Recent unpublished papers by Martin Haspelmath (PDF)

"Comparative concepts and descriptive categories in cross-linguistic studies". Draft of July 2008, 22 pp.

Downloadable handouts (PDF)

"Explaining alienability contrasts in adnominal possession: economy vs. iconicity". Handout of invited talk at the Syntax of the World's Languages conference, Lancaster, 14-17 September 2006.

"Against iconicity and markedness". Handout of talk at Stanford University, 6 March 2003. (Superseded by two papers: (i) "Frequency vs. iconicity in the explanation of grammatical asymmetries" (see above), and (ii) "Against markedness", published in 2006.)

Handouts of my nine classes at the 2002 Düsseldorf Summer School: "Functional and formal explanation in linguistics" (co-taught with Frederick J. Newmeyer)

"On the cross-linguistic distribution of same-subject and different-subject complement clauses: Economic vs. iconic motivation." Paper presented at the Internatiobal Conference on Cognitive Linguistics, Stockholm, July 1999.

"The change of behavioral and coding properties in constructional grammaticalization." Paper presented as the conference "New Reflections on Grammaticalization", Potsdam, June 1999.