Balthasar Bickel

Balthasar Bickel ( born December 19, 1965) is a Swiss linguist. Bickel is a specialist in the field of linguistic typology and the Tibeto-Burman languages, especially languages ​​of the Kiranti group.

He is a professor at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Zurich. Between 2002 and 2011 he was a professor at the University of Leipzig. He was a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen and received his doctorate at the University of Zurich. As a postdoc, he spent several years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked closely with Johanna Nichols.

Bickel's focus is in the areas of tense and aspect, congruence and syntactic features, morphological typology, phonological word domains Areal typology, linguistic relativity, and lately quantitative methods in language typology. He has extensive field research on Kiranti languages ​​carried out in Nepal, especially for Belhare, Chintang and Puma. He is co-editor of the journal Studies in Language.

Selected Works

  • Aspect, mood, and time in Belhare. ASAS, Zurich 1996.
  • On the syntax of agreement in Tibeto- Burman. In: Studies in Language. Vol 24 (2000 ), pp. 583-609.
  • Belhare. In Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla (eds.): The Sino -Tibetan languages ​​. Routledge, London 2003, pp. 546-570.
  • Referential density in discourse and syntactic typology. In: Language. Vol 79 (2003 ), pp. 708-736.
  • ( with Johanna Nichols ) inflectional synthesis of the verb. In: Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie (eds.): The world atlas of language structures. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005, pp. 94-97 (online).
  • Typology in the 21st century: major current Developments. In: Linguistic Typology. Vol 11 (2007 ), pp. 239-251.
  • Grammatical relations typology. In: Jae Jung Song ( ed.): The Oxford handbook of linguistic typology. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, p 399-444.
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