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  1. The Entropy of Words—Learnability and Expressivity across More than 1000 Languages

    Article • Entropy, June 2017, MDPI AG

    Michael Cysouw

  2. The Entropy of Words—Learnability and Expressivity across More Than 1000 Languages

    Article • April 2017, MDPI AG

    Michael Cysouw

  3. Identifying semantic role clusters and alignment types via microrole coexpression tendencies

    Article • June 2016, John Benjamins

    Michael Cysouw

  4. Identifying semantic role clusters and alignment types via microrole coexpression tendencies

    Article • Studies in Language, September 2014, John Benjamins

    Michael Cysouw, Professor Martin Haspelmath

  5. Inducing semantic roles

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Michael Cysouw

  6. Appendixes to Some observations on typological features of hunter-gatherer languages

    Article • December 2013, John Benjamins

    Michael Cysouw

  7. Cultural Evolution of Language

    Article • November 2013, The MIT Press

    Michael Cysouw

  8. Some Structural Aspects of Language Are More Stable than Others: A Comparison of Seven Methods

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2013, PLOS

    Michael Cysouw

  9. Combining Regular Sound Correspondences and Geographic Spread

    Article • Language Dynamics and Change, January 2013, Brill

    Michael Cysouw

  10. A history of Iroquoian gender marking

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Michael Cysouw

  11. Some observations on typological features of hunter-gatherer languages

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Michael Cysouw

  12. Comment on "Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa"

    Article • Science, February 2012, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Michael Cysouw

  13. On the (im)possibility of partial argument coreference

    Article • Linguistics, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  14. Lexical typology through similarity semantics: Toward a semantic map of motion verbs

    Article • Linguistics, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  15. Treating Dictionaries as a Linked-Data Corpus

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Cysouw

  16. Some more details about the definition of rarity

    Article • January 2011, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  17. Quantitative explorations of the worldwide distribution of rare characteristics, or: the exceptionality of northwestern European languages

    Article • January 2011, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  18. Understanding transition probabilities

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  19. Very atypical agreement indeed

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  20. A Pipeline for Computational Historical Linguistics

    Article • Language Dynamics and Change, January 2011, Brill

    Michael Cysouw

  21. The expression of person and number: a typologist’s perspective

    Article • Morphology, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Cysouw

  22. Rethinking Universals

    Article • January 2010, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  23. The other end of universals: theory and typology of rara

    Article • January 2010, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  24. Semantic maps as metrics on meanings

    Article • Linguistic Discovery, January 2010, Dartmouth College Library Press

    Michael Cysouw

  25. Dealing with diversity: Towards an explanation of NP-internal word order frequencies

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  26. Author's Reply - Variation of Semantic Map Display Is Necessary

    Article • Linguistic Discovery, January 2010, Dartmouth College Library Press

    Michael Cysouw

  27. Commentary on Perrin - Drawing Networks from Recurrent Polysemies

    Article • Linguistic Discovery, January 2010, Dartmouth College Library Press

    Michael Cysouw

  28. Commentary on van Trijp - Analogy is an Implicit Universal Semantic Map

    Article • Linguistic Discovery, January 2010, Dartmouth College Library Press

    Michael Cysouw

  29. Commentary on Zwarts - A Multitude of Approaches to Make Semantic Maps

    Article • Linguistic Discovery, January 2010, Dartmouth College Library Press

    Michael Cysouw

  30. Introduction to the Special Issue "Semantic Maps: Methods and Applications"

    Article • Linguistic Discovery, January 2010, Dartmouth College Library Press

    Michael Cysouw

  31. On the Probability Distribution of Typological Frequencies

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Cysouw

  32. Reconstruction of morphosyntactic function: Nonspatial usage of spatial case marking in Tsezic

    Article • Language, January 2009, Project Muse

    Michael Cysouw

  33. Using theWorld Atlas of Language Structures

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

    Michael Cysouw

  34. Analyzing feature consistency using dissimilarity matrices

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

    Michael Cysouw

  35. LINEAR ORDER AS A PREDICTOR OF WORD ORDER REGULARITIES

    Article • Advances in Complex Systems, June 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Michael Cysouw

  36. Generalizing Language Comparison

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, January 2008, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  37. New approaches to cluster analysis of typological indices

    Article • December 2007, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  38. Parallel texts: using translational equivalents in linguistic typology

    Article • Language Typology and Universals, July 2007, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  39. Using Strong's Numbers in the Bible to test an automatic alignment of parallel texts

    Article • Language Typology and Universals, July 2007, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  40. Content Interrogatives in Pichis Ashéninca: Corpus Study and Typological Comparison

    Article • International Journal of American Linguistics, April 2007, University of Chicago Press

    Michael Cysouw

  41. Cognate identification and alignment using practical orthographies

    Article • January 2007, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Michael Cysouw

  42. D. N. S. Bhat, Pronouns (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xii+320.

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, October 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Cysouw

  43. William Croft, Explaining language change. An evolutionary approach

    Article • Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (PBB), September 2006, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  44. A critique of the separation base method for genealogical subgrouping, with data from mixe-zoquean

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, August 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Cysouw

  45. What it means to be rare

    Article • January 2005, John Benjamins

    Michael Cysouw

  46. Syncretisms involving clusivity

    Article • January 2005, John Benjamins

    Michael Cysouw

  47. A typology of honorific uses of clusivity

    Article • January 2005, John Benjamins

    Michael Cysouw

  48. Morphology in the Wrong Place

    Article • January 2005, John Benjamins

    Michael Cysouw

  49. Against implicational universals

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2003, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  50. Interpreting typological clusters

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2002, De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  51. ‘We’ rules

    Article • January 2002, John Benjamins

    Michael Cysouw

  52. Review of Howe (1996): The Personal Pronouns in the Germanic Languages. A study of personal pronoun morphology and change in the Germanic languages from the first records to the present day

    Article • Studies in Language, December 2001, John Benjamins

    Michael Cysouw

  53. Martin Haspelmath,Indefinite pronouns (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xvi+364.

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, November 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Cysouw

  54. Predicting language-learning difficulty

    Article • De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  55. 4. Generalizing Scales

    Article • De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw

  56. Disentangling geography from genealogy

    Article • De Gruyter

    Michael Cysouw