Selected publications since 2010

Books

Sheyholislami, Jaffer & Haig, Geoffrey & Khezri, Haidar & Akin, Salih & Öpengin, Ergin (eds.) To appear: The Oxford handbook of Kurdish linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Haig, Geoffrey & Rasekh-Mahand, Mohammad & Stilo, Donald & Schreiber, Laurentia & Schiborr, Nils (eds.) To appear: Post-predicate elements in the Western Asian Transition Zone: a corpus-based approach to areal typology. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Matras, Yaron & Öpengin, Ergin & Haig,Geoffrey (eds.). 2022. Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish. London: Palgrave MacMillan, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78837-7.

Gündoğdu, Songül & Öpengin, Ergin & Haig, Geoffrey & Anonby, Erik (eds.). 2019. Current issues in Kurdish linguistics. Bamberg: Bamberg University Press, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20378/irbo-55875.

Haig, Geoffrey & Khan, Geoffrey (eds.). 2018. The languages and linguistics of Western Asia. An areal perspective. Berlin [The World of Linguistics; 6]: Mouton de Gruyter, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421682.

Behzadi, Lale & Franke, Patrick & Haig, Geoffrey & Herzog, Christoph & Hoffmann, Birgitt & Korn, Lorenz & Talabardon, Susanne (eds.) Bamberger Orientstudien, Vol. 1. Bamberg: Bamberg University Press, https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/20937.

Mahmoudveysi, Parvin & Bailey, Denise & Paul, Ludwig & Haig, Geoffrey. 2012. The Gorani language of Gawraju, a village of West Iran. Grammar, texts and lexicon. Wiesbaden: Reichert, https://zimannas.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/the_gorani_language_of_gawraju_a_village.pdf.

Haig, Geoffrey & Nau, Nicole & Schnell, Stefan & Wegener, Claudia (eds.). 2011. Documenting endangered languages: achievements and perspectives. Berlin [= Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs; 240]: De Gruyter Mouton, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110260021.

Haig, Geoffrey & Korn, Agnes & Samvelian, Pollet & Karimi, Simin (eds). 2011. Topics in Iranian linguistics. Wiesbaden:  Reichert,
https://www.academia.edu/853435/Topics_in_Iranian_Linguistics.
 

Special issues of journals

Forker, Diana & Haig, Geoffrey (eds.). 2018. Linguistics: Person and gender in discourse: An empirical crosslinguistic perspective. Special issue of Linguistics 56(4).

Haig, Geoffrey & Öpengin, Ergin (eds.). 2014. Kurdish Linguistics: Variation and Change. Special edition of Journal of Kurdish Studies 2(2), https://kurdishstudies.net/issue-view/?id=8.

Haig, Geoffrey & Seifart, Frank & Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & Jung, Dagmar & Margetts Anna & Trilsbeek, Paul (eds.) 2012. Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization. Language Documentation and Conservation Special Publication 3. Manoa: University of Hawai'i Press, http://www.academia.edu/6336677/Potentials_of_language_documentation_Methods_analyses_and_utilization.

Haig, Geoffrey & Csató, Èva À. & Enwall, Joakim & Eskhult, Mats & Jahani, Carina & Månsson, Anette & Schaefer, Christiane (eds.). 2012. Special edition of the Journal Orientalia Suecana 61. Iranian linguistics, http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:641228/FULLTEXT01.pdf.

Journal articles

Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew & King, Benedict & Bouckaert, Remco & Jocz, Lechosław & Kümmel, Martin Joachim & Jügel, Thomas & Irslinger, Britta & Pooth, Roland & Liljegren, Henrik & Strand, Richard F. & Haig, Geoffrey & Macák, Martin & Kim, Ronald I. & Anonby, Erik & Pronk, Tijmen & Belyaev, Oleg & Dewey-Findell, Tonya Kim & Boutilier, Matthew & Freiberg, Cassandra & Tegethoff, Robert & Serangeli, Matilde & Liosis, Nikos & Stroński, Krzysztof & Schulte, Kim & Gupta, Ganesh Kumar & Haak, Wolfgang & Krause, Johannes & Atkinson, Quentin D. & Greenhill, Simon J. & Kühnert, Denise & Gray, Russell D.. 2023. Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages. Science 381 (6656). eabg0818. DOI: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg0818.

Schnell, Stefan & Schiborr, Nils N. & Haig, Geoffrey. 2021. Efficiency in discourse processing: Does morphosyntax adapt to accommodate new referents? Linguistics Vanguard 7(3), special issue on efficiency in language, edited by Natalia Levshina and Steve Moran:  1–13, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0064.

Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan & Seifart, Frank (eds.). 2021. Doing Corpus-Based Typology With Spoken Language Corpora: State of the art. Special publication of the journal Language Documentation and Conservation,hdl.handle.net/10125/74663.

Anonby, Erik & Taheri-Ardali, Mortaza & Schreiber, Laurentia & Bulut, Christiane & Haig, Geoffrey. 2020. Turkic languages in the Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI). Turkic Languages 24(2). 290-308.

Haig, Geoffrey & Forker, Diana. 2018. Agreement in grammar and discourse: A research overview. Linguistics 56(4): 715-734, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2018-0014.

Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan. 2016. The discourse basis of ergativity revisited. Language 92(3). 591-618, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2016.0049.

Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan. 2016. The discourse basis of ergativity revisited: Online Appendices.Language 92(3). 1-14,DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2016.0044.

Öpengin, Ergin & Haig, Geoffrey. 2014. Regional variation in Kurmanji: a preliminary classification of dialects. Kurdish Studies 2(2). Special issue on Kurdish Linguistics: Variation and Change. 143-176, https://kurdishstudies.net/menu-script/index.php/ks/article/view/62/53.
 

Book chapters, conference papers, other contributions

Haig, Geoffrey. 2023. Kurdic, Turkic and. In Johanson, Lars (ed.) Encyclopedia in Turkic language and linguistics. Leid: Brill.

Haig, Geoffrey. 2023. ‘Imperfective prefixes in Northern Kurdish: sound changes, asymmetric negation, and the unity of Kurdish’. Keynote talk at the Sixth International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL 6). Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 4.-5.09.2023.

Schnell, Schnell & Haig, Geoffrey & Schiborr, Nils & Vollmer, Maria. 2023. Are referent introductions sensitive to forward planning in discourse? Evidence from Multi-CAST. In Barotto, Alessandra & Mattiola, Simone (eds.) Discourse phenomena in linguistic typology, 231-268. Amsterdam, Philadelphia [= Studies in Language Companion Series; 227]: John Benjamins.

Schnell, Stefan & Schiborr, Nils & Haig, Geoffrey. 2022. ‘The role of grammatical relations in co-reference production across diverse languages’. Paper held at ALT 2022 (Fourteenth Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology), University of Texas, Austin.15.-17.12.2022.

Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan Schiborr, Nils. 2022. ‘Conditioned pronoun use as precursor of conditioned P-indexing’. Paper held at ALT 2022 (Fourteenth Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology), University of Texas, Austin.15.-17.12.2022.

Haig, Geoffrey & Noorlander, Paul & Molin, Dorota. 2022. ‘Tracing the VO-to-OV shift across Northeastern Neo-Aramaic: quantitative and qualitative analyses’. Paper held at LACIM 2022 (International Conference of the European research network on linguistics and languages of the Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area), Inalco Paris, 16.-18.11.2022.

Hussain, Qandeel & Haig, Geoffrey. 2022. ‘Mapping the place and laryngeal typology of stop consonants in Iranian: Language contact and sound change’. Paper held at LACIM 2022 (International Conference of the European research network on linguistics and languages of the Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area), Inalco Paris, 16.-18.11.2022.

Matras, Yaron & Öpengin, Ergin & Haig,Geoffrey. 2022. Introduction. In Matras, Yaron et al. (eds.) Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish. London: Palgrave MacMillan, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78837-7_1.

Haig, Geoffrey. 2022. Post-predicate constituents in Kurdish. In Matras, Yaron et al. (eds.) Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish, 335-377. London: Palgrave MacMillan, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78837-7_8.

Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan & Schiborr, Nils. 2021. Universals of reference in discourse and grammar: Evidence from the Multi-CAST collection of spoken corpora. In Haig, Geoffrey et al. (eds.) Doing Corpus-Based Typology With Spoken Language Corpora: State of the art. Special publication of the journal Language Documentation and Conservation. 141-177,
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74660.

Schnell, Stefan & Haig, Geoffrey & Seifart, Frank. 2021. The role of language documentation in corpus-based typology. In Haig, Geoffrey et al. (eds.) Doing Corpus-Based Typology With Spoken Language Corpora: State of the art. Special publication of the journal Language Documentation and Conservation.1-28, http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74656.

Haig, Geoffrey. 2020. The pronoun-to-agreement cycle in Iranian: Subjects do, objects donʼt. In Larson, Richard & Moradi, Sedigheh & Samiian, Vida (eds.) Advances in Iranian linguistics, 85-106. Amsterdam: Benjamins, DOI: doi.org/10.1075/cilt.351.05hai.

Haig, Geoffrey. 2020. Stability and adaptivity of word order in the Western Asian Transition Zone: Evidence from West Iranian. Paper presented at the Workshop on Tracing Contact in Closely Related Languages, Zürich, Switzerland, 19.-20.11.2020.

Haig, Geoffrey. 2019. Between OV and VO: exploring word-order variation and change across the Western Asian Transition Zone (WATZ). Invited talk at OV-IS 2019 Corrélâts de l’ordre OV et structure de l’information. Inalco, Paris, 20.-21.11.2019. For PDF click here.(2.0 MB, 36 pages)

Haig, Geoffrey. 2019. Debonding of inflectional morphology in Kurdish and beyond. In Gündoğdu, Songül et al. (eds.) Current issues in Kurdish linguistics, 117-144. Bamberg: Bamberg University Press, DOI: https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-56326.

Haig, Geoffrey. 2018. Grammaticalization and deinflectionalization in Iranian languages. In Heine, Bernd & Narrog, Heiko (eds.) Grammaticalization from a typological perspective, 57-78. Oxford: OUP, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795841.003.0004.

Haig, Geoffrey & Khan, Geoffrey. 2018. Introduction. In Haig, Geoffrey & Khan, Geoffrey (eds.) The languages and linguistics of Western Asia. An areal perspective, 1-29. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421682-001.

Haig, Geoffrey & Öpengin, Ergin. 2018. Kurmanji Kurdish in Turkey: Structure, variation, and status. In Bulut, Christiane (ed.) Linguistic minorities in Turkey and Turkic-speaking minorities of the peripheries, 157-229. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. For PDF click here.(4.3 MB, 36 pages)

Haig, Geoffrey. 2018. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanjî). In Haig, Geoffrey & Khan, Geoffrey (eds.) The languages and linguistics of Western Asia. An areal perspective, 106-158. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421682-004.

Haig, Geoffrey. 2018. ‘Optional definiteness in Balochi and Kurdish: conceptual and empirical issues’. Invited talk at the conference: Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora 3 (ISSLaC3): Discourse and Information Structure. University of Münster, 07.-08.12.2018. For PDF click here(3.1 MB, 37 pages).

Haig, Geoffrey. 2018. The Iranian languages of northern Iraq. 2018. In Haig, Geoffrey & Khan, Geoffrey (eds.) The languages and linguistics of Western Asia. An areal perspective, 267-304. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, DOI: doi.org/10.1515/9783110421682-009.

Haig, Geoffrey. 2017. Linguistik des Kurdischen. In: Paul, Ludwig. Handbuch der Iranistik. Band 2, 291-297. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. For PDF click here.(607.1 KB, 4 pages)

Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan & Schiborr, Nils. 2017. ‘The limits of accessibility: A corpus- based typological approach’. Paper held at the workshop Advances in corpus-based typology: Exploring corpora of semi-parallel and indigenous text. 12^th Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology.Australian National University, Canberra, 12.-14.12.2017.

Haig, Geoffrey. 2017. Deconstructing Iranian ergativity. In Coon, Jessica et al. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity, 465-500. Oxford: OUP.

Haig, Geoffrey. 2017. Western Asia: East Anatolia as a Transition Zone. In Hickey, Raymond (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics, 396-423. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Haig, Geoffrey & Öpengin, Ergin. 2015. Gender in Kurdish. Structural and socio-cultural dimensions. In Hellinger, Marlis & Motschenbacher, Heiko (eds.) Gender across languages 4, 247-276. Amsterdam: Benjamins, https://benjamins.com/catalog/impact.36.10hai/details. For PDF click here.(243.4 KB, 31 pages)

Haig, Geoffrey. 2015. Verb-Goal (VG) word order in Kurdish and Neo-Aramaic: Typological and areal considerations. In Khan, Geoffrey & Napiorkowska, Lidia (eds.) Neo-aramaic and its linguistic context, 407-425. New York: Gorgias Press, DOI: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463236489-025.

Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan. 2014. Annotations using GRAID (Grammatical Relations and Animacy in Discourse). Manual Version 7.0. Bamberg: opus, urn:nbn:de:bvb:473-opus4-262354.

Haig, Geoffrey. 2014. East Anatolia as a linguistic area? Empirical and conceptual issues. In Behzadi, Lale et al. (eds.) Bamberger Orient Studien, Vol. 1, 13-36. Bamberg: Bamberg University Press, https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/21462.

Schnell, Stefan & Haig, Geoffrey. 2014. Assessing the relationship between object topicalisation and the grammaticalisation of object agreement. In Gawne, Lauren & Vaughan, Jill (eds.) Selected Papers from the 44^th Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, 2013, 102-123. Melbourne: University of Melbourne, http://hdl.handle.net/11343/40959.

Haig, Geoffrey & Öpengin, Ergin. 2014. Kurdish: A critical research overview. Journal of Kurdish studies 2(2). 99-122, www.tplondon.com/journal/ks/article/view/405.

Haig, Geoffrey & Nemati, Fatemeh. 2013. ‘Clitics at the syntax-pragmatics interface: The case of Delvari pronominal enclitics’. Revised handout, paper held at the ICIL 5, Bamberg, 24.-26.08.2013, https://www.academia.edu/4484033/Clitics_at_the_syntax-pragmatics_interface_the_case_of_Delvari_pronominal_clitics.

Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan & Wegener, Claudia. 2011. Comparing corpora from endangered languages. Explorations in language typology based on original texts. In Haig, Geoffrey et al. (eds.) Documenting endangered languages: Achievements and perspectives, 55-86. Berlin [= Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs; 240]: De Gruyter Mouton, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110260021.55.

Haig, Geoffrey. 2011. Linker, relativizer, nominalizer, tense-particle: On the Ezafe in West Iranian. In Ha Yap, Foong et al. (eds.) Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and Typological Perspectives, 363-390, Vol. 1: Sino-Tibetan and Iranian Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.96.13hai/details or click here.(1.8 MB, 15 pages)

Haig, Geoffrey. 2010. Alignment. In Luraghi, Silvia & Bubenik, Vit (eds.) The Continuum companion to historical linguistics, 250-269. New York/London: Continuum.

Braun, Friederike & Haig, Geoffrey. 2010. When are German ‘girls’ feminine? How the semantics of age influences the grammar of gender agreement. In Bieswanger, Markus et al. (eds.) Language in its socio-cultural context: New explorations in global, medial and gendered uses, 69-84. Tübingen: Narr, https://www.academia.edu/1998699/When_are_German_girls_feminine_How_the_semantics_of_age_influences_the_grammar_of_gender_agreement.