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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.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 and Wolff, John (1999). Toratán (Ratahan). München: Lincom. ISBN 3-89586-147-2

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (1997). Deiktikon, Artikel, Nominalphrase: Zur Emergenz syntaktischer Struktur. Tübingen: Niemeyer. ISBN 978-3-484-30362-1

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (1987). Morphosyntax und Morphologie. Die Ausrichtungsaffixe im Tagalog. München: Fink. ISBN 3-7705-2493-4

Journal Article

Kaland, Constantijn ORCID: 0000-0002-1813-5902, Swerts, Marc and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2023). Red and blue bananas: Time-series f0 analysis of contrastively focused noun phrases in Papuan Malay and Dutch. Journal of Phonetics, 96. Elsevier. ISSN 0095-4470

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2022). Against trivializing language description (and comparison). Stud. Lang., 46 (1). S. 133 - 161. AMSTERDAM: JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO. ISSN 1569-9978

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

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 (2022). On the comparability of prosodic categories: why 'stress' is difficult. Linguistic Typology. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 1613-415X

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

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2022). Prosodic phrasing and the emergence of phrase structure. Linguistics, 60 (3). pp. 715-743. ISSN 1613-396X

Primus, Beatrice ORCID: 0000-0003-2669-4963, Kretzschmar, Franziska ORCID: 0000-0002-7800-2570, von Heusinger, Klaus ORCID: 0000-0001-8108-3191 and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2022). Relating Agent Prominence to Discourse Prominence: DO-Clefts in German. Linguistics, 60 (6). pp. 1811-1853. De Gruyter. ISSN 0024-3949

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2021). Against trivializing language description (and comparison). Studies in Language, 46. pp. 133-160. ISSN 0378-4177

Seifart, Frank ORCID: 0000-0001-9909-2088, Strunk, Jan ORCID: 0000-0001-8546-1778, Danielsen, Swintha, Hartmann, Iren, Pakendorf, Brigitte, Wichmann, Søren ORCID: 0000-0002-3257-3087, Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena ORCID: 0000-0003-0138-4635, Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 and Bickel, Balthasar ORCID: 0000-0002-9087-0565 (2021). The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages. Linguistics Vanguard, 7 (1). ISSN 2199-174X

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 and Kaland, Constantijn ORCID: 0000-0002-1813-5902 (2020). Repetition Reduction Revisited. Language and Speech, 63(1).

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

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.

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

Kaland, Constantijn ORCID: 0000-0002-1813-5902 and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2019). Repetition reduction revisited: The prosody of repeated words in Papuan Malay. Language and Speech, 63 (1). pp. 31-55. ISSN 0023-8309, 1756-6053

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395, Sandler, Meytal, Strunk, Jan ORCID: 0000-0001-8546-1778 and Unterladstetter, Volker (2018). On the universality of intonational phrases: a cross-linguistic interrater study. Phonology, 35 (2). pp. 207-245. ISSN 0952-6757

García García, Marco ORCID: 0000-0001-8816-1893, Primus, Beatrice and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2018). Shifting from animacy to agentivity. Theoretical Linguistics, 44 (1-2). pp. 25-39. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 0301-4428

García García, Marco ORCID: 0000-0001-8816-1893, Primus, Beatrice ORCID: 0000-0003-2669-4963 and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2018). Shifting from animacy to agentivity. Theoretical Linguistics, 44 (1-2). pp. 25-39. ISSN 1613-4060

Leh, Almut, Köhler, Joachim, Gref, Michael and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2018). Speech analytics in research based on qualitative interviews. Experiences from KA3. VIEW Journal of European Television History & Culture, 7 (14). pp. 138-149. ISSN 2213-0969

Reinöhl, Uta ORCID: 0000-0003-2829-682X and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2017). Renewal: A figure of speech or a process sui generis? Language, 93 (2). pp. 381-413. Linguistic Society of America. ISSN 1535-0665

Reinöhl, Uta ORCID: 0000-0003-2829-682X and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2017). Renewal: A figure of speech or a process sui generis? Language, 93 (2). pp. 381-413. ISSN 0097-8507

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

Reinöhl, Uta ORCID: 0000-0003-2829-682X and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2011). Review of Secondary predicates in Eastern European languages and beyond, edited by Christoph Schroeder, Gerd Hentschel & Winfried Boeder. Linguistic Typology, 15 (1). pp. 131-139. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 1430-0532

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2003). Lóvaia: An East Timorese Language on the Verge of Extinction. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 160. pp. 155-167. Berlin / New York: De Gruyter.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (1998). Documentary and descriptive linguistics. Linguistics (36). pp. 161-195. Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (1998). Regularity in irregularity: Article use in adpositional phrases. Linguistic Typology (2). pp. 315-353.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (1997). The paragogic vowel in Lauje (Tomini-Tolitoli): Phonology or Morphosyntax? Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. pp. 81-104. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (1996). Person Marking and Grammatical Relations in Sulawesi. Papers in Austronesian Linguistics (3). pp. 115-136. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (1996). Zum Aufbau von Sprachbeschreibungen. Linguistische Berichte (164). pp. 315-333. Buske. ISSN 0024-3930 (Print)

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (1993). Material Ambitions. Languages of the World (7). pp. 66-68. ISSN 0940-0788

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (1991). Tomini-Tolitoli Sound Structures. NUSA - Linguistic Studies of Indonesian and Other Languages in Indonesia (33). pp. 49-70. Jakarta: Univ.. ISSN 0126-2874

Book Section, Proceedings Item or annotation in a legal commentary

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.

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 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

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2020). Grammaticisation processes and reanalyses in Sulawesi languages. In: Areal patterns of grammaticalization and cross-linguistic variation in grammaticalization scenarios, pp. 1043-1075. Berlin: de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110559378

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 and Kaufman, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0003-0971-8409 (2020). Prosodic systems: Austronesia. In: The Oxford Handbook of Prosody, pp. 370-383. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198832232

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 and Kaland, Constantijn ORCID: 0000-0002-1813-5902 (2020). Time-series analysis of F0 in Papuan Malay constrastive focus. In: Proc. 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, pp. 230-234.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2019). Lingüísitca de la documentación: Qué es y para qué sirve. In: Lingüística de la documentación, pp. 65-96. Buenos Aires: EUDEBA. ISBN 9789502329505

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2019). Lingüística de la documentación. In: Lingüística de la documentación, pp. 65-96. Buenos Aires: Eudeba. ISBN 978-9-502-32950-5

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395, Kaland, Constantijn ORCID: 0000-0002-1813-5902 and Kluge, Angela (2019). Stress predictors in a Papuan Malay random forest. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XIX), pp. 2871-2875. Melbourne: ISBN 978-0-646-80069-1

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2018). Meeting the transcription challenge. In: Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication no. 15., pp. 33-40. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. ISBN 978-0-9973295-3-7

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2018). Meeting the transcription challenge. In: Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998 (Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 15), pp. 33-40. ISBN 978-0-9973295-3-7

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

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

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 (2015). Notes on 'noun phrase structure' in Tagalog. In: Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface, pp. 315-337. Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press. ISBN 978-3-95758-000-9

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 and Primus, Beatrice (2015). Prominence Beyond Prosody - A First Approximation. In: PS-prominenceS: Prominences in Linguistics. Proceedings of the International Conference, pp. 38-58. Viterbo: DISUCOM Press.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2002). Voice in Western Austronesian: An update. In: The history and typology of western Austronesian voice system, pp. 7-16. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 0-85883-477-4

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (1996). Demonstratives in Narrative Discourse: A Taxonomy of Universal Uses. In: Studies in Anaphora, pp. 205-254. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Conference or Workshop Item

Kaland, Constantijn ORCID: 0000-0002-1813-5902 and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2020). Time-series analysis of F0 in Papuan Malay contrastive focus. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020 (online conference), 2020, Online. Speech.

Kaland, Constantijn ORCID: 0000-0002-1813-5902, Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 and Kluge, Angela (2019). Stress predictors in a Papuan Malay random forest. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2019, Melbourne. Speech.

Köhler, Joachim, Leh, Almut, Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 and Rau, Felix ORCID: 0000-0003-4167-0601 (2018). Audio Mining für die Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften: Nutzungsszenarien und Herausforderungen. In: DHd 2018. Kritik der digitalen Vernunft. Konferenzabstracts. Universität zu Köln, 2018, Köln. Speech.

Kaland, Constantijn ORCID: 0000-0002-1813-5902, Bracks, Christoph ORCID: 0000-0002-5431-7682 and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2018). Repetition reduction in Papuan Malay prosody. In: Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, 2018, Poznań. Speech.

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.

Preprints, Working Papers or Reports

Strunk, Jan ORCID: 0000-0001-8546-1778, Walter, Oliver, Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2015). Lexicon discovery for language preservation using unsupervised word segmentation with Pitman-Yor language models. Technical Report.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (2002). Eine bedrohte Sprache in Osttimor. Project Report.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (1991). The Philippine Challenge to Universal Grammar. Working Paper.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. ORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8395 (1986). Morphosyntactic Predication. A functional-operational approach. Working Paper.