Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Himmelmann - Publications
Monographs
| 2001 | Sourcebook on Tomini-Tolitoli Languages. General Information and Word Lists, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, xxii+436 pp. |
| 1999 | (with John Wolff), Toratán, München: Lincom (Languages of the World, Materials 130), 118 pp. |
| 1997 | Deiktikon, Artikel, Nominalphrase: Zur Emergenz syntaktischer Struktur, Tübingen: Niemeyer (Linguistische Arbeiten 362), 330 pp. (PDF here; higher-quality PDF here) |
| 1987 | Morphosyntax und Morphologie - Die Ausrichtungsaffixe im Tagalog, München: Fink (Studien zur theoretischen Linguistik Vol. 8), 207 pp. |
Edited Books
| 2006 | (with Jost Gippert & Ulrike Mosel), eds, Essentials of language documentation, Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 178, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter |
| 2005a | (with Karl Alexander Adelaar), eds, The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, London: Routledge, xxii+841 pp. |
| 2005b | (with Eva Schultze-Berndt), eds, Secondary predication and adverbial modification. The Typology of depictives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, xxv+448 pp. |
| 2005c | (with John Bowden), eds, Papers in Austronesian dialectology and subgrouping, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics |
| 2004 | (with Walter Bisang & Björn Wiemer), eds, What makes grammaticalization - a look from its components and its fringes, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, vi+354 pp. |
Articles
In print:
1. (with Margaret Florey) "New directions in field linguistics. Training strategies for language documentation in Indonesia", to appear in: Margaret Florey (ed.) Endangered languages of Austronesia, Oxford: OUP
2. “Language endangerment scenarios: A case study from northern Central
Sulawesi”, to appear in: Margaret Florey (ed.) Endangered languages of
Austronesia, Oxford: OUP (PDF here)
3. "Notes on Waima'a intonation", in: Michael Ewing & Marian Klamer (eds), Typological and Areal Analyses: Contributions from East Nusantara, Leiden: KITLV Press (PDF here)
4. "Notes on noun phrase structure in Tagalog", in: Michael Ewing & Simon Musgrave (eds), Special issue of Australian Journal of Linguistics (PDF here)
| 2008a | "Lexical categories and voice in Tagalog", in: Peter Austin & Simon
Musgrave (eds), Voice and Grammatical Relations in Austronesian
Languages, Stanford: CSLI, 247-293 (PDF here) |
| 2008b | "Reproduction and preservation of linguistic knowledge: Linguistics’
response to language endangerment", Annual Review of Anthropology
37:337–50 (Text here) |
| 2008c | (with Robert D. Ladd) "Prosodic Description: An Introduction for Fieldworkers", Language Documentation & Conservation 2(2):244–274 (PDF here) |
| 2006a | "Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for?", in: Jost
Gippert, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Ulrike Mosel (eds), Essentials of
language documentation, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1-30 (PDF here) |
| 2006b | "Prosody in language documentation", in: Jost
Gippert, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Ulrike Mosel (eds), Essentials of
language documentation, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 163-181 (PDF here) |
| 2006c | "The challenges of segmenting spoken language", in: Jost Gippert,
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Ulrike Mosel (eds), Essentials of language
documentation, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 253-274 (PDF here) |
| 2006d | "How to miss a paradigm or two: Multifunctional ma- in Tagalog", in:
Felix Ameka, Alan Dench & Nicholas Evans (eds), Catching Language,
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 27 pp. (PDF here) (New PDF) |
| 2005a | "The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar: Typological
overview", in: Karl Alexander Adelaar & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
(eds), The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar, 110-181,
London: Routledge (PDF here) |
| 2005b | "Tagalog", in: Karl Alexander Adelaar & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
(eds), The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar, 350-376,
London: Routledge (PDF here) |
| 2005c | (with Eva Schultze-Berndt), "Issues in the syntax and semantics of
participant-oriented adjuncts: an introduction", in: Nikolaus P.
Himmelmann & Eva Schultze-Berndt (eds), Secondary predication and
adverbial modification, 1-67 (PDF here) |
| 2005d | "Tagalog", Article 135 in: Geert Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan & Stavros Skopeteas (eds), Morphology. An International Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1473-1490 |
| 2005e | "Die austronesischen Sprachen: Einige strukturelle Charakteristika", in: Wilhelm R. Baier & Christian Zinko (eds), Die Sprache ist die Seele eines Volkes. Die großen Sprachfamilien, Graz: Leykam, 85-94 |
| 2005f | "Gram, construction, and class formation", in: Clemens Knobloch &
Burkhard Schaeder (eds), Wortarten und Grammatikalisierung:
Perspektiven in System und Erwerb, Berlin: de Gruyter, 79-93 (PDF here) |
| 2004a | (with Eva Schultze-Berndt), "Depictive secondary predicates in crosslinguistic perspective", Linguistic Typology 8:59-131 (PDF here) |
| 2004b | "On statives and potentives in western Austronesian (mostly Tagalog)", in: Paul Law (ed), Proceedings of Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 11:103-119 [ZAS Papers in Linguistics Nr 34, October 2004, Berlin] (PDF here) |
| 2004c | "Lexicalization and grammaticization: opposite or orthogonal?", in:
Walter Bisang, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Björn Wiemer (eds), What
makes grammaticalization - a look from its components and its fringes,
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 21-42 (PDF here) |
| 2004d | "Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics", in Osamu Sakiyama &
Fubito Endo (eds), Lectures on Endangered Languages 5: from the Tokyo
and Kyoto Conferences 2002, 37-83 [= extended version of Himmelmann
1998a] (PDF here) |
| 2003a | (with John Hajek & John Bowden), "Lóvaia: An East Timorese Language on the verge of extinction", International Journal of the Sociology of Language 160:155-167"Voice in two northern Sulawesi languages", in: Fay Wouk & Malcolm Ross (eds), The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 123-142 |
| 2003b | (with Karl Alexander Adelaar) "Die austronesischen Sprachen", in: Wilfried Seipel (ed.), Der Turmbau zu Babel. Ursprung und Vielfalt von Sprache und Schrift (Exhibition Catalogue), Vol. II, Milano: Skira, 81-85 |
| 2002a | "Voice in two northern Sulawesi languages", in: Fay Wouk & Malcolm Ross (eds), The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 123-142 |
| 2002b | "Eine bedrohte Sprache in Osttimor", gbs-bulletin 7:9-15 |
| 2002c | "Eine bedrohte Sprache in Osttimor", gbs-bulletin 7:9-15"Voice in Western Austronesian: An update", in: Fay Wouk & Malcolm Ross (eds), The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 7-16 |
| 2001a | "Articles", Article 62 in: Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard König, Wulf
Oesterreicher & Wolfgang Raible (eds), Language Typology and
Language Universals, Berlin: de Gruyter, 831-841 (PDF here) |
| 2001b | (with John Hajek), "A report on the current sociolinguistic situation in Lautém (East Timor)", Studies in Languages and Cultures of East Timor 4:88-97 |
| 2000 | "Towards a typology of typologies", Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 53:5-12 |
| 1999 | "The lack of zero anaphora and incipient person marking in Tagalog", Oceanic Linguistics 38:231-269 (PDF here) |
| 1998a | "Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics" Linguistics 36:161-195 (PDF here) |
| 1998b | "Regularity in irregularity: Article use in adpositional phrases", Linguistic Typology 2:315-353 |
| 1997 | "The paragogic vowel in Lauje (Tomini-Tolitoli): Phonology or Morphosyntax?", in: Cecilia Odé & Wim Stokhof (eds), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 81-104 |
| 1996a | "Person Marking and Grammatical Relations in Sulawesi", in: Hein Steinhauer (ed.), Papers in Austronesian Linguistics No. 3, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics (=PL A-84), 115-136 |
| 1996b | "Zum Aufbau von Sprachbeschreibungen", Linguistische Berichte 164:315-333 |
| 1996c | "Demonstratives in Narrative Discourse: A Taxonomy of Universal Uses", in: Barbara Fox (ed.), Studies in Anaphora, Amsterdam: Benjamins (= TSL 33), 203-252 (PDF here; higher-quality PDF here) |
| 1993 | "Material Ambitions", Languages of the World 7:66-68 |
| 1992 | Grammaticalization and Grammar, Arbeitspapier Nr. 16, Köln: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft |
| 1991a | "Tomini-Tolitoli Sound Structures", NUSA 33 (= James N. Sneddon (ed.), Studies in Sulawesi Languages, Part II), 49-70 |
| 1991b | The Philippine Challenge to Universal Grammar, Arbeitspapier Nr. 15, Köln: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft |
| 1986 | Morphosyntactic Predication. A functional-operational approach, akup 63, Köln: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft |
