Nikolaus P. Himmelmann

orcid.org/0000-0002-4385-8395

List of John Benjamins publications for which Nikolaus P. Himmelmann plays a role.

Journal

Studies in Language (SL)

General Editor: Katharina Haude and Nicole Kruspe

ISSN 0378-4177 | E-ISSN 1569-9978

Articles (5) | Order by:

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2022 Against trivializing language description (and comparison) Studies in Language 46:1, pp. 133–160 | Article

This paper argues that recent proposals to sharply distinguish between language description and comparison are ill-conceived for two reasons. First, comparison is unavoidable and hence an integral part of description. Second, the proposals for a strict separation are based on an unrealistic and… read more

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. and Sonja Riesberg 2022 Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Totoli, a western Austronesian language of Indonesia Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, Margetts, Anna, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 219–242 | Chapter

This chapter discusses expressions of directed caused accompanied motion (directed CAM) events in Totoli, a western Austronesian language of eastern Indonesia. The most frequent strategy to express directed CAM events in Totoli is to combine a take verb with one of two directional clitics that… read more

Margetts, Anna, Katharina Haude, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Dagmar Jung, Sonja Riesberg, Stefan Schnell, Frank Seifart, Harriet Sheppard and Claudia Wegener 2022 Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalisation of bring and take Studies in Language 46:4, pp. 934–993 | Article

This study investigates the linguistic expression of bring and take events and more generally of the semantic domain of directed caused accompanied motion (‘directed CAM’) across a sample of eight languages of the Pacific and the Americas. Unlike English, the majority of languages in our sample… read more

Riesberg, Sonja, Maria Bardají i Farré, Kurt Malcher and 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, pp. 453–516 | Article

Western Austronesian symmetrical voice languages exhibit at least two basic transitive constructions. This paper investigates what factors influence speakers’ choice of one voice over another in natural spoken discourse. It provides a thorough assessment of all factors that have been proposed to… read more

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1996 Demonstratives in Narrative Discourse: A Taxonomy of Universal Uses Studies in Anaphora, Fox, Barbara A. (ed.), pp. 205–254 | Article