Balthasar Bickel - Selected Publications#

Google Scholar h-index = 31

Bickel, B., A. Witzlack-Makarevich, K. K. Choudhary, M. Schlesewsky, & I. Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, 2015. The Neurophysiology of Language Processing Shapes the Evolution of Grammar: Evidence from Case Marking. PLoS ONE 10, e0132819.

Stoll, S., T. Zakharko, S. Moran, R. Schikowski, & B. Bickel, 2015. Syntactic mixing across generations in an environment of community-wide bilingualism. Frontiers in Psychology 6:82

Bickel, B. & M. Gaenszle, 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. 2015. Distributional typology: statistical inquiries into the dynamics of linguistic diversity. In B. Heine & H. Narrog (eds.), The Oxford handbook of linguistic analysis, 2nd edition, 901 – 923. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bickel, B., A. Witzlack-Makarevich, & T. Zakharko, 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., T. Zakharko, L. Bierkandt, & A. Witzlack-Makarevich, 2014. Semantic role clustering: an empirical assessments of semantic role types in non-default case assignment. Studies in Language 38, 485–511.

Collier, K., B. Bickel, C. P. van Schaik, M. B. Manser, & S. W. Townsend, 2014. Language evolution: syntax before phonology? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281.

Bickel, B., 2014. Linguistic diversity and universals. In Enfield, N. J., P. Kockelman, & J. Sidnell (eds.)The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology, 102–127. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bickel, Balthasar. 2010. Capturing particulars and universals in clause linkage: a multivariate analysis. In Isabelle Bril (ed.), Clause-hierarchy and clause-linking: the syntax and pragmatics interface, 51–101. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Schiering, René, Balthasar Bickel & Kristine Hildebrandt. 2010. The prosodic word is not universal, but emergent. Journal of Linguistics 46. 657–709.