Paul Widmer
Prof. Dr. Paul Widmer

Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Deputy Head of Department
Head of Indo-European Studies Group
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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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Evidence for Britain and Ireland as a linguistic area. Language, 95(3):498-522.
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Prefixal articles across domains: Syntactic licensing in Albanian. Folia Linguistica:25-49.
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Vedisch gatáśrī- `glücklich' und nachvedisch gataśrī- `unglücklich'. In: Hackstein, Olav; Opfermann, Andreas. Priscis Libentius et Liberius Novis. Hamburg: Baar, 271-282.
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Ditransitive constructions in Tocharian. In: Korn, Agnes; Malchukov, Andrej. Ditransitive Constructions in a Cross-linguistic Perspective. Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 49-62.
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Towards a multivariate classification of event noun constructions in Middle Welsh. Journal of Celtic Linguistics, 19:31-68.
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Indogermanische Stammbäume. Datentypen und Methoden. In: Rieken, Elisabeth; Geupel, Ulrich; Roth, Theresa Maria. 100 Jahre Entzifferung des Hethitischen. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 373-388.
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Aðalhending, cynghanedd und kenganez. In: Gunkel, Dieter; Hackstein, Olav. Language and Meter. Leiden: Brill, 380-406.
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S, A, and P argument demotion with preverbal imm-(a-n) in Old and Middle Irish. Études Celtiques, 43:187-206.
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Cases, paradigms, affixes and indexes: Selecting grammatical relations in Middle Breton. In: Poppe, Erich; Stüber, Karin; Widmer, Paul. Referential properties and their impact on the syntax of Insular Celtic languages. Münster: Nodus, 217-246.
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Wortbildung bei Bacchylides. 2017, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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NP recursion over time: evidence from indo-european. Language, 93(4):799-826.
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Tocharian Dialectology. In: Joseph, Brian; Klein, Jared; Fritz, Matthias. Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1389-1396.
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Good to go: RV suprayāṇá-. In: Sandgaard Hansen, Bjarne. Usque ad Radices: Indo-European Studies in Honour of Birgit Anette Olsen. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, 801-814.
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Adapting verse and language in Middle Breton metrical texts. In: Harlos, Axel; Harlos, Neele. Adapting texts and styles in a Celtic context. Münster: Nodus, 229-236.
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Wie heiß ist Hethitisch?. In: Marquardt, Henning; Reichmuth, Silvio; García Trabazo, José Virgilio. Anatolica et indogermanica. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen, 301-313.
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Introduction: the diachrony of agreement. In: Fleischer, Jürg; Rieken, Elisabeth; Widmer, Paul. Agreement from a Diachronic Perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1-26.
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Vedische exozentrische Komposita mit drei Relationen. Indo-Iranian Journal, 58(1):26-47.