Barth, Danielle, Nicholas Evans; Andrea C. Schalley; Lila San Roque; Sonja Gipper; John Mansfield; Gabrielle Hodge; Alan Rumsey; I Wayan Arka; Henrik Bergqvist; Gregory Dickson; Christian Döhler; Diana Forker; Volker Gast; Dolgor Guntsetseg; Eri Kashima; Yukinori Kimoto; Dominique Knuchel; Norikazu Kogura; Keita Kurabe; Heiko Narrog; Desak Putu Eka Pratiwi; Stefan Schnell; Chikako Senge; Elena Skribnik; Saskia van Putten. submitted. Word choice is coupled with grammar: The case of kinship.
Linders, GM., Krapp, LS., Schnell, S. under revision. Insights into the mind using tools from Explainable AI: A practical introduction to SHAP in cognitive science. [preprint]
Schnell, S. under revision. The Person Indexing cycle: a source-oriented view from corpus-based typology. Language and Linguistics Compass.
Linders, GM., Schnell, S. under revision. A cross-linguistic computational study into the distribution of referential information. In: U. Reinöhl, N. Peck (Eds.), How much is too much? The one-new-idea constraint and the information-intonation interface. Special issue of Functions in Language.
Barth, D., Schnell, S. under review. Corpus-based typology. International Encyclopaedia of Languages and Linguistics, 3rd edition.
Linders, GM., Schnell, S. under review. Functional factors predict referential choice similarly across languages. [preprint]
Schnell, S., Barth, D. under review. Unexpected corpora. In: E. Sippola, C. Levisen (Eds.), Handbook of Postcolonial and Decolonial Linguistics. Routledge.
Evans, Nicholas, Danielle Barth, Wayan Arka, Henrik Bergqvist, Christian Döhler, Sonja Gipper, Yukinori Kimoto, Dominique Knuchel, Daniel Majchrzak, Hitomi Ono, Eka Pratiwi, Saska van Putten, Andrea Schalley, Stefan Schnell, Asako Shiohara, Yanti. accepted. Is complementation a universal strategy? A cross-linguistic corpus study. Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads.
Haig, G., Schnell, S. accepted. High animacy does not favour zero over pronoun — especially for objects.
Egurtzegi, A.,, Blasi, D., Sauppe, S., Bickel, B., Schnell, S. 2025. Discourse ergativity and human reference. Studies in Language (online). 10.1075/sl.23005.egu
Barth, D., Evans, N., Gipper, S., Schnell, S., Bergqvist, H., Amberber, M., Arka, I W., Döhler, Ch., Forker, D., Kashima, E., Kimoto, Y., Kogura, N., Knuchel, D., Kurabe, K., Mansfield, J., Narrog, H., Pratiwi, D. P. E., Nomoto, H., Rhee, S., Rumsey, A., San Roque, L., Schalley, A. C., Shiohara, A., Skribnik, E., Tykhostup, O., Putten, S. van, Yanti. 2024. The Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus (SCOPIC) project guidelines. In: D. Barth, N. Evans (Eds.), Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus (SCOPIC). Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 12, 163 – 237.
Schnell, S., Schiborr, NN., Vollmer, MC., Haig, G. (2023). Are referent introductions sensitive to forward planning in discourse? Evidence from Multi-CAST. In: A. Barotto, S. Mattiola (Eds.), Discourse phenomena in linguistic typology. 231 – 268. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Torres, C., Schnell, S. 2022. A corpus study of word (root) prominence in Vera’a. In: R. Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 211-215. Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association.
Schnell, S. (2022). Caused accompanied motion constructions in Vera’a. In: A. Margetts, S. Riesberg, B. Hellwig (Eds.), Caused accompanied motion. 243 – 271. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.134.09sch
Margetts, A., Haude, K., Himmelmann, NP., Jung, D., Riesberg, S., Schnell, S., Seifart, F., Sheppard, H., Wegener, C. (2022). Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalisation of BRING and TAKE. Studies in Language.
Schnell, S., Haig, G., Seifart, F. (2021). The role of language documentation in corpus-based typology. In: G. Haig, S. Schnell, F. Seifart (Eds.), Doing corpus-based typology with spoken language data: State of the art. Special Publication No. 25 of Language Documentation and Conservation. 1 – 28. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press.
Haig, G., Schnell, S., Schiborr, NN. (2021). Universals of reference in discourse and grammar. Evidence from the Multi-CAST collection of spoken corpora. In: G. Haig, S. Schnell, F. Seifart (Eds.), Doing corpus-based typology with spoken language data: State of the art. Special Publication No. 25 of Language Documentation and Conservation. 141 – 177. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press.
Schnell, S., Schiborr, NN., Haig, G. (2021). Efficiency in discourse processing: does morphosyntax adapt to accommodate new referents? In N. Levshina, S. Moran (Eds.), Efficiency in human language. Special issue of Linguistics Vanguard. Article 7(s3) 20190064.
Schnell, S., Barth, D. (2020). Expression of anaphoric subjects in Vera’a: functional and structural factors in the choice between pronoun and zero. Language Variation and Change 32.3, 267-291. OA. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394520000125
Schnell, S. (2019). Variable number marking in Vera’a: animacy and beyond. Asia-Pacific Language Variation 5.2, 208-243.
Schnell, S. (2018). Attention focus and information packaging in Vera’a demonstratives. In S. Riesberg & A. Shiohara (Eds.), Information structure in Austronesian languages, 81-113. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Schnell, S., Barth, D. (2018). Discourse motivations for pronominal and zero objects across genres in Vera’a. Language Variation and Change 30.1, 51-81.
Schnell, S. (2018). Whence subject-verb agreement? Investigating the role of topicality, accessibility, and frequency in Vera’a texts. Linguistics 56.4, 735-780.
Schnell, S., Schiborr, NN. (2018). Corpus-based typological research in discourse and grammar. GRAID and Multi-CAST. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics 12, 1-16.
Brickell, T., Schnell, S. (2017). Do grammatical relations reflect information status? Reassessing Preferred Argument Structure against discourse data from Tondano. Linguistic Typology 21.1, 177-209.
Haig, G., Schnell, S. (2016). The discourse basis of ergativity revisited. Language 92.3, 591-618.
François, A., Lacrampe, S., Franjieh, M., Schnell, S. (Eds.) (2015). Studies in the languages of Vanuatu.Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia 2. Pacific Linguistics. A.N.U. Canberra.
François, A., Lacrampe, S., Franjieh, M., Schnell, S. (2015). The exceptional linguistic diversity of Vanuatu. In: A. François, S. Lacrampe, M. Franjieh, S. Schnell (Eds.), 1-33.
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