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Riesberg, Sonja, Shiohara, Asako and Utsumi, Atsuko, eds. (2018). Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages. Berlin: Language Science Press. ISBN 978-3-96110-109-2

Riesberg, Sonja, Dawuda, Carmen, Haiduck, Lucas, Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 and Malcher, Kurt, eds. (2021). A Yali (Angguruk) – English – German dictionary. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.

Margetts, Anna ORCID: 0000-0002-0683-6947, Riesberg, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0002-0252-0910 and Hellwig, Birgit ORCID: 0000-0003-4696-0827 (2022). Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Riesberg, Sonja (2014). Symmetrical voice and linking in western Austronesian Languages. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 9781614518785

Zöllner, Ilse and Zöllner, Siegfried (2017). A Yali (Angguruk) – German dictionary: Wörterbuch Yali (Angguruk) – Deutsch. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 978-1-922185-39-6

Journal Article

Bardají i Farré, Maria ORCID: 0000-0003-3512-0435, Riesberg, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0002-0252-0910 and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2022). Limited-Control Predicates in Western Austronesia:Stative, Dynamic, or None of the Above? Oceanic Linguistics, 61 (1). pp. 118-165. University of Hawai'i Press. ISSN 0029-8115

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395, Riesberg, Sonja and Malcher, Kurt (2019). How universal is agent-first? Evidence from symmetrical voice languages. Language, 95(3). pp. 523-561.

Margetts, Anna ORCID: 0000-0002-0683-6947, Haude, Katharina ORCID: 0000-0003-1706-7060, Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395, Jung, Dagmar, Riesberg, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0002-0252-0910, Schnell, Stefan ORCID: 0000-0003-2036-2263, Seifart, Frank ORCID: 0000-0001-9909-2088, Sheppard, Harriet and Wegener, Claudia ORCID: 0000-0001-9993-7829 (2022). Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalisation of bring and take. Studies in Language. pp. 1-60. ISSN 0378-4177

Margetts, Anna ORCID: 0000-0002-0683-6947, Haude, Katharina ORCID: 0000-0003-1706-7060, Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395, Jung, Dagmar, Riesberg, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0002-0252-0910, Schnell, Stefan ORCID: 0000-0003-2036-2263, Seifart, Frank ORCID: 0000-0001-9909-2088, Sheppard, Harriet and Wegener, Claudia ORCID: 0000-0001-9993-7829 (2022). Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalization of bring and take. Studies in Language, 46 (4). pp. 934-993. John Benjamins. ISSN 0378-4177

Riesberg, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0002-0252-0910 (2019). 'Fern leaf, so you are challenging me?' Some Observations on the Lelegesan, a Form of Verbal Combat in Totoli. NUSA - Linguistic Studies of Indonesian and Other Languages in Indonesia (66). pp. 83-96. Univ.. ISSN 0126-2874

Riesberg, Sonja (2019). ‘Fern leaf, so you are challenging me?’ Some observations on the Lelegesan, a form of verbal combating in Totoli. Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia, 66. pp. 83-96. ISSN 0126-2874

Riesberg, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0002-0252-0910 (2018). Optional ergative, agentivity and discourse prominence - evidence from Yali (Trans-New Guinea). Linguistic Typology, 22 (1). pp. 17-50. ISSN 1613415X

Riesberg, Sonja (2018). Optional ergative, agentivity and discourse prominence – Evidence from Yali (Trans-New Guinea). Linguistic Typology, 22 (1). pp. 17-50. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 1430-0532

Riesberg, Sonja (2018). Optional ergative, agentivity, and discourse prominence – Evidence form Yali (TNG). Linguistic Typology, 22 (1). pp. 17-50. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 1430-0532

Riesberg, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0002-0252-0910, Bardají i Farré, Maria ORCID: 0000-0003-3512-0435, Malcher, Kurt and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2022). Predicting voice choice in symmetrical voice languages. All the things that do not work in Totoli. Studies in Language, 46 (2). 453 - 516. ISSN 0378-4177

Riesberg, Sonja and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2013). Symmetrical voice and applicative alternations: evidence from Totoli. Oceanic Linguistics, 52 (2). pp. 396-422. ISSN 0029-8115

Riesberg, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0002-0252-0910, Kalbertodt, Janina, Baumann, Stefan ORCID: 0000-0001-5963-6079 and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2020). Using Rapid Prosody Transcription to probe little-known prosodic systems: The case of Papuan Malay. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 11 (1). 8, 1-35. ISSN 1868-6354

Riesberg, Sonja, Malcher, Kurt and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. (2019). How universal is agent-first? Evidence from symmetrical voice languages. Language, 95 (3). pp. 523-561. Project MUSE. ISSN 1535-0665

Riesberg, Sonja, Malcher, Kurt and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2019). How universal is agent-first? Evidence from symmetrical voice languages. Language, 95 (3). pp. 523-561. LINGUISTIC SOC AMER. ISSN 1535-0665

Riesberg, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0002-0252-0910, Malcher, Kurt and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2019). How universal is agent-first? Evidence from symmetrical voice languages. Language, 95 (3). pp. 523-561. ISSN 0097-8507

Riesberg, Sonja and Primus, Beatrice (2015). Agent prominence in symmetrical voice languages. STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 68 (4). pp. 551-564. De Gruyter. ISSN 1867-8319

Book Section, Proceedings Item or annotation in a legal commentary

Hellwig, Birgit ORCID: 0000-0003-4696-0827 (2022). Expressing events of directed caused accompanied motion in Qaqet. In: Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, pp. 341-368. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027210982

Hellwig, Birgit ORCID: 0000-0003-4696-0827 and Jung, Dagmar (2022). Events of caused accompanied motion in Qaqet and D\"ne Sųłın\' child language corpora. In: Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, pp. 397-434. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027210982

Hellwig, Birgit ORCID: 0000-0003-4696-0827, Margetts, Anna ORCID: 0000-0002-0683-6947, Riesberg, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0002-0252-0910 and Schippling, Melanie (2022). Bringing and taking: A cross-linguistic perspective on caused accompanied motion events. In: Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, pp. 1-41. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027210982

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2018). Some preliminary observations on prosody and information structure in Austronesian languages of Indonesia and East Timor. In: Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages, pp. 347-374. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2018). Some preliminary observations on prosody and information structure in Austronesian languages of Indonesia and East Timor. In: Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages, pp. 347-374. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 and Riesberg, Sonja (2021). Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Totoli, a Western Austronesian language of Indonesia. In: Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395, Riesberg, Sonja, Kalbertodt, Janina and Baumann, Stefan ORCID: 0000-0001-5963-6079 (2018). On the perception of prosodic prominences and boundaries in Papuan Malay. In: Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages, pp. 389-414. Berlin: Language Science Press. ISBN 978-3-96110-108-5

Riesberg, Sonja (2021). Introduction to the Yali – English – German dictionary with a short grammatical sketch. In: A Yali (Angguruk) – English – German dictionary, Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.

Riesberg, Sonja (2014). Passive Actors are not Adjuncts – Consequences for the distinction between symmetrical and asymmetrical voice alternations. In: Argument realisations and related constructions in Austronesian languages. Papers from 12-ICAL, Volume 2., pp. 281-302. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.

Riesberg, Sonja (2018). Reflections on descriptive and documentary adequacy. In: Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication no. 15., pp. 151-156. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. ISBN 978-0-9973295-3-7

Riesberg, Sonja (2017). Some observations on word order in Western Austronesian symmetrical voice languages. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on Austronesian and Non-Austronesian Languages and Literature in Indonesia, pp. 3-18. Denpasar: Udayana University Press. ISBN 9786022942399

Riesberg, Sonja (2011). Symmetrical voice and the linking of objective arguments – An LFG approach. In: Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory 3., London: SOAS.

Riesberg, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0002-0252-0910 (2022). The expression of directed CAM events in Yali, a non-Austronesian language of New Guinea. In: Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, pp. 369-395. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027210982

Riesberg, Sonja (2015). A first take on information structure in Totoli - Reference management and its interrelation with voice selection. In: Proceedings of the second international workshop on information structure of Austronesian Languages,

Riesberg, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0002-0252-0910 (2017). An introduction to the Yali-German dictionary with a short grammatical sketch. In: Wörterbuch Yali (Angguruk) – Deutsch, Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 978-1-922185-39-6

Riesberg, Sonja and Kalbertodt, Janina (2016). Native speakers’ perception of prosodic prominence and its implication for information structure in Papuan Malay - a preliminary report. In: Proceedings of the third international workshop on information structure of Austronesian languages,

Riesberg, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0002-0252-0910, Kalbertodt, Janina, Baumann, Stefan ORCID: 0000-0001-5963-6079 and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2018). On the perception of prosodic prominences and boundaries in Papuan Malay. In: Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages, pp. 389-414. Berlin: Language Science Press. ISBN 978-3-96110-108-5

Riesberg, Sonja ORCID: 0000-0002-0252-0910, Malcher, Kurt and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2021). The many ways of transitivization in Totoli. In: Valency over time: Diachronic perspectives on valency patterns and valency orientation, pp. 235-264. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 9783110755602

Wegener, Claudia ORCID: 0000-0001-9993-7829 (2022). The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Savosavo. In: Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, John Benjamins.

Conference or Workshop Item

Riesberg, Sonja, Baumann, Stefan ORCID: 0000-0001-5963-6079, Kalbertodt, Janina and Himmelmann, Nikolaus ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2016). Native speakers’ perception of prosodic prominence and its implications for information structure in Papua Malay. Invited Talk. In: The 3rd International Workshop on Information Structure in Austronesian Languages, 18. - 20. Feb. 2016, Tokio, Japan. Speech.