All Stories

  1. Discourse ergativity and human reference in Basque

    Article • Studies in Language, July 2025, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  2. Paradigmatic complexity metrics as signals of phylogenetic relatedness

    Article • Diachronica, March 2025, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel, Mr. Borja Herce Calleja

  3. Word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses

    Article • Diachronica, August 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel, Yingqi Jing

  4. Morphological structure can escape reduction effects from mass admixture of second language speakers

    Article • Studies in Language, November 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel, Manuel Widmer, Dr Mathias Jenny

  5. Numeral classifiers and number marking in Indo-Iranian

    Article • Language Dynamics and Change, October 2020, Brill

    Chundra Cathcart, Professor Balthasar Bickel, Chundra Cathcart, Dr. Andreas Hölzl

  6. Argument Selectors

    Article • February 2019, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich

  7. Decomposing hierarchical alignment: Co-arguments as conditions on alignment and the limits of referential hierarchies as explanations in verb agreement

    Article • Linguistics, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Professor Fernando Zúñiga, Professor Balthasar Bickel

  8. Syntactic mixing across generations in an environment of community-wide bilingualism

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  9. First person objects, antipassives, and the political history of the Southern Kirant

    Article • Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Professor Balthasar Bickel, Martin Gaenszle

  10. Semantic role clustering

    Article • Studies in Language, September 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich

  11. Language Typology and Historical Contingency

    Article • November 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Lenore A. Grenoble, Professor Balthasar Bickel

  12. Resisting the State in East Nepal

    Article • September 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  13. Capturing diversity in language acquisition research

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  14. Distributional biases in language families

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  15. The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  16. Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children's usage and surrounding adult speech

    Article • Journal of Child Language, August 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  17. Statistical modeling of language universals

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  18. Grammatical Relations Typology

    Article • November 2010

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  19. The prosodic word is not universal, but emergent

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, June 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  20. Exploring the nature of the ‘subject’-preference: Evidence from the online comprehension of simple sentences in Mandarin Chinese

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  21. The distribution of phonological word domains: A probabilistic typology

    Article • August 2009, De Gruyter

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  22. Case Marking and Alignment

    Article • November 2008

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  23. The Geography of Case

    Article • November 2008

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  24. A refined sampling procedure for genealogical control

    Article • Language Typology and Universals, August 2008, De Gruyter

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  25. Introduction Theory and typology of the word

    Article • Linguistics, January 2008, De Gruyter

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  26. On the scope of the referential hierarchy in the typology of grammatical relations

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  27. Typology in the 21st century: Major current developments

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2007, De Gruyter

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  28. Free Prefix Ordering in Chintang

    Article • Language, January 2007, Project Muse

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  29. Randomization tests in language typology

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2006, De Gruyter

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  30. Inclusive-exclusive as person vs. number categories worldwide

    Article • January 2005, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  31. 4. The syntax of experiencers in the Himalayas

    Article • January 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  32. Referential Density in Discourse and Syntactic Typology

    Article • Language, January 2003, Project Muse

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  33. Himalayan Space: Cultural Horizons and Practices. Edited by Balthasar Bickel and Martin Gaenszle. Zurich: Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich, 1999. 279 pp.

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, February 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  34. On the syntax of agreement in Tibeto-Burman

    Article • Studies in Language, December 2000, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  35. Deictic Transposition and Referential Practice in Belhare

    Article • Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, December 2000, Wiley

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  36. A fresh look at grammatical relations in Indo-Aryan

    Article • Lingua, May 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  37. Grammar and social practice

    Article • January 2000, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  38. Face vs. empathy: the social foundation of Maithili verb agreement

    Article • Linguistics, January 1999, De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang, Professor Balthasar Bickel

  39. Aspectual scope and the difference between logical and semantic representation

    Article • Lingua, July 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  40. In the Vestibule of Meaning

    Article • Studies in Language, January 1995, John Benjamins

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  41. Relatives à antécédent interne, nominalisation et focalisation

    Article • Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, January 1995, Peeters Publishers

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  42. Hidden syntax in Belhare

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  43. Unlogischer Aspekt: zur Bedeutungsstruktur von Aspekt und Aktionsart, besonders im Belharischen

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  44. Spatial operations in deixis, cognition, and culture: where to orient oneself in Belhare

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  45. Patterns of alignment in verb agreement

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  46. 2. Typological evidence against universal effects of referential scales on case alignment

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  47. Linguistic diversity and universals

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Balthasar Bickel

  48. Morphosyntactic properties and scope behavior of ‘subordinate’ clauses in Puma (Kiranti)

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Balthasar Bickel