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Frank SEIFART

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PRINCIPALES PUBLICATIONS ET CONFÉRENCES
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Chapitres dans les ouvrages
 

Berger, M. & Seifart, F., à paraître, "The Boran languages", in Amazonian Languages. An International Handbook, Epps, P. & Michael, L. (eds), Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton


 

Seifart, F., 2019, "Contact-induced change", in Language Contact. An International Handbook, Darquennes, J., Salmons, J. & Vandenbussche, W. (eds), Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter Mouton (DOI)


 

Seifart, F., 2018, "The semantic reduction of the noun universe and the diachrony of nominal classification", in The Diachrony of Classification Systems, McGregor, W. & Wichmann, S. (eds), Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 9-32


 

Seifart, F., 2018, "Existenzfragen. Bedrohte Sprachen dokumentieren", in Abecedarium der Sprache, Fröhlich, C., Grötschel, M. & Klein, W. (eds), Berlin, Kadmos Kulturverlag, pp. Kadmos Kulturverlag


 

Seifart, F. & Hammarström, H., 2017, "Language Isolates of South America", in Language Isolates, Campbell, L. (ed), Oxon, New York, Routledge, pp. 260–287


 

Seifart, F., 2015, "Valency classes in Bora", in Valency Classes in the World’s Languages, Volume 2: Case Studies from Austronesia, the Pacific, the Americas, and Theoretical Outlook, Malchukov, A. & Comrie, B. (eds), Berlin, München, Boston, de Gruyter, pp. 1481–1514


 

Seifart, F., 2015, "Syntactic Sketch: Bora", in Syntax – Theory and Analysis. An International Handbook. Vol. 3, Kiss, T. & Alexiadou, A. (eds), Berlin, de Gruyter Mouton, pp. 1764-1791


 

Seifart, F., 2006, "Orthography development", in Essentials of Language Documentation, Gippert, J., Himmelmann, N. & Mosel, U. (eds), Berlin, Walter de Gruyter


Articles de revues
 

Seifart, F., Strunk, J., Danielsen, S., Hartmann, I., Pakendorf, B., Wichmann, S., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Himmelmann, N. & Bickel, B., 2021, "The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from ten languages", Linguistics Vanguard, 7:1, pp. 20190063


 

Easterday, S., Stave, M., Tang, M. & Seifart, F., 2021, "Syllable complexity and morphological synthesis: A well-motivated positive complexity correlation across subdomains", Frontiers in Psychology, 12, pp. 583 (doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.638659)


 

Stave, M., Paschen, L., Pellegrino, F. & Seifart, F., 2021, "Optimization of morpheme length: a cross-linguistic assessment of Zipf’s and Menzerath’s laws", Linguistics Vanguard, 7:s3, https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0076


 

Strunk, J., Seifart, F., Danielsen, S., Hartmann, I., Pakendorf, B., Wichmann, S., Witzlack-Makarevich, A. & Bickel, B., 2020, "Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech", Language Documentation & Conservation, 14, pp. 423-460  (article online)


 

Seifart, F., Meyer, J., Grawunder, S. & Dentel, L., 2018, "Reducing language to rhythm: Amazonian Bora drummed language exploits speech rhythm for long-distance communication", Royal Society Open Science, 5:4, pp. 170354 (full paper)


 

Seifart, F., Strunk, J., Danielsen, S., Hartmann, I., Pakendorf, B., Wichmann, S., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., de Jong, N. & Bickel, B., 2018, "Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115:22, pp. 5720–5725 (full paper)


 

Seifart, F., Evans, N., Hammarström, H. & Levinson, S., 2018, "Language documentation 25 years on", Language, 94:4, pp. e324-e345 (full paper)


 

Seifart, F., 2018, "Bora [Méénujcátsi Píívye – How Warfare Originated. Annotated Bora Narrative]", International Journal of American Linguistics , 84:Supp1, pp. S69–S94


 

Seifart, F., 2017, "Patterns of affix borrowing in a sample of 100 languages", Journal of Historical Linguistics, 7:3, pp. 389–431


 

Seifart, F., 2015, "Direct and indirect affix borrowing", Language, 91:3, pp. 511-531


 

Seifart, F., 2015, "Tracing social history from synchronic linguistic and ethnographic data: The prehistory of Resígaro contact with Bora", Mundo Amazónico, 6:1, pp. 97-110


 

Seifart, F., 2015, "Does structural-typological similarity affect borrowability? A quantitative study on affix borrowing", Language Dynamics and Change, 5:1, pp. 92-113


 

Seifart, F. & Mundry, R., 2015, "Quantitative comparative linguistics based on tiny corpora: N-gram language identification of wordlists of known and unknown languages from Amazonia and beyond", Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 22:3, pp. 202-214


 

Seifart, F. & Echeverri, J., 2015, "Proto-Bora-Muinane", LIAMES – Línguas Indígenas Americanas, 15:2, pp. 279-311


 

Seifart, F. & Echeverri, J., 2014, "Evidence for the Identification of Carabayo, the Language of an Uncontacted People of the Colombian Amazon, as Belonging to the Tikuna-Yurí Linguistic Family", PLoS ONE, 9:4, pp. e94814


 

Grinevald, C. & Seifart, F., 2004, "Noun classes in African and Amazonian Languages", Linguistic Typology , 8, pp. 34-48  (pdf)


Communications avec actes édités
 

Strunk, J., Schiel, F. & Seifart, F., 2014, "Untrained Forced Alignment of Transcriptions and Audio for Language Documentation Corpora Using WebMAUS"Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14), Reykjavik, 2014


Communications
 

Paschen, L., Delafontaine, F., Draxler, C., Fuchs, S., Stave, M. & Seifart, F., 2020, "Building a time-aligned cross-linguistic reference corpus from language documentation data (DoReCo)", LREC 2020, Marseille, 11-16 mai 2020


 

Seifart, F., 2019, "Referenzkorpora aus Dokumentationen bedrohter Sprachen", Qualitätsstandards und Interdisziplinarität in der Kuration audiovisueller (Sprach-)Daten, Digital Humanities: multimedial und multimodal - 6. Jahrestagung des Verbands „Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum“ (DHd), Mainz, 25-26 March


 

Seifart, F., 2019, "Sprechpausen und die Entstehung von Präfixen an Nomen und Verben", Vielfaltslinguistik III, University of Cologne, 28-29 March


 

Stave, M., Delafontaine, F., Seifart, F. & Paschen, L., 2019, "A bioinformatics solution to inter-rater agreement for forced time-alignment of data from underresourced languages", Journées LIFT, Orléans, 28-29 novembre 2019


 

Seifart, F., 2018, "(Anti-)Causative marking and verb frequencies in corpora from seven languages", CNRS-DDL, Atelier Morphosyntaxe «Description, Typologie, Terrain», Lyon, 27 April


 

Seifart, F., Strunk, J. & Bickel, B., 2018, "Speech pauses and the development of prefixes on verbs and nouns", HELAN2 colloquium, DDL-CNRS, Lyon, 27 September


 

Seifart, F., 2018, "Reducing language to rhythm: Bora drum communication", DDL Séminaire du laboratoire, Lyon, 29 November


 

Seifart, F., 2018, "Sprechpausen und die Entstehung von Affixen", Grammar, Cognition & Language Change - Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics, Freie Universtiät Berlin, 18 December


 

Seifart, F., 2017, "Sprechgeschwindigkeitsvariation im Sprachvergleich", Einführungsvorlesung als Privatdozent für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Philosophische Fakultät der Universität zu Köln, 17 May, 2017


 

Seifart, F., 2017, "Complex Bora syntax in “meenujcatsi piivye – the origins of warfare”, a traditional Bora narrative", Séminaire doctoral ‘Description et typologie linguistiques’, Laboratoire SeDylSeDyL/CNRS, Villejuif, 11 October


 

Seifart, F., 2017, "Bora relative clauses", Journée d'étude ‘Relative clauses and areal typology: American Indian and West Asia Languages’, INALCO/Labex EFL, 12 October


 

Seifart, F., 2017, "Bedrohte Sprachenvielfalt ", Bedrohte Sprachen, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 18 November


 

Seifart, F., 2017, "Reducing language to rhythm", Update Taal, Spui25, University of Amsterdam, 21 November


 

Seifart, F., 2017, "Cross-linguistic research using language documentation corpora. ", Vielfaltslinguistik, Leipzig, 28-29 March


 

Seifart, F., 2017, "Local slow-down effects of speech in corpora of nine languages reveal processing cost of noun use compared to verb use", Abstract accepted for SLE 2017 - 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Zurich, 10-13 September


 

Seifart, F., Strunk, J. & Seifart, B., 2017, "Recurrent patterns in the distribution of speech pauses cause languages to develop more prefixes in verbs than in nouns", 12th meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Canberra, Australia, 14 December


 

Margetts, A., Haude, K., Himmelmann, N., Jung, D., Riesberg, S., Schnell, S., Seifart, F., Wegener, C., Hajek, J. & Margetts, A., 2017, "Investigating three- participant events across text corpora", 12th meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Canberra, Australia, 15 December


 

Bickel, B., Seifart, F. & Stoll, S., 2017, "Causes and effects of noun production across languages", 12th meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Canberra, Australia, 15 December


 

Seifart, F., 2016, "Affix borrowability in Amazonia and beyond", Workshop on the Dynamics of Language Contact in Amazonia, University of Amsterdam, 14 October


 

Seifart, F., 2016, "Fieldwork and data collection on Bora and Resígaro (Northwest Amazon)", SeDyL/CNRS, Villejuif, 13 December


 

Seifart, F., 2016, "Affix borrowability: A full-scale empirical test", 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 49), Naples, 31 August - 3 September


 

Seifart, F. & Strunk, J., 2015, "Local variation in speech rate cross-linguistically: Noun-to-verb ratio and other factors", Functional Cognitive Linguistics (FunC) Friday lecture, KU Leuven, 30 January


 

Seifart, F., 2015, "Bora drum communication", Festival der Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 12 June


 

Bickel, B., Strunk, J., Danielsen, S., Hartmann, I., Pakendorf, B., Wichmann, S., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Zakharko, T. & Seifart, F., 2015, "Noun-to-verb ratio and word order", Diversity Linguistics: Retrospect and Prospect, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 1-3 May


 

Seifart, F., 2015, "Direct and indirect affix borrowing", 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 48), Leiden University, 2-5 September


 

Seifart, F., Strunk, J., Bickel, B., Pakendorf, B., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Danielsen, S., Zakharko, T. & Wichmann, S., 2014, "Noun-to-verb ratio and speech rate", XIII Vserossijskaja konferencija TEL’2014, Kazan, 6-9 February


 

Seifart, F., Strunk, J., Bickel, B., Pakendorf, B., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Danielsen, S., Wichmann, S. & Zakharko, T., 2014, "Noun-to-verb ratio and articulation speed", Linguistisches Kolloquium, Zürcher Kompetenzzentrum Linguistik, 3 April


 

Seifart, F. & Strunk, J., 2014, "Noun to verb ratio and word order", ACLC research group Description and Typology , Universiteit van Amsterdam, 7 May


 

Seifart, F. & Strunk, J., 2014, "Noun to verb ratio and speech rate cross-linguistically", ACLC seminar, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 9 May


 

Seifart, F., 2014, "Dressing and undressing events cross-linguistically", Grammar & Cognition Research Group, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 23 May


 

Seifart, F., 2014, "Noun-to-verb ratio and articulation rate cross-linguistically", Kolloquium Linguistik, Universität Bielefeld, 24 June


 

Seifart, F., 2014, "The source-goal asymmetry in dressing and undressing events cross-linguistically", Perspectivization in Language: Source–Goal Asymmetry in Motion Events, Deixis, and Frames of Reference, Excellence cluster TOPOI, HU Berlin, 25-26 July


 

Seifart, F., 2014, "Time and timing", Reflections on the field of linguistics - a scientific meeting held at Landgoed Brakkesteyn, Nijmegen, 14 November


 

Seifart, F., 2014, "Local variation in articulation rate cross-linguistically", Nijmegen Grammar Group Series, Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen, 4 December


 

Seifart, F., 2014, "Bora drum communication", ACLC OAP dag, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 19 December


 

Gardani, F. & Seifart, F., 2014, "The borrowing of case formatives", Language in Historical Contact situations (LHC): diagnostics for grammatical replication - DGfS 2014, AG6, Marburg, 5-7 March


 

Bickel, B., Strunk, J., Danielsen, S., Hartmann, I., Pakendorf, B., Wichmann, S., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Zakharko, T. & Seifart, F., 2014, "Noun-to-verb ratio and word order", 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 47), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, 11-14 September


 

Seifart, F., 2014, "Affix borrowing and social setting", Grammatical hybridization and social conditions, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 16-18 October




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