Publications

To appear

• Kroeger, Paul & Sonja Riesberg. To appear. Voice and transitivity. In Alexander Adelaar & Antoinette Schapper (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian languages of South East Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2022

• Bardají i Farré, Maria, Sonja Riesberg & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2022. Limited control predicates in western Austronesia: stative, dynamic, or none of the above? Oceanic Linguistics 61(1). 118–165.
• Hellwig, Birgit, Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg & Melanie Schippling. 2022. Bringing and taking: A cross-linguistic perspective on caused accompanied motion events. In Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg & Birgit Hellwig (eds.), Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, 1–41. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2022. Against trivializing language description (and comparison). Studies in Language 46. 133–160.
• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2022. Prosodic phrasing and the emergence of phrase structure. Linguistics 60(3). 715–743.
• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & Sonja Riesberg. 2022. Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Totoli, a western Austronesian language of Indonesia. In Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg & Birgit Hellwig (eds.), Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, 219–242. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Margetts, Anna, Katharina Haude, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Dagmar Jung, Sonja Riesberg, Stefan Schnell, Frank Seifart, Harriet Sheppard & Claudia Wegener. 2022. Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalization of bring and take. Studies in Language.
• Margetts, Anna, Sonja Riesberg & Birgit Hellwig (eds.). 2022. Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Primus, Beatrice, Franziska Kretzschmar, Klaus von Heusinger & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2022. Relating agent prominence to discourse prominence: Do-clefts in German. Linguistics 60(6). 1811–1853.
• Riesberg, Sonja. 2022. The expression of directed CAM events in Yali, a non-Austronesian language of New Guinea. In Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg & Birgit Hellwig (eds.), Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, 369–395. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Riesberg, Sonja, Maria Bardají i Farré, Kurt Malcher & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2022. Predicting voice choice in symmetrical voice languages. All the things that do not work in Totoli. Studies in Language 46(2). 453–516.

2021

• Riesberg, Sonja, Kurt Malcher & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2021. The many ways of transitivization in Totoli. In Silvia Luraghi & Elisa Roma (eds.), Valency over time: Diachronic perspectives on valency patterns and valency orientation, 235–264. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

2020

• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2020. Grammaticisation processes and reanalyses in Sulawesi languages. In Andrej Malchukov & Walter Bisang (eds.), Areal patterns of grammaticalization and cross-linguistic variation in grammaticalization scenarios, 1043–1075. Berlin: de Gruyter.
• Riesberg, Sonja, Janina Kalbertodt, Stefan Baumann & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2020. Using Rapid Prosody Transcription to probe little-known prosodic systems: The case of Papuan Malay. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 11(1): 8. 1–35.

2019

• Riesberg, Sonja. 2019. 'Fern leaf, so you are challenging me?' Some observations on the Lelegesan, a form of verbal combat in Totoli. In Anthony Jukes, Asako Shiohara & Yanti (eds.), Special genres in and around Indonesia, NUSA (Linguistic Studies of Indonesian and Other Languages in Indonesia) 66, 83-96. pdf
• Riesberg, Sonja, Kurt Malcher & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2019. How universal is agent-first? Evidence from symmetrical voice languages. Language 95(3). 523-561. pdf

2018

• García García, Marco, Beatrice Primus & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2018. Shifting from animacy to agentivity. Theoretical Linguistics 44(1-2). 25-39. pdf
• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2018. Meeting the transcription challenge. In Bradley McDonnell, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker & Gary Holton (eds), Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998 (= Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 15), 33-40. pdf
• Riesberg, Sonja. 2018. Optional ergative, agentivity and discourse prominence - evidence from Yali (TNG). Linguistic Typology 22(1). 17-50. pdf
• Riesberg, Sonja. 2018. Reflections on descriptive and documentary adequacy. In Bradley McDonnell, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker & Gary Holton (eds), Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998 (= Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 15), 151-156. pdf 
• Riesberg, Sonja, Janina Kalbertodt, Stefan Baumann & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2018. On the perception of prosodic prominences and boundaries in Papuan Malay. In Sonja Riesberg, Asako Shiohara & Atsuko Utsumi (eds.), Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages, 389-414. Berlin: Language Science Press. pdf
• Riesberg, Sonja, Asako Shiohara & Atsuko Utsumi (eds.). 2018. Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages. Berlin: Language Science Press. | review in Language

2017

• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2017. Word classes. In Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. 
• Reinöhl, Uta & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2017. Renewal: A figure of speech or a process sui generis? Language 93(2). 381-413. pdf
• Riesberg, Sonja. 2017. An introduction to the Yali-German dictionary with a short grammatical sketch. In Sonja Riesberg (ed.), Wörterbuch Yali (Angguruk) – Deutsch. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. pdf
• Riesberg, Sonja. 2017. Some observations on word order in western Austronesian symmetrical voice languages. In I Nengah Sudipa et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on Austronesian and Non-Austronesian Languages and Literature in Indonesia. Denpasar: Udayana University Press. pdf