Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology*

New Perspectives on the Origins of Language

Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Bernard Comrie & Henri Cohen

Subjects Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 144] 2013. xvi, 582 pp. | edited volume

Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview

Edited by Bernard Comrie & Zarina Estrada-Fernández

Subjects Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Syntax | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 102] 2012. xiii, 307 pp. | edited volume

Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007

Edited by Bernard Comrie, Ray Fabri, Elizabeth Hume, Manwel Mifsud, Thomas Stolz & Martine Vanhove

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | English linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 113] 2009. xi, 422 pp. | edited volume

Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates

Edited by Susanne Maria Michaelis

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Creole Language Library, 33] 2008. xvii, 425 pp. | edited volume

Coordinating Constructions

Edited by Martin Haspelmath

Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 58] 2004. xcv, 578 pp. | edited volume

Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Claire Lefebvre

Subjects Creole studies | Historical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 70] 2004. xvi, 358 pp. | monograph

Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts

Fredric Field & Bernard Comrie

Subjects Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 62] 2002. xviii, 252 pp. | monograph

Demonstratives: Form, function and grammaticalization

Holger Diessel

Subjects Historical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 42] 1999. xii, 205 pp. | course book

Skirgård, Hedvig 2024 Disentangling Ancestral State Reconstruction in historical linguistics: Comparing classic approaches and new methods using Oceanic grammar

Keywords: Oceanic languages | classical ancestral state reconstruction | computational ancestral state reconstruction | grammatical change

Diachronica 41:1 pp. 46–98 | article | open access

Rangelov, Tihomir, Mary Walworth & Julie Barbour 2023 A multifaceted approach to understanding unexpected sound change: The bilabial trills of Vanuatu’s Malekula Island

Keywords: bilabial trills | sound change | Vanuatu | Malekula | prenasalization | Austronesian | Austronesian-Papuan contact | language and identity

Diachronica 40:3 pp. 384–432 | article | open access

Barlow, Russell 2023 Papuan-Austronesian contact and the spread of numeral systems in Melanesia

Keywords: areal typology | counting | binary | quinary | decimal | New Guinea | Oceanic | Eastern Malayo-Polynesian | Papuan | Austronesian

Diachronica 40:3 pp. 287–340 | article | open access

Michaelis, Susanne Maria 2022 Annegret Bollée (1937–2021)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 37:1 pp. 10–15 | obituary

Wu, Mei-Shin, Timotheus A. Bodt & Tiago Tresoldi 2022 Bayesian phylogenetics illuminate shallower relationships among Trans-Himalayan languages in the Tibet-Arunachal area

Keywords: Tibeto-Arunachal | Trans-Himalayan | Bayesian phylogenetic analysis | language classification | historical linguistics

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 45:2 pp. 171–210 | article

Chen, Victoria, Jonathan Kuo, Maria Kristina S. Gallego & Isaac Stead 2022 Is Malayo-Polynesian a primary branch of Austronesian?: A view from morphosyntax

Keywords: Austronesian higher-order subgrouping | Malayo-Polynesian | East Formosan | syntactic reanalysis | Austronesian diaspora | Out-of-Taiwan Hypothesis | triangulation

Diachronica 39:4 pp. 449–489 | article

Norvik, Miina, Yingqi Jing, Michael Dunn, Robert Forkel, Terhi Honkola, Gerson Klumpp, Richard Kowalik, Helle Metslang, Karl Pajusalu, Minerva Piha, Eva Saar, Sirkka Saarinen & Outi Vesakoski 2022 Uralic typology in the light of a new comprehensive dataset

Keywords: Uralic languages | typology | areal linguistics | syntax | morphology | phonology | quantitative linguistics

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 1:1 pp. 4–42 | article | open access

Barlow, Russell 2021 

Diachronica 38:4 pp. 628–637 | book review

Auderset, Sandra 2021 The antipassive and its relationship to person markers

Keywords: antipassive | person marking | language change | diachronic typology

In: Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 130] pp. 385–426

Haspelmath, Martin 2020 The structural uniqueness of languages and the value of comparison for language description

Keywords: language description | linguistic typology | comparative grammar | methodology of linguistics

Asian Languages and Linguistics 1:2 pp. 346–366 | other | open access

Pika, Simone & Tobias Deschner 2021 A new window onto animal culture: The case of chimpanzee gesturing

Keywords: communicative culture | chimpanzees | gestures | group-specific behaviour | social learning

Gesture 18:2/3 pp. 239–260 | article

Quick, Antje Endesfelder, Elena Lieven, Ad Backus & Michael Tomasello 2018 Constructively combining languages: The use of code-mixing in German-English bilingual child language acquisition

Keywords: code-mixing | German – English | bilingual child | language proficiency | MLU

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:3 pp. 393–409 | article

Quick, Antje Endesfelder, Elena Lieven, Malinda Carpenter & Michael Tomasello 2017 Identifying partially schematic units in the code-mixing of an English and German speaking child

Keywords: code-mixing | English–German | bilingual child | usage-based | partially schematic constructions

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:4 pp. 477–501 | article

Gerlach, Linda & Falko Berthold 2014 N!aqriaxe (ǂ’Amkoe) spatial terms from a genealogical and areal perspective

In: Beyond ‘Khoisan’: Historical relations in the Kalahari Basin, Güldemann, Tom & Anne-Maria Fehn (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 330] pp. 209–232

Güldemann, Tom 2014 The Lower Nossob varieties of Tuu: !Ui, Taa or neither?

In: Beyond ‘Khoisan’: Historical relations in the Kalahari Basin, Güldemann, Tom & Anne-Maria Fehn (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 330] pp. 257–282

Naumann, Christfried 2014 Towards a genealogical classification of Taa dialects

In: Beyond ‘Khoisan’: Historical relations in the Kalahari Basin, Güldemann, Tom & Anne-Maria Fehn (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 330] pp. 283–302

Güldemann, Tom 2014 ‘Khoisan’ linguistic classification today

In: Beyond ‘Khoisan’: Historical relations in the Kalahari Basin, Güldemann, Tom & Anne-Maria Fehn (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 330] pp. 1–40

Rossano, Federico & Katja Liebal 2014 “Requests” and “offers” in orangutans and human infants

In: Requesting in Social Interaction, Drew, Paul & Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 26] pp. 335–364

Hartmann, Iren, Martin Haspelmath & Michael Cysouw 2014 Identifying semantic role clusters and alignment types via microrole coexpression tendencies

Keywords: semantic map | coexpression | microrole | valency | alignment type

Studies in Language 38:3 pp. 463–484 | article

Cohen, Henri 2013 Historical, Darwinian, and current perspectives on the origin(s) of language

In: New Perspectives on the Origins of Language, Lefebvre, Claire, Bernard Comrie & Henri Cohen (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 144] pp. 3–30

Rossano, Federico 2013 Sequence organization and timing of bonobo mother-infant interactions

Interaction Studies 14:2 pp. 160–189 | article

Nordhoff, Sebastian 2013 The current state of Sri Lanka Portuguese

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:2 pp. 425–434 | article

Tadmor, Uri, Martin Haspelmath & Bradley Taylor 2012 Borrowability and the notion of basic vocabulary

In: Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh, Wichmann, Søren & Anthony P. Grant (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 46] pp. 35–55

Tempelmann, Sebastian & Katja Liebal 2012 Spontaneous use of gesture sequences in orangutans: A case for strategy?

In: Developments in Primate Gesture Research, Pika, Simone & Katja Liebal (eds.) [Gesture Studies, 6] pp. 73–92

Nordhoff, Sebastian 2012 Multi-verb constructions in Sri Lanka Malay

Keywords: clause chains | vector verbs | Indonesian | serial verb constructions | substrate reinforcement | metatypy | Sri Lanka Malay | Tamil | Sinhala

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:2 pp. 303–343 | article

Seifart, Frank 2012 The principle of morphosyntactic subsystem integrity in language contact: Evidence from morphological borrowing in Resígaro (Arawakan)

Keywords: morphological borrowing | paradigms | language contact | Amazonian languages | Resígaro | Arawakan languages | Bora

Diachronica 29:4 pp. 471–504 | article

Miyaoka, Osahito 2011 Impersonal verbs in Central Alaskan Yupik (Eskimoan)

In: Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Malchukov, Andrej L. & Anna Siewierska (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 124] pp. 459–488

Wichmann, Søren 2010 Review of The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking edited by John Newman (2009)

Studies in Language 34:2 pp. 487–491 | book review

Cole, Peter, Gabriella Hermon & Yanti  2010 Anaphora in traditional Jambi Malay

In: Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics, Mercado, Raphael, Eric Potsdam & Lisa deMena Travis (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 167] pp. 327–344

Tadmor, Uri, Martin Haspelmath & Bradley Taylor 2010 Borrowability and the notion of basic vocabulary

Keywords: basic vocabulary | stability | loanword | borrowing | language contact

Diachronica 27:2 pp. 226–246 | article | open access

Tomasello, Michael 2009 Primate communication

In: Key Notions for Pragmatics, Verschueren, Jef & Jan-Ola Östman (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 1] pp. 208–216

Gong, Tao, James W. Minett & William S-Y. Wang 2009 A simulation study on word order bias

Keywords: semantics | computational simulation | word order bias | global order | local order

Interaction Studies 10:1 pp. 51–75 | article

Blevins, Juliette & Andrew Wedel 2009 Inhibited sound change: An evolutionary approach to lexical competition

Keywords: simulation | sound change | exceptionality | category evolution | anti-homophony | lexical competition | Evolutionary Phonology | character displacement

Diachronica 26:2 pp. 143–183 | article | open access

Haspelmath, Martin 2008 Ditransitive constructions: Towards a new Role and Reference Grammar account?

In: Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, Van Valin Jr., Robert D. (ed.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 105] p. 75

Khanina, Olesya & Andrey Shluinsky 2008 Finites structures in Forest Enets subordination: A case study of language change under strong Russian influence

In: Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages, Vajda, Edward J. (ed.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 300] pp. 63–75

Blevins, Juliette 2008 Natural and unnatural sound patterns: A pocket field guide

In: Naturalness and Iconicity in Language, Willems, Klaas & Ludovic De Cuypere (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 7] pp. 121–148

Khanina, Olesya 2008 How universal is wanting?

Keywords: semantics | macrofunctionality | typological sample | semantic prime | wanting | desiderative | mental-emotive semantic domain | modal semantic domain

Studies in Language 32:4 pp. 818–865 | article

Gil, David 2008 The acquisition of syntactic categories in Jakarta Indonesian

Studies in Language 32:3 pp. 637–669 | article

Haspelmath, Martin 2008 Author’s response

In: What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina & Anette Rosenbach (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 7] pp. 113–115

Call, Josep 2008 Chimpanzees are sensitive to some of the psychological states of others

Keywords: action | apes | attention | cognitive evolution | intention | perception | social cognition | theory of mind

In: Making Minds: The shaping of human minds through social context, Hauf, Petra & Friedrich Försterling (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 4] pp. 197–210

Haspelmath, Martin 2008 Does linguistic explanation presuppose linguistic description?

In: What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina & Anette Rosenbach (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 7] p. 81

Liszkowski, Ulf 2008 Human twelve-month-olds point cooperatively to share interest with and helpfully provide information for a communicative partner

Keywords: attitude | cooperation | helping | infant communication | inform | pointing | reference

In: Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller & Simone Pika (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 10] pp. 121–138

Pika, Simone, Katja Liebal, Josep Call & Michael Tomasello 2008 The gestural communication of apes

Keywords: apes | audience effects | flexibility | gestural communication | learning | repertoire

In: Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller & Simone Pika (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 10] pp. 35–49

Tomasello, Michael 2008 What kind of evidence could refute the UG hypothesis?: Commentary on Wunderlich

In: What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina & Anette Rosenbach (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 7] pp. 175–178

Haspelmath, Martin 2007 Ditransitive alignment splits and inverse alignment

Functions of Language 14:1 p. 79 | article

Wichmann, Søren 2007 The reference-tracking system of Tlapanec: Between obviation and switch-reference

Studies in Language 31:4 pp. 801–827 | article

Good, Jeff 2008 The phonetics of tone in Saramaccan

In: Structure and Variation in Language Contact, Deumert, Ana & Stephanie Durrleman (eds.) [Creole Language Library, 29] p. 9

Blevins, Juliette 2006 Nikolaus Ritt (2004). Selfish sounds and linguistic evolution: A Darwinian approach to language change

Studies in Language 30:3 pp. 633–640 | other

Striano, Tricia, Anne Henning & Amrisha Vaish 2006 Selective looking by 12-month-olds to a temporally contingent partner

Interaction Studies 7:2 pp. 233–250 | article

Striano, Tricia, Anne Henning & Daniel Stahl 2006 Sensitivity to interpersonal timing at 3 and 6 months of age

Interaction Studies 7:2 pp. 251–271 | article

Good, Jeff & Alan C.L. Yu 2008 Morphosyntax of two Turkish subject pronominal paradigms

In: Clitic and Affix Combinations: Theoretical perspectives, Heggie, Lorie & Francisco Ordóñez (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 74] pp. 315–341

Gil, David 2008 Word order without syntactic categories: How Riau Indonesian does it

In: Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages, Carnie, Andrew, Heidi Harley & Sheila Dooley (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 73] pp. 243–263

Gries, Stefan Th. & Stefanie Wulff 2005 Do foreign language learners also have constructions?

Keywords: corpora | constructions | priming | sorting

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 3:1 pp. 182–200 | article

Good, Jeff 2005 Reconstructing morpheme order in Bantu: The case of causativization and applicativization

Keywords: template | diachronic morphology | Bantu | causative | applicative | morpheme order

Diachronica 22:1 pp. 3–57 | article

Haspelmath, Martin 2004 Review of Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & R.M.W. Dixon (2001)

Studies in Language 28:1 pp. 209–223 | review article

Haspelmath, Martin 2006 1. Coordinating constructions: An overview

In: Coordinating Constructions, Haspelmath, Martin (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 58] pp. 3–39

Stilo, Donald 2006 11. Coordination in three Western Iranian languages: Vafsi, Persian and Gilaki

In: Coordinating Constructions, Haspelmath, Martin (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 58] pp. 269–330

Gil, David 2006 14. Riau Indonesian Sama : Explorations in macrofunctionality

In: Coordinating Constructions, Haspelmath, Martin (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 58] pp. 371–424

Berg, Helma 2006 8. Coordinating constructions in Daghestanian languages

In: Coordinating Constructions, Haspelmath, Martin (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 58] pp. 197–226

Diessel, Holger 2003 The relationship between demonstratives and interrogatives

Studies in Language 27:3 pp. 635–655 | article

Güldemann, Tom 2008 12. When ‘say’ is not say: The functional versatility of the Bantu quotative marker ti with special reference to Shona

In: Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains, Güldemann, Tom & Manfred von Roncador (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 52] pp. 253–287

Comrie, Bernard 2003 6. Morphophonological alternations: Typology and diachrony

In: Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer & Maria D. Voeikova (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 218] pp. 73–89

Comrie, Bernard 2008 Participles in Tsez: An emergent word class?

In: Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson, Bybee, Joan L. & Michael Noonan (eds.)  pp. 19–30

Comrie, Bernard 2008 “Love your enemies”: Affective constructions in two Daghestanian languages

In: Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer, Kenesei, István & Robert M. Harnish (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 90] pp. 59–72

Comrie, Bernard 2000 Review of Creolization and language change edited by Dany Adone & Ingo Plag (1994)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:1 pp. 221–225 | book review

Gensler, Orin D. 2001 Double-object marking in the Koran (Corrigendum to Gensler 1998)

Diachronica 17:1 pp. 219–221 | other

Hare, Brian, Josep Call & Michael Tomasello 2000 Communication of Food Location Between Human and Dog (Canis Familiaris)

Evolution of Communication 2:1 pp. 137–159 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.