PDFs of most publications can be found on my Academia.edu profile
Monographs
(5; including 2 refereed monographs, in bold)
| 2009 | Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman. 2009. Temporal Stability of Linguistic Typological Features. München: LINCOM Europa. |
| 2007 | Wichmann, Søren. 2007. Popoluca de Texistepec. Archivo de las lenguas indígenas de México. México, D.F.: El Colegio de México. |
| 2002 | Wichmann, Søren. 2002. Diccionario analítico del popoluca de Texistepec. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. [Pp. 173.] |
| 1996 | Wichmann, Søren. 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.utexas.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 | Wichmann, Søren. 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
(8 not counting reprints; including 5 refereed volumes, in bold)
| Forthc. | Søren Wichmann (ed.). Forthc. The Languages and Linguistics of Middle and Central America: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Berlin: de Gruyter. |
| 2018 | William B. McGregor and Søren Wichmann (eds.). 2018. The Diachrony of Classification Systems. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 342. Amsterdam: Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.342. [Review by M. Tang in Linguistic Variation (2019)] |
| 2014 | Wichmann, Søren (ed.). 2014. Arguments and Adjuncts Cross-Linguistically. Linguistic Discovery 12.2. https://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/1/xmlpage/1/issue/43. Wichmann, Søren and Jeff Good (eds.). 2014. Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics. Leiden: Brill. |
| 2012 | Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.). 2012. Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Morris Swadesh. Benjamins Current Topics, 46. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [Reprint of Wichmann and Grant (eds.) (2010). Review by S. Moran in Studies in Language 38.1:218-231 (2014)]. |
| 2010 | Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.). 2010. Special Issue: Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Morris Swadesh. Diachronica 27.2. |
| 2008 | Donohue, Mark and Søren Wichmann (eds.). 2008. The Typology of Semantic Alignment. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Pp. xvi + 465. Reviews by Å. Næss in Language 85.3: 713-716 (2009)] and G. Haig in Studies in Language 34.3: 689-698 (2010).] [ORDER HERE] |
| 2007 | Estrada Fernández, Zarina, Søren Wichmann, Claudine Chamoreau, and Albert Álvarez González (eds.). 2007. Studies in Voice and Transitivity (Estudios de voz y transitividad). München: Lincom Europa [Pp. 242. Book notice by G. Iemmolo in eLanguage 2010]. |
| 2004 | Wichmann, Søren (ed.). 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).] |
Journal articles and other papers
(163 not counting 4 reprints; including 85 published or forthcoming in refereed journals or highly competitive conference proceedings, in bold, and 8 handbook contributions)
| Forthc. | Gumán Naranjo, Matías and Søren Wichmann. In press. The half-way similarity avoidance rule replicated using phonetic data from European language varieties. Language Dynamics and Change.
Wichmann, Søren. Forthc. Linguistic phylogeography. In: Robbeets, Martine and Mark Hudson (eds.), Oxford Handbook on Archaeology and Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Zavala, Roberto and Søren Wichmann. Forthc. A typological overview of Mixe-Zoquean languages. In: Wichmann, Søren (ed.), The Languages and Linguistics of Middle America: A Comprehensive Guide. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton. |
| 2023 | Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman. 2023. Cross-linguistic conditions on word length. PLoS ONE 18(1): e0281041. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281041 |
| 2022 | Barbieri, Chiara, Damián E. Blasi, Epifanía Arango-Isaza, Alexandros G. Sotiropoulos, Harald Hammarström, Søren Wichmann, Simon J. Greenhill, Russell Gray, Robert Forkel, Balthasar Bickel, and Kentaro K. Shimizu. 2022. A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 119: e2122084119. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2122084119) |
| 2021 | Wichmann, Søren and Taraka Rama. 2021. Testing methods of linguistic homeland detection using synthetic data. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376: 20200202. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0202). Wichmann, Søren. 2021. A world language family simulation. Physica A 572, 125913. (doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2021.125913). Cunha, Evandro and Søren Wichmann. 2021. An algorithm to identify periods of establishment and obsolescence of linguistic items in a diachronic corpus. Corpora 16.2: 205-236. (doi: 10.3366/cor.2021.0218) Michael A. Schillaci, Logan D. Sutton, Søren Wichmann, and Sergi López-Torres. 2021. Linguistic clues to Kiowa-Tanoan prehistory. Journal of the Southwest 63.2: 255-368. Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk, Swintha Danielsen, Iren Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmann, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, and Balthasar Bickel. 2021. The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages. Linguistics Vanguard 7.1: 20190063. Pimentel, Tiago, Brian Roark, Søren Wichmann, Ryan Cotterell, and Damian Blasi. 2021. Finding concept-specific biases in form-meaning associations. Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT). Mexico City, Mexico, June 6–11, 2021. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.naacl-main.349.pdf Wichmann, Søren. 2021. Pipeline for a data-driven network of linguistic terms. In: Selected contributions from the Eighth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-2020), 25-27 November 2020, 66-71. |
| 2020 | Rama, Taraka and Søren Wichmann. 2020. A test of Generalized Bayesian dating: A new linguistic dating method. PLoS ONE 15(8): e0236522. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236522.
Strunk, Jan, Frank Seifart, Balthasar Bickel, Swintha Danielsen, Iren Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmann, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich. 2020. Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech. Language Documentation and Conservation 14: 423-461. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/24926. Wichmann, Søren and Harald Hammarström. 2020. Methods for calculating walking distances. Physica A 540, 122890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2019.122890. Wichmann, Søren and Shafqat Mumtaz Virk. 2020. Towards a data-driven network of linguistic terms. In: Proceedings of the Swedish Language Technology Conference 2020 (SLTC 2020). https://gubox.app.box.com/v/SLTC-2020-paper-32. Virk, Shafqat Mumtaz, Harald Hammarström, Markus Forsberg, and Søren Wichmann. 2020. The DReaM corpus: A multilingual annotated corpus of grammars for the world’s languages. In: Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), 878-884. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2020/pdf/2020.lrec-1.110.pdf. Virk, Shafqat Mumtaz, Harald Hammarström, Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, and Søren Wichmann. 2020. From linguistic descriptions to language profiles. In: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2020), 23–27. https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/media/proceedings/Workshops/Books/LDL2020book.pdf. |
| 2019 | Wichmann, Søren. 2019. How to distinguish languages and dialects. Computational Linguistics 45.4: 823-831.
Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann. 2019. Harmony rules in the suffix domain: a study of Maya scribal conventions. Revista Española de Antropología Americana 49: 183-208. doi: 10.5209/reaa.64966. Wichmann, Søren. 2019. Power-laws and preferential attachment in linguistic morphology: evidence from Me’pá verb classes. Amerindia 41: 19-38. (In Special issue: Palancar, Enrique L., Matthew Baerman, and Timothy Feist (eds.), Inflectional Complexity and Verb Classes: A View from the Oto-Manguean Languages of Mexico). 索伦·维希曼,冉启斌 [Wichmann, Søren and Qibin Ran]. 2019. ASJP模式的汉语方言计算分析——以65个汉语方言语档为例 [ASJP moshi de hanyu fangyan jisuan fenxi: yi 65 ge hanyu fangyan yudang weili] [A Phylogenetic Study on 65 Chinese Doculects: with ASJP Tools]. 现代语文 [Modern Chinese] [Xiandai Yuwen] 5:4-13. (ISSN: 1008-8024; link to journal: http://new.oversea.cnki.net/KNavi/JournalDetail?pcode=CJFD&pykm=YWLY). Wichmann, Søren and Qibin Ran. 2019. Yuyan yu Fangyan de Qufen Cengji: ASJP Moshi de Hexin Cihui Juli Jisuan Zai Fenxi (语言与方言的区分层级—ASJP模式的核心词汇距离计算再分析) (Hierarchical Discriminations Bewteen Languages and Dialects: Basing on ASJP Similarity Calculations). Nankai Yuyan Xuekan (Nankai Linguistics), 2: 126-135. |
| 2018 | Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk, Swintha Danielsen, Iren Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmanne, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Nivja de Jongh, and Balthasar Bickel. 2018. Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 115(22): 5720-5725. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800708115.
Aldai, Gontzal and Søren Wichmann. 2018. Statistical observations on hierarchies of transitivity. Folia Linguistica 52(2): 249-281. Rama, Taraka and Søren Wichmann. 2018. Towards identifying the optimal datasize for lexically-based Bayesian inference of linguistic phylogenies. 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New-Mexico, USA. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1134/ Ran, Qibin and Søren Wichmann. 2018. Zenyang qufen yuyan yu fangyan: Jiyu hexin cihui de juli jisuan fangfa tansuo (How to Distinguish Languages and Dialects: A Quantitative Approach). Yuyan Zhanlue Yanjiu (Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning) 3(2): 50-58. DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20180205. Wichmann, Søren. 2018. Introduction. In: McGregor, William B. and Søren Wichmann (eds.), The Diachrony of Classification Systems, 1-8. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Wichmann, Søren and Taraka Rama. 2018. Jackknifing the black sheep: ASJP classification performance and Austronesian. In Kikusawa, Ritsuko and Lawrence A. Reid (eds.), Let’s Talk about Trees: Genetic Relationships of Languages and Their Phylogenic Representation, 39-58. Senri Ethnological Studies 98. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, Japan. Wichmann, Søren. 2018. Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies. In: Kageyama, Taro and Wesley M. Jacobsen (eds.), Transitivity and Valency Alternations: Studies on Japanese and Beyond, 423-444. Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, 297. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. [Reprint of Wichmann 2016]. Bakker, Dik, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Pamela Brown, Dmitry Egorov, Robert Mailhammer, Anthony Grant, and Eric W. Holman. 2018. Adding typology to lexicostatistics: a combined approach to language classification. In Nikolaeva, Irina (ed.), Linguistic Typology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Vol. 3, pp. 169-181. Routledge. [Reprint of Bakker et al. 2009]. |
| 2017 | Holman, Eric W. and Søren Wichmann. 2017. New evidence from linguistic phylogenetics identifies limits to punctuational change. Systematic Biology 66.4: 604-610. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw106.
Wichmann, Søren. 2017. Modeling language family expansions. Diachronica 34.1:79-101. Schillaci, Michael A., Craig Kopris, Søren Wichmann, and Genevieve Dewar. 2017. Linguistic clues to Iroquoian prehistory. Journal of Anthropological Research 73.3: 448-485. Wichmann, Søren and Lynda Boudreault. 2017. Kañcheñyoomä’ ‘the lazy woman’. International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 83, Supp. 1, Texts in Indigenous Languages of the Americas 1, pp. S57–S102. Wichmann, Søren. 2017. Genealogical classification in historical linguistics. In: Aronoff, Mark (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Linguistics. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.78. |
| 2016 | Blasi, Damián E., Søren Wichmann, Peter F. Stadler, Harald Hammarström, and Morten H. Christiansen. 2016. Sound-meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U. S. A. 113: 10818-10823. doi: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1605782113.
Schillaci, Michael and Søren Wichmann. 2016. The use of linguistic data in bioarchaeological research: An example from the American Southwest. in: Madeleine L. Mant and Alyson Jaagumägi Holland (eds.), Beyond the Bones: Engaging with Disparate Datasets, 101-112. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Pache, Matthias, Søren Wichmann, and Mikhail Zhivlov. 2016. Words for ‘dog’ as a diagnostic of language contact in the Americas. In: Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Jany (eds.), Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in Honor of Marianne Mithun, 385-409. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Wichmann, Søren and Jesper Nielsen. 2016. Sequential text-image pairing among the Classic Maya. In: Cohn, Neil (ed.), The Visual Narrative Reader, 282-313. London: Bloomsbury. Jäger, Gerhard and Søren Wichmann. 2016. Inferring the world tree of languages from word lists. In: In S.G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher & T. Verhoef (eds.) The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11). Available online: http://evolang.org/neworleans/papers/147.html. Wichmann, Søren. 2016. Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies. In: Kageyama, Taro and Wesley M. Jacobsen (eds.), Transitivity and Valency Alternations: Studies on Japanese and Beyond, 423-444. Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, 297. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. |
| 2015 | Holman, Eric W., Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, and E. Anthon Eff. 2015. Inheritance and diffusion of language and culture: A comparative perspective. Social Evolution & History 14.1:49-64.
Good, Jeff and Søren Wichmann. 2015. Editors’ Note: Five years of Language Dynamics and Change. Language Dynamics and Change 5.2: 163-168. Schillaci, Michael and Søren Wichmann. 2015. The use of linguistic data in bioarchaeological research: an example from the American Southwest. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156: 278. Comrie, Bernard, Iren Hartmann, Martin Haspelmath, Andrej Malchukov, and Søren Wichmann. 2015. Introduction. In: Malchukov, Andrej and Bernard Comrie (eds.), Valency Classes in the World’s Languages., 3-26. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Wichmann, Søren. 2015. Statistical observations on implicational (verb) hierarchies. In: Malchukov, Andrej and Bernard Comrie (eds.), Valency Classes in the World’s Languages, 155-181. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Wichmann, Søren. 2015. Diachronic stability and typology. In: Bowern, Claire and Bethwyn Evans (eds.), Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 212-224. London and New York: Routledge. |
| 2014 | Bochkarev, Vladimir, Valery Solovyev, and Søren Wichmann. 2014. Universals versus historical contingencies in lexical evolution. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 11: 20140841.
Brown, Cecil H., Søren Wichmann, and David Beck. 2014. Chitimacha: a Mesoamerican language in the Lower Mississippi Valley. International Journal of American Linguistics 80.4: 425-474 . Wichmann, Søren. 2014. The challenges of language dynamics. Comment on “Modelling language evolution: Examples and predictions” by Gong, Shuai & Zhang. Physics of Life Reviews 11.2: 303-304. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2014.01.015 Brown, Cecil H., Charles R. Clement, Patience Epps, Eike Luedeling, and Søren Wichmann. 2014. The Paleobiolinguistics of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). Ethnobiology Letters 5: 104-115. doi:10.14237/ebl.5.2014.203. Brown, Cecil H., Charles R. Clement, Patience Epps, Eike Luedeling, and Søren Wichmann. 2014. The Paleobiolinguistics of maize (Zea mays L.). Ethnobiology Letters 5: 52-64. doi:10.14237/ebl.5.2014.130. Wichmann, Søren. 2014. Arguments and adjuncts cross-linguistically: a brief introduction. Linguistic Discovery 12.2. Wichmann, Søren and Jeff Good. 2014. Introduction. In: Wichmann, Søren and Jeff Good (eds.), Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics. Leiden: Brill. Blasi, Damián E., Morten H. Christiansen, Søren Wichmann, Harald Hammarström, and Peter F. Stadler. 2014. Sound symbolism and the origins of language. In: Cartmill, Erica A., Seán Roberts, Heidi Lyn, and Hannah Cornish (eds.), The Evolution of Language. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (EVOLANG10), Vienna, Austria, 14-17 April 2014, 391-392. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. Wichmann, Søren. 2014. Mixe-Zoquean languages. In: Aronoff, Mark (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press. |
| 2013 | Brown, Cecil H., Eric W. Holman, and Søren Wichmann. 2013. Sound correspondences in the world’s languages. Language 89.1:4-29.
Wichmann, Søren. 2013. A classification of Papuan languages. In: Hammarström, Harald and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), History, contact and classification of Papuan languages (Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, Special Issue 2012), 313-386. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea. Murilo Castro de Oliveira, Paulo, Adriano O. Sousa, and Søren Wichmann. 2013. On the disintegration of (proto-)languages. International Journal for the Sociology of Language 221: 11-19. doi 10.1515/ijsl-2013-0021. Brown, Cecil H., Charles R. Clement, Patience Epps, Eike Luedeling, and Søren Wichmann. 2013. The paleobiolinguistics of domesticated manioc (Manihot esculenta). Ethnobiology Letters 4:61-70. Brown, Cecil H., Charles R. Clement, Patience Epps, Eike Luedeling, and Søren Wichmann. 2013. The Paleobiolinguistics of domesticated chili pepper (Capsicum spp.) Ethnobiology Letters 4: 1-11. [link] Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman. 2013. Languages with longer words have more lexical change. In: Borin, Lars and Anju Saxena (eds.), Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences, 249-284. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton. Wichmann, Søren. 2013. Internal language classification. In Luraghi, Silvia and Vit Bubenik (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Historical Linguistics, 70-86. Bloomsbury Publishing. [Reprint of Wichmann (2010)]. Wichmann, Søren. 2013. Genealogical classification. In: Kostova, Julia (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013-04-22. Brown, Cecil H., Eike Luedeling, Søren Wichmann, and Patience Epps. 2013. The paleobiolinguistics of domesticated squash (Cucurbita spp.). In: Quinlan, Marsha and Dana Lepofsky (eds.), Explorations in Ethnobiology: The Legacy of Amadeo Rea, Vancouver, BC: Society of Ethnobiology, Department of Geography, University of North Texas. Wichmann, Søren. 2013. The automated classification of the world’s languages: can it go deeper? In: Wielfaert, Thomas, Kris Heylen and Dirk Speelman (eds.), Proceedings of Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 5. 12-14 September 2013 University of Leuven., p. 12. [link] Serva, Maurizio, Filippo Petroni, Dima Volchenkov and Wichmann, Søren. 2013. From Indonesia to Madagascar: in search of the origins of the Malagasy language. Indian Ocean Review of Science and Technology, Article 1-2013. |
| 2012 | Walker Robert S., Søren Wichmann, Thomas Mailund, and Curtis J. Atkisson. 2012. Cultural phylogenetics of the Tupi language family in Lowland South America. PLoS ONE 7(4): e35025. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035025.
Wichmann, Søren and Matthias Urban. 2012. Toward an automated classification of Englishes. In: Terttu Nevalainen and Elizabeth Closs Traugott (eds). The Oxford Handbook of the History of English, 676-686. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press Wichmann, Søren and Anthony Grant. 2012. Preface. In: Wichmann, Søren and Anthony Grant (eds.), Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Morris Swadesh, vii-viii. Benjamins Current Topics, 46. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Wichmann, Søren, André Müller, and Viveka Velupillai. 2012. Homelands of the world’s language families: A quantitative approach. In: Wichmann, Søren and Anthony Grant (eds.), Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Morris Swadesh., 57-86. Benjamins Current Topics, 46. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [Reprint of Wichmann et al. 2010]. |
| 2011 | Holman, Eric W., Cecil H. Brown, Søren Wichmann, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Harald Hammarström, Sebastian Sauppe, Hagen Jung, Dik Bakker, Pamela Brown, Oleg Belyaev, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Johann-Mattis List, and Dmitry Egorov. 2011. Automated dating of the world’s language families based on lexical similarity. Current Anthropology 52.6: 841-875.
Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, Taraka Rama, and Robert S. Walker. 2011. Correlates of reticulation in linguistic phylogenies. Language Dynamics and Change 1: 205-240. Wichmann, Søren, Taraka Rama, and Eric W. Holman. 2011. Phonological diversity, word length, and population sizes across languages: The ASJP evidence. Linguistic Typology 15: 177-197. Wichmann, Søren and Jeff Good. 2011. Editorial statement. Language Dynamics and Change 1.1: 1-2. Brown, Cecil H., David Beck, Grzegorz Kondrak, James K. Watters, and Søren Wichmann. 2011. Totozoquean. International Journal of American Linguistics 77.3: 323-372. Donohue, Mark, Simon Musgrave, Bronwen Whitting, and Søren Wichmann. 2011. Typological feature analysis models linguistic geography. Language 87.2: 369-383. Serva, Maurizio, Filippo Petroni, Dima Volchenkov, and Søren Wichmann. 2011. Dialects of Malagasy and the peopling of Madagascar. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 9.66. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0228. Wichmann, Søren and Cecil H. Brown. 2011. Syllable nuclei of proto-Mayan disyllabic stems. In: Avelino, Heriberto (ed.), New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics, 316-342. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, Dietrich Stauffer, and Cecil H. Brown. 2011. Similarities among languages of the Americas: An exploration of the WALS evidence. Journal of Language Relationship 5: 130-134. |
| 2010 | Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Johann-Mattis List, Oleg Belyaev, Matthias Urban, and Dik Bakker. 2010. Glottochronology as a heuristic for genealogical language relationships. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 17.4: 303-316. .
Wichmann, Søren, André Müller, and Viveka Velupillai. 2010. Homelands of the world’s language families: A quantitative approach. Diachronica 27.2: 247-276. (Reprinted in Wichmann, Søren and Anthony Grant (eds.), Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Morris Swadesh. Benjamins Current Topics. John Benjamins Publishing Company.) Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, Dik Bakker, and Cecil H. Brown. 2010. Evaluating linguistic distance measures. Physica A. 389: 3632-3639; doi:10.1016/j.physa.2010.05.011 Wichmann, Søren, Holman, Eric W. and Cecil H. Brown. 2010. Sound symbolism in basic vocabulary. Entropy 12(4), 844-858; doi:10.3390/e12040844. Beekman, Christopher S., George L. Cowgill, Karen Dakin, Nicholas A. Hopkins, Robert M. Rosenswig, Kathryn E. Sampeck, Michael Swanton, Alejandro de Ávila, Bas van Doesburg, and Søren Wichmann. 2010. Comments on Kaufman and Justeson: “The history of the word for cacao in Ancient Mesoamerica”. Ancient Mesoamerica 21: 415-441. Wichmann, Søren. 2010. Internal language classification. In Luraghi, Silvia and Vit Bubenik (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, 70-86. London/New York: Continuum Books. Wichmann, Søren. 2010. Ditransitive constructions in Tlapanec. In: Malchukov, Andrej, Martin Haspelmath, and Bernard Comrie (eds.), Studies in Ditransitive Constructions: A Comparative Handbook, 651-677. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter Mouton. Serva, Maurizio, Philippe Blanchard, Eric W. Holman, Filippo Petroni, Dima Volchenkov, and Søren Wichmann. 2010. The phylogeny of Malagasy dialects. In: Solovyev, Valery and Vladimir Polyakov (eds.), Text Processing and Cognitive Technologies. Collection of Papers. Issue 19. Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics: Proceedings of the XII International Conference, 253-256. Kazan: Kazan State University. Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman. 2010. 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), 241-254. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. |
| 2009 | Wichmann, Søren and Holman, Eric W. 2009. Population size and rates of language change. Human Biology 81: 259-274.
Polyakov, Vladimir N., Valery D. Solovyev, Søren Wichmann, and Oleg Belyaev. 2009. Using WALS and Jazyki Mira. Linguistic Typology 13: 135-165. Bakker, Dik, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Pamela Brown, Dmitry Egorov, Robert Mailhammer, Anthony Grant, and Eric W. Holman. 2009. Adding typology to lexicostatistics: a combined approach to language classification. Linguistic Typology 13: 167-179. Wichmann, Søren and Kerry Hull. 2009. Q’eqchi’ vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, Martin & Tadmor, Uri (eds.) World Loanword Database. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library. http://wold.clld.org/. Wichmann, Søren and Kerry Hull. 2009. 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. Wichmann, Søren. 2009. Case relations in a head-marking language: verb-marked cases in Tlapanec. In: Malchukov, Andrej and Andrew Spencer (eds.), The Handbook of Case, 797-807. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| 2008 | Wichmann, Søren. 2008. The emerging field of language dynamics. Language and Linguistics Compass 2.3: 442-455.
Wichmann, Søren. 2008. Teaching & Learning Guide for: The Emerging Field of Language Dynamics. Language and Linguistics Compass 2.6: 1294–1297. Murilo Castro de Oliveira, Paulo, Dietrich Stauffer, Søren Wichmann, and Suzana Moss de Oliveira. 2008. A computer simulation of language families. Journal of Linguistics 44: 659-675. Donohue, Mark, Søren Wichmann, and Mihai Albu. 2008. Typology, areality and diffusion. Oceanic Linguistics 47.1: 223-232. Holman, Eric W., Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Viveka Velupillai, André Müller, and Dik Bakker. 2008. Explorations in automated language classification. Folia Linguistica 42.2: 331-354. Brown, Cecil H., Eric W. Holman, Søren Wichmann, and Viveka Velupillai. 2008. Automated classification of the world’s languages: A description of the method and preliminary results. STUF – Language Typology and Universals 61.4: 285-308. Schulze, Christian, Dietrich Stauffer, and Søren Wichmann. 2008. Birth, survival and death of languages by Monte Carlo simulation. Communications in Computational Physics 3.2: 271-294. Wichmann, Søren, Dietrich Stauffer, Christian Schulze, and Eric W. Holman. 2008. Do language change rates depend on population size? Advances in Complex Systems 11.3: 357-369. Wichmann, Søren and David Kamholz. 2008. A stability metric for typological features. STUF – Language Typology and Universals 61.3: 251-262. Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann. 2008. Longitud vocálica y glotalización en la escritura náhuatl. Revista Española de Antropología Americana 38.2: 121-150. Wichmann, Søren. 2008. 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. Wichmann, Søren and Jan Wohlgemuth. 2008. 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. Wichmann, Søren, Dmitri Beliaev, and Albert Davletshin. 2008. Posibles correlaciones lingüísticas y arqueológicas vinculadas con los olmecas. In: Uriarte, María Teresa and Rebecca B. González Lauck (eds.), Olmeca. Balance y perspectivas. Memoria de la Primera Mesa Redonda, 667-683. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México & Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes & Fundación Arqueológica del Nuevo Mundo, Universidad Brigham Young. Wichmann, Søren and Ilona Heijnen. 2008. 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) 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. Wichmann, Søren. 2008. 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. 2007. How to use typological databases in historical linguistic research. Diachronica 24.2: 373-404.
Holman, Eric W., Christian Schulze, Dietrich Stauffer, and Søren Wichmann. 2007. On the relation between structural diversity and geographical distance among languages: observations and computer simulations. Linguistic Typology 11.2: 395-423 . Wichmann, Søren. 2007. The reference-tracking system of Tlapanec: between obviation and switch reference. Studies in Language 31.4: 801-827. Wichmann, Søren, Dietrich Stauffer, F. Welington S. Lima, and Christian Schulze. 2007. Modelling linguistic taxonomic dynamics. Transactions of the Philological Society 105.2: 126-147 Wichmann, Søren. 2007. 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. Estrada Fernández, Zarina and Søren Wichmann. 2007. 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. 2007. 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. . Wichmann, Søren. 2007. 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. |
| 2006 | Wichmann, Søren. 2006. Mayan historical linguistics and epigraphy: a new synthesis. Annual Review of Anthropology 35: 279-294.
Stauffer, Dietrich, Christian Schulze, F.W.S. Lima, Søren Wichmann, and Sorin Solomon. 2006. Non-equilibrium and irreversible simulation of competition among languages. Physica A 371.2: 719-724. Cysouw, Michael, Søren Wichmann, and David Kamholz. 2006. A critique of the separation base method for genealogical subgrouping, with data from Mixe-Zoquean. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 13.2-3: 225-264. Wichmann, Søren. 2006. 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. Wichmann, Søren and Albert Davletshin. 2006. 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. Wichmann, Søren. 2006. 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. Wichmann, Søren. 2006. A Mixe-Zoquean loanword on the Late Preclassic Maya murals of San Bartolo? http://www.mesoweb.com. [link]. (Spanish translation:¿Un vocablo mixe-zoqueano de préstamo en los murales mayas del preclásico tardíode San Bartolo? http://www.mesoweb.com [link] Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman. 2006. 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 | Wichmann, Søren. 2005. On the power-law distribution of language family sizes. Journal of Linguistics 41: 117-131.
Wichmann, Søren. 2005. 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. Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann. 2005. 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. |
| 2004 | Brown, Cecil H. and Søren Wichmann. 2004. Proto-Mayan syllable nuclei. International Journal of American Linguistics 70.2: 128-186.
Wichmann, Søren. 2004. A reply to Robertson. Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing 51a: 14-23. Barnardsville, NC: Center for Maya Research. Wichmann, Søren. 2004. 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. Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann. 2004. 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. Wichmann, Søren. 2004. 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. Wichmann, Søren. 2004. 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. Wichmann, Søren. 2004. 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. Wichmann, Søren. 2004. 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. Wichmann, Søren. 2004. 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. |
| 2003 | Wichmann, Søren and Cecil H. Brown. 2003. Contact among some Mayan languages: inferences from loanwords. Anthropological Linguistics 45.1: 57-93.
Wichmann, Søren. 2003. 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] Wichmann, Søren. 2003. Georges Raynaud: An overlooked figure in the history of Maya epigraphy. The PARI Journal 3.2/3.3: 15-17, 2002/2003. Wichmann, Søren. 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. |
| 2002 | Wichmann, Søren. 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.
Wichmann, Søren. 2002. Questioning the grid: a new distinction among the syllabic signs of the Maya hieroglyphic script? Mexicon 24.5: 98-106. Wichmann, Søren and Cecil H. Brown. 2002. Contacto lingüístico dentro del área maya: Los casos de ixhil, q’eqchii’ y chikomuselteko, Pueblos y fronteras 4: 133-167. Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann. 2002. 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. |
| 2001 | Gutiérrez Morales, Salomé and Søren Wichmann. 2001. He’m ¢i¢imat, ‘La Chichimeca’. Tlalocan 13: 315-334. |
| 2000 | Dakin, Karen and Søren Wichmann. 2000. Cacao and chocolate: A Uto-Aztecan perspective. Ancient Mesoamerica 11: 1-21.
Wichmann, Søren. 2000. 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. Nielsen, Jesper and Søren Wichmann. 2000. 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 | Wichmann, Søren. 1999. On the relationship between UtoAztecan and MixeZoquean. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 24.2: 101-113. [link]
Wichmann, Søren. 1999. 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. |
| 1997 | Wichmann, Søren. 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 | Dakin, Karen and Søren Wichmann. 1996. Cacao, chocolate y los nahuas y mixezoques en el sur de Mesoamérica. Revista Latina de Pensamiento y Lenguaje, vol 2, no. 2B: 455-475.
Wichmann, Søren. 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. |
| 1995 | Wichmann, Søren. 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.
Wichmann, Søren. 1995. ‘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. Wichmann, Søren. 1995. 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 | Wichmann, Søren. 1994. Underspecification in Texistepec Popoluca phonology. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 27.2: 267-285.
Wichmann, Søren. 1994. Sprog og rumlig orientering i livsverdenen. Tidsskriftet antropologi 30: 107-117. Wichmann, Søren. 1994. 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. |
| 1993 | Wichmann, Søren. 1993. Grammaticalization in Mixe-Zoquean languages. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 46.1: 45-60.
Wichmann, Søren. 1993. Spatial deixis in Azoyú Tlapanec. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 46.2: 113-132. |
| 1992 | Wichmann, Søren. 1992. A semantic framework for the Azoyú Tlapanec Iterative. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 25: 125-142.
Wichmann, Søren. 1992. 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. 1990. System og deviation – nogle hovedtræk af Lotmans kultur- og kunstsemiotik. Litteratur og samfund 46: 150-166. |
Reviews, book notices and obituaries (25)
| 2013 | Wichmann, Søren. 2013. Review of Jan Terje Faarlund, A Grammar of Chiapas Zoque. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lingua 137: 214-218. |
| 2010 | Wichmann, Søren. 2010. Review of John Newman (ed.), The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Studies in Language 34.2: 487-491. |
| 2008 | Wichmann, Søren. 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.
Wichmann, Søren. 2008. Review of Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley, Saving Languages. An Introduction to Language Revitalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2006). Language 84.4: 883-885. |
| 2007 | Wichmann, Søren. 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.
Wichmann, Søren. 2007. 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 | Wichmann, Søren. N.d. 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.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano (2004). Word 57.1: 169-.
Wichmann, Søren. 2006. 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. |
| 2005 | Wichmann, Søren. 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 16.3:349-52.
Wichmann, Søren. 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: 505-508. Wichmann, Søren. 2005. 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 | Wichmann, Søren. 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.
Wichmann, Søren. 2004. Book notice on M. J. Hardman: Aymara. LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics, 35. München: LINCOM EUROPA (2001). Language 80.3: 623-4 |
| 2002 | Wichmann, Søren. 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.
Wichmann, Søren. 2002. 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 | Wichmann, Søren. 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 | Wichmann, Søren. 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. 1999. Deceased: Arild Hvidtfelt (1915-1999). Mexicon. [P. 1. By mistake I am not mentioned in the journal as co-author of this]. |
| 1998 | Wichmann, Søren. 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.
Wichmann, Søren. 1998. 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 | Wichmann, Søren. 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 | Wichmann, Søren. 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.].
Wichmann, Søren. 1993. Review of William F. Hanks: Referential Practice. Language and Lived Space among the Maya. Journal of Pragmatics 20, 291-300. |
| 1991 | Wichmann, Søren. 1991. Review of Sarah G. Thomason and Terrence Kaufman: Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 23: 217-221. |
Reviews solicited but never printed due to change of editors (2)
| n.d. | Wichmann, Søren. N.d. 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).
Wichmann, Søren. N.d. Review of Heinrich Werner, Die Diathese in den Jenissej-Sprachen aus typologischer Sicht. Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica, 64. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (2004). |
Electronically published databases (1)
| 2020 | Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, and Cecil H. Brown (eds.). 2022. The ASJP Database (version 20). http://asjp.clld.org/. Earlier versions, from 2010 onwards, available on the same site. |
Electronically published working papers (5)
| 2019 | Wichmann, Søren and Taraka Rama. 2019. Towards unsupervised extraction of linguistic typological features from language descriptions. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:26579/. http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/5zcy-h904. |
| 2013 | Wichmann, Søren. 2013. A volcanological view on human linguistic and demographic prehistory. https://www.academia.edu/37358923/A_volcanological_view_on_human_linguistic_and_demographic_prehistory |
| 2013 | Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013. ASJP World Language Tree of Lexical Similarity: version 4 (October 2013). http://asjp.clld.org/ |
| 2010 | Apolinar Antonio, Benito, Abad Carrasco Zúñiga, Mónica González Tiburcio, Felícita Guzmán Vallejón, Stephen A. Marlett, Emilia Neri Méndez, Plácido Neri Remigio, Charles H. Speck, Elías Tamarit Beristrain, Mark L. Weathers, Søren Wichmann, and Próspero Zacarías Morán. 2010. SIL-Mexico Electronic Working Papers #9a: Vocabulario básico en me’phaa. https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/14/13/65/141365761292961931139370439498211638690/WP009_VocabBasicoMephaa.pdf |
| 2008 | Wichmann, Søren, Dietrich Stauffer, Christian Schulze, F. Welington S. Lima, and Eric W. Holman. 2008. Meaning and form in a language computer simulation. http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0109. |
Electronically published language data (4)
| 2022 | Wichmann, Søren. 2022. Texistepec Popoluca DoReCo dataset. In Seifart, Frank, Ludger Paschen and Matthew Stave (eds.). Language Documentation Reference Corpus (DoReCo) 1.0. Berlin & Lyon: Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft & laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (UMR5596, CNRS & Université Lyon 2). (https://doi.org/10.34847/nkl.c50ck58f).
Alfimova, Daria and Søren Wichmann. 2022. Bivalent patterns in Danish. In: Say, Sergey (ed.). BivalTyp: Typological database of bivalent verbs and their encoding frames. St. Petersburg: Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS. (Data first published on January 12, 2022; last revised on January 28, 2022.) (Available online at https://www.bivaltyp.info, Accessed on 1 February 2022.) |
| 2003 | Wichmann, Søren. 2003. Sound files for Cuentos y colorados en popoluca de Texistepec. Posted on http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/la_langs.html. |
| 1990 | Wichmann, Søren. 1990. Vowel symbol conversion from Nordell (1990) to Wichmann: Dicc Comp MZ (Aug 1990). SIL Language and Culture Archives. Bartholomew Collection of Unpublished Materials. SIL International – Mexico Branch.https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/73/95/09/7395092990969424983913950035251692184/Mixe_Vowel_symbols.pdf. |
Publications for the general or very special audience (7+)
| 2019 | Wichmann, Søren. 2019. Why languages and dialects really are different animals. https://aeon.co/ideas/why-languages-and-dialects-really-are-different-animals. Russian translation: https://inosmi.ru/science/20190129/244458552.html?fbclid=IwAR2zEfG0kY_E1PV0r7phrAf4e3ll5sWAn5j1VJWxfo3Yfrg3uyS1fU7pyVU |
| 2007 | Wichmann, Søren. 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]. |
| 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 | Wichmann, Søren. 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 | Wichmann, Søren. 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. [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.). 1998. 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/circulated but are sometimes cited in refereed publications or used in advanced-level university courses by others (7)
| 2011 | Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann. 2011. Introduction to Nahuatl Hieroglyphic Writing. Workbook for the Advanced Workshop of the 16th European Maya Conference, December 5-8, København, Denmark. |
| n.d. | Wichmann, Søren. N.d. Neolithic linguistics. Ms. |
| n.d. | Wichmann, Søren and Cecil H. Brown. N.d. 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 | Wichmann, Søren. 2000. Mayaernes skrift – introduktion og håndbog. [Pp. 252 ill.] |
| 1999 | Wichmann, Søren. 1999. A Ch’orti’ morphological sketch. [Pp. 160] |
| 1998 | Nielsen, Jesper and Søren Wichmann. 1998. T168: The formal evolution and political history of a Maya sign. Unpublished manuscript. Department of History of Religions, University of Copenhagen. |
| 1996 | Wichmann, Søren. 1995. Description and Typology of Some Grammatical Categories in Azoyú Tlapanec. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Copenhagen. |
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