Publications by George van Driem

2008 j. ‘The origin of language: Symbiosism and Symbiomism’, pp. 381-400 in John D. Bengtson, ed., In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the Four Fields of Anthropology in Honor of Harold Crane Fleming on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2008 i. ‘To which language family does Chinese belong, or what’s in a name’, pp. 219-253 in Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Roger Blench, Malcolm D. Ross, Ilia Peiros and Marie Lin, eds., Past Human Migrations in East Asia: Matching Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics. London and New York: Routledge.

2008 h. ‘Editorial Foreword’, p. xxv in Dörte Borchers, A Grammar of Sunwar: Desciptive Grammar, Paradigms, Texts and Glossary. Leiden: Brill.

2008 g. ‘Saving the Himalayan languages’, The South Asian, July-September 2008, pp. 78-83.

2008 f. ‘Die Naga-Sprachengruppe innerhalb der tibetobirmanischen Sprachfamilie’, pp. 311-321 in Michael Oppitz, Thomas Kaiser, Alban von Stockhausen and Marion Wettstein, eds., Naga Identitäten: Zeitenwende einer Lokalkultur im Nordosten Indiens. Gent: Uitgeverij Snoeck.

2008 e. ‘The language organism: Parasite or mutualist?’, pp. 101-112, Vol. 2 in Rick Derk­sen, Jos Schae­ken, Alexander Lubotsky, Jeroen Wiedenhof and Sjoerd Siebinga, eds., Evidence and Counter-Evidence: Essays in Honour of Frederik Kortlandt (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, vol. 33). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi.

2008 d. [with co-author Michael S.W. Black] ‘D’amchi’, Tibbie Topics, Journal of the Tibetan Spaniel Association of Victoria, January, February, March 2008, pp. 9-12.

2008 c. ‘The Naga language groups within the Tibeto-Burman language family’, pp. 311-321 in Michael Oppitz, Thomas Kaiser, Alban von Stockhausen and Marion Wettstein, eds., Naga Identities: Changing Local Cultures in the Northeast of India. Gent: Uitgeverij Snoeck.

2008 b. [with co-author Michael S.W. Black] ‘D’amchi’, South East and East Anglian Tibetan Spaniel Society Newsletter, Spring 2008, pp. 7-12.

2008 a. ‘Reflections on the ethnolinguistic prehistory of the greater Himalayan region’, pp. 39-59, Vol.1 in Brigitte Huber, Marianne Volkart and Paul Widmer, eds., Chomolangma, Demawend und Kasbek: Festschrift für Roland Bielmeier zu seinem 65. Geburtstag (2 vols.). Halle: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies.

2007 j. [with co-author Michael S.W. Black] ‘D’amchi!’, Tibbe Magasinet, 7 (4): 14-21 [Danish translation of 2008b].

2007 i. ‘A holistic approach to the fine art of grammar writing: The Dallas Manifesto’, pp. 93-184 in Novel Kishore Rai, Yogendra Prasad Yadav, Bhim N. Regmi and Balaram Prasain, eds., Recent Studies in Nepalese Linguistics. Kathmandu: Linguistic Society of Nepal.

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2007 h. ‘Saving Himalayan languages’, Indian Mountaineer, 43: 66-71.

2007 g. ‘Dzala and Dakpa form a coherent subgroup within East Bodish, and some related thoughts’, pp. 71-84 in Roland Bielmeier and Felix Haller, eds., Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond. Berlin: Mouton.

2007 f. ‘Austroasiatic phylogeny and the Austroasiatic homeland in light of recent population genetic studies’, Mon-Khmer Studies, 37: 1-14.

2007 e. ‘Ob virulentas nonnularum herbarum exhalationes’, pp. 65-72 in John A. Ardussi and Françoise Pommaret, eds., Bhutan: Traditions and Changes. Leiden: Brill.

2007 d. ‘South Asia and the Middle East’, pp. 283-347 in Christopher Mosely, ed. Encyclopaedia of the World’s Endangered Languages. London: Routledge.

2007 c. ‘Endangered Languages of South Asia’, pp. 303-341 in Matthias Brenzinger, ed. Handbook of Endangered Languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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2007 b. ‘The diversity of the Tibeto-Burman language family and the linguistic ancestry of Chinese’, Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, 1 (2): 211-270.

2007 a. [with co-authors Thirsa Kraaijenbrink, Karma Tshering of Gaselô and Peter de Knijff] ‘Allele frequency distribution for 21 autosomal STR loci in Bhutan’, Forensic Science International, 170: 68-72.

2006 i. ‘The prehistory of Tibeto-Burman and Austroasiatic in light of emergent population genetic studies’, Mother Tongue, XI: 160-211.

2006 h. [with co-authors Thirsa Kraaijenbrink, Jean Robert M.L. Opgenort, Nirmal Man Tuladhar and Peter de Knijff] ‘Allele frequency distribution for 21 autosomal STR loci in Nepal’, Forensic Science International, 168 (2-3): 227-231.

2006 g. [with co-authors Emma J. Parkin, Thirsa Kraayenbrink, Jean Robert M.L. Opgenort, Nirmal Man Tuladhar, Peter de Knijff and Mark Jobling] ‘Diversity of 26 Y-STR haplotypes in a Nepalese population sample: Isolation and drift in the Himalayas’, Forensic Science International, 166 (2-3): 176-181.

2006 f. ‘Editorial Foreword’, p. xvii in Jean Robert Opgenort, A Grammar of Wambule: Grammar, Lexicon, Texts and Cultural Survey of a Kiranti Tribe of Eastern Nepal. Leiden: Brill.

2006 e. [with co-authors Emma J. Parkin, Thirsa Kraayenbrink, Karma Tshering of Gaselô, Peter de Knijff and Mark Jobling] ‘26-locus Y-STR typing in a Bhutanese population sample’, Forensic Science International, 161 (1): 1-7.

2006 d. ‘Nepalese geschiedenis volgens Whelpton’, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 119 (2): 265-266. .

2006 c. Review: A manual of linguistic field work and structure of Indian languages. By Anvita Abbi (LINCOM handbooks in linguistics 17). Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2001. Pp. xii, 298. ISBN 3895864013. $84.80 (Hb), Language, 82 (2): 450. .

2006 b. ‘Editorial Foreword’, p. xv in Gerard Jacobus Tolsma, A Grammar of Kulung. Leiden: Brill. .

2006 a. ‘Mijn oom’, blz. 8 in Raden Noerito Pringgoadisuryo, Pikirans van een Javaanse avonturier. Doorwerth: Holland Graphic Consultants.

2005 e. ‘Editorial Foreword’, p. xix in Jean Robert Opgenort, A Grammar of Jero, with an Historical Comparative Study of the Kiranti Languages. Leiden: Brill.

2005 d. ‘Sino-Austronesian vs. Sino-Caucasian, Sino-Bodic vs. Sino-Tibetan, and Tibeto-Burman as default theory’, pp. 285-338 in Yogendra Prasada Yadava, Govinda Bhattarai, Ram Raj Lohani, Balaram Prasain and Krishna Parajuli, eds., Contemporary Issues in Nepalese Linguistics. Kathmandu: Linguistic Society of Nepal.

2005 c. ‘The language organism: The Leiden theory of language evolution’, pp. 331-340 in James W. Minett and William S-Y. Wang, eds., Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence: Essays in Evolutionary Linguistics. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.

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2005 b. ‘Keith W. Slater, A Grammar of Mangghuer: A Mongolic Language of China’s Qinghai-Gansu Sprachbund. London and New York: Routledge Curzon [Routledge Curzon Asian Linguistics Series]. 2003. xviii + 382’, Studies in Language, 29 (2): 547-549.

2005 a. ‘Tibeto-Burman vs. Indo-Chinese: Implications for population geneticists, archaeologists and prehistorians’, pp. 81-106 in Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, eds. The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together the Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics. London: Routledge Curzon.

2004 g. Review Article: ‘The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Edited by Graham Thurgood and Randy J. LaPolla. Routledge Language Family Series, no. 3. London: Routledge, 2003. xxii, 727 pp. $295.00 (cloth)’, Journal of Asian Studies, 63 (4): 1127-1128.

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2004 f. ‘Language as organism: A brief introduction to the Leiden theory of language evolution’, pp. 1-9 in Ying-chin Lin, Fang-min Hsu, Chun-chih Lee, Jackson T.-S. Sun, Hsiu-fang Yang and Dah-ah Ho, eds., Studies on Sino-Tibetan Languages: Papers in Honor of Professor Hwang-cherng Gong on his Seventieth Birthday (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series W-4). Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.

2004 e. ‘Hodgson’s Tibeto-Burman and Tibeto-Burman today’, pp. 227-248 in David M. Waterhouse, ed., The Origins of Himalayan Studies: Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling 1820-1858. London: Routledge Curzon.

2004 d. ‘The holistic approach to endangered language documentation: Research philosophy of the Himalayan Languages Project’, pp. 103-110 in Osama Sakiyama, Fubito Endo, Honoré Watanabe and Fumiko Sasama, eds., Lectures on Endangered Languages 4 – From Kyoto Conference 2001. Osaka: Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim.

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2004 c. ‘Bhutan’s endangered languages programme under the Dzongkha Development Authority: Three rare gems’, pp. 294-326 in Karma Ura and Sonam Kinga, eds., The Spider and the Piglet: Proceedings of the First International Seminar on Bhutan Studies. Thimphu: Centre for Bhutan Studies.

2004 b. ‘Newaric and Mahakiranti’, pp. 413-418 in Anju Saxena, ed., Himalayan Languages: Past and Present. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2004 a. Book Review: ‘Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and Empirical Findings. 2 vols. Ed. by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka. (Studies in Language Companion Series.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. ISBN 1588112640. $80(Hb.)’, Language, 80 (1): 163-165.

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2003 h. ‘The Language Organism: The Leiden theory of language evolution’, in Jiří Mírovský, Anna Kotěšovcová and Eva Hajičová, eds., Proceedings of the XVIIth International Congress of Linguists, Prague, July 24-29, 2003. Prague: Matfyzpress vydavatelství Matematicko-fyzikální fakulty Univerzity Karlovy.

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2003 g. Review Article: ‘Graham Thurgood and Randy J. LaPolla (ed.): The Sino-Tibetan Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), xxii, 727 pp. London and New York: Routledge. 2003. £125’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 66 (2): 282-284.

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2003 f. Review Article: ‘van Skyhawk, Hugh: Burushaski-Texte aus Hispar. Materialien zum Verständnis einer archaischen Bergkultur in Nordpakistan (Beiträge zur Indologie, 38). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2003. xxiv, 506 pp. ISBN 3-447-04645-7. 148,-’, Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques, LVII (2): 447-448.

2003 e. Review Article: ‘Beckwith, Christopher (2002). Mediaeval Tibeto-Burman Languages (Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000). Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill’, Cahiers de Linguistique, Asie Orientale, 32 (2): 307-314.

2003 d. ‘Bhutan has more than three gems’, Kuensel, Bhutan’s National Newspaper, XVIII (35, 6 September 2003): 2.

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2003 c. ‘Tibeto-Burman vs. Sino-Tibetan’, pp. 101-119 in Brigitte Bauer and Georges-Jean Pinault, eds., Language in Time and Space: A Festschrift for Werner Winter on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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2003 b. ‘Mahakiranti revisited: Mahakiranti or Newaric?’, pp. 21-26 in Tej Ratna Kansakar and Mark Turin, eds., Themes in Himalayan Languages and Linguistics. Heidelberg and Kathmandu: South Asia Institute and Tribhuvan University.

2003 a. Book Review: ‘Philip Denwood. Tibetan. 1999. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam (xx + 372 =) 392 pp. US$ 99’, Lingua, 113: 161-165.

2002 d. ‘What defines Tibetan-ness?’, The Tibet Journal, XXVII (3-4): 191-193.

2002 c. ‘Tibeto-Burman phylogeny and prehistory: Languages, material culture and genes’, pp. 233-249 in Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew, eds., Examing the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

2002 b. Review Article: ‘Bhutan, Mountain Fortress of the Gods (1997), edited by Christian Schicklgruber and Françoise Pommaret, published in London by Serindia Publications and in Vienna by the Museum für Völkerkunde’, The Tibet Journal, XXVII (1): 237-240.

2002 a. ‘Tibeto-Burman replaces Indo-Chinese in the 1990s: Review of a decade of a scholarship’, Lingua, 111: 79-102.

2001 c. Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region, containing an Introduction to the Symbiotic Theory of Language (2 vols.). Leiden: Brill. [xxvi + 1375 = 1401 pp.]

2001 b. Taal en Taalwetenschap. Leiden: Onderzoeksschool voor Aziatische, Afrikaanse en Amerindische Studies.

2001 a. ‘Zhangzhung and its next of kin in the Himalayas’, pp. 31-44 in Yasuhiko Nagano and Randy LaPolla, eds., New Research on Zhangzhung and Related Himalayan Languages (Bon Studies 3, Senri Ethnological Reports 19). Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.

2000. ཞང་ཞུང་གི་རིགས་གནས་སྐད་རིགས་དང་དེ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་མི་རིགས་ཁག་གི་རིག་གནས་དང་སྐད་ལ་དཔྱད་པ། [Tibetan translation of ‘Zhang-zhung and its next of kin in the Himalayas’ (2001a) by བོད་ལྗོངས་ཞིབ་འཇུག། bSod-nams Chos-rgyal], Bod-ljongs Ûib-’jug, 2000 (4): 45-61.

1999 e. ‘Four Austric Theories’, Mother Tongue, V: 23-27.

1999 d. ‘On the Austroasiatic Indus Theory‘, Mother Tongue, Special Issue (October 1999): 75-83.

1999 c. ‘The Limbu verb revisited‘, pp. 209-230 in Yogendra Prasäd Yädava and Warren William Glover, eds., Topics in Nepalese Linguistics. Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy.

1999 b. ‘A new theory on the origin of Chinese‘, pp. 43-58 in Peter Bellwood and Ian Lilley, eds., Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin, 18 (Indo-Pacific Prehistory: The Melaka Papers, Vol. 2). Canberra: Australian National University.

1999 a. ‘The ethnic and cultural diversity of Bhutan‘, pp. 27-36 in Sabine Krings, ed., Bhutan: A Fortress at the Edge of Time. Vienna: Wiener Institut für Entwicklungsfragen und Zusammenarbeit.

1998 b. ‘Neolithic correlates of ancient Tibeto-Burman migrations‘, pp. 67-102 in Roger Blench and Matthew Spriggs, eds., Archaeology and Language II. London: Routledge.

1998 a. རྫོང་ཁ། Dzongkha. Leiden: Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies [language textbook, xvi + 489 = 505 pp., with three audio compact disks].

1997 e. ‘Mahākirāntīko khojīmā‘ [Nepali translation of ‘In Quest of Mahākirāntī’ (van Driem 1992 d) by Devī Prasād Gautam], Sayapatrī, 3 (1-2): 1-9.

1997 d. ‘Some grammatical observations on Baṅgāṇī‘ (with co-author Suhnū Rām Sharmā), Indogermanische Forschungen, 102: 179-198.

1997 c. ‘Sino-Bodic’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 60 (3): 455-488.

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1997 b. ‘A new analysis of the Limbu verb‘, pp. 153-173 in David Bradley, ed., Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Himalayas (Papers in Southeast Asian Linguistics, No. 14). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

1997 a. ‘Sprachen und Bevölkerungsschichten in Nepal‘, Nepal-Information, 31 (79): 30-33.

1996 c. ‘In Search of Kentum Indo-Europeans in the Himalayas‘ (with co-author Suhnū Rām Sharmā), Indogermanische Forschungen, 101: 107-146.

1996 b. ‘Lexical categories of homosexual behaviour in modern Burmese‘, Maledicta, XII: 91-110.

1996 a. ‘Bhutanees of Bhutaans’, Stichting Friends of Bhutan (mei 1996), pp. 2-3.

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1995 b. Een eerste grammaticale verkenning van het Bumthang, een taal van Midden-Bhutan – met een overzicht van de talen en volkeren van Bhutan. Leiden: Centrum voor Niet-Westerse Studiën.

1995 a. ‘Black Mountain conjugational morphology, Proto-Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax, and the linguistic position of Chinese‘, pp. 229-259 in Yoshio Nishi, James Alan Matisoff and Yasuhiko Nagano, eds., New Horizons in Tibeto-Burman Morphosyntax (Senri Ethnological Studies 41). Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.

1994 d. ‘Language policy in Bhutan‘, pp. 87-105 in Michael Aris and Michael Hutt, eds., Bhutan: Aspects of Culture and Development, Gartmore: Kiscadale Publications.

1994 c. ‘The Yakkha verb: interpretation and analysis of the Omruwa material (a Kiranti language of eastern Nepal)‘, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, LVII (2): 347-355.

1994 b. ‘East Bodish and Proto-Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax‘, pp. 608-617 in Hajime Kitamura, Tatsuo Nishida and Yasuhiko Nagano, eds., Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics. Osaka: The Organizing Committee of the 26th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics.

1994 a. ‘The phonologies of Dzongkha and the Bhutanese litur­gical language‘, Zentralasiatische Studien, 24: 36-44.

1993 g. ‘Language change, conjugational morphology and the Sino-Tibetan Urheimat‘, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 26: 45-56.

1993 f. ‘The Newar verb in Tibeto-Burman perspective‘, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 26: 23-43.

1993 e. ‘Ancient Tangut manuscripts rediscovered‘, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 16 (1): 137-156.

1993 d. ‘Einige Bemerkungen zum Aspekt im Limbu‘, Linguistische Berichte, 148 (Dezember 1993): 483-489.

1993 c. A Grammar of Dumi. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [xx + 452 = 472 pp.]

1993 b. ‘The Proto-Tibeto-Burman verbal agreement system’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, LVI (2): 292-334.

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1993 a. ‘Sino-Tibetaanse talen‘, deel 21, blz. 176-177, ‘Tibetaanse taal’, deel 22, blz. 464, Grote Winkler Prins Encyclopedie (9e druk). Amsterdam: Uitgeversmaatschappij Argus.

1992 d. ‘In Quest of Mahākirāntī‘, Contributions to Nepalese Studies – Journal of the Centre of Nepal and Asian Studies of Tribhuvan University, 19 (2): 241-247.

1992 c. ‘Kadai talen’, deel 13, blz. 48-49, ‘Moenda talen’, deel 16, blz. 216-217, ‘Mon-Khmer talen’, deel 16, blz. 270-271, ‘Nicobarese talen’, deel 17, blz. 128, Grote Winkler Prins Encyclopedie (9e druk). Amsterdam: Uitgeversmaatschappij Argus.

1992 b. རྫོང་ཁའི་བརྡ་སྤྲོད་པའི་གཞུང། The Grammar of Dzongkha. Thimphu: Royal Government of Bhu­tan. [xviii + 388 = 406 pp.]

1992 a. ‘Le proto-kiranti revisité, morphologie verbale du lohorung‘, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 24: 33-75.

1991 g. ‘The Tibetan transcriptions of Tangut (Hsi-hsia) Ideo­grams‘ (with co-author Ksenia Borisovna von Kepping), Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 14 (1): 117-128.

1991 f. ‘Hmong-Miën talen‘, deel 11, blz. 356-357, Grote Winkler Prins Encyclopedie (9e druk). Amsterdam: Uitgeversmaatschappij Argus.

1991 e གཞུང་འབྲེལ་རྫོང་ཁ་རོ་མན་ ( འཛམ་གླིང་ནུབ་ཕྱོགས་པའི་ཡིག་ཐོག་ ) འབྲི་ལུགས་ལམ་སྟོན། Guide to Official Dzongkha Romanization. Thimphu: Royal Government of Bhutan. [x + 104 = 114 pp.]

1991 d སྐད་རིགས་མ་འདྲ་བའི་དཔྱེ་ཞིབ་ཐེངས་དང་པའི་སྙན་ཞུ། Report on the First Linguistic Survey of Bhutan. Thimphu: Royal Government of Bhutan. [27 pp., internal publication of the Bhutanese government]

1991 c. ‘Tangut verbal agreement and the patient category in Tibeto-Burman‘, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, LIV (3): 520-534.

1991 b. ‘Bahing and the Proto-Kiranti verb’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, LIV (2): 336-356.

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1991 a. ‘Taal en identiteit: Indo-Arisch expansionisme in oostelijk Nepal‘, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 147 (1): 61-73.

1990 d. ‘À propos de La Langue Hayu par Boyd Michailovsky‘, Cahiers de Linguistique: Asie Orientale, XIX (2): 267-285.

1990 c. ‘Review of La Langue Hayu by Boyd Michailovsky’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, LIII (3): 565-571.

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1990 b. ‘The fall and rise of the phoneme /r/ in Eastern Kiranti’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, LIII (1): 83-86.

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1990 a. ‘An exploration of Proto-Kiranti verbal morphology‘, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 22: 27-48.

1989. ‘Reflexes of the Tibeto-Burman *-t directive suffix in Dumi Rai‘, pp. 157-167 in David Bradley, Eugénie Henderson and Martine Mazaudon, eds., Prosodic Analysis and Asian Linguistics: To Honour R.K. Sprigg. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

1988. ‘The verbal morphology of Dumi Rai simplicia‘, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 11 (1): 134-207.

1987. A Grammar of Limbu. West Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [xxviii + 575 pp.]

1986. ‘Nominaal Hindoeïsme‘, Himalaya, 5 (3): 4-6.

1985. ‘Limbu kinship terminology: a description‘ (with co-author Irene Maria Hendrina Davids), Kailash, Journal of Himalayan Studies, XII (1-2): 115-156.