Paul Widmer

Prof. Dr. Paul Widmer

Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Deputy Head of Department
Head of Indo-European Studies Group

Department of Comparative Language Science

University of Zurich
Affolternstrasse 56
CH-8050 Zurich

Phone: +41 44 634 64 01

Office hours by appointment

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Main research areas

Diachronic Linguistics, Morphosyntax, Iranian, Tocharian, Celtic, Vedic, Hittite

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Publications

Widmer, Paul; Scarlata, Salvatore (2024). Supplementary Information to Scarlata & Widmer, Daten und Zahlen zur Struktur rigvedischer Metren. : LaRS — Language Repository of Switzerland.
Zehnder, Thomas; Hellwig, Oliver; Leach, Robert; Plamada, Magd; Malinar, Angelika; Widmer, Paul (2024). Atharvaveda Paippalada Zurich Edition Book 1 (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. : LaRS — Language Repository of Switzerland.
Jing, Yingqi; Widmer, Paul; Bickel, Balthasar (2023). Word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses. Diachronica, 40(4):532-556.
Sonnenhauser, Barbara; Ismajli, Blertë; Widmer, Paul (2023). Pairing peers and pears: Changing conventions of Gheg Albanian heritage speakers. Language Dynamics and Change:1 - 26.
Widmer, Paul; Zehnder, Thomas; Griffiths, Arlo (2023). Atharvaveda Paippalāda manuscripts (1.0.0) [Dataset]. : LaRS - Language Repository of Switzerland.
Ebert, Christian; Levshina, Natalia; Widmer, Paul (2023). ParTree - Parallel Treebanks: A multilingual corpus of movie subtitle. www.swissubase.ch: LaRS — Language Repository of Switzerland.
Widmer, Paul (2023). Britannisch und der Verlust der Numerus- und Genuskongruenz in der Geschichte des Englischen. In: Heinzle Marti, Mirjam; Thöny, Luzius. Swe gamelith is: Studien zur vergleichenden germanischen Sprachwissenschaft: Festschrift für Ludwig Rübekeil zum 65. Geburtstag. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 169-176.
Sommer, Florian; Widmer, Paul (2023). Referential Features and Verbal Agreement with Neuter Plural Subjects in Ancient Greek. In: Semenzato, Camille; Hartmann, Lucius. Von der Antike begeistert! : Philologie, Philosophie, Religion und Politik durch drei Jahrtausende. Festschrift für Christoph Riedweg. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 453-474.
Watson, Stuart K; Filippi, Piera; Gasparri, Luca; Falk, Nikola; Tamer, Nicole; Widmer, Paul; Manser, Marta; Glock, Hans‐Johann (2022). Optionality in animal communication: a novel framework for examining the evolution of arbitrariness. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 97(6):2057-2075.
Neureiter, Nico; Ranacher, Peter; Efrat-Kowalsky, Nour; Kaiping, Gereon A; Weibel, Robert; Widmer, Paul; Bouckaert, Remco R (2022). Detecting contact in language trees: a Bayesian phylogenetic model with horizontal transfer. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 9(1):205.
Widmer, Paul; Scarlata, Salvatore (2022). R̥gvedic depictive adjectival compounds and their functions. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 8(1-2):41-57.
Zeman, Daniel T; et al; Ebert, Christian; Islamaj, Artan; Kuqi, Adrian; Sonnenhauser, Barbara; Widmer, Paul; Plamada, Magdalena (2022). Gheg. Prague: Universal Dependencies Consortium.
Sonnenhauser, Barbara; Widmer, Paul (2022). Object clause indexing in Albanian. In: Nevins, Andrew; Peti-Stanic, Anita; de Vos, Mark; Willer-Gold, Jana. Angles of object agreement. London: Oxford University Press, 327-339.
Stüber, Karin (2022). Zwischen Wortbildung und Flexion. Verbalnomina auf *-mu- im Altirischen. In: Sommer, Florian; Stüber, Karin; Widmer, Paul; Yamazaki, Yoko. Indogermanische Morphologie in erweiterter Sicht : Grenzfälle und Übergänge. Innsbruck: Universität Innsbruck, 175-184.
Ebert, Christian Georg; Islamaj, Artan; Kuqi, Adrian; Sonnenhauser, Barbara; Plamada, Magdalena; Widmer, Paul (2022). UD Gheg Pear Stories. University of Manchester ua: Universal Dependencies.
Edited by: Sommer, Florian; Stüber, Karin; Widmer, Paul; Yamazaki, Yoko (2022). Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft. Indogermanische Morphologie in erweiterter Sicht : Grenzfälle und Übergänge.
Edited by: Fortson, Benjamin; Keydana, Götz; Malzahn, Melanie; Widmer, Paul (2022). Berlin: De Gruyter. Indogermanische Forschungen : Zeitschrift für Indogermanistik und historische Sprachwissenschaft.
Hellwig, Oliver; Scarlata, Salvatore; Widmer, Paul (2021). Reassessing Rigvedic Strata. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 141(4):847-865.
Jing, Yingqi; Widmer, Paul; Bickel, Balthasar (2021). Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity. Cognitive Science, 45(11):e13056.
Biagetti, Erica; Hellwig, Oliver; Ackermann, Elia; Scarlata, Salvatore; Widmer, Paul (2021). Evaluating syntactic annotation of ancient languages. Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia, 1(1):1-32.

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