Paul Widmer
Prof. Dr. Paul Widmer
Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Deputy Head of Institute
Head of Indo-European Studies Group
Email
Phone: +41 44 634 64 01
Office hours by appointment
Curriculum Vitae
Main research areas
Diachronic Linguistics, Morphosyntax, Iranian, Tocharian, Celtic, Vedic, Hittite
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Publications
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Advances in population genetics and language history: How large data sets and ancient DNA changed the picture In: Robbeets, Martine; Hudson, Mark . The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 193-209.
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The road to negation: A comparative study of five typologically and culturally diverse languages First Language:Epub ahead of print.
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A corpus approach to orthographic chunking: near-naive word separation in Swiss German text messages Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory:1-30.
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Uncovering genetic signatures of the Walser migration in the Alps: Patterns of diversity and differentiation Forensic Science International. Genetics, 76:103206.
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Inter-call intervals, but not call durations, adhere to Menzerath’s Law in the submissive vocal bouts of meerkats Royal Society Open Science, 11(12):241351.
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Areal and phylogenetic dimensions of word order variation in Indo-European languages Linguistics, 62(5):1085-1116.
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Atharvaveda Paippalada Zurich Edition Book 4 (Version 1.0.0) [Data set] www.swissubase.ch: LaRS — Language Repository of Switzerland.
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Word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses Diachronica, 40(4):532-556.
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Pairing peers and pears: Changing conventions of Gheg Albanian heritage speakers Language Dynamics and Change:1 - 26.
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Untersuchungen zu den Verbvalenzen im Vedischen 2023, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
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Detecting contact in language trees: a Bayesian phylogenetic model with horizontal transfer Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 9(1):205.
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Optionality in animal communication: a novel framework for examining the evolution of arbitrariness Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 97(6):2057-2075.
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R̥gvedic depictive adjectival compounds and their functions Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 8(1-2):41-57.
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Reassessing Rigvedic Strata Journal of the American Oriental Society, 141(4):847-865.
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Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity Cognitive Science, 45(11):e13056.
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Evaluating syntactic annotation of ancient languages Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia, 1(1):1-32.
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Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European Edited by: Keydana, Götz; Hock, Wolfgang; Widmer, Paul (2021). Berlin: de Gruyter.
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Comparison and Gradation in Indo- European: Introduction and Overview In: Keydana, Götz; Hock, Wolfgang; Widmer, Paul . Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1-34.
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Numeral classifiers and number marking in Indo-Iranian: A phylogenetic approach Language Dynamics and Change, 11(2):273-325.