis Ozeanien — von der Antonymie zum Relativsatz: Gedenkschrift für Meinrad Scheller. Zürich: Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft der Universität, 15 - 37.