Referential Hierarchies in Morphosyntax: description, typology, diachrony - "Differential agreement in Chintang"

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Balthasar Bickel
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: from 2009 to 2012
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 135496473

• Final Report Year: 2015

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• in press. Decomposing hierarchical alignment: co-arguments as conditions on alignment and the limits of referential hierarchies as explanations in verb agreement. Linguistics
  Witzlack-Makarevich, A., T. Zakharko, L. Bierkandt, F. Zúñiga, & B. Bickel
  
• 2010. The syntax of three-argument verbs in Chintang and Belhare (Southeastern Kiranti). In Malchukov, A., M. Haspelmath, & B. Comrie (eds.) Studies in ditransitive constructions: a comparative handbook, 382–408. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
  Bickel, B., M. Rai, N. Paudyal, G. Banjade, T. N. Bhatta, M. Gaenszle, E. Lieven, I. P. Rai, N. K. Rai, & S. Stoll
  
• 2011. Grammatical relations typology. In Song, J. J. (ed.) The Oxford handbook of language typology, 399–444. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  Bickel, B.
  
• 2011. Multivariate typology and field linguistics: a case study on detransitivization in Kiranti (Sino-Tibetan). In Austin, P. K., O. Bond, D. Nathan, & L. Marten (eds.) Proc. Conf. Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 3, 3–13. London: SOAS
  Bickel, B.
  
• 2013. Patterns of alignment in verb agreement. In Bakker, D. & M. Haspelmath (eds.) Languages across boundaries: studies in memory of Anna Siewierska, 15–36. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
  Bickel, B., G. Iemmolo, T. Zakharko, & A. Witzlack-Makarevich
  
• 2013. Symmetric and asymmetric alternations in direct object coding. Language Typology and Universals 66, 378 – 403
  Iemmolo, G.,
  
• 2013. Towards a questionnaire on grammatical relations: a project bridging between typology and field linguistics. Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology 124–134
  Bickel, B. & A. Witzlack-Makarevich
  
• 2014. Differential object marking and identifiability of the referent: a study of Chinese. Linguistics 52, 315–334
  Iemmolo, G. & G. F. Arcodia
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2013-0064)
• 2014. Typological evidence against universal effects of referential scales on case alignment. In Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., A. Malchukov, & M. Richards (eds.) Scales: a cross-disciplinary perspective on referential hierarchies, 7–43. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
  Bickel, B., A. Witzlack-Makarevich, & T. Zakharko
  
• 2015. Commonalities and differences between differential object marking and indexing. University of Zürich, Department of Comparative Linguistics, PDF: 35 S.
  Schikowski, R. & G. Iemmolo
  
• 2015. Exploring diachronic universals of agreement: alignment patterns and zero marking across person categories. In Fleischer, J., E. Rieken, & P. Widmer (eds.) Agreement from a diachronic perspective, 29 – 51. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
  Bickel, B., A. Witzlack-Makarevich, T. Zakharko, & G. Iemmolo
  
• 2015. First person objects, antipassives, and the political history of the Southern Kirant. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2, 63–86
  Bickel, B. & M. Gaenszle
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1515/jsall-2015-0003)
• 2015. Flexible valency in Chintang. In Comrie, B. & A. Malchukov (eds.) Valency classes in the world’s languages: a comparative handbook, 669 – 707. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
  Schikowski, R., N. P. Paudyal, & B. Bickel