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Behr, Wolfgang (2010). Role of Language in Early Chinese Constructions of Ethnic Identity. Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 37(4):567-587.
Behr, Wolfgang (2008). Reimende Bronzeinschriften und die Entstehung der chinesischen Endreimdichtung. Bochum: Projekt Verlag.

Behr, Wolfgang (2013). Genealogie, Phonologie und Morphologie des Antikchinesischen. In: R.H. Gassmann & W. Behr, Grammatik des Antikchinesischen : Begleitband zu Antikchinesisch - Ein Lehrbuch in zwei Teilen, 399–464. Bern: P. Lang.

Behr, Wolfgang (2015). The language of the bronze inscriptions. In: Lineages and their Places in Ancient China: Based on Recently Discovered Bronzes, E.L. Shaughnessy (ed.), Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP.

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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.
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.
Bickel, Balthasar (2007). Typology in the 21st century: major current developments. Linguistic Typology, 11:239-251.
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.

Bickel, Balthasar (in press). Areas and universals. R Hickey (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics, Cambridge: CUP.

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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.
Birchall, Joshua; Danielsen, Swintha; Eriksen, Love; Galucio, Ana Vilacy; Van Gijn, Rik; Hammarström, Harald; Van de Kerke, Simon; Kolipakam, Vishnupraya; Krasnoukhova, Olga; Müller, Neele; O'Connor, Loretta (2014). The languages of South America: deep families, areal relationships, and language contact. In: O'Connor, Loretta; Muysken, Pieter. The Native Languages of South America. Origins, Development, Typology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 299-322.
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; 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.
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; 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; 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.
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.

Gardani, F (2008). Borrowing of inflectional morphemes in language contact. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Gardani, F (2012). Plural across inflection and derivation, fusion, and agglutination. In: L Johanson & M Robbeets (eds.) Copies versus cognates in bound morphology, 71-97. Leiden: Brill.

Gardani, F (2013). Dynamics of morphological productivity: The evolution of noun classes from Latin to Italian. Leiden & Boston: Brill.

Gardani, F (forthc.) Morphology and contact-induced language change. In Anthony Grant (ed.), The Oxford handbook of language contact. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gardani, F., P. Arkadiev & N. Amiridze (2015). Borrowed mophology: An overview. In F. Gardani, P. Arkadiev & N. Amiridze (eds.), Borrowed morphology, 1–23. Berlin, Boston & Munich: De Gruyter Mouton.

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Van Gijn, Rik (2015). Verbal synthesis in the guaporé-mamoré linguistic area: a contact feature?. Linguistic Discovery:96-122.
Van Gijn, Rik (2015). Aspects of the diachronic (in)stability of complex morphology. Linguistic Discovery:1-22.
Van Gijn, Rik (2014). The Andean foothills and adjacent Amazonian fringe. In: O'Connor, Loretta; Muysken, Pieter. The Native Languages of South America. Origins, Development, Typology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 102-125.
Van Gijn, Rik; Zúñiga, Fernando (2014). Word and the Americanist perspective. Morphology, 24(3):135-160.
Van Gijn, Rik (2014). Word accent and mapping rules in Yurakaré. Morphology, 24(3):223-244.

Gijn, R v, H Hammarström, S van de Kerke, O Krasnoukhova, & P Muysken. Accepted. Linguistic areas, linguistic convergence, and river systems in South America. In R Hickey (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of areal linguistics .

Gijn, R v & P Muysken. In press. Highland-lowland language interactions. To appear in: Adrian Pearce, David Beresford-Jones and Paul Heggarty (eds.) Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia ´Divide´: A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration.

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Jenny, Mathias (2015). The far West of Southeast Asia: ‘Give’ and ‘get’ in the languages of Myanmar. In: Enfield, Nick J; Comrie, Bernard. Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 155-208.
Jeszenszky, Péter; Weibel, Robert (2014). Correlating morphosyntactic dialect variation with geographic distance: Local beats global. In: GIScience 2014: Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Vienna (A), 23 September 2014 - 26 September 2014.
Jenny, Mathias (2011). Burmese in Mon syntax: external influence and internal development. In: Srichampa, Sophana; Sidwell, Paul; Gregerson, Kenneth. Austroasiatic Studies: papers from ICAAL 4. Dallas, Salaya, Canberra: SIL International. Mahidol University, Pacific Linguistics, 48-64.

Loporcaro, M (1988). Grammatica storica del dialetto di Altamura, Pisa: Giardini.

Loporcaro, M (1998). Sintassi comparata dell’accordo participiale romanzo. Turin: Rosenberg & Sellier.

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Technitis, Georgios; Othman, Walied; Safi, Kamran; Weibel, Robert (2015). From A to B, randomly: a point-to-point random trajectory generator for animal movement. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 29(6):912-934.
Birchall, Joshua; Danielsen, Swintha; Eriksen, Love; Galucio, Ana Vilacy; Van Gijn, Rik; Hammarström, Harald; Van de Kerke, Simon; Kolipakam, Vishnupraya; Krasnoukhova, Olga; Müller, Neele; O'Connor, Loretta (2014). The languages of South America: deep families, areal relationships, and language contact. In: O'Connor, Loretta; Muysken, Pieter. The Native Languages of South America. Origins, Development, Typology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 299-322.
Muysken, Pieter; Hammarström, Harald; Birchall, Joshua; Van Gijn, Rik; Krasnoukhova, Olga; Müller, Neele (2014). Linguistic areas: bottom-up or top-down? The case of the Guaporé-Mamoré. In: Comrie, Bernard; Golluscio, Lucia. Language Contact and Documentation / Contacto lingüístico y documentación. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 205-238.
Sibler, Pius; Weibel, Robert; Glaser, Elvira; Bart, Gabriela (2012). Cartographic Visualization in Support of Dialectology. In: The 2012 AutoCarto International Symposium on Automated Cartography, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 16 September 2012 - 18 September 2012.
Loporcaro, M (2012). A new strategy for progressive marking and its implications for grammaticalization theory: the subject clitic construction of Pantiscu. Studies in Language, 36(4):747-784.
Loporcaro, Michele (2012). Stems, endings and inflectional classes in Logudorese verb morphology. Lingue e linguaggio, 11(1):5-34.
Loporcaro, M (2012). Contact-induced change in personal pronouns: some Romance examples. In: Vanhove, M; Stolz, T; Urzde, A; Otsuka, H. Morphologies in Contact. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 207-225.
Loporcaro, M (2011). Syllable, segment and prosody. In: Maiden, M; Smith, J C; Ledgeway, A. The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages, vol. I, Structures (cap. II). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 50-108.
Loporcaro, M (2011). Phonological processes. In: Maiden, M; Smith, J C; Ledgeway, A. The Cambridge history of the Romance languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 109-154.
Schiering, René; Bickel, Balthasar; Hildebrandt, Kristine (2010). The prosodic word is not universal, but emergent. Journal of Linguistics, 46:657-709.
Loporcaro, M; D'Ancona, A R; Fatini, P (2010). Clitici soggetto nel dialetto di Pantelleria. Vox Romanica, 69:75-110.
Loporcaro, M (2007). On triple auxiliation in Romance. Linguistics, 45(1):173-222.

Widmer, Paul (2004). Das Korn des weiten Feldes. Interne Derivation, Derivationskette und Flexionsklassenhierarchie. Innsbruck: Inst. f. Sprachwissenschaft.

Widmer, Paul (2006). La métrique tokharienne: l’influence indienne et quelques développements tokhariens. In: G.-J. Pinault and D. Petit (eds.) La langue poétique indo-européenne, 523–535. Leuven: Peeters.

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Widmer, Paul (2012). Der Synkretismus der Kernkasus im Tocharischen. In: Kim, Ronald; Hackstein, Olav. Linguistic developments along the Silkroad. Wien: Akademie, 207-222.
Widmer, Paul (2012). Funktions- und Kombinationsrestriktionen bei der Mehrfachenklise von Pronomina im Hethitischen. Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, 66(2):319-333.
Widmer, Paul (2010). Die präverbale Partikel *hajV des Britannischen als komplexer Konjunktor. Die Sprache: Zeitschrift fuer Sprachwissenschaft, (48):255-262.

Zúñiga, F (2014). (Anti-)cliticization in Mapudungun Morphology 24.3: 161–175.