Wilson, Vanessa A D; Sauppe, Sebastian; Brocard, Sarah; Ringen, Erik J; Daum, Moritz M; Wermelinger, Stephanie; Gu, Nianlong; Andrews, Caroline; Isasi-Isasmendi, Arrate; Bickel, Balthasar; Zuberbühler, Klaus (2024). Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways. PLoS Biology, 22(11):e3002857.
Torres, Catalina; Morand, Marie-Anne; Sauppe, Sebastian; Bickel, Balthasar (2024). The Effects of Syntactic Dependencies and Speech Tempo on Macro-Rhythm. In: Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 2 Dezember 2024 - 5 Dezember 2024. ASSTA, 157-161.
Isasi-Isasmendi, Arrate; Andrews, Caroline; Flecken, Monique; Laka, Itziar; Daum, Moritz M; Meyer, Martin; Bickel, Balthasar; Sauppe, Sebastian (2023). The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension. Open Mind:1-43.
2022
Journal Article
Barbieri, Chiara; Blasi, Damián E; Arango-Isaza, Epifanía; Sotiropoulos, Alexandros G; Hammarström, Harald; Wichmann, Søren; Greenhill, Simon J; Gray, Russell D; Forkel, Robert; Bickel, Balthasar; Shimizu, Kentaro K (2022). A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119:47.
Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena; Nichols, Johanna; Hildebrandt, Kristine; Zakharko, Taras; Bickel, Balthasar (2022). Managing AUTOTYP Data: Design Principles and Implementation. In: Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L; McDonnell, Bradley; Koller, Eve; Collister, Lauren B. The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management. Cambridge: MIT Press, 632-642.
Collier, Katie; Radford, Andrew N; Stoll, Sabine; Watson, Stuart K; Manser, Marta B; Bickel, Balthasar; Townsend, Simon W (2020). Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 287(1935):20192514.
Bickel, Balthasar (2020). Large and ancient linguistic areas. In: Crevels, Mily; Musyken, Pieter. Language dispersal, diversification, and contact : a global perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 78 - 101.
Bickel, Balthasar; Nichols, Johanna (2020). Linguistic Typology and Hunter-Gatherer Languages. In: Güldemann, Tom; McConvell, Patrick; Rhodes, Richard. The Language of Hunter-Gatherers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 67-75.
Blasi, Damian; Cotterell, Ryan; Wolf-Sonkin, Lawrence; Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar; Baroni, Marco (2019). On the Distribution of Deep Clausal Embeddings: A Large Cross-linguistic Study. In: Korhonen, Anna; Traum, David; Màrquez, Lluís. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence: Association for Computational Linguistics, 3938-3943.
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.
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.
Book Section
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 (2017). Areas and universals. In: Hickey, Raymond. The Cambridge handbook of areal linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 40-55.
Bickel, Balthasar (2017). Belhare. In: Thurgood, Graham; LaPolla, Randy J. The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2nd, revised edition). London: Taylor & Francis, 546-570.
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.
Book Section
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 (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.
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.
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.
Schikowski, Robert; Bickel, Balthasar; Paudyal, Netra P (2013). Chintang Valency Patterns. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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.
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.
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.
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 (2006). Clause-level vs. predicate-level linking. In: Bornkessel, Ina; Schlesewsky, Matthias; Comrie, Bernard; Friederici, Angela D. Semantic role universals and argument linking: theoretical, typological and psycholinguistic perspectives. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 155 - 190.
2005
Journal Article
Gaenszle, Martin; Bickel, Balthasar; Banjade, Goma; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra; Rai, Arjun; Rai, Ichchha; Rai, Manoj; Rai, Novel Kishore; Rai, Vishnu Singh; Gautam, Narayan; Stoll, Sabine (2005). Research report: the Chintang and Puma Documentation Project (CPDP). European Bulletin Of Himalayan Research, 28:90-97.
Book Section
Bickel, Balthasar; Nichols, Johanna (2005). Exponence of selected inflectional formatives. In: Haspelmath, Martin; Dryer, Matthew S; Gil, David; Comrie, Bernard. The world atlas of language structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 90-93.
Bickel, Balthasar; Nichols, Johanna (2005). Fusion of selected inflectional formatives. In: Haspelmath, Martin; Dryer, Matthew S; Gil, David; Comrie, Bernard. The world atlas of language structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 86-89.
Bickel, Balthasar; Nichols, Johanna (2005). Inflectional synthesis of the verb. In: Haspelmath, Martin; Dryer, Matthew S; Gil, David; Comrie, Bernard. The world atlas of language structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 94-97.
Sharma (Gautam), Narayan P; Bickel, Balthasar; Gaenszle, Martin; Rai, Arjun; Rai, Vishnu S (2005). Personal and possessive pronouns in Puma (Southern Kiranti). In: Yadava, Yogendra P; Bhattarai, Govinda; Lohani, Ram Raj; Prasain, Balaram; Parajuli, Krishna. Contemporary issues in Nepalese linguistics. Kathmandu: Linguistic Society of Nepal, 225-233.
Nichols, Johanna; Bickel, Balthasar (2005). Possessive classification and obligatory possessive inflection. In: Haspelmath, Martin; Dryer, Matthew S; Gil, David; Comrie, Bernard. The world atlas of language structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 242-245.
Rai, Novel Kishore; Bickel, Balthasar; Gaenszle, Martin; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra P; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Stoll, Sabine (2005). Triplication and ideophones in Chintang. In: Yadava, Yogendra P. Current issues in Nepalese linguistics. Kirtipur: Linguistic Society of Nepal, 205-209.
Gaenszle, Martin; Bickel, Balthasar; Banjade, Goma; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra P; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Rai, Novel Kishore; Stoll, Sabine (2005). Worshipping the king god: a preliminary analysis of Chintang ritual language in the invocation of Rajdeu. In: Yadava, Yogendra P; Bhattarai, Govinda; Lohani, Ram Raj; Prasain, Balaram; Parajuli, Krishna. Contemporary issues in Nepalese linguistics. Kathmandu: Linguistic Society of Nepal, 33-47.
2004
Book Section
Bickel, Balthasar (2004). Hidden syntax in Belhare. In: Saxena, Anju. Himalayan languages : past and present. Berlin: De Gruyter, 141-190.
Bickel, Balthasar (2004). The syntax of experiencers in the Himalayas. In: Bhaskararao, Peri; Subbarao, Karumuri Venkata. Non-nominative subjects. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 77-112.
Bickel, Balthasar (2003). Belhare. In: Thurgood, Graham; LaPolla, Randy J. The Sino-Tibetan languages. London: Routledge, 546-570.
Bickel, Balthasar (2003). Prosodic tautomorphemicity in Sino-Tibetan. In: Bradley, David; LaPolla, Randy J; Michailovsky, Boyd; Thurgood, Graham. Variation in Sino-Tibetan and South East Asian languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 89-99.
2002
Book Section
Bickel, Balthasar (2002). Autotypologizing databases and their use in fieldwork. In: Austin, Peter K; Dry, Helen; Wittenburg, Peter. Proceedings of the International LREC Workshop on Resources and Tools in Field Linguistics, Las Palmas, 26 - 27 May 2002. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, online.
Bickel, Balthasar (1999). Cultural formalism and spatial language in Belhara. In: Bickel, Balthasar; Gaenszle, Martin. Himalayan space: cultural horizons and practices. Zürich: Museum of Ethnography, 75-104.
Bickel, Balthasar (1997). The possessive of experience in Belhare. In: Bradley, David. Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayas. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 135 - 155.
Bickel, Balthasar (1993). Belhare subordination and the theory of topic. In: Ebert, Karen H. Studies in Clause Linkage. Papers from the First Köln-Zürich Workshop. Zürich: Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft der Universität, 23 - 55.
Bickel, Balthasar (1992). The marking of future time reference in Züritüütsch. In: Dahl, Ö; de Groot, C; Tommola, H. Future time reference in European languages (= Eurotyp Working Paper Series VI – Tense and Aspect 2). Stockholm: Department of Linguistics, University of Stockholm, 73-84.
