All Stories

  1. Radical analyticity and radical pro-drop scenarios of diachronic change in East and mainland Southeast Asia, West Africa and Pidgins and Creoles

    Article • Asian Languages and Linguistics, March 2020, John Benjamins

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  2. Parts of Speech

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  3. Hidden complexity – The neglected side of complexity and its implications

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  4. Problems with primary vs. secondary grammaticalization: the case of East and mainland Southeast Asian languages

    Article • Language Sciences, January 2015, Elsevier

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  5. Paradigm Change

    Article • September 2014, John Benjamins

    Walter Alfred Bisang, Dr Martine Robbeets

  6. Overt and hidden complexity – Two types of complexity and their implications

    Article • Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  7. 7 Modern Khmer

    Article • January 2014, Brill

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  8. Chapter 1. When paradigms change

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  9. Chapter 2. On the strength of morphological paradigms

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  10. Word class systems between flexibility and rigidity: an integrative approach

    Article • August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  11. Subjecthood in Chinese

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  12. Classifiers in Sinitic languages: From individuation to definiteness-marking

    Article • Lingua, March 2012, Elsevier

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  13. Grammaticalization and linguistic typology

    Article • October 2011

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  14. Variation and reproducibility in linguistics

    Article • June 2011, De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  15. Word Classes

    Article • November 2010

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  16. Grammaticalization in Chinese

    Article • January 2010, John Benjamins

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  17. Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech

    Article • January 2010, John Benjamins

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  18. Serial Verb Constructions

    Article • Language and Linguistics Compass, March 2009, Wiley

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  19. Inflectional classifiers in Weining Ahmao: Mirror of the history of a people

    Article • Folia Linguistica Historica, January 2009, De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  20. Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech

    Article • Studies in Language, September 2008, John Benjamins

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  21. Inflectional speaker-role classifiers in Weining Ahmao

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, April 2008, Elsevier

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  22. 4. Precategoriality and argument structure in Late Archaic Chinese

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  23. Grammaticalization and the areal factor: The perspective of East and mainland Southeast Asian languages

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  24. Some general thoughts about linguistic typology and dialogue linguistics

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  25. Walter Bisang, Aspects of Typology and Universals

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2004, De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  26. What makes Grammaticalization?

    Article • January 2004

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  27. Classification and the evolution of grammatical structures: a universal perspective

    Article • Language Typology and Universals, January 2002, De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  28. Aspects of Typology and Universals

    Article • January 2001, De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  29. Information structuring in Yoruba

    Article • Linguistics, January 2000, De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  30. The functional motivation of the High Tone Syllable in Yoruba

    Article • Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, January 1999, De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

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

    Article • Linguistics, January 1999, De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang, Professor Balthasar Bickel

  32. Grammaticalization and Language Contact, Constructions and Positions

    Article • January 1998, John Benjamins

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  33. Perfect and beyond, from pragmatic relevance to Perfect: The Chinese sentence final particle le and Yoruba ti

    Article • Language Typology and Universals, January 1997, De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  34. Areal Typology and Grammaticalization

    Article • Studies in Language, January 1996, John Benjamins

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  35. Classifiers, Quantifiers and Class Nouns in Hmong

    Article • Studies in Language, January 1993, John Benjamins

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  36. Die verb-serialisierung im Jabêm

    Article • Lingua, November 1986, Elsevier

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  37. Classifiers in East and Southeast Asian languages Counting and beyond

    Article • De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  38. 10 Adverbiality: The view from the Far East

    Article • De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  39. 1 Numeral classifiers with plural marking. A challenge to Greenberg

    Article • De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  40. Language contact between geographic and mental space

    Article • De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  41. Areality, grammaticalization and language typology: on the explanatory power of functional criteria and the status of Universal Grammar

    Article • De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang

  42. Verb Serialization and Attractor Positions: Constructions and Their Potential Impact on Language Change and Language Contact

    Article • De Gruyter

    Walter Alfred Bisang