Outputs

Peer-reviewed papers

Edited volume

  • Wiskandt, Niklas, Elga Cremades & Rolf Kailuweit (eds.). 2026. Psych Predicates in Romance Languages. (LiVVaL: Linguaggio e Variazione | Variation in Language 8). Venice: Edizioni Ca’Foscari – Venice University Press.

Other publications

  • Kailuweit, Rolf, Elga Cremades & Niklas Wiskandt. 2026. Introduction. In Niklas Wiskandt, Elga Cremades & Rolf Kailuweit (eds.). Psych Predicates in Romance Languages. (LiVVaL: Linguaggio e Variazione | Variation in Language Series 8). Venice: Edizioni Ca’Foscari – Venice University Press. 3-18.

Manuscripts

  • Wiskandt, Niklas. under review. Psych alternation beyond the psych alternation. Diathesis and epithesis in alternating object-experiencer predicates.
  • Wiskandt, Niklas & Jessica Schamne. in preparation. Voice syncretism in the psych alternation.
  • Wiskandt, Niklas. in preparation. Towards a typology of voice marker stacking.
  • Blanchard-Rooney, Addison J. & Niklas Wiskandt. in preparation. A cross-linguistic experiment on the role of emotion intensity in the psych alternation.
  • Wiskandt, Niklas, Jorina Fenner & Rolf Kailuweit. in preparation. Object-experiencer verbs in Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian: Setting the stage for a cross-linguistic model.
  • Wiskandt, Niklas. in preparation. Middle voice in Scandinavian languages?

Theses

  • Wiskandt, Niklas. 2025. Alternations of object-experiencer predicates. Studies on detransitivization and light verb constructions in the psych domain. PhD Thesis, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Department of Linguistics.
  • Wiskandt, Niklas. 2019. Middle voice in Scandinavian languages: The suffix -s(t) in cross-linguistic comparison. M.A. Thesis, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Department of Linguistics and Information Science.
  • Wiskandt, Niklas. 2017. Objektmarkierung in den iberoromanischen Sprachen: DOM und Nullobjekte aus typologischer Perspektive. B.A. Thesis, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Department of Romance Studies.

Presentations

  • 2026
    • Wiskandt, Niklas. Morphological typology of voice marker stacking — Talk at “Transalpine Typology Meeting”, Munich, Germany
    • Marak, Jesi Daiji & Niklas Wiskandt. Passive constructions in Garo: Competing strategies and semantic restrictions — Talk at “(In)transitivity and its Variation: A Workshop on Morphosyntactic and Semantic Interfaces”, Poznań, Poland
    • Wiskandt, Niklas. Syncretic and divergent encoding in voice marker stacking — Talk at “(In)transitivity and its Variation: A Workshop on Morphosyntactic and Semantic Interfaces”, Poznań, Poland
    • Wiskandt, Niklas. Compatibility of valency operations in the typology of voice marker stacking — Talk at “59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea”, Osnabrück, Germany
    • Kihara, Claudius Patrick, Niklas Wiskandt & Jens Fleischhauer. Neuter and applicative in Gĩkũyũ — Talk at “11th International Conference on Bantu Languages”, Ghent, Belgium
    • Wiskandt, Niklas. A typology of voice marker stacking — Talk at “16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology”, Lyon, France
  • 2025
    • Wiskandt, Niklas. Towards a typology of syntactic variation in voice stacking — Talk at “Syntax of the World’s Languages X”, Potsdam, Germany
    • Wiskandt, Niklas. Two types of null objects in German and Portuguese psych predicates — Talk at “Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic and Developmental Perspective 2025”, Palma, Spain
    • Wiskandt, Niklas. Development and validation of a targeted elicitation method for combinations of voice markers — Talk at “58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea”, Bordeaux, France
    • Blanchard-Rooney, Addison J. & Niklas Wiskandt. A cross-linguistic experiment on the role of emotion intensity in the psych alternation — Talk at “58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea”, Bordeaux, France
    • Schamne, Jessica & Niklas Wiskandt. Voice syncretism in the psych alternation — Talk at “58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea”, Bordeaux, France
  • 2024
    • Wiskandt, Niklas. Psych alternation beyond the psych alternation – A unified approach to constructional variation in Romance psych predicates — Poster at “Going Romance 2024”, Braga, Portugal
    • Wiskandt, Niklas. Exploring the combinatorics of voice markers – A case study on passivization in Turkish — Talk at “57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea”, Workshop 13 “Passive and passivization across languages in dynamic and typological perspectives”, Helsinki, Finland
    • Pfeifer, Jasmin, Julia Stiebritz-Banischewski, Niklas Wiskandt & Daniel Dörler. Citizen Science in der universitären Lehre [‘Citizen Science in academic teaching’] — Presentation and workshop at “Forum Citizen Science 2024”, Hamburg, Germany
    • Wiskandt, Niklas. Psych alternation beyond the psych alternation! A unified approach to constructional variation in the psych domain — Poster at “LinPin 2024”, Aachen, Germany
    • Wiskandt, Niklas. A corpus study on experiencer object light verb constructions across Romance languages — Talk at “54th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages”, Provo, UT, USA
    • Wiskandt, Niklas. A typological perspective on the nature of psych detransitivization in Romance and Germanic — Poster at “Purdue Linguistics Symposium 2024”, West Lafayette, IN, USA
  • 2023
    • Wiskandt, Niklas. The nature of the psych alternation in Romance – A typological approach — Talk at “Psych Predicates in Romance Languages” Workshop, Düsseldorf, Germany
    • Blanchard-Rooney, Addison J., Jessica Schamne, Patricia Meier & Niklas Wiskandt. A service learning perspective on urban minority language documentation — Talk at “Documenting languages, documenting cultures: Migration, minorities, dialects”, Napoli, Italy
    • Wiskandt, Niklas & Dila Turus. Simplex-LVC pairs with experiencer objects in German: How causativity can ‘transfer us into excitement’ — Talk at “16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference”, Düsseldorf, Germany
    • Wiskandt, Niklas, Rolf Kailuweit & Jorina Fenner. Object-experiencer verbs in Catalan, Portuguese and Romanian: Setting the stage for a cross-linguistic model — Invited talk at the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, Spain
    • Wiskandt, Niklas, Isabella Greisinger & Ana Krajinović. Teaching urban fieldwork at universities helps language documentation and preservation — Talk at “Minority Languages in the City”, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019