Balthasar Bickel, Prof. Dr. Professor of General Linguistics Tel.: +41 44 63 40220 balthasar.bickel@uzh.ch Webseite ZORA-Abfrage CSV EndNote BibTeX XML Export Derungs, Curdin ; Köhl, Martina ; Weibel, Robert ; Bickel, Balthasar (2018). Environmental factors drive language density more in food-producing than in hunter–gatherer populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 285(1885):20172851. Townsend, Simon W ; Engesser, Sabrina ; Stoll, Sabine ; Zuberbühler, Klaus ; Bickel, Balthasar (2018). Compositionality in animals and humans. PLoS Biology, 16(8):e2006425. Seifart, Frank ; Strunk, Jan ; Danielsen, Swintha ; Hartmann, Iren ; Pakendorf, Brigitte ; Wichmann, Søren ; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena ; de Jong, Nivja H ; Bickel, Balthasar (2018). Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, (201800708):1-6. Stoll, Sabine ; Mazara, Jekatarina ; Bickel, Balthasar (2017). The acquisition of polysynthetic verb forms in Chintang. In: Fortescue, Michael D ; Mithun, Marianne ; Evans, Nicholas . The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 495 - 514. Bickel, Balthasar ; Zúñiga, Fernando (2017). The ‘word’ in polysynthetic languages : phonological and syntactic challenges. In: Fortescue, Michael D. ; Mithun, Marianne ; Evans, Nicholas . The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 158 - 185. Bickel, Balthasar (2017). Areas and universals. In: Hickey, Raymond . The Cambridge handbook of areal linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 40-55. Widmer, Manuel ; Auderset, Sandra ; Nichols, Johanna ; Widmer, Paul ; Bickel, Balthasar (2017). NP recursion over time: evidence from indo-european. Language. Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, 93(4):799-826. Bickel, Balthasar (2017). Belhare. In: Thurgood, Graham ; LaPolla, Randy J . The Sino-Tibetan Languages. London: Taylor & Francis, 546-570. Townsend, Simon W ; Koski, Sonja E ; Byrne, Richard W ; Slocombe, Katie E ; Bickel, Balthasar ; Boeckle, Markus ; Braga Goncalves, Ines ; Burkart, Judith M ; Flower, Tom ; Gaunet, Florence ; Glock, Hans Johann ; Gruber, Thibaud ; Jansen, David A W A M ; Liebal, Katja ; Linke, Angelika ; Miklósi, Ádám ; Moore, Richard ; van Schaik, Carel P ; Stoll, Sabine ; Vail, Alex ; Waller, Bridget M ; Wild, Markus ; Zuberbühler, Klaus ; Manser, Marta B (2017). Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 92(3):1427-1433. Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena ; Zakharko, Taras ; Bierkandt, Lennart ; Zúñiga, Fernando ; Bickel, Balthasar (2016). Decomposing hierarchical alignment: Co-arguments as conditions on alignment and the limits of referential hierarchies as explanations in verb agreement. Linguistics, 54(3):531-561. Schikowski, Robert ; Bickel, Balthasar ; Paudyal, Netra P (2015). Flexible valency in Chintang. In: Malchukov, Andrej ; Comrie, Bernard . Valency Classes in the World's Languages. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 669-708. Bickel, Balthasar ; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena ; Choudhary, Kamal K ; Schlesewsky, Matthias ; Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina (2015). The neurophysiology of language processing shapes the evolution of grammar: evidence from case marking. PLoS ONE, 10(8):e0132819. Bickel, Balthasar ; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena ; Zakharko, Taras ; Iemmolo, Giorgio (2015). Exploring diachronic universals of agreement: alignment patterns and zero marking across person categories. In: Fleischer, Jürg ; Rieken, Elisabeth ; Widmer, Paul . Agreement from a diachronic perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 29 - 51. Bickel, Balthasar (2015). Distributional typology: statistical inquiries into the dynamics of linguistic diversity. In: Heine, Bernd ; Narrog, Heiko . The Oxford handbook of linguistic analysis, 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 901 - 923. Stoll, Sabine ; Zakharko, Taras ; Moran, Steven ; Schikowski, Robert ; Bickel, Balthasar (2015). Syntactic mixing across generations in an environment of community-wide bilingualism. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:82. Bickel, Balthasar ; Gaenszle, Martin (2015). First person objects, antipassives, and the political history of the Southern Kirant. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2(1):63-86. Bickel, Balthasar (2014). Sprachliche Vielfalt im Wechselspiel von Natur und Kultur. In: Glaser, Elvira ; Kolmer, Agnes ; Meyer, Martin ; Stark, Elisabeth . Sprache(n) Verstehen: eine interdisziplinäre Vorlesungsreihe. Zürich: vdf Hochschulverlag, 101-126. Bickel, Balthasar ; Zakharko, Taras ; Bierkandt, Lennart ; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena (2014). Semantic role clustering: an empirical assessments of semantic role types in non-default case assignment. Studies in Language, 38(3):485 - 511. Bickel, Balthasar ; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena ; Zakharko, Taras (2014). Typological evidence against universal effects of referential scales on case alignment. In: Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina ; Malchukov, Andrej ; Richards, Marc . Scales and Hierarchies: a cross-disciplinary perspective on referential hierarchies. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 7-44. Bickel, Balthasar (2014). Linguistic diversity and universals. In: Enfield, N J ; Kockelman, Paul ; Sidnell, Jack . The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 101-124. Collier, Katie ; Bickel, Balthasar ; van Schaik, Carel P ; Manser, Marta B ; Townsend, Simon W (2014). Language evolution: syntax before phonology?. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 281(1788):20140263. Schikowski, Robert ; Bickel, Balthasar ; Paudyal, Netra P (2013). Chintang Valency Patterns. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena ; Bickel, Balthasar (2013). Towards a questionnaire on grammatical relations: a project bridging between typology and field linguistics. Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology, 2:124-134. Stoll, Sabine ; Bickel, Balthasar (2013). Capturing diversity in language acquisition research. In: Bickel, Balthasar ; Grenoble, Lenore A ; Peterson, David A ; Timberlake, Alan . Language Typology and Historical Contingency. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 195 - 216. Bickel, Balthasar (2013). Distributional biases in language families. In: Bickel, Balthasar ; Grenoble, Lenore A ; Peterson, David A ; Timberlake, Alan . Language typology and historical contingency. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 415-444. Language typology and historical contingency. Edited by: Bickel, Balthasar ; Grenoble, Lenore A ; Peterson, David A ; Timberlake, Alan (2013). Amsterdam: Benjamins. Stoll, Sabine ; Bickel, Balthasar (2013). The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang. In: Stoll, Sabine ; Bavin, Edith . The acquisition of ergativity. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 183-207. Gaenszle, Martin ; Rai, Ichchha Purna ; Pettigrew, Judith ; Rai, Manoj ; Bickel, Balthasar ; Banjade, Goma ; Bhatta, Toya Nath ; Lieven, Elena ; Paudyal, Netra P ; Stoll, Sabine (2013). Resisting the state in East Nepal: the `Chintang incident' of 1979 and the politics of commemoration. In: Lecomte-Tilouine, Marie . Revolution in Nepal: an anthropological and historical approach to the People's War. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 97 - 113. Bickel, Balthasar ; Iemmolo, Giorgio ; Zakharko, Taras ; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena (2013). Patterns of alignment in verb agreement. In: Bakker, Dik ; Haspelmath, Martin . Languages across boundaries : Studies in memory of Anna Siewierska. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 15-36. Stoll, Sabine ; Bickel, Balthasar ; Lieven, Elena ; Banjade, Goma ; Bhatta, Toya Nath ; Gaenszle, Martin ; Paudyal, Netra P ; Pettigrew, Judith ; Rai, Ichchha Purna ; Rai, Manoj ; Rai, Novel Kishore (2012). Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children's usage and surrounding adult speech. Journal of Child Language, 39(2):284 - 321. Bender, Emily M ; Schikowski, Robert ; Bickel, Balthasar (2012). Deriving a lexicon for a precision grammar from language documentation resources: a case study of Chintang. In: Kay, M ; Boitet, C . Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Mumbai: Association for Computational Linguistics, 247-262. Schackow, Diana ; Bickel, Balthasar ; Rai, Shree Kumar ; Sharma (Gautam), Narayan P ; Rai, Arjun ; Gaenszle, Martin (2012). Morphosyntactic properties and scope behavior of ‘subordinate’ clauses in Puma (Kiranti). In: Gast, Volker ; Diessel, Holger . Clause-combining in cross-linguistic perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter, 105-126. Stoll, Sabine ; Bickel, Balthasar (2012). How to measure frequency? Different ways of counting ergatives in Chintang (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) and their implications. In: Seifart, Frank ; Haig, Geoffrey L J ; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P ; Jung, Dagmar ; Margetts, Anna ; Trilsbeek, Paul ; Wittenburg, Peter . Potentials of language documentation: methods, analyses, utilization. Manoa: University of Hawai‘i Press, 84-90. Schiering, René ; Bickel, Balthasar ; Hildebrandt, Kristine (2012). Stress-timed = word-based? Testing a hypothesis in Prosodic Typology. STUF, 65(2):157-168. Gaenszle, Martin ; Bickel, Balthasar ; et al (2011). Binomials and the noun-to-verb ratio in Puma Rai ritual speech. Anthropological Linguistics, 53:365-381. Bickel, Balthasar (2011). Multivariate typology and field linguistics: a case study on detransitivization in Kiranti (Sino-Tibetan). In: Austin, Peter K ; Bond, Oliver ; Nathan, David ; Marten, Lutz . Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 3. London: SOAS, 3-13. Bickel, Balthasar (2011). Statistical modeling of language universals. Linguistic Typology, 15(2):401 - 414. राई, नोवल किशोर ; राई, मनोज ; पौड्याल, नेत्र प्रसाद ; Schikowski, Robert ; Bickel, Balthasar ; Stoll, Sabine ; Gaenszle, Martin ; बन्जादे, गोमा ; राई, इच्छा पूर्णा ; भट्ट, तोया नाथ ; Sauppe, Sebastian ; राई, रिखी माया ; राई, जनक कुमारी ; राई, लास कुमारी ; राई, दुर्ग बहादुर ; राई, गणेश ; राई, दयाराम ; राई, दुर्ग कुमारी ; राई, अनिता ; राई, चन्द्र कुमारी ; राई, शन्ति माया ; राई, रविन्द्र कुमार ; Pettygrew, Judith ; Dirksmeyer, Tyko (2011). छिन्ताङ-नेपाली-अँग्रेजी शब्दकोश तथा व्याकरण. Kathmandu: MPI. Bickel, Balthasar (2011). Absolute and statistical universals. In: Hogan, Patrick Colm . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 77-79. Bickel, Balthasar (2011). Grammatical relations typology. In: Song, Jae Jung . The Oxford Handbook of Language Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 399 - 444. Bickel, Balthasar ; Rai, Manoj ; Paudyal, Netra P ; Banjade, Goma ; Bhatta, Toya Nath ; Gaenszle, Martin ; Lieven, Elena ; Rai, Ichchha Purna ; Rai, Novel Kishore ; Stoll, Sabine (2010). The syntax of three-argument verbs in Chintang and Belhare (Southeastern Kiranti). In: Malchukov, Andrej ; Haspelmath, Martin ; Comrie, Bernard . Studies in ditransitive constructions: a comparative handbook. Berlin: De Gruyter, 382-408. Paudyal, Netra P ; Bickel, Balthasar ; Schikowski, Robert ; Stoll, Sabine ; Lieven, Elena ; Banjade, Goma ; Rai, Ichchha Purna ; Rai, Manoj ; Gaenszle, Martin ; Rai, Novel Kishore ; Bhatta, Toya Nath (2010). Non-finite adverbial subordination in Chintang. Nepalese Linguistics, 25:121-132. Schiering, René ; Bickel, Balthasar ; Hildebrandt, Kristine (2010). The prosodic word is not universal, but emergent. Journal of Linguistics, 46:657-709. Bickel, Balthasar (2010). Capturing particulars and universals in clause linkage: a multivariate analysis. In: Bril, Isabelle . Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy : Syntax and Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 51 - 102. Rai, Vishnu S ; Rai, Srikumar Puma ; Gautam Sharma, Narayan P ; Rai, Arjun ; Cintan, Gane Puma ; Günther, Sabine ; Schackow, Diana ; Gaenszle, Martin ; Pettigrew, Judith ; Bickel, Balthasar (2009). पुमा शब्दकोश तथा व्याकरण. Lalitpur: Kirāt Pumā Rāī Tupkhābāṅkhālā. Wang, Luming ; Schlesewsky, Matthias ; Bickel, Balthasar ; Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina (2009). Exploring the nature of the `subject'-preference: evidence from the online comprehension of simple sentences in Mandarin Chinese. Language And Cognitive Processes, 24(7-8):1180 - 1226. Stoll, Sabine ; Bickel, Balthasar (2009). How deep are differences in referential density?. In: Guo, Jiansheng ; Lieven, Elena ; Budwig, Nancy ; Ervin-Tripp, Susan ; Nakamura, Keiko ; Özçalişkan, Şeyda . Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language: research in the traditions of Dan Slobin. London: Psychology Press, 543-555. Bickel, Balthasar ; Nichols, Johanna (2009). The geography of case. In: Malchukov, Andrej ; Spencer, Andrew . The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 479-493. Bickel, Balthasar ; Nichols, Johanna (2009). Case marking and alignment. In: Malchukov, Andrej ; Spencer, Andrew . The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 304-321. Bickel, Balthasar ; Hildebrandt, Kristine ; Schiering, René (2009). The distribution of phonological word domains: a probabilistic typology. In: Grijzenhout, Janet ; Kabak, Bariş . Phonological domains: universals and deviations. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 47-75. Rai, Ichchha Purna ; Bickel, Balthasar ; Lieven, Elena ; Banjade, Goma ; Gaenszle, Martin ; Rai, Manoj ; Paudyal, Netra P ; Rai, Novel Kishore ; Stoll, Sabine ; Bhatta, Toya Nath (2009). Mundum: a case study of Chintang ritual language. In: Mukherjee, Rila ; Rajesh, M N . Locality, History, Memory: The Making of the Citizen in South Asia. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 20-33. Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina ; Choudhary, Kamal K ; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena ; Bickel, Balthasar (2008). Bridging the gap between processing preferences and typological distributions: initial evidence from the online comprehension of control constructions in Hindi. In: Malchukov, Andrej ; Richards, Marc . Scales. Leipzig: Institut für Linguistik der Universität Leipzig, 397-436. Bickel, Balthasar ; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena (2008). Referential scales and case alignment: reviewing the typological evidence. In: Malchukov, Andrej ; Richards, Marc . Scales. Leipzig: Institut für Linguistik der Universität Leipzig, 1-37. Theory and typology of the word. Edited by: Hildebrandt, Kristine ; Hall, Tracy Alan ; Bickel, Balthasar (2008). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Bickel, Balthasar (2008). A refined sampling procedure for genealogical control. STUF - Language Typology And Universals, 61:221-233. Bickel, Balthasar (2008). On the scope of the referential hierarchy in the typology of grammatical relations. In: Corbett, Greville G ; Noonan, Michael . Case and grammatical relations: papers in honor of Bernard Comrie. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 191-210. Hall, Tracy Alan ; Hildebrandt, Kristine ; Bickel, Balthasar (2008). Introduction: theory and typology of the word. Linguistics, 46:183-192. Bickel, Balthasar (2008). Verb agreement and epistemic marking: a typological journey from the Himalayas to the Caucasus. In: Huber, Brigitte ; Volkart, Marianne ; Widmer, Paul . Chomolangma, Demawend und Kasbek : Festschrift für Roland Bielmeier zu seinem 65. Geburtstag. Halle (Saale): International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 1 - 14. Bickel, Balthasar ; Nichols, Johanna (2007). Inflectional morphology. In: Shopen, Timothy . Language typology and syntactic description (revised Second Edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 169-240. Bickel, Balthasar ; Gaenszle, Martin ; Rai, Arjun ; Rai, Prem Dhoj ; Rai, Shree Kumar ; Rai, Vishnu S ; Sharma (Gautam), Narayan P (2007). Two ways of suspending object agreement in Puma: between incorporation, antipassivization, and optional agreement. Himalayan Linguistics, 7:1-18. Bickel, Balthasar ; Banjade, Goma ; Gaenszle, Martin ; Lieven, Elena ; Paudyal, Netra P ; Rai, Ichchha Purna ; Rai, Manoj ; Rai, Novel Kishore ; Stoll, Sabine (2007). Free prefix ordering in Chintang. Language, 83(1):43-73. Bickel, Balthasar (2007). Typology in the 21st century: major current developments. Linguistic Typology, 11:239-251. Bickel, Balthasar ; Nichols, Johanna (2006). Oceania, the Pacific Rim, and the theory of linguistic areas. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 32S:3-15. Janssen, Dirk ; Bickel, Balthasar ; Zúñiga, Fernando (2006). 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