Publications


Monographs (5; including 2 refereed monographs, in bold)

2009

·        [Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman:] Assessing Temporal Stability for Linguistic Typological Features. München: LINCOM Europa. [PDF]

2007

·        Popoluca de Texistepec. Archivo de las lenguas indígenas de México. México, D.F.: El Colegio de México.

2002

·        Diccionario analítico del popoluca de Texistepec. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. [Pp. 173.]

1996

·        Cuentos y colorados en popoluca de Texistepec. København: C.A. Reitzel. [Pp. xx + 397. All of the original speech recordings on which the book is based are available through http://www.ailla.org/site/welcome.html. Reviews by D. Bartholomew in Anthropological Linguistics 39.2, 1997; S. Hinajosa in Latin American Indian Literatures Journal 14.2: 154-155 (1998); B. E. Hollenbach in International Journal of American Linguistics 66.3: 405-7 (2000)]

1995

·        The Relationship among the Mixe-Zoquean Languages of Mexico. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. [Pp. 619. Reviews by B. Comrie in Linguistics 34:864-867 (1996); B. Stross in Anthropological Linguistics 39.1: 161-163 (1996); W. Bright in Word 48: 408-11 (1997); book notice by B. Joseph in Diachronica 93.1: 205 (1996)]


Edited volumes (5; including 3 refereed volumes, in bold)
 

2010

·        [Søren Wichmann & Anthony P. Grant (eds.):] Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Morris Swadesh. Special issue of Diachronica. [Forthcoming]

2008

·        [Donohue, Mark and Søren Wichmann (eds.):] The Typology of Semantic Alignment. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Pp. xvi + 465. Review by Å. Næss in Language 85.3: 713-716 (2009)] [ORDER HERE]

2007

·        [Estrada Fernández, Zarina, Søren Wichmann, Claudine Chamoreau, and Albert Álvarez González (eds.):] Studies in Voice and Transitivity (Estudios de voz y transitividad). München: Lincom Europa [Pp. 242].

2004 

 

·        The Linguistics of Maya Writing. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. [Pp. 450. Reviews by M. Macri in International Journal of American Linguistics 71.3: 354-55 (2005), N. A. Hopkins in Anthropological Linguistics 48.4: 405-412 (2006), O. Chinchilla Mazariegos in Latin American Antiquity 17.4: 613-615 (2006), E. Vajda in Word (forthc.)]

·        [Estrada Fernández, Zarina, Ana V. Fernández Garay, Albert Álvarez González (eds.), Jane H. Hill, Bernard Comrie, Yolanda Lastra, Karen Dakin, and Søren Wichmann (ass. eds.):] Estudios de lenguas amerindias: homenaje a Ken L. Hale. Hermosillo: Editorial Universidad de Sonora (Editorial Unison). [P. 377.]



Journal articles and other papers (92; including 35 papers published or in press in refereed journals, in bold)

In press

·        [Wichmann, Søren, André Müller, and Viveka Velupillai:] Homelands of the World’s language families: A quantitative approach. For a special issue of Diachronica. [To appear in 2010]

·        Internal language classification. In Luraghi, Silvia and Vit Bubenik (eds.), Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics. London/New York: Continuum Books. [To appear in 2010] [PDF]

·        Ditransitive constructions in Tlapanec. In: Malchukov, Andrej, Martin Haspelmath, and Bernard Comrie (eds.), Studies in Ditransitive Constructions: A Comparative Handbook. Berlin/New York: Mouton the Gruyter] [To appear in 2010] [PDF]

·        Neolithic linguistics. In: Barjamovic, Gojko, Irene Elmerot, Adam Hyllested, Benedicte Nielsen, and Bjørn Okholm Skaarup (eds.), Language and Prehistory of the Indo-European peoplesA Cross-Disciplinary Perspective. Budapest: Archaeolingua. [Scheduled for 2008]. [PDF]

·        [Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, Dietrich Stauffer, and Cecil H. Brown:] Similarities among languages of the Americas: An exploration of the WALS evidence. (For a volume edited by Bernard Comrie). [PDF]

Sub-
mitted

·        [Wichmann, Søren and Holman, Eric W. and Cecil H. Brown:] Evaluating linguistic distance measures: A reply to Petroni and Serva. (For Physica A).

·        [Wichmann, Søren, Holman, Eric W. and Cecil H. Brown:] Sound symbolism in basic vocabulary. (For a special issue of the journal Entropy).

·        Comment. Ancient Mesoamerica. [Invited comment on Kaufman and Justeson: The history of the word for cacao in Ancient Mesoamerica, Ancient Mesoamerica 18 (2007), 193-237].

·        [Holman, Eric W., Cecil H. Brown, Søren Wichmann, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Harald Hammarström, Hagen Jung, Dik Bakker, Pamela Brown, Oleg Belyaev, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Johann-Mattis List, and Dmitry Egorov:] Automated Dating of the World’s Language Families.

·        [Brown, Cecil H., David Beck, Grzegorz Kondrak, James K. Watters, and Søren Wichmann:] Totozoquean.

·        [Wichmann, Søren and Cecil H. Brown:] Syllable nuclei of proto-Mayan disyllabic stems. For a volume edited by Heriberto Avelino. [PDF]

·        Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Johann-Mattis List, Oleg Belyaev, Matthias Urban, and Dik Bakker: Glottochronology as a (non-)heuristic for genealogical language relationships. [PDF]

·        [Wichmann, Søren, Paulo Murilo Castro de Oliveira, Viveka Velupillai, André Müller, Dik Bakker & Anthony P. Grant:] A universal law of language taxonomics.

2010

·        [Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman:] Pairwise comparisons of typological profiles. In: Wohlgemuth, Jan and Michael Cysouw (eds.), Rethinking Universals: How Rarities Affect Linguistic Theory. (=Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Typology, 45), 214-254. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.  [PDF]

2009

·        Wichmann, Søren and Holman, Eric W: Population size and rates of language change. Human Biology 81: 259-274. [PDF]

·        [Polyakov, Vladimir N., Valery D. Solovyev, Søren Wichmann, and Oleg Belyaev:] Using WALS and Jazyki Mira. Linguistic Typology 13: 135-165. [PDF]

·        [Bakker, Dik, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Pamela Brown, Dmitry Egorov, Robert Mailhammer, Anthony Grant, and Eric W. Holman:] Adding typology to lexicostatistics: a combined approach to language classification. Linguistic Typology 13: 167-179. [PDF]

·        [Wichmann, Søren and Kerry Hull:] Q’eqchi’ vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, Martin & Tadmor, Uri (eds.) World Loanword Database. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library. To be uploaded to http://www.loanwords.info/.

·        [Wichmann, Søren and Kerry Hull:] Loanwords in Q'eqchi', a Mayan language of Guatemala. In: Haspelmath, Martin and Uri Tadmor (eds.), Loanwords in the World’s Languages: A Comparative Handbook, 873-896. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. [PDF]

2008

·        The emerging field of language dynamics. Language and Linguistics Compass 2.3: 442-455. [LINK]

·        Teaching & Learning Guide for: The Emerging Field of Language Dynamics.  Language and Linguistics Compass 2: 10.1111/j.1749-818x.2008.00109.x.

·         [Murilo Castro de Oliveira, Paulo, Dietrich Stauffer, Søren Wichmann, and Suzana Moss de Oliveira:] A computer simulation of language families. Journal of Linguistics 44: 659-675 [PDF (NB: copyright belongs to Cambridge University Press)]

·        Donohue, Mark, Søren Wichmann, and Mihai Albu. Typology, areality and diffusion. Oceanic Linguistics 47.1: 223-232. [LINK]

·        [Holman, Eric W., Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Viveka Velupillai, André Müller, and Dik Bakker:] Explorations in automated lexicostatistics. Folia Linguistica 42.2: 331-354 [PDF]

·        [Brown, Cecil H., Eric W. Holman, Søren Wichmann, and Viveka Velupillai:] Automated classification of the World's languages: A description of the method and preliminary results. STUF Language Typology and Universals  61.4: 285-308. [PDF]

·        [Schulze, Christian, Dietrich Stauffer, and Søren Wichmann:] Birth, survival and death of languages by Monte Carlo simulation. Communications in Computational Physics 3.2: 271-294. Preprint available at http://de.arxiv.org/abs/0704.0691.

·         [Wichmann, Søren, Dietrich Stauffer, Christian Schulze, and Eric W. Holman]: Do language change rates depend on population size? Advances in Complex Systems 11.3: 357-369 [PDF (prepubl.)]

·        [Wichmann, Søren and David Kamholz:] A stability metric for typological features. STUF Language Typology and Universals 61.3: 251-262. [PDF] [PERL PROGRAM]

·        [Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann:]  Longitud vocálica y glotalización en la escritura náhuatl. Revista Española de Antropología Americana 38.2: 121-150. [PDF]

·        Case relations in a head-marking language: verb-marked cases in Tlapanec. In: Malchukov, Andrej and Andrew Spencer (eds.), The Handbook of Case, pp. 797-807. Oxford: Oxford University Press]. [PDF]

·        The study of semantic alignment: retrospect and state of the art. In Donohue, Mark and Søren Wichmann (eds.), The Typology of Semantic Alignment, pp. 3-23. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [PDF]

·        [Wichmann, Søren and Jan Wohlgemuth:] Loan verbs in a typological perspective. In: Stolz, Thomas, Dik Bakker, and Rosa Salas Palomo (eds.), Aspects of Language Contact. New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Special Focus on Romancisation Processes, pp. 89-121. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. [PDF]

·        Wichmann, Søren, Dmitri Beliaev, and Albert Davletshin:] Posibles correlaciones lingüísticas y arqueológicas involucrando a los olmecas. In: Olmeca. Balance y perspectivas. Memoria de la primera mesa redonda. México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) & la Fundación Arqueológica del Nuevo Mundo de la Universidad Brigham Young (BYU) [Prepubl PDF]

·        [Wichmann, Søren and Ilona Heijnen:] Un manuscrito en náhuatl sobre astrología europea. In: Buve, Raymond, Neeske Ruitenbeek and Marianne Wiesebron (eds.), XV Congreso Internacional de AHILA, 1808-2008: Crisis y Problemas en el Mundo Atlántico.  Universidad de Leiden, Facultad de Humanidades, Departamento de Estudioes Latinoamericanos, pp. 106-124. (CD-ROM publication) [PDF]

·        Holman, Eric W., Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Viveka Velupillai, André Müller, and Dik Bakker. 2008. Advances in automated language classification. In Arppe, Antti, Kaius Sinnemäki and Urpu Nikanne (eds), Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics, 40-43. Helsinki: University of Helsinki. [PDF]

·        Om opdagelsen af et grænseoverskridende nyt sprog. In: Nielsen, Jesper and Mettelise Fritz Hansen (eds.), De mange veje til Mesoamerika. Hyldestskrift til Una Canger, pp. 63-80. København: Afdelingen for Indianske Sprog og Kulturer, Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, Københavns Universitet.

2007

·        [Wichmann, Søren and Arpiar Saunders:] How to use typological databases in historical linguistic research. Diachronica 24.2: 373-404. [PDF]

·        [Holman, Eric W., Christian Schulze, Dietrich Stauffer, and Søren Wichmann:] On the relation between structural diversity and geographical distance among languages: observations and computer simulations. Linguistic Typology 11.2: 395-423 [PDF, prepublication version].

·        The reference-tracking system of Tlapanec: between obviation and switch reference. Studies in Language 31.4: 801-827. [PDF]

·        [Wichmann, Søren, Dietrich Stauffer, F. Welington S. Lima, and Christian Schulze:] Modelling linguistic taxonomic dynamics. Transactions of the Philological Society 105.2: 126-147 [PDF, prepublication version]

·        Valency-reduction in event-oriented languages. In: Estrada Fernández, Zarina, Søren Wichmann, Claudine Chamoreau, and Albert Álvarez González (eds.), Studies in Voice and Transitivity (Estudios de voz y transitividad), pp. 33-51. München: Lincom Europa. [PDF]

·        [Estrada Fernández, Zarina and Søren Wichmann:] Introduction. In: Zarina Estrada Fernández, Søren Wichmann, Claudine Chamoreau, and Albert Álvarez González (eds.):] Studies in Voice and Transitivity (Estudios de voz y transitividad), pp. v-iv. München: Lincom Europa.

·         [Stauffer, Dietrich, Christian Schulze, and Søren Wichmann:] Computer-Simulation des Wettbewerbs zwischen Sprachen. In: Kolling, Stefan (ed.), Beiträge zur Experimentalphysik, Didaktik und computergestützten Physik - Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hans-Josef Patt, pp. 355-374. Berlin: Logos Verlag. [PDF].

·        Un panorama de las lenguas indígenas de México. In: Bob de Jonge (ed.): Las lenguas de México. México en Movimiento, vol. 11: 111-140.  Actas del XI día de mexicanistas de Holanda 11 de noviembre de 2005. Groningen: Groningen University. [PDF]

2006

·        Mayan historical linguistics and epigraphy: a new synthesis. Annual Review of Anthropology 35: 279-294. [ABSTRACT]

·        [Stauffer, Dietrich, Christian Schulze, F.W.S. Lima, Søren Wichmann, and Sorin Solomon]. Non-equilibrium and irreversible simulation of competition among languages. Physica A 371.2: 719-724. [PDF]

·        [Cysouw, Michael, Søren Wichmann, and David Kamholz:] A critique of the separation base method for genealogical subgrouping, with data from Mixe-Zoquean. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 13.2-3: 225-264. [PDF, prepublication version] [appendix]

·        Sandhi tonal interno en la morfología verbal tlapaneca. In Ortiz Ciscomani, Rosa María (ed.), Memorias del VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, vol. 2, pp. 337-55. Hermosillo: Editorial UniSon. [PDF, prepupl.]

·        [Wichmann, Søren and Albert Davletshin:] Writing with an accent: phonology as a marker of ethnic identity. In Sachse, Frauke (ed.), Maya Ethnicity: The Construction of Ethnic Identity from the Preclassic to Modern Times, 9th European Maya Conference, Bonn, December 2004. Acta Mesoamericana, Volume 19, pp. 99-106. Markt Schwaben: Verlag Anton Saurwein. [PDF]

·        A new look at linguistic interaction in the lowlands as a background for the study of Maya codices. In: Valencia Rivera, Rogelio and Geneviève Le Fort (eds.), Sacred Books, Sacred Languages: Two Thousand Years of Ritual and Religious Maya Literature. Proceedings of the 8th European Maya Conference, Madrid, November 25-30, 2003. Acta Mesoamericana, 18, pp. 45-64. Markt Schwaben: Verlag Anton Saurwein. [PDF]

·        A Mixe-Zoquean loanword on the Late Preclassic Maya murals of San Bartolo? Mesoweb: www.mesoweb.com/articles/wichmann/Loanword.pdf. [LINK] (Spanish translation:¿Un vocablo mixe-zoqueano de préstamo en los murales mayas del preclásico tardíode San Bartolo? Mesoweb: http://www.mesoweb.com/es/articulos/wichmann/Prestamo.pdf. [LINK])

·        [Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman:] Comparing Macro-Altaic and Native American languages: What can WALS tell us? Revista Asia y America 6.2: 51-80 (published by Institute for Asian and American Studies, Dankook University, South Korea).

2005

·        On the power-law distribution of language family sizes. Journal of Linguistics 41: 117-131. [PDF]

·        Tlapanec cases. In: Beam de Azcona, Rosemary and Mary Paster (eds.), Conference on Otomanguean and Oaxacan Languages, March 19-21, 2004, University of California at Berkeley. Report 13, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, pp. 133-145. [PDF, prepublication version]

·        [Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann:] The dynamics of language in the Western Lowland Maya region. In: Waters-Rist, Christine Cluney, Calla McNamee, and Larry Steinbrenner (eds.), Art for Archaeology’s Sake. Material Culture and Style across the Disciplines. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference of the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, pp. 32-48 Calgary: The University of Calgary Archaeological Asssociation. [PDF]

2004

·        [Brown, Cecil H. and Søren Wichmann:] Proto-Mayan syllable nuclei. International Journal of American Linguistics 70.2: 128-186. [PDF]

·        A reply to Robertson. Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing 51a: 14-23. Barnardsville, NC: Center for Maya Research.

·        The linguistic epigraphy of Mayan writing: Recent advances and questions for future research. In: Wichmann, Søren (ed.), The Linguistics of Maya Writing, pp. 1-11. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. [PDF]

·        [Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann:] On the representation of the glottal stop in Maya writing. In: Wichmann, Søren (ed.), The Linguistics of Maya Writing, pp. 100-164. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. [PDF]

·        The grammar of the half-period glyph. In: Wichmann, Søren (ed.), The Linguistics of Maya Writing, pp. 327-337. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. [PDF]

·        Index of grammatical morphemes in the inscriptions. In: Wichmann, Søren (ed.), The Linguistics of Maya Writing, pp. 451-2. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

·        The names of some major Classic Maya gods. In: Daniel Graña Behrens, Nikolai Grube, Christian M. Prager, Frauke Sachse, Stefanie Teufel, and Elisabeth Wagner (eds.), Continuity and Change–Mayan Religious Practices in Temporal Perspective. 5th European Maya Conference, University of Bonn, December 2000. Acta Americana, Vol. 14, pp. 77-86. Markt Schwaben: Verlag Anton Saurwein.

·        El concepto de camino entre los mayas a partir de las fuentes epigráficas, iconográficas y etnográficas. In: Mercedes Montes de Oca (ed.), La metáfora en Mesoamérica, pp. 13-32. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas. [PDF]

·        La gramaticalización de un paradigma de auxiliares en popoluca de Texistepec. In: Morúa Leyva, María del Carmen & Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani (eds.), Memorias del VII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, tomo. 2, pp. 205-220. Hermosillo: Editorial UniSon. [PDF]

2003

·        [Wichmann, Søren and Cecil H. Brown:] Contact among some Mayan languages: inferences from loanwords. Anthropological Linguistics 45.1: 57-93. [Abstract]

·        The grammaticalization and reanalysis of a paradigm of auxiliaries in Texistepec Popoluca: A case study in diachronic adaptation. SKY Journal of Linguistics 16: 161-183. [Abstract] [PDF]

·        Georges Raynaud: An overlooked figure in the history of Maya epigraphy. The PARI Journal 3.2/3.3: 15-17, 2002/2003.

·        Contextualizing proto-languages, homelands and distant genetic relationship: some reflections on the comparative method from a Mesoamerican perspective. In: Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew (eds.), Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis, pp. 321-29. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. [PDF]

2002

·        Hieroglyphic evidence for the historical configuration of Eastern Ch’olan. Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing, 51. Washington, D.C.: Center for Maya Research.

·        Questioning the grid: a new distinction among the syllabic signs of the Maya hieroglyphic script? Mexicon 24.5: 98-106.

·        [Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann:] The distribution of Lowland Maya languages in the Classic period. In: La organización social entre los mayas. Memoria de la Tercera Mesa Redonda de Palenque. Vol. II, edited by Vera Tiesler, René Cobos, and Merle Greene Robertson, pp. 275-314. México D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. [PDF]

·        [Wichmann, Søren and Cecil H. Brown:] Contacto lingüístico dentro del área maya: Los casos de ixhil, q’eqchii’ y chikomuselteko, Pueblos y fronteras 4: 133-167.

2001

·        [Gutiérrez Morales, Salomé and Søren Wichmann:] He’m ¢i¢imat, ‘La Chichimeca’. Tlalocan 13: 315-334.  [PDF]

2000

·        [Dakin, Karen and Søren Wichmann:] Cacao and chocolate: A Uto-Aztecan perspective. Ancient Mesoamerica 11: 1-21. [PDF]

·        Speaking versus writing in Texistepec Popoluca. In: Casad, Eugene and Thomas L. Willett (eds.), Uto-Aztecan: Structural, Temporal, and Geographic Perspectives; Papers in Memory of Wick R. Miller by the Friends of Uto-Aztecan, pp. 419-428. Hermosillo, Sonora: Universidad de Sonora. [PDF]

·        [Nielsen, Jesper and Søren Wichmann:] America’s first comics? Techniques, contents, and functions of sequential text-image pairing in the Classic Maya period (ca. 250-00 A.D.). In: Anne Magnussen and Hans-Christian Christiansen (eds.), Comics and Culture. Analytical and Theoretical Approaches to Comics, pp. 59-77. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.

1999

·        On the relationship between UtoAztecan and MixeZoquean. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 24.2: 101-113. [PDF]

·        A conservative look at diffusion involving Mixe-Zoquean languages. In: Blench, Roger & Matthew Spriggs (eds.), Archaeology and Language II: Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses, pp. 297-323. London: Routledge. [PDF]

1997

·        Breves observaciones sobre la representación de la vocal alta central en la lengua zoque. In: Ruz, Mario Humberto: Las lenguas del Chiapas colonial. Manuscritos en la Biblioteca Nacional de Paris. Vol. II, Lengua zoque, pp. 343-344. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

1996

·        The degrammaticalization of agentivity in Tlapanec. In: Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft and Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen (eds.), Content, Expression and Structure: Studies in Danish Functional Grammar. Studies in Languages Companion Series, pp. 343-360. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.  [PDF]

·        [Dakin, Karen and Søren Wichmann:] Cacao, chocolate y los nahuas y mixezoques en el sur de Mesoamérica. Revista Latina de Pensamiento y Lenguaje, vol 2, no. 2B: 455-475. [Abstract]

1995

·        Functional Discourse Analysis. A theoretical sketch. In: Millar, Sharon & Jakob Mey (eds.), Form and Function in Language. RASK Supplement, vol. 1, pp. 77-97.

·        Empathy’ and ‘grounding’ in Sayula Popoluca. In: Schousboe, Steen (ed.), Embedding in Functional Grammar. Publications of the Department of English, University of Copenhagen, 20, pp. 169-187.

·        Om lingvistisk feltarbejde. In: Knudsen, Sanne (ed.), Sprogligt årsskrift 1994. Artikelsamling for Sprogligt Årsmode 1994, pp. 82-94. Skrifter fra dansk og public relations. Roskilde: Roskilde Universitetscenter.

1994

·        Underspecification in Texistepec Popoluca phonology. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 27.2: 267-285. [PDF]

·        Sprog og rumlig orientering i livsverdenen. Tidsskriftet antropologi 30: 107-117.

·        Mixe-Zoquean linguistics: A status report. In: Bartholomew, Doris, Yolanda Lastra and Leonardo Manrique (eds.), Panorama de los estudios de las lenguas indígenas de México, vol. 1., pp. 193-267. Biblioteca Abya-Yala, 16. Quito: Abya-Yala.  [PDF]

1993

·        Grammaticalization in Mixe-Zoquean languages. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 46.1: 45-60. [PDF]

·        Spatial deixis in Azoyú Tlapanec. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 46.2: 113-132. [PDF]

1992

·        A semantic framework for the Azoyú Tlapanec Iterative. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 25: 125-142. [PDF]

·        Kalkuner og hieroglyffer. Tidlige sprog- og kulturmøder blandt mixe-zoque indianere i det sydlige Mexico. In: Tybjerg, Tove & Hjørdis Nielsen (eds.), Møde mellem to verdener. Amerikas opdagelse fra præcolumbiansk til nyeste tid, pp. 59-70. Special issue of the journal Chaos. København: Museum Tusculanums forlag.

1990

·        [Lambert, Jakob and Søren Wichmann:] System og deviation - nogle hovedtræk af Lotmans kultur- og kunstsemiotik. Litteratur og samfund 46: 150-166.

 

Reviews, book notices and obituaries (25)

Forth-
coming

·        Review of John Newman (ed.), The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Studies in Language.

·        Review of Heinrich Werner, Die Diathese in den Jenissej-Sprachen aus typologischer Sicht. Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica, 64. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (2004). Word.

·        Review of Luis Hernández Cruz, Moisés Victoria Torquemada, and Donaldo Sinclair Crawford, Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, Estado de Hidalgo. México, D.F.: Institute Lingüístico de Verano (2004). [PDF]

2008

·        Review of Hidalgo, Margarita (ed.), Mexican Indigenous Languages at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter (2006). Journal of Mesoamerican Languages and Linguistics 1.2: 1-9. [LINK]

·        Review of Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley, Saving Languages. An Introduction to Language Revitalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2006). Language 38.4.

2007

·        Review of Leifer, Tore, Jesper Nielsen, and Toke Sellner, Det urolige blod - biografi om Frans Blom. København: Høst og Søn (2002). Acta Americana 15.1: 93-105.

·        Review of Looper, Matthew G., Lightning Warrior. Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua. Austin: University of Texas Press (2003). Latin American Antiquity 18.2: 223.

2006

·        Review of Stolz, Thomas ed.), "Alte" Sprachen. Beiträge zum Bremer Kolloquium über "Alte Sprachen und Sprachstufen" (Bremen, Sommersemester 2003). Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer (2004). Word  56.3 [still in print] [.doc]

·        Review of van Sterkenburg, Piet (ed.), Linguistics Today—Facing a Greater Challenge. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company (2004). Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 37:243-50. [PDF]

2005

·        Review of Macri, Martha J. and Matthew G. Looper, The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs. Vol. 1: The Classic Period Inscriptions. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press (2003). Latin American Antiquity 16.4:349-52.

·        Review of Melnar, Lynette R., Caddo Verb Morphology. Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press (2004). International Journal of American Linguistics 71.4:503-505. [.doc]

2004

·        Review of Michael Cysouw, The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking. Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory. Oxford University Press (2003). Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 36: 194-200. [PDF]

·        Book notice on M. J. Hardman: Aymara. LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics, 35. München: LINCOM EUROPA (2001). Language 80.3: 623-4

2002

·        Book notice on David Paul Foris, A Grammar of Sochiapan Chinantec. Studies in Chinantec Languages, 6. SIL International and The University of Texas at Arlington (2000). Language 78.4: 805-6.

·        Book notice on Marion Miller, Desano Grammar. Studies in the Languages of Columbia, 6. SIL International and The University of Texas at Arlington (1999). Language 78.4: 804-5.

2001

·        Review of Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven, eds., Evidence for Linguistic Relativity. Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science 198. John Benjamins (2000). LINGUIST List: Vol-12-1123. Apr 24, 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875. [The Internet].

1999

·        Review of Matthew Restall. The Maya World. Yucatec Culture and Society 1550-1850. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press (1997). Tidsskriftet Antropologi 40: 216.

·        [Una Canger:] Deceased: Arild Hvidtfelt (1915-1999). Mexicon. [P. 1. By mistake I am not mentioned in the journal as co-author of this].

1998

·        Review of  Michael Dürr, Egon Renner & Wolfgang Oleschinski (eds.): Language and Culture in Native North America: Studies in Honor of Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow. LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics, 2. München/Newcastle: LINCOM EUROPA (1995). Language 74.1: 167-70.

·        Review of Thorstein Fretheim and Jeanette K. Gundel (eds.): Reference and Referent Accessibility. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins (1996). Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 30: 254-266.

1996

·        Book notice on Jaques Moeschler et al.: Langage et pertinence. Référence temporelle, anaphore, connecteurs et métaphore. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy (1994) Language 72.4: 875-877.

1993

·        Review of John Lucy: Language Diversity and Thought. A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis and Grammatical Categories and Cognition. A Case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis. Social Anthropology--Anthropologie Sociale 1 [Pp. 3.].

·        Review of William F. Hanks: Referential Practice. Language and Lived Space among the Maya. Journal of Pragmatics 20, 291-300.

1991

·        Review of Sarah G. Thomason and Terrence Kaufman: Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 23: 217-221.

 

 

Solicited but never printed

 

·        Review of Sabloff, Jeremy A. (ed.), Tikal: Dynasties, Foreigners & Affairs of State. Advancing Maya Archaeology. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press / Oxford: James Currey (2003). Latin American Antiquity. [PDF]

 

Electronically published working papers (4)

2009

·        [Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Pamela Brown, Eric W. Holman, Dik Bakker, Oleg Belyaev, Dmitri Egorov, Robert Mailhammer, Anthony Grant, and Kofi Yakpo:] ASJP World Language Tree of Lexical Similarity: version 2 (April 2009). <http://email.eva.mpg.de/~wichmann/WorldLanguageTree-002.pdf>  [LINK TO THIS VERSION] [LINK TO PREVIOUS VERSIONS]

2008

·        [Wichmann, Søren, Dietrich Stauffer, Christian Schulze, F. Welington S. Lima, and Eric W. Holman:] Meaning and form in a language computer simulation. http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0109.

n.d.

·        [Holman, Eric W., Søren Wichmann, and Cecil H. Brown:] Inheritance and Diffusion of Language and Culture: A Comparative Perspective. [PDF]

·        [Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann:] Harmony rules in the suffix domain: a study of Maya scribal conventions. [PDF]

 

Electronically published language data (1)

2003

·        Sound files for Cuentos y colorados en popoluca de Texistepec. Posted on http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/la_langs.html.

 

Publications for the general or very special audience (6+)

2007

·        On turning sixty from a Tlapanec perspective. In: Bernard’s Birthday Book. Die etwas andere Festscrift. [In CD-ROM accompanying the book, which is published in just one copy, as a gift to Bernard Comrie on his 60th birthday]. [PDF]

2006-
2007

·        2 new and 5 revised entries in for the electronic version of Den Store Danske Encyclopædi - Danmarks Nationalleksikon (The Great Danish Encyclopaedia): Canger, Una; Sweetser, Eve (new); Guatemala (sprog), indianere (sprog), mayaer (sprog & skrift), mellemamerikanske sprog, sydamerikanske sprog (revised).

2002

·        Lingvistiks vinkel. In: Dansk som videnkabssprog i en globaliseret verden. Arbejdspapir fra Årsmøde for stipendiater ved Danmarks Humanisitiske Forskningscenter, torsdag den 29. august, Blixensalen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Søren Kierkegaards Plads, pp. 72-76. Danmarks Humanistiske Forskningscenter.

1997
-2002

·        55 entries in Den Store Danske Encyclopædi - Danmarks Nationalleksikon (The Great Danish Encyclopaedia): Indianere (sprog); Lenca; Mapudungun; Mayaer (kunst); Mayaer (religion); Mayaer (sprog og skrift); Mellemamerika (indianske sprog); Mellemamerika (sprog); Mexico (sprog); Mixe-zoque; Mixtekisk; Nahuatl; Na-Dene; Nordamerika (indianske sprog); Nordvestkystindianere (sprog); Oto-mangue; Panamá (sprog); Paraguay (sprog); Penutiske sprog; Pima-papago; Porhépecha (sprog); Prærieindianere (sprog); Puebloindianere (sprog); Quechua (sprog); Quetzalcoatl; Quiché; Salish (sprog); Sequoya; Surinam (sprog); Sydamerikanske sprog; Sydamerika (sprog); Taino; Tlingit; Tlapanekisk; Trinidad & Tobago (sprog); Tsimshian (sprog); Tucano; Tupí (sprog); Tupí-Guaraní; Uruguay (sprog); Uto-aztekiske sprog; Venezuela (sprog); Whorf, Benjamin Lee; Yaqui-mayo; Yuma (sprog); Xinca; Zapoteker (sprog). In supplementary volume: Arawakisk, Athapaskisk, Caribisk, Chibcha,  Glottokronologi,  Grammatikalisering, Hjælpeverbum, Yurij Knorosov.

2001

·        Erindringsglimt fra et ophold under en rejse i mayafilologi fra det østlige Amager over Strøget til Kastrup Lufthavn og hinsides. Danmarks Humanistiske Forskningscenter Årsberetning 2001, pp. 12-15. Also published on the web: http://www.humanities.dk/nyheder/Aarsberetning2001.pdf. [Has been translated into English as “Reminiscences of a Maya philologist” for an English version of the Annual Report of the Danish Institute for Advances Studies in the Humanities.]

1998

·        [Estrid Anker Olsen, ed.:] Mayaernes hemmelighed er brudt (3 radiointerviews with Jesper Nielsen and Søren Wichmann on the Mayas and their writing system, broadcasted by Danmarks Radio in 1998 and again in 1999 and 2002 and published as a set of CD’s by Danmarks Radio Multimedie.]

 

Manuscripts that are unpublished/in progress but are sometimes cited in refereed publications or used in advanced-level university courses by others (4)

n.d.

·        [Wichmann, Søren and Cecil H. Brown:] Panchronic Mayan Dictionary. [Database with 6,800+ reconstructions and corresponding cognate sets; in addition all residual (unetymologized) forms are stored in the database; project begun in 2000 and still ongoing].

2000

·        Mayaernes skrift - introduktion og håndbog. [Pp. 252 ill.]

1999

·        A Ch'orti' morphological sketch. [Pp. 160]

1996

·        Description and Typology of Some Grammatical Categories in Azoyú Tlapanec. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Copenhagen. [PDF of Table of Contents and the one still unpublished chapter]




Presentations at international meetings and overseas guest lectures (invited presentations marked by * )

TO BE PRESENTED

*110. Wichmann, Søren. “TBA”. IV Coloquio Swadesh, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM, Mexico., Sept. 6-9, 2011.

*109. Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman: “Borrowability of basic vocabulary.” Modelling Language Contact: Linguistic Data and Interdisciplinary Models", 43rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLA), Vilnius, Sept. 2-5, 2010.

*108. Wichmann, Søren: “Recent studies of loan verbs: insights and research desiderata.” Linguistic Borrowing into Coptic. Inaugural conference of the DDGLC project, Leipzig, April 26-28, 2010.

*107. Wichmann, Søren: “Languages, dialects, population dynamics, and rates of language change.” Populations and Language Change. Organized by Lacito – CNRS, Paris, March 26, 2010. [Abstract]

PRESENTED

*106. Wichmann, Søren: “Languages, dialects, population dynamics, and rates of language change.” Work-in-Progress series, MPI-EVA, Febr. 2, 2010.

105. [Brown, Cecil, David Beck, Grzegorz Kondrak, James Watters, and Søren Wichmann:] “Linking Proto-Totonacan and proto-Mixe-Zoquean.” The SSILA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, Jan. 7-10, 2010.

*104. [Wichmann, Søren, Matthias Urban, Eric W. Holman, Hagen Jung & The ASJP Consortium:] “A quantitative method for diagnosing accelerated rates of lexical change/creolization” (APiCS Conference, MPI-EVA, 5-9 November 2009).

*103. Wichmann, Søren: "Glottochronology of the World's language families based on edit distances." Tutorial on Glotto- and Grammachronology, XIth International conference on "Cognitive Modelling in Linguistics" (CML-2009, Constance, Sept. 11, 2009)

102. Wichmann, Søren, Dik Bakker, Oleg Belyaev, Cecil Brown, Pamela Brown, Dimitry Egorov, Anthony Grant, Eric Holman, Hagen Jung, Robert Mailhammer, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai & Kofi Yapko: Toward a classification of the world's languages based on edit distances (XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space, Aug. 10-15, 2009)

101. [Dik Bakker, Cecil Brown, Pamela Brown, Dmitry Egorov, Anthony Grant, Eric Holman, Hagen Jung, Robert Mailhammer, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, and Søren Wichmann:] “Adding typology to lexicostatistics: a combined approach to language classification” (ALT 8th Biennial Meeting University of California, Berkeley, July 23-26, 2009)

*100. [Wichmann, Søren, Paulo Murilo Castro de Oliveira & The ASJP Consortium:] “Elbow effects: a universal feature of language taxonomies”. (Start-up-Meeting of the study group "Classification and Evolution in Biology, Linguistics and History of Science", Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, June 11-12, 2009)

*99. [Heijnen, Ilona & Søren Wichmann:] “Izcatqui –‘here it is’. The colonial astrological Nahuatl manuscript in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam”. Archaeological and Linguistic (Focus on the Americas: Advanced Research Meeting, Leiden University, May 18-19, 2009).

98. “Numeral classifiers in Mesomerica” (The Diachrony of Classification Systems, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, March 12-13, 2009)

*97. [Wichmann, Søren, Hans-Jörg Bibiko, and The ASJP Consortium:] “The homelands of the world’s language families: a question of water resources and territoriality” Work-in-progress series, MPI/EVA, Leipzig, Febr. 24, 2009)

96. [Wichmann, Søren and The ASJP Consortium:] “State of the art of the ASJP project” (The Swadesh Centenary Conference, MPI-EVA, Jan. 17-18, 2009) [Slides] [Handout]

*95. “Die diachronische Dynamik typologischer Merkmale” (Guest lecture, Universität Zürich, Dec. 9, 2008)

*94. “The diachronic behavior of typological features” (Guest lecture, Universität Bern, Nov. 5, 2008)

*93. [Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman:] “Population size and rates of language change” (Presented at the conference Demographic Processes and Cultural Change, AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, University College London, Sept. 2-6, 2008) [Precirculated ms]

92. [Heijnen, Ilona and Søren Wichmann:] “An 18th century Nahuatl manuscript on European calendrics and astrology “ (Presented at XV Congreso Internacional de AHILA, Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos, Leiden University, August 26-29, 2008)

91. [Grant, Anthony P., Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Eric W. Holman, et al.:] “A lexicostatistical perspective on creoles and pidgins” (Poster presented at the Seventeenth Biannual Conference of The Society for Caribbean Linguistics in conjunction with the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Cayenne, French Guiana, July 28-31, 2008).

90. [Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, Cecil H. Brown, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Anthony P. Grant, Dik Bakker, Pamela Brown, Dmitry Egorov, Oleg Belyaev and Hagen Jung:] “Glottochronology from Levenshtein distances” (Work-in-progress series, MPI/EVA, Leipzig, July 1, 2008)

89. [Holman, Eric W., Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Viveka Velupillai, André Müller, and Dik Bakker. 2008. “Advances in automated language classification” (Presented at the 3rd Workshop on "Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics" (QITL-3), University of Helsinki, June 2-4, 2008)

88. [Wichmann, Søren, Dik Bakker, Cecil H. Brown, Pamela Brown, Dmitry Egorov, Anthony Grant, Eric W. Holman, Hagen Jung, Robert Mailhammer, André Müller, and Viveka Velupillai:] “Glottochronology from Levenshtein distances“. (Presented during the session "Studying global language dynamics through large typological and lexical databases" at the conference Cognitive and Functional Perspectives on Dynamic Tendencies in Languages, University of Tartu, Estonia, May 29-June 1, 2008)

*87. “A universal law of language taxonomics” (Meeting between members of MPI for Psycholinguistics and MPI-EVA, May 9, 2008)

*86. “Calendars in competition” (Workshop on multilingualism, Oslo University, Dec. 11, 2007)

*85. [Wichmann, Søren, Dik Bakker, Cecil H. Brown, Pamela Brown, Eric W. Holman, Hagen Jung, Robert Mailhammer, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai:] “Automated lexicostatistics: results and prospects“ (Computational and Cognitive Linguistics, Kazan State University, Dec. 6-8, 2007)

84. “Ditransitives in Tlapanec” (Conference on Ditransitive Constructions, MPI/EVA, Leipzig, November 23-25, 2007) [Handout]

*83. “Explorations in automated lexicostatistics” (Work-in-progress series, MPI/EVA, Leipzig, September 11, 2007) [Slides]

*82. “Writing with an accent: towards a sociolinguistic explanation for differences in phonological transparency among different writing systems” (Seminar on writing systems, Oslo University, May 30, 2007)

*81. “Experiencer constructions in Tlapanec” (Workshop on grammar and processing of verbal arguments, University of Leipzig, April 20-21, 2007)

*80. [Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman:] "Assessing relative rates of change for typological features" (Work-in-progress series, MPI/EVA, Leipzig, Jan 16, 2007)

*79. “Classifiers in Classic Ch’olan language and script” (Meeting of COST-A31, Berlin, November 17, 2006)

*78. “Comparing Macro-Altaic and Native American languages” (Meeting on Altaic and Native American languages, Seoul, October 28, 2006)

*77. “An overview of Mesoamerican numeral classifier systems” (Meeting of COST-A31, Landskrona, Sweden, September 22-24, 2006)

*76. “How computer simulations may help linguists: recent progress and prospects for more” (Meeting on Language and physics, Warsaw, September 11-15, 2006)

*75. “Are similarities among languages of the Americas due to diffusion or inheritance? An exploration of the WALS evidence” (Genes and Languages, University of California Santa Barbara, September 8-10, 2006).

*74.  [Brown, Cecil H.  with Eric W. Holman & Søren Wichmann:] "Diffusion of strucural traits of language: analysis of WALS data" (Meeting of loanword typology, MPI-EVA, August 13-14, 2006)

*73. "Q’eqchi’" (Meeting of loanword typology, MPI-EVA, August 13-14, 2006)

72. "Relaciones genealógicas exteriores de las lenguas mixe-zoques" (Session on Mixe-Zoquean, 52th International Congress of Americanists, July 17-21, 2006).

71. "Linguistic diversity and typological diffusion in the Americas" (Session on ""Perfiles tipológicos" y contacto entre lenguas”, 52th International Congress of Americanists, July 17-21, 2006).

*70. "The world's linguistic diversity: observations and simulations" (Talk in the Friday afternoon series of the The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, May 19, 2006).

*69. "Linguistic evidence concerning the peopling of the Americas" (Guest lecture, University of Bonn, May 8, 2006).

*68. "Loanwords in Q‘eqchi‘: a progress report" (Loanword Typology Workshop, MPI-EVA, Leipzig, April 29-May 1, 2006)

67. "A cross-linguistically rare case system in Tlapanec" (Rara & Rarissima: Collecting and interpreting unusual characteristics of human languages, Leipzig, March 29-April 1, 2006). [Abstract]

66. "Pre-neolithic linguistics" (Session "Aktuelle Fragen der Areallinguistik / Current Issues in Areal Typology", 28th annual meeting of the DGfS, University of Bielefeld, February 22-24, 2006).

*65. "Un panorama de las lenguas indígenas de México" (University of Groningen, Nov. 11, 2005).

64. [Martin, Gary, Stuart R. Harrop & Søren Wichmann:] "Community Ethnofloras: promoting ethnolinguistic and biological diversity in Oaxaca, Mexico" (First Diversitas Open Science Conference, Oaxaca, Nov. 9-12, 2005).

*63. "How to quickly make masses of raw audio data less raw: an assembly line approach to fieldwork" (Linguistic Theory and Raw Sound, Marston Hill Intercultural Center for Quality of Life, Mullsjö, Sweden, August 25-28, 2005).

62.  [Wichmann, Søren, Arpiar Saunders, and David Kamholz:] "Using typological data for establishing genealogies: the case of the Americas" (17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, July 31-Aug. 5, 2005).

61. "Event-orientation in grammar" (The Typology of Stative-Active Languages, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, May 20-22, 2005). [Abstract]

*60. "Posibles correlaciones lingüísticas y arqueológicas involucrando a los olmecas" (Mesa Redonda Olmeca: Balances y Perspectivas, Mexico City, March 10-12, 2005).

*59. “The linguistic identiy of the Copan inscriptions” (Symposium on Copan, Dept. of American Indian Languages and Cultures, University of Copenhagen, Dec. 14, 2004).

*58. “Loan verbs in a typological perspective” (Symposium on language contact arranged by The Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen, Dec. 14, 2004).

57. [Wichmann, Søren & Albert Davletshin] “Writing with an accent: phonology as a marker of ethnic identity” (9th European Maya Conference, Bonn, Dec. 9-12, 2004). [Abstract]

56. "Sandhi interno en la morfología verbal tlapaneca" (VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico, Nov. 17-19, 2004).

*55. “Valency-reduction in event-oriented languages” (Seminario de morfosíntaxis, Universidad de Sonora, Nov. 15-16, 2004)

*54. [Lacadena, Alfonso & Søren Wichmann:] “Longitud vocálica y glotalización en la escritura nahuatl.” (A symposium at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Oct., 2004).

53. "The reference-tracking system of Tlapanec in light of the local-global parameter" (Syntax of the World's Languages, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, August 5-8, 2004). [Abstract]

52. "On the power-law distribution of language family sizes" (Workshop on phylogeny, MPI/MIS, Leipzig, May 24, 2004). [Abstract]

*51. "On the power-law distribution of language family sizes" (Work-in-progress series, MPI/EVA, Leipzig, May 11, 2004).

50. "Structural patterns of verb borrowing" (Workshop on loan word typology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, May 1-2, 2004). [Handout]

49. "Tlapanec cases" (Conference of Otomanguean and other Oaxacan Languages, University of California at Berkeley, March 19-21, 2004).

*48. "Signatures of prehistory: explaining language family densities and widely diffused typological features" (Workshop on Prehistoric Chronology: Language, Genes and Migrations, Santa Fe Institute, March 1-5, 2004). [Abstract]

47. "Tlapanec as an active-stative language” (Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas 2003-04 Annual Meeting, Boston, Jan. 8-11, 2004). [Abstract]

*46. “A new look at linguistic interaction in the lowlands as a background for the study of Maya codices” (8th European Mayan Conference, Madrid, Nov. 29-30, 2003).

*45. “El equivalente de voz en lenguas activas, Primer Taller de Voz (Workshop on Voice Systems)” (Universidad de Sonora, Mexico, Nov. 21-22, 2003).

*44. “Advances in the correlation of language family distributions and prehistoric farming areas” (Talk addressed to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Nov. 7, 2003).

43. “A sociolinguistic theory of the evolution of writing systems” (presented in the session “Diachroniy of Writing Systems” organized by me at the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, August 11-15, 2003). [Abstract]

*42. “Loanwords in Mesoamerica: implications for a general typology of loanwords.” (Workshop on the typology of loan words, Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, July 21-22, 2003).

41. “A summary of advances in Mayan comparative phonology” (17th International Congress of Linguists, Prague, July 24-29, 2003).

40. “From glyphs to glosses.” (presented in the session “Written history and geography in Central Mexico. Codices, lienzos, and mapas linked to the ground” organized by me at the Fifth World Archaeological Congress, Washington, June 21-26, 2003). [Abstract]

*39. “A typological portrait of Tlapanec.” (Work-in-progress series, MPI/EVA, Leipzig, June 10, 2003).

*38. [Martin, Gary and Søren Wichmann:] “Identifying Chinantec and Mixe ethnobotanical keystone species through comparative linguistics.” (Symposium on Ethnobotany 2003, Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona, June 2 - 5, 2003).

*37. “A retrospective look at young Wichmann's words of advice concerning fieldwork.” (Linguistic Fieldwork: Challenges and Experiences from Endangered Languages. Symposium at the University of Aarhus, March 28-29, 2003).

*36. “Some methodological reflections on the study of loanwords with particular reference to the Mayan languages.” (Dept. of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, March 21, 2003).

35. [Brown, Cecil H.  and Søren Wichmann:] “Proto-Mayan syllable nuclei.” (Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas 2002-03 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2-5, 2003).

34. “Cambios sintácticos involucrando construcciones verbales complejas en popoluca de Texistepec.” (VII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste in memoriam Kenneth L. Hale, Universidad de Sonora, Nov. 13-15 2002).

33. “Advances in the correlation of language families and prehistoric farming: A possible solution to Bellwood’s dilemma.” (Arcling II, The Second Conference on the Archaeology and Linguistics of Australia. National Museum of Australia and Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. Canberra, Oct. 1-4, 2002).

32. “Syntactic change involving complex verbal constructions in Texistepec Popoluca.” (Approaches to Historical Syntax, University of Joensuu Mekrijäärvi Research Station, September 19-22, 2002).

*31. “The correlation of language families and prehistoric farming.” (Guest lecture, Northern Illinois University, April 2, 2002.)

30. “Et redskab til korrelationen mellem sprogfamilier og forhistorisk landbrug” (Indoeuropæerne - sproget og forhistorien, Tværvidenskabeligt symposium ved Københavns Universitet, March 7-9, 2002).

*29. “Algunos comentarios sobre el propuesto origen mesoamericano de las lenguas yutoaztecos.” (XXVII Simposio de Historia y Antropología de Sonora, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, Febr. 27-March 2, 2002).

*28. “La importancia de estudios etimológicos para la reconstrucción de la prehistoria: algunos ejemplos mesoamericanos.” (Guest lecture, Departamento de Historia y Antropología, Universidad de Sonora, Mexico, Febr. 15, 2002).

*27. [Wichmann, Søren and Cecil H. Brown:] “Contacto lingüístico dentro del área maya: los casos de ixhil, q’eqchi’ y chikomuselteko.” (Encuentro Pueblos y Fronteras, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, October 17-19, 2001).

*26. “Cacao y chocolate en la lingüística y prehistoria mesoamericana.” (Guest lecture, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios en Antropología Social, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, October 17, 2001.)

*25. “Contextualizing proto-languages, homelands, and distant genetic relationships: Some reflections on the comparative method from a Mesoamerican perspective.” (Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis, organized by Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood, McDonald Institute, Cambridge, England, August 24-27, 2001).

24. “The Genesis of the Spelling Rules of the Maya Script.” (The XVth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, Australia, August 13-17, 2001).

23. [Wichmann, Søren and Alfonso Lacadena:] “Reglas de armonía dentro del dominio de la sufijación.” (5o Congreso Internacional de Mayistas, Xalapa, Mexico, July 22-28, 2001).

22. “The names of some major Classic Maya gods.” (5th European Maya Conference, Bonn, Dec. 9-10, 2000).

*21. [Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann:] “The dynamics of language in the Western Lowland Maya Region.” (The 2000 Chacmool Conference. Calgary. Nov. 9-11, 2000).

20. “The grammar of the half-period glyph.” (International Conference of Americanists, Warszawa, August, 2000).

19. [Wichmann, Søren and Alfonso Lacadena:] “More evidence for the distribution of Ch’olan dialects in the Classic Period.” (The 4th European Maya Conference, København, October 9-13, 1999).

*18. [Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann:] “La distribución de las lenguas mayas de Tierras Bajas durante el periodo Clásico.” (III Mesa Redonda de Palenque, June 27 - July 4, 1999).

17. [Nielsen, Jesper and Søren Wichmann:] “America’s first comics? Techniques, contents, and functions of sequential text-image pairing in the Classic Maya period (ca. 250-00 A.D.).” (Comics and Culture, Københavns Universitet, September 24-26, 1998).

16. “El concepto de camino entre los mayas a partir de las fuentes epigráficas, iconográficas y etnográficas.” (IV Congreso Internacional de Mayistas, La Antigua, Guatemala, August 8, 1998).

15. [Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann:] “La distribución de las lenguas escritas mayas durante el período Clásico: una aproximación.” (Primer Congreso Regional de Investigadores en Ciencias Sociales, Mérida, Yucatán, México, June 24-26, 1998).

14. [Wichmann, Søren and Alfonso Lacadena:] “The languages of the Mayan inscriptions. Part one: Cholan.” (Unafest, University of Copenhagen, May 1998).

*13. “Cacao y chocolate en la prehistoria lingüística y arqueológica de Mesoamérica.” (Guest lecture, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios en Antropología Social, Jalapa, Veracruz, July 1997).

12. [Dakin, Karen and Søren Wichmann:] “Cacao y chocolate - una perspectiva yutoazteca” (Coloquio commemorativo IV centenario del Arte Mexicana de Antonio del Rincón, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Dec. 7-8, 1995).

*11. “Current research in Texistepec Popoluca grammar” (NAIL meeting, University of California at Santa Barbara, fall 1995).

*10. “Switch-reference in Tlapanec” (Colloquium lecture, Linguistics Dept. University of California at Santa Barbara, fall 1995).

*9. “A conservative view of diffusion involving Mixe-Zoquean languages” (World Archaeological Congress, 3, New Delhi, Dec. 1994).

*8. “The story of derivational morphology and auxiliaries in Texistepec Popoluca” (International symposium on synchronic and diachronic aspects of grammaticalization, Sophienberg Slot, Rungsted, Denmark, Oct. 9-12, 1994).

7. “Topic switch-reference in Azoyú Tlapanec and the local-global parameter” (6th International Conference on Functional Grammar, York, August 1994).

6. “Mixe-Zoquean linguistics: A status report” (The 13th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City).

5. “Tlapanecan palimpsets” (The International Hokan-Penutian Conference, summer 1993).

*4. “La fonología del popoluca de Texistepec” (Guest lecture, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Febr. 26, 1993)

3. “A Functional Grammar-based theory of discourse” (1st International Rasmus Rask Colloquium, Odense Universitet, Nov. 5, 1992).

*2. “Azoyú Tlapanec spatial deixis” (Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, Holland, Dec. 1991).

1. “Mixe-Zoquean diachronic morphology” (47th International Congress of Americanists, New Orleans, July 8, 1991).

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