Paul Widmer

Prof. Dr. Paul Widmer

Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Deputy Head of Institute
Head of Indo-European Studies Group

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Diachronic Linguistics, Morphosyntax, Iranian, Tocharian, Celtic, Vedic, Hittite

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Widmer, Paul; Zehnder, Thomas; Griffiths, Arlo (2023). Atharvaveda Paippalāda manuscripts (1.0.0) [Dataset] : LaRS - Language Repository of Switzerland.
Widmer, Paul (2023). Britannisch und der Verlust der Numerus- und Genuskongruenz in der Geschichte des Englischen In: Heinzle Marti, Mirjam; Thöny, Luzius . Swe gamelith is: Studien zur vergleichenden germanischen Sprachwissenschaft: Festschrift für Ludwig Rübekeil zum 65. Geburtstag. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 169-176.
Ebert, Christian; Levshina, Natalia; Widmer, Paul (2023). ParTree - Parallel Treebanks: A multilingual corpus of movie subtitle www.swissubase.ch: LaRS — Language Repository of Switzerland.
Neureiter, Nico; Ranacher, Peter; Efrat-Kowalsky, Nour; Kaiping, Gereon A; Weibel, Robert; Widmer, Paul; Bouckaert, Remco R (2022). Detecting contact in language trees: a Bayesian phylogenetic model with horizontal transfer Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 9(1):205.
Watson, Stuart K; Filippi, Piera; Gasparri, Luca; Falk, Nikola; Tamer, Nicole; Widmer, Paul; Manser, Marta; Glock, Hans‐Johann (2022). Optionality in animal communication: a novel framework for examining the evolution of arbitrariness Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 97(6):2057-2075.
Widmer, Paul; Scarlata, Salvatore (2022). R̥gvedic depictive adjectival compounds and their functions Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 8(1-2):41-57.
Ebert, Christian Georg; Islamaj, Artan; Kuqi, Adrian; Sonnenhauser, Barbara; Plamada, Magdalena; Widmer, Paul (2022). UD Gheg Pear Stories University of Manchester ua: Universal Dependencies.
Indogermanische Forschungen : Zeitschrift für Indogermanistik und historische Sprachwissenschaft Edited by: Fortson, Benjamin; Keydana, Götz; Malzahn, Melanie; Widmer, Paul (2022). Berlin: De Gruyter.
Stüber, Karin (2022). 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.
Indogermanische Morphologie in erweiterter Sicht : Grenzfälle und Übergänge Edited by: Sommer, Florian; Stüber, Karin; Widmer, Paul; Yamazaki, Yoko (2022). Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft.
Zeman, Daniel T; et al; Ebert, Christian; Islamaj, Artan; Kuqi, Adrian; Sonnenhauser, Barbara; Widmer, Paul; Plamada, Magdalena (2022). Gheg Prague: Universal Dependencies Consortium.
Sonnenhauser, Barbara; Widmer, Paul (2022). 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.
Hellwig, Oliver; Scarlata, Salvatore; Widmer, Paul (2021). Reassessing Rigvedic Strata Journal of the American Oriental Society, 141(4):847-865.
Jing, Yingqi; Widmer, Paul; Bickel, Balthasar (2021). Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity Cognitive Science, 45(11):e13056.
Biagetti, Erica; Hellwig, Oliver; Ackermann, Elia; Scarlata, Salvatore; Widmer, Paul (2021). Evaluating syntactic annotation of ancient languages Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia, 1(1):1-32.
Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European Edited by: Keydana, Götz; Hock, Wolfgang; Widmer, Paul (2021). Berlin: de Gruyter.
Keydana, Götz; Hock, Wolfgang; Widmer, Paul (2021). 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.
Widmer, Paul; Dedio, Stefan; Sonnenhauser, Barbara (2021). Convergence by shared ancestry in Romance Journal of Language Contact, 14:53-71.
Cathcart, Chundra; Hölzl, Andreas; Jäger, Gerhard; Widmer, Paul; Bickel, Balthasar (2020). Numeral classifiers and number marking in Indo-Iranian: A phylogenetic approach Language Dynamics and Change, 11(2):273-325.
Biagetti, Erica; Scarlata, Salvatore; Ackermann, Elia; Hellwig, Oliver; Widmer, Paul (2020). Annotation Guidelines for the Vedic Treebank, v. 2 s.n. s.n., University of Zurich.

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