Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History*

Titles

Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating

Edited by David Gil & Antoinette Schapper

Subjects Austronesian languages | Historical linguistics | Linguistics of isolated languages | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 129] 2020. | edited volume

Interaction and Iconicity in the Evolution of Language: Special issue of Interaction Studies 18:3 (2017)

Edited by Stefan Hartmann, Michael Pleyer, James Winters & Jordan Zlatev

Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies

[Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 18:3] 2017. | special issue

Language Dispersal Beyond Farming

Edited by Martine Robbeets & Alexander Savelyev

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

2017. | edited volume | 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

Sadowsky, Scott 2022 The Sociolinguistic Speech Corpus of Chilean Spanish (COSCACH): A socially stratified text, audio and video corpus with multiple speech styles

Keywords: speech corpora | Chilean Spanish | corpus design and construction | phonetics | sociolinguistics

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:1 p. 93 | article

Gates, Jesse P., Sami Honkasalo & Yunfan Lai 2022 From transitive to intransitive and voiceless to voiced in Proto-Sino-Tibetan: New evidence from Stau, Geshiza, and Khroskyabs

Keywords: transitive and intransitive verb stems | sigmatic causative | anticausative | voicing assimilation | West Gyalrongic

Language and Linguistics 23:2 pp. 212–239 | article | open access

Bodt, Timotheus A. & Johann-Mattis List 2021 Reflex prediction: A case study of Western Kho-Bwa

Keywords: prediction | word prediction | comparative method | regularity of sound change | computer-assisted language comparison | Western Kho-Bwa | preregistered research | reflex prediction

Diachronica 39:1 pp. 1–38 | article | open access

Lai, Yunfan 2021  Come is the new go : The evolution of stem alternation of basic motion verbs in Khroskyabs

Keywords: motion verbs | orientation | stem alternation | Khroskyabs | Rgyalrongic

Language and Linguistics 22:2 pp. 338–375 | article | open access

Chechuro, Ilia Yu. 2021 Lexical convergence reflects complex historical processes: A case study of two borderline regions of Russia

Keywords: Rutul | Tsezic | loanwords | East Caucasian | lexicon | sociolinguistics | linguistic convergence

In: Language contact in the territory of the former Soviet Union, Forker, Diana & Lenore A. Grenoble (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 50] pp. 35–58

Oskolskaya, Sofia, Ezequiel Koile & Martine Robbeets 2021 A Bayesian approach to the classification of Tungusic languages

Keywords: Tungusic languages | language classification | Bayesian phylogenetics | family time depth | basic vocabulary | language phylogeny

Diachronica 39:1 pp. 128–158 | article

Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L., Claire Bowern & Erich R. Round 2021 Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics

Keywords: historical signal | phylogenetic comparative methods | historical linguistics | phonology | comparative linguistics | linguistic phylogenetics | Pama-Nyungan | Australian languages

Diachronica 38:2 pp. 210–258 | article | open access

Gil, David & Antoinette Schapper 2020 Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating

In: Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating, Gil, David & Antoinette Schapper (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 129] p.  ff.

Gil, David 2020 What does it mean to be an isolating language?: The case of Riau Indonesian

Keywords: Riau Indonesian | isolating | wordhood | ludlings

In: Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating, Gil, David & Antoinette Schapper (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 129] pp. 9–96

Gil, David 2020 Dual heritage: The story of Riau Indonesian and its relatives

Keywords: isolating | Riau Indonesian | creolisation | dual heritage | language contact | complexity | Mekong-Mamberamo

In: Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating, Gil, David & Antoinette Schapper (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 129] pp. 119–212

Gil, David & Antoinette Schapper 2020 Introduction

In: Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating, Gil, David & Antoinette Schapper (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 129] pp. 1–8

Auderset, Sandra 2020 Interrogatives as relativization markers in Indo-European

Keywords: diachronic typology | interrogatives | relative clauses | Indo-European languages | areal features | morphosyntactic change

Diachronica 37:4 pp. 474–513 | article | open access

Verkerk, Annemarie 2019 Detecting non-tree-like signal using multiple tree topologies

Keywords: Bayesian phylogenetic inference | Austronesian | Sinitic | Indo-European | Japonic | language contact | reticulation

Journal of Historical Linguistics 9:1 p. 9 | article

Jacques, Guillaume & Johann-Mattis List 2019 Save the trees: Why we need tree models in linguistic reconstruction (and when we should apply them)

Keywords: tree model | Historical Glottometry | phylogenetic networks | incomplete lineage sorting

Journal of Historical Linguistics 9:1 pp. 128–167 | article

Barlow, Russell 2020 Agent demotion through inverted word order: Syntactic passives in Ulwa

Keywords: passive | subject-verb inversion | verbal morphology | word order

Studies in Language 43:4 pp. 1015–1037 | article

Lai, Yunfan 2019 Relativisation in Wobzi Khroskyabs and the integration of genitivisation

Keywords: relativisation | genitive | complementation | Khroskyabs | Wobzi | Tibeto-Burman | Trans-Himalayan languages | Sino-Tibetan | morphosyntax | grammaticalisation

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 41:2 pp. 219–262 | article

Haspelmath, Martin 2018 Baker, Mark. 2015. Case

Studies in Language 42:2 pp. 474–486 | book review

Robbeets, Martine 2017 Farming/Language Dispersal: Food for thought

In: Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine & Alexander Savelyev (eds.)  pp. 1–23 | open access

Robbeets, Martine 2017 The language of the Transeurasian farmers

Keywords: Transeurasian | Farming Language Dispersal Hypothesis | genealogical relatedness | homeland | Neolithic

In: Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine & Alexander Savelyev (eds.)  p. 93 | open access

Savelyev, Alexander 2017 Farming-related terms in Proto-Turkic and Proto-Altaic

Keywords: Proto-Turkic | Proto-Altaic | agriculture | pastoralism | cultural reconstruction

In: Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine & Alexander Savelyev (eds.)  pp. 123–154 | open access

Pleyer, Michael, Stefan Hartmann, James Winters & Jordan Zlatev 2017 Interaction and iconicity in the evolution of language: Introduction to the special issue

Keywords: interaction | iconicity | language evolution

Interaction Studies 18:3 pp. 303–313 | Introduction

Robbeets, Martine & Alexander Savelyev 2017 Language Dispersal Beyond Farming

In: Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine & Alexander Savelyev (eds.)  | open access

Robbeets, Martine 2016 Chapter 9. Insubordination and the establishment of genealogical relationship across Eurasia

In: Insubordination, Evans, Nicholas & Honoré Watanabe (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 115] pp. 209–246

Hartmann, Iren, Martin Haspelmath & Michael Cysouw 2016 Identifying semantic role clusters and alignment types via microrole coexpression tendencies

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

In: Advances in Research on Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo & Fernando Zúñiga (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 88] pp. 27–49

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