Monographs


  1. •Cysouw, Michael. 2023. An Encyclopaedia of German Diathesis. (Open Germanic Linguistics). Berlin: Language Science Press.
    open access online publication

  2. •Moran, Steven & Michael Cysouw. 2008. The Unicode Cookbook for Linguists: Managing writing systems using orthography profiles. (Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing). Berlin: Language Science Press.
    open access online publication

    Description of the radical open access approach of publishing: 

  3. •Nordhoff, Sebastian. 2018. What it means to be open and community-based: The Unicode cookbook as a showcase. blogpost

  4. •Cysouw, Michael. 2003. The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking. (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    publisher's webpage - google books


     Reviews of this book:

  1. •Schulze, Wolfgang. 2004. Linguistlist 15.284. open access online publication

  2. •Wichmann, Søren. 2004. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 36: 194-200. publisher’s webpage

  3. •Kleanthes K. Grohmann. 2005. Language 81(3): 775. publisher's webpage

  4. •Sansó, Andrea. 2006. Archivio glottologico italiano 91(2): 246-255.


    This book is based on my Ph.D-Thesis:

  1. •Cysouw, Michael. 2001. The paradigmatic structure of person marking. Ph.D. thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen. cysouwTHESIS.pdf


Edited Volumes


  1. •Butt, Miriam, S. Carpendale, Gerald Penn, Jelena Prokić & Michael Cysouw. (eds). 2012. Proceedings of the EACL 2012 Joint Workshop of LINGVIS & UNCLH. Avignon: Association for Computational Linguistics.
    open access online publication

  2. •Cysouw, Michael, Andrej Malchukov & Martin Haspelmath. (eds.) 2010. Semantic Maps: Methods and Applications. Special Issue of Linguistic Discovery 8(1).
    open access online publication

  3. •Wohlgemuth, Jan & Michael Cysouw. (eds.) 2010. Rethinking Universals: How rarities affect linguistic theory. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
    publisher’s webpage

  4. •Wohlgemuth, Jan & Michael Cysouw. (eds.) 2010. Rara & Rarissima: Documenting the fringes of linguistic diversity. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
    publisher’s webpage

  5. •Cysouw, Michael. (ed.) 2008. Using the World Atlas of Language Structures. Special Issue of Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF) 61(3).
    cysouwSTUFWALS.zip - publisher's webpage

  6. •Cysouw, Michael & Bernhard Wälchli. (eds.) 2007. Parallel Texts: Using Translational Equivalents in Linguistic Typology. Special Issue of Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF) 60(2).
    cysouwSTUFPARALLEL.zip - publisher's webpage