Paul Widmer
Prof. Dr. Paul Widmer

Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Deputy Head of Department
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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Gheg. Prague: Universal Dependencies Consortium.
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Object clause indexing in Albanian. In: Nevins, Andrew; Peti-Stanic, Anita; de Vos, Mark; Willer-Gold, Jana. Angles of object agreement. London: Oxford University Press, 327-339.
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Zwischen Wortbildung und Flexion. Verbalnomina auf *-mu- im Altirischen. In: Sommer, Florian; Stüber, Karin; Widmer, Paul; Yamazaki, Yoko. Indogermanische Morphologie in erweiterter Sicht : Grenzfälle und Übergänge. Innsbruck: Universität Innsbruck, 175-184.
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UD Gheg Pear Stories. University of Manchester ua: Universal Dependencies.
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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: 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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Convergence by shared ancestry in Romance. Journal of Language Contact, 14:53-71.
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Numeral classifiers and number marking in Indo-Iranian: A phylogenetic approach. Language Dynamics and Change, 11(2):273-325.
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Annotation Guidelines for the Vedic Treebank, v. 2. s.n. s.n., University of Zurich.
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Breton a-marking of (internal) verbal arguments: A result of language contact?. Linguistics, 58(3):745-766.
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The Treebank of Vedic Sanskrit. In: The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, online, 11 May 2020 - 16 May 2020, European Language Resources Association.
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A Treebank of Vedic Sanskrit. In: Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marseille, 11 May 2020 - 16 May 2020, Join GitHub.
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Rigvedische Komposita in der rekursiven Satzverknüpfung. In: Fritz, Matthias; Kitazumi, Tomoki; Veksina, Marina. Maiores philologiae pontes : Festschrift für Michael Meier-Brügger zum 70. Geburtstag. New York: Beech Stave Press, 224-235.
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Indeed, nothing lost in the Balkans: Assessing morphosyntactic convergence in an areal context. Balkanistica, 33:103-131.
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Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration. Science, 363(6432):eaav3218.