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Of the roughly 200 houses in Makhunik, Iran, 70 or 80 stand only 5.0 feet to 6.5 feet tall. Even this boy would have to stoop to get in the door.
Long before the Hobbit, stories abounded around the world about miniature races of people. In Iran, there is actually a kind of proof.
As Shervin Abdolhamidi writes at the BBC, "In the first part of Jonathan Swift's book Gulliver's Travels, Lemuel Gulliver washes ashore on the island country of Lilliput, where he encounters the Lilliputians, who stand barely taller than [6 inches].
"In 2005, a mummified body measuring [10 inches] in length was found in the region. The discovery fuelled the belief that this remote corner of Iran, which consists of 13 villages, including Makhunik, was once home to an ancient 'City of Dwarfs'. Although experts have determined that the mummy was actually a premature baby who died roughly 400 years ago, they contend that previous generations of Makhunik residents were indeed shorter than usual.
"Malnutrition significantly contributed to Makhunik residents' height deficiency. Raising animals was difficult in this dry, desolate region, and turnips, grain, barley and a date-like fruit called jujube constituted the only farming. Makhunik residents subsisted on simple vegetarian dishes such as kashk-beneh (made from whey and a type of pistachio that is grown in the mountains), and pokhteek (a mixture of dried whey and turnip).
"Arguably the most astonishing dietary anomaly was a disdain for tea – one of the hallmarks of Iranian cuisine and hospitality.
Dorsa Derakhshani could read before the age of 2 and grew up to be a chess champion. She was banned from Iran's chess association for not wearing a headscarf.
After you read this article on an Iranian chess prodigy, you are sure to be surprised by her current career goal. Not that there's anything wrong with it; it's just surprising.
Mika Klein interviewed Dorsa Derakhshani at WBUR radio's Only a Game, first watching an old video of Dorsa to get some background.
"The year was 2000. Dorsa was 2, and appearing on a children's television show. Dorsa wears a red velvet dress with puffy sleeves and dark tights. She's tightly clutching a stuffed puppy, so the interviewer holds the microphone for her. Dorsa breaks into song, with the poise of seasoned performer, and the studio audience applauds.
"The camera cuts to the audience. Most of the girls are sitting in the back, many are wearing headscarves. Dorsa's head is uncovered.
"Dorsa's television career as a child prodigy was never going to last forever, but it ended abruptly when she was 6.
" 'They made me wear a scarf against my will,' says Dorsa … 'I never went back for the TV.
"Dorsa's first big success came in the Iranian national youth under-8 tournament.
Dorsa's brother, Borna, was banned for competing against someone from Israel, Dorsa for not wearing a headscarf.
"This July, she moved to the U.S. after being accepted to the chess team at St. Louis University. She said there were no problems when she landed in New York and cleared immigration.
There are so many interesting cultures in the world! For example, when I was editor of a magazine about lower-income issues in New England, I heard for the first time about the Karen from Burma (Myanmar). Who? Soon after, I managed to acquire an article on Karen refugees in Waterbury, Connecticut, so I was able to learn something along with my readers.
Recently, I heard of another new-to-me minority, members of which are being resettled in Massachusetts. They are called Mandeans, and their pacifist religious beliefs had subjected them to persecution in Iraq and Iran for millennia.
Here is what Brian MacQuarrie writes about them at the Boston Globe.
"The Mandaeans have found safety and acceptance since they began arriving [in Worcester] in 2008, freely practicing a monotheistic religion that predates Christianity and Islam. But they still do not have a temple — a 'mandi' for baptisms, marriages, and birth and death rituals — and whether one is built could determine if they continue to call Worcester home.
" 'We really don't have the expertise, the know-how, the connections,' said Breegi, who also has founded a scientific firm that is developing a low-cost, disposable, neonatal incubator for use in developing countries.
"To help forge the religious connections, Breegi and Sarkis are preparing an application for a nonprofit organization to help raise money for the temple. Worcester Mayor Joseph Petty said in an interview he is willing to help the project where he can.
Worcester held a ceremony of welcome in April that "represented the first time — anywhere, at any time — that Mandaeans had been recognized as a valued, important minority group, Sarkis said." Wow.
The Kalmashy family (left to right) Lilo, and her husband Mahdi and their daughters and Sura and Sahar, shared lunch at their home in Worcester.
Tell me this is not a hobbit house.
One thinks of Iran as repressive, and having watched the doomed 2009 revolution unfold on twitter, I believe it is. But Iranian theater people seem to be managing to squeeze in some fun.
I blogged before about the Tehran production in a taxi, here. Now Studio 360 has a story on what might be called extreme improvisation. I take that back. There's a script. But the actor doesn't get to see it in advance.
"Actors face stage fright all the time," says Studio 360, a radio show. "But consider this scenario: you show up to perform a one-person show, and you've never seen the script. You don't know what it's about because you promised not to do any research. It's your first performance, and the only one you'll ever have. The theater's artistic director hands you a fat manila envelope with a script. And go.
"Also, the audience will decide whether you drink a glass of water that appears to have been poisoned.
"Soleimanpour pulls his strings from afar, because — although the play has been performed in Toronto, Berlin, San Francisco, Brisbane, Edinburgh, London, and now Washington, DC — he really is in a cage. He doesn't have a passport and can't leave Iran, so he has never seen his play performed. 'Nassim has given up the kind of control that is customary for playwrights,' says Suilebhan, of working with actors and directors to realize the play. 'At the same time, because he has put all of these restrictions on how it is to be performed, he has seized certain kinds of control that playwrights normally do not have. So he is literally embodying the ideas of control and submission and manipulation that he's baked into his script.' " More.
I like reading about street art and what motivates the creative outbursts. I have blogged on this before (Slinkachu, Banksy).
The Art Newspaper recently did quite a long feature on street art inspired by (and inspiring) the Arab Spring.
What a hoot that this art has been taken up by auction houses like Sotheby's! But on the whole it's good for the artists. I know what a great moment it was when the favela artists from Brazil were able to sell their work in the movie Waste Land.


This week I've been making the Mollie Makes mouse cover project (issue 11) as a birthday present for my friend's daughter. It was great fun and a little different from the type of things I usually make.
I have made Mrs Mouse out of black felt rather than the white fabric used in the magazine. In the picture above, Mrs Mouse is sporting a blouse made from Grayson Perry Liberty print fabric, a denim pinafore dress, blue cardigan with cat badge detail and a pink and white striped scarf.
Here we see Mrs Mouse in a dress made from the same Grayson Perry Liberty Fabric and a contrasting Liberty print sash. The outfit is completed with a white cardigan with a red heart button.


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Title: Code Examples
Description: Examples of using Code related methods
---

Examples of available methods and a possible output from a call.
See the [API documentation](../../api/Faker/Code) for the syntax of the methods.

**NOTES:**
By adding `using Faker;`, all `Faker.` prefixes in the examples can be removed.

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## European  Article Number (EAN) / Global Trade Item Number (GTIN)

Will generate a random EAN / GTIN number with a valid checksum.
```
Faker.Code.EAN(validChecksum: true);
```
**OUTPUTS:** `8893491626338`

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## Italian Fiscal Code
:::{.alert .alert-info}
Example is missing information, please help out with providing a description.
:::
```
Faker.Code.FiscalCode(
	validChecksum: true,
	minAge: 18,
	maxAge: 65
);
```
**OUTPUTS:** `"GQAMTZ66E42C248W"`

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## International Standard Book Number, 10 digits (ISBN10)
Will generate a random ISBN10 number.
```
Faker.Code.ISBN10(validChecksum: true);
```
**OUTPUTS:** `"959472336X"`

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## International Standard Book Number, 13 digits (ISBN13)
Will generate a random ISBN13 number.
```
Faker.Code.ISBN13(validChecksum: true);
```
**OUTPUTS:** `"9798346018735"`

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## National Provider Identifier (NPI)
Will generate a random NPI.
```
Faker.Code.NPI();
```
**OUTPUTS:** `"0929091271"`

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## National Registration Identity Card (NRIC)
Will generate a random NRIC.
```
Faker.Code.NRIC(
	validChecksum: true,
	minAge: 18,
	maxage: 65
);
```
**OUTPUTS:** "59705128C"

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## RUT
:::{.alert .alert-info}
Example is missing information, please help out with providing a description.
:::
```
Faker.Code.RUT(validChecksum: true);
```
**OUTPUTS:** `"16026599K"`

*[EAN]: European Article Number
*[GTIN]: Global Trade Item Number
*[ISBN10]: International Standard Book Number, 10 digits
*[ISBN13]: International Standard Book Number, 13 digits
*[ISBN]: International Standard Book Number
*[NPI]: National Provider Identifier
*[NRIC]: National Registration Identity Card

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The Longmont Economic Development Partnership exists for the sole purpose of keeping the Longmont area economy strong. This is accomplished specifically by "leading a comprehensive, collaborative economic development strategy to promote and strengthen our community's economic health."
Longmont EDP is a public/private partnership, governed by a Board of Directors made up of representatives from primary employers, the City of Longmont, and the business community at large.
Stacy Cornay
Communication Concepts Public Relations & Advertising
At-Large
Stacy Cornay is the owner of Communication Concepts Public Relations & Advertising founded in 1994. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the University of Wyoming and a Masters Degree in Communication/Public Relations from the University of Louisiana. In addition to serving on the Longmont EDP Board of Directors, Stacy serves on the Board of Directors for Longs Peak Hospital Foundation and on the Northwest Chamber Alliance steering committee. She also is a member of the Twin Peaks Rotary. She has received awards such as the Carl J. Turner Citizen of the Year Award, Woman of Distinction Award – Girl Scouts of America, Chairman's Award - Longmont Area Visitors Association, Leadership Award – Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce, Business Partner of the Year Award – St. Vrain Valley School District. Stacy is married to Paul and has one son, Tanner.
Eric Wallace
Left Hand Brewing
Jon Eric Wallace is the President and co-founder of Indian Peaks Brewing Company, parent company of Left Hand Brewing Company. Eric graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1984 with a degree in international affairs, and spent 8 years in the Air Force as a communications officer in Italy and Turkey before moving back to the U.S. in 1993. Upon his return, he was inspired by the renaissance in craft brewing developing here in the U.S. and, along with co-founder Dick Doore, decided to jump headfirst into the craft beer business. Left Hand Brewing was founded by Eric Wallace and Dick Doore on September 21, 1993, and has been crafting a well-balanced portfolio of award-winning beers that are now available in 26 states and 10 countries.
Eric serves on the Brewers Association Board of Directors, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival Advisory Board, is a member of Longmont Odd Fellows Lodge No. 29 and Skyline Kiwanis. Eric received the F.X. Matt Defense of the Industry Award at the Brewers Association's annual Craft Brewers Conference in April 2009. He was inducted into the Boulder County Business Hall of Fame in 2012. Eric received both the Tom Brock Award for business leadership in the Longmont community and was named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the Mountain Desert Region in 2014.
Andy Welch
Past Chair
Sun Construction & Facility Services Inc.
Andy Welch is the President of Sun Construction & Facility Services, Inc. where he has worked since 1998. Andy has started several companies in Longmont including, Auction Genius and Insight Automotive which he later sold. Andy's passion remains with construction and development, he owns and develops various real estate along the Front Range. Andy was raised on his family's farm near Yoder Wyoming, and moved to Colorado in high school attending Skyline High, which is where he met his wife Jenny, and they now have two teenage daughters. Andy is a member of his church and Rotary and supports several non-profits in the area.
Allison Closson
Adams Bank & Trust
Allison Closson is Vice President for Adams Bank & Trust. She manages the bank's Longmont Branch and keeps quite busy as a commercial lender for the bank as well. 15 years ago, Allison moved from Arizona to her current home in Longmont, Colorado. She has a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from Arizona State University, and has over 24 years experience in banking. Her community activities include being a member of various committees for A Woman's Work, being a volunteer business partner with the Longmont Economic Development Partnership, and volunteering with her local church. Allison enjoys the many outdoor activities that Colorado has to offer and can't imagine raising her two children, Carter and Lauren, anywhere else.
Bruce Hellbaum
Front Range State Bank
Bruce A. Hellbaum is the President/CEO of RNB State Bank and Front Range State Bank, a division of RNB State Bank. The community oriented bank operates in Colorado and Wyoming. The bank was chartered in 1899 and has operated in the Longmont market for over ten years. Bruce became the President/CEO in September of 2015. Bruce lives in Longmont and primarily offices out of the Longmont branch, but also spends time each month visiting the other locations. In addition to being the President and CEO of RNB/Front Range State Bank, Bruce also serves on its' Board of Directors as well as the Board of Directors of the banks' holding company which, in addition to RNB/Front Range State Bank, owns an insurance agency in Wyoming and a mutual fund management company operating in Denver, CO. Prior to joining RNB/Front Range State Bank, Bruce was the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Credit Officer and prior Branch President of First State Bank, located in southeastern Wyoming.
Bruce has been involved in banking since the 1990's having first joined the Board of Directors of a community bank and ultimately going to work for that bank. Prior to his banking career, Bruce practiced law for thirteen years, doing all types of civil litigation, with an emphasis on construction and property tax. Bruce has a varied background. In addition to banking and law, Bruce has been a small business owner and has experience with agriculture, commercial real estate and politics. He has served on numerous professional and charitable boards.
Bruce is married to his wife Catherine of 32 years. Catherine currently works as a school secretary in Erie. They have two daughters; Paige is a field biologist for an environmental consulting company and McKenzie is a pharmacist for Walgreens.
PRIMARY EMPLOYERS
Cecil MacGregor
Seagate Technologies
Cecil Macgregor is currently VP of Engineering and Site Lead at Seagate Technologies in Longmont. He has held key engineering roles in Storage companies for 36 years, starting off in the western suburbs of Boston, MA working for Digital Equipment Corp and Quantum Corp before moving to Longmont, CO in 1995, where he has worked for Maxtor Corp and now Seagate. His team is spread out over locations in CO, MN, CA, Singapore, and India, thus he travels frequently and is exposed to business and cultural issues at those locations. The role is the design, architecture, development, and technical management of embedded control ASICs for Storage HDD and SSD devices. He is also heavily involved in co-managing the interaction with key electrical suppliers to Seagate.
Past member of the Industrial Advisory Board for the CU ECE department. Current Treasurer for small Hangar HOA at Vance Brand Airport.
Education: BSEE 1981, MSEE 1982, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Married for 34 years and has two kids (27,23). Has lived in Longmont (11 yrs) then Niwot (12 years) and is now moving back to Longmont.
Interests: Tennis and general aviation pilot (has a plane and hangar at Vance Brand airport). Fluent in English and Spanish and knows a limited amount of French.
Wendell Pickett
Frontier Companies
Wendell Gene Pickett is the Vice President of Operations for Frontier Companies, LLC. Frontier, originated in Longmont in 1960 and has developed into a diversified company with the majority of its activities focused in the front range real-estate market along with active investment in local business. Currently, in Longmont, Frontier is Co-Developer of the Mill Village Apartments, an active owner of Mountain View Welding, LLC, a primary employer, and owner of several industrial properties. Wendell joined Frontier in 1993 and during his tenure has been involved in the development of multiple projects including commercial, industrial, medical and residential projects along the front range. Wendell holds an MBA from University of Denver, Daniels College of Business and is a Certified Commercial Investment Manager (CCIM). Wendell and his wife Toni chose to move to Longmont in 2005 with their kids Austin and Samantha.
Joe Troutman
Joe Troutman is the Senior Manager of Space Systems and Development at EnerSys / ABSL Space Products. Joe has over 28 years of experience in the space power system area working with the major NASA sites such as Johnson Space Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Glenn Research Center. Joe continues to work with and support the space industry prime suppliers (Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK Space Systems, Boeing Space and Defense, and Northrup Grumman Corporation, among others, in the design and development of space power systems with a focus on lithium ion battery technologies. Joe is a recognized expert in lithium ion battery technology currently is a United States representative to the International Standards Committee on Aerospace technologies, the Vice-Chair of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and member of the NASA Battery Safety Standards Committee. Joe and his husband, Lucas Barrett Busby, moved to the Longmont area in 2010 and has been an active promoter of aerospace technology and development of aerospace business within the Longmont area.
Ted Bendelow
Bendelow Law Office
Ted Bendelow is an attorney whose office in in Longmont, where he represents a variety of business related clients, including several irrigation ditch companies. He represents numerous small businesses in a range of legal matters. He also handles a variety of real estate activities. Ted has litigated civil suits for over 40 years, throughout the United States, and handled a matter in France and another in Germany. He is a former Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Liberia. He also served as a State Representative in the Colorado Legislature.
Ted is involved in numerous civic activities, including President of the Mead Rotary, and former President of the Mead Chamber of Commerce. He is the President of the Colorado Water Innovation Cluster, a Director of the Longmont Area Economic Council and a Director of the St. Vrain Creek Coalition, dealing with the 2013 flood.
Ted holds a Juris Doctor Degree; a Master's Degree from Cornell and another Master's degree from the University of Denver.
Dan Gust
Gust Family Enterprises Inc./Ace Hardware
Dan Gust along with his wife, Karen, and daughter, Kirsten Pellicer, are owners of Gust Family Enterprises, Inc., a company founded in 1990 primarily to own and operate Ace Hardware locations. Dan holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from South Dakota State University and an MBA from Texas Tech University. Prior to starting the family business he held engineering and executive positions with Winnebago Industries, Texas Instuments and MiniScribe Corporation. He also served on the Ace Hardware Corporation Board of Directors from 1998 through 2007. Dan has been actively involved in the Longmont community serving as Chair of the Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce and the Longmont United Hospital Board. He is Past President of the Longmont Rotary Club and has served on many other boards including the YMCA, EDAL, the Longmont Industrial Park Board, Wells Fargo Boulder County Community Board and the Skyline Education Fountation.
Christina Johnson
Tina Johnson is the Chief Executive Officer of Longmont United Hospital. She is an Emergency Physician who practiced for 20 years, including 12 years at Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. She served as Chief Medical Officer, then Chief Operating Officer of Lutheran Medical Center before taking the role of Chief Executive Officer at Longmont United Hospital in May of 2018. In addition to her Medical Degree from Columbia University, she has a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Denver. Tina has served on the Board of Directors of the Leaven Captive Insurance Company and on the Executive Leadership Team for Go Red for Women, and she has been an active supporter of The Family Tree, a non-profit organization that serves victims of domestic violence, child neglect and homelessness in Colorado. Tina's husband John is a Cardiologist and she has three teenage children, Evan who is a freshman in college, Eric who is a high school senior and Natalie who is a high school sophomore. In her free time, Tina enjoys traveling, hiking, skiing and trying new restaurants.
CITY OF LONGMONT
Brian Bagley
Mayor of Longmont
The founder and chief counsel of the Bagley Law Firm, LLC, Brian provides legal representation to businesses, families, and individuals. In addition to the practice of law, Brian currently serves as Mayor of the City of Longmont. Brian's other community activities include teaching at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder, as well as a professor for the university's prestigious Presidents Leadership Class, teaching upper-level courses on business, management, and leadership. Brian himself is a CU alumnus, having earned a Juris Doctor from CU's School of Law and a Master of Business Administration from the Leeds School of Business.
Brian began his professional career as a senior analyst and key member of the team that researched and wrote the New York Times Bestseller, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don't.
Brian is a member of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, and has been licensed to practice law in the state of Colorado since 1999. His personal accomplishments include earning the rank of Eagle Scout from the Boy Scouts of America, speaking and writing fluent Spanish, writing and directing a full-length feature film distributed by Universal Vivendi, and volunteering – along with his wife – as a foster-adopt parent for Boulder County's Department of Housing and Human Services. His foremost passion is his wife, Ivone, and their four children: Danielle, Jordan, Augie, and Mikey.
Bonnie Finley
Longmont City Council
Bonnie Finley currently serves on Longmont City Council from Ward 1. A Longmont native, Bonnie recently retired from the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry where she worked for over 17 years-most recently as Manager of Member Involvement. She currently serves on the National League of Cities' Community & Economic Development Policy Committee, the Board of the Longmont United Hospital Foundation, Longmont Cable Trust Board and is the Council liaison for the Longmont Museum Board and the Longmont Sister Cities Board. Bonnie has a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Colorado. She and her husband Kurt have two outstanding sons, two excellent daughters in-law and four perfect grandsons.
Harold Dominguez
As provided for by City Charter, the City Manager is the chief administrative officer of the City and is responsible for the efficient administration of all affairs of the City. The City Manager directs the work of all City departments and subsidiary divisions.
The City Manager's office is part of the Department of Administration and is responsible for: assisting citizens, tracking legislation, providing public information services, providing administrative support for the Sister Cities program, providing intergovernmental support and services, leading customer service efforts for the City, administration and development of the city's web site, developing city-wide policies and procedures, resolving complaints, coordinating community activities, planning coordination of City Council agendas, and providing staff support to the Mayor, City Council members, and other City departments.
Dale Rademacher
Dale Rademacher is a native of Longmont and a fourth generation resident of the St. Vrain Valley. He graduated from Longmont High School and received his Bachelors of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University. Dale has been fortunate to have had the opportunity to serve the Longmont community for the past 34 years. Dale has been a member of the City Leadership Team for 20 years and is currently the General Manager of Public Works and Natural Resources for the City of Longmont. Dale continues to live on the family farm where he and his wife Karen raised their 4 children. Having the good fortune to be able to work, and raise his family, in his home town is truly a blessing in his life.
COMMUNITY LIAISONS
Boulder County Commissioner
Deb Gardner
Email: dgardner@bouldercounty.org
Boulder County Latino Chamber
Jose Beteta
Email: jose@thelatinochamber.com
Boulder Small Business Development Center
Sharon King
Email: sharon.king@bouldersbdc.com
Front Range Community College
Elena Sandoval-Lucero
Email: elena.sandoval-lucero@frontrange.edu
Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce
Scott Cook
Email: scook@longmontchamber.org
Longmont Downtown Development Authority
Kimberlee McKee
Email: kimberlee.mckee@longmontcolorado.gov
TinkerMill
Ron Thomas
Email: ron@tinkermill.org
St. Vrain Valley School District
Don Haddad
Email: haddad_don@svvsd.org


2009 Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman. 2009. Temporal Stability of Linguistic Typological Features. München: LINCOM Europa.
2007 Wichmann, Søren. 2007. Popoluca de Texistepec. Archivo de las lenguas indígenas de México. México, D.F.: El Colegio de México.
1995 Wichmann, Søren. 1995. The Relationship among the Mixe-Zoquean Languages of Mexico. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. [Pp. 619. Reviews by B. Comrie in Linguistics 34:864-867 (1996); B. Stross in Anthropological Linguistics 39.1: 161-163 (1996); W. Bright in Word 48: 408-11 (1997); book notice by B. Joseph in Diachronica 93.1: 205 (1996)].
2018 William B. McGregor and Søren Wichmann (eds.). 2018. The Diachrony of Classification Systems. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 342. Amsterdam: Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.342.
2014 Wichmann, Søren (ed.). 2014. Arguments and Adjuncts Cross-Linguistically. Linguistic Discovery 12.2. https://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/1/xmlpage/1/issue/43.
Wichmann, Søren and Jeff Good (eds.). 2014. Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics. Leiden: Brill.
2012 Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.). 2012. Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Morris Swadesh. Benjamins Current Topics, 46. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [Reprint of Wichmann and Grant (eds.) (2010). Review by S. Moran in Studies in Language 38.1:218-231 (2014)].
2010 Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.). 2010. Special Issue: Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Morris Swadesh. Diachronica 27.2.
2007 Estrada Fernández, Zarina, Søren Wichmann, Claudine Chamoreau, and Albert Álvarez González (eds.). 2007. Studies in Voice and Transitivity (Estudios de voz y transitividad). München: Lincom Europa [Pp. 242. Book notice by G. Iemmolo in eLanguage 2010].
In press Wichmann, Søren. 2019. Power-laws and preferential attachment in linguistic morphology: evidence from Me'pá verb classes.. Amerindia 41: 19-38. (in Special issue: Palancar, Enrique L., Matthew Baerman, and Timothy Feist (eds.), Inflectional Complexity and Verb Classes: A View from the Oto-Manguean Languages of Mexico).
2018 Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk, Swintha Danielsen, Iren Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmanne, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Nivja de Jongh, and Balthasar Bickel. 2018. Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 115(22): 5720-5725. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800708115.
Aldai, Gontzal and Søren Wichmann. 2018. Statistical observations on hierarchies of transitivity. Folia Linguistica 52(2): 249-281.
Rama, Taraka and Søren Wichmann. 2018. Towards identifying the optimal datasize for lexically-based Bayesian inference of linguistic phylogenies. 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New-Mexico, USA. https://aclanthology.coli.uni-saarland.de/papers/C18-1134/c18-1134.
Ran, Qibin and Søren Wichmann. 2018. Zenyang qufen yuyan yu fangyan: Jiyu hexin cihui de juli jisuan fangfa tansuo (How to Distinguish Languages and Dialects: A Quantitative Approach). Yuyan Zhanlue Yanjiu (Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning) 3(2): 50-58. DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20180205.
Wichmann, Søren. 2018. Introduction. In: McGregor, William B. and Søren Wichmann (eds.), The Diachrony of Classification Systems, 1-8. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Wichmann, Søren and Taraka Rama. 2018. Jackknifing the black sheep: ASJP classification performance and Austronesian. In Kikusawa, Ritsuko and Lawrence A. Reid (eds.), Let's Talk about Trees: Genetic Relationships of Languages and Their Phylogenic Representation, 39-58. Senri Ethnological Studies 98. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, Japan.
Wichmann, Søren. 2018. Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies. In: Kageyama, Taro and Wesley M. Jacobsen (eds.), Transitivity and Valency Alternations: Studies on Japanese and Beyond, 423-444. Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, 297. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. [Reprint of Wichmann 2016].
2017 Holman, Eric W. and Søren Wichmann. 2017. New evidence from linguistic phylogenetics supports phyletic gradualism. Systematic Biology 66.4: 604-610. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw106.
Wichmann, Søren. 2017. Modeling language family expansions. Diachronica 34.1:79-101.
Schillaci, Michael A., Craig Kopris, Søren Wichmann, and Genevieve Dewar. 2017. Linguistic clues to Iroquoian prehistory. Journal of Anthropological Research 73.3: 448-485.
Wichmann, Søren and Lynda Boudreault. 2017. Kañcheñyoomä' 'the lazy woman'. International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 83, Supp. 1, Texts in Indigenous Languages of the Americas 1, pp. S57–S102.
Wichmann, Søren. 2017. Genealogical classification in historical linguistics. In: Aronoff, Mark (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Linguistics. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.78.
2016 Blasi, Damián E., Søren Wichmann, Peter F. Stadler, Harald Hammarström, and Morten H. Christiansen. 2016. Sound-meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U. S. A. 113: 10818-10823. doi: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1605782113.
Schillaci, Michael and Søren Wichmann. 2016. The use of linguistic data in bioarchaeological research: An example from the American Southwest. in: Madeleine L. Mant and Alyson Jaagumägi Holland (eds.), Beyond the Bones: Engaging with Disparate Datasets, 101-112. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Pache, Matthias, Søren Wichmann, and Mikhail Zhivlov. 2016. Words for 'dog' as a diagnostic of language contact in the Americas. In: Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Jany (eds.), Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in Honor of Marianne Mithun, 385-409. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Nielsen, Jesper and and Søren Wichmann. 2016. Sequential text-image pairing among the Classic Maya. In: Cohn, Neil (ed.), The Visual Narrative Reader, 282-313. London: Bloomsbury.
Jäger, Gerhard and Søren Wichmann. 2016. Inferring the world tree of languages from word lists. In: In S.G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher & T. Verhoef (eds.) The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11). Available online: http://evolang.org/neworleans/papers/147.html.
Wichmann, Søren. 2016. Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies. In: Kageyama, Taro and Wesley M. Jacobsen (eds.), Transitivity and Valency Alternations: Studies on Japanese and Beyond, 423-444. Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, 297. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
2015 Holman, Eric W., Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, and E. Anthon Eff. 2015. Inheritance and diffusion of language and culture: A comparative perspective. Social Evolution & History 14.1:49-64.
Good, Jeff and Søren Wichmann. 2015. Editors' Note: Five years of Language Dynamics and Change. Language Dynamics and Change 5.2: 163-168.
Schillaci, Michael and Søren Wichmann. 2015. The use of linguistic data in bioarchaeological research: an example from the American Southwest. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156: 278.
Comrie, Bernard, Iren Hartmann, Martin Haspelmath, Andrej Malchukov, and Søren Wichmann. 2015. Introduction. In: Malchukov, Andrej and Bernard Comrie (eds.), Valency Classes in the World's Languages., 3-26. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Wichmann, Søren. 2015. Statistical observations on implicational (verb) hierarchies. In: Malchukov, Andrej and Bernard Comrie (eds.), Valency Classes in the World's Languages, 155-181. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Wichmann, Søren. 2015. Diachronic stability and typology. In: Bowern, Claire and Bethwyn Evans (eds.), Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 212-224. London and New York: Routledge.
2014 Bochkarev, Vladimir, Valery Solovyev, and Søren Wichmann. 2014. Universals versus historical contingencies in lexical evolution. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 11: 20140841.
Brown, Cecil H., Søren Wichmann, and David Beck. 2014. Chitimacha: a Mesoamerican language in the Lower Mississippi Valley. International Journal of American Linguistics 80.4: 425-474 .
Brown, Cecil H., Charles R. Clement, Patience Epps, Eike Luedeling, and Søren Wichmann. 2014. The Paleobiolinguistics of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). Ethnobiology Letters 5: 104-115. doi:10.14237/ebl.5.2014.203.
Brown, Cecil H., Charles R. Clement, Patience Epps, Eike Luedeling, and Søren Wichmann. 2014. The Paleobiolinguistics of maize (Zea mays L.). Ethnobiology Letters 5: 52-64. doi:10.14237/ebl.5.2014.130.
Wichmann, Søren. 2014. Arguments and adjuncts cross-linguistically: a brief introduction. Linguistic Discovery 12.2.
Wichmann, Søren and Jeff Good. 2014. Introduction. In: Wichmann, Søren and Jeff Good (eds.), Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics. Leiden: Brill.
Blasi, Damián E., Morten H. Christiansen, Søren Wichmann, Harald Hammarström, and Peter F. Stadler. 2014. Sound symbolism and the origins of language. In: Cartmill, Erica A., Seán Roberts, Heidi Lyn, and Hannah Cornish (eds.), The Evolution of Language. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (EVOLANG10), Vienna, Austria, 14-17 April 2014, 391-392. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Wichmann, Søren. 2014. Mixe-Zoquean languages. In: Aronoff, Mark (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press.
2013 Brown, Cecil H., Eric W. Holman, and Søren Wichmann. 2013. Sound correspondences in the world's languages. Language 89.1:4-29.
Wichmann, Søren. 2013. A classification of Papuan languages. In: Hammarström, Harald and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), History, contact and classification of Papuan languages (Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, Special Issue 2012), 313-386. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.
Murilo Castro de Oliveira, Paulo, Adriano O. Sousa, and Søren Wichmann. 2013. On the disintegration of (proto-)languages. International Journal for the Sociology of Language 221: 11-19. doi 10.1515/ijsl-2013-0021.
Brown, Cecil H., Charles R. Clement, Patience Epps, Eike Luedeling, and Søren Wichmann. 2013. The paleobiolinguistics of domesticated manioc (Manihot esculenta). Ethnobiology Letters 4:61-70.
Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman. 2013. Languages with longer words have more lexical change. In: Borin, Lars and Anju Saxena (eds.), Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences, 249-284. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton.
Wichmann, Søren. 2013. Internal language classification. In Luraghi, Silvia and Vit Bubenik (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Historical Linguistics, 70-86. Bloomsbury Publishing. [Reprint of Wichmann (2010)].
Wichmann, Søren. 2013. Genealogical classification. In: Kostova, Julia (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013-04-22.
Brown, Cecil H., Eike Luedeling, Søren Wichmann, and Patience Epps. 2013. The paleobiolinguistics of domesticated squash (Cucurbita spp.). In: Quinlan, Marsha and Dana Lepofsky (eds.), Explorations in Ethnobiology: The Legacy of Amadeo Rea, Vancouver, BC: Society of Ethnobiology, Department of Geography, University of North Texas.
Serva, Maurizio, Filippo Petroni, Dima Volchenkov and Wichmann, Søren. 2013. From Indonesia to Madagascar: in search of the origins of the Malagasy language. Indian Ocean Review of Science and Technology, Article 1-2013.
2012 Walker Robert S., Søren Wichmann, Thomas Mailund, and Curtis J. Atkisson. 2012. Cultural phylogenetics of the Tupi language family in Lowland South America. PLoS ONE 7(4): e35025. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035025.
Wichmann, Søren and Anthony Grant. 2012. Preface. In: Wichmann, Søren and Anthony Grant (eds.), Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Morris Swadesh, vii-viii. Benjamins Current Topics, 46. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Wichmann, Søren, André Müller, and Viveka Velupillai. 2012. Homelands of the world's language families: A quantitative approach. In: Wichmann, Søren and Anthony Grant (eds.), Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Morris Swadesh., 57-86. Benjamins Current Topics, 46. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [Reprint of Wichmann et al. 2010].
2011 Holman, Eric W., Cecil H. Brown, Søren Wichmann, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Harald Hammarström, Sebastian Sauppe, Hagen Jung, Dik Bakker, Pamela Brown, Oleg Belyaev, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Johann-Mattis List, and Dmitry Egorov. 2011. Automated dating of the world's language families based on lexical similarity. Current Anthropology 52.6: 841-875.
Wichmann, Søren and Jeff Good. 2011. Editorial statement. Language Dynamics and Change 1.1: 1-2.
Brown, Cecil H., David Beck, Grzegorz Kondrak, James K. Watters, and Søren Wichmann. 2011. Totozoquean. International Journal of American Linguistics 77.3: 323-372.
Donohue, Mark, Simon Musgrave, Bronwen Whitting, and Søren Wichmann. 2011. Typological feature analysis models linguistic geography. Language 87.2: 369-383.
Serva, Maurizio, Filippo Petroni, Dima Volchenkov, and Søren Wichmann. 2011. Dialects of Malagasy and the peopling of Madagascar. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0228.
Wichmann, Søren and Cecil H. Brown. 2011. Syllable nuclei of proto-Mayan disyllabic stems. In: Avelino, Heriberto (ed.), New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics, 316-342. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, Dietrich Stauffer, and Cecil H. Brown. 2011. Similarities among languages of the Americas: An exploration of the WALS evidence. Journal of Language Relationship 5: 130-134.
2010 Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Johann-Mattis List, Oleg Belyaev, Matthias Urban, and Dik Bakker. 2010. Glottochronology as a heuristic for genealogical language relationships. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 17.4: 303-316. .
Wichmann, Søren, Holman, Eric W. and Cecil H. Brown. 2010. Sound symbolism in basic vocabulary. Entropy 12(4), 844-858; doi:10.3390/e12040844.
Beekman, Christopher S., George L. Cowgill, Karen Dakin, Nicholas A. Hopkins, Robert M. Rosenswig, Kathryn E. Sampeck, Michael Swanton, Alejandro de Ávila, Bas van Doesburg, and Søren Wichmann. 2010. Comments on Kaufman and Justeson: "The history of the word for cacao in Ancient Mesoamerica". Ancient Mesoamerica 21: 415-441.
Wichmann, Søren. 2010. Internal language classification. In Luraghi, Silvia and Vit Bubenik (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, 70-86. London/New York: Continuum Books.
Wichmann, Søren. 2010. Ditransitive constructions in Tlapanec. In: Malchukov, Andrej, Martin Haspelmath, and Bernard Comrie (eds.), Studies in Ditransitive Constructions: A Comparative Handbook, 651-677. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter Mouton.
Serva, Maurizio, Philippe Blanchard, Eric W. Holman, Filippo Petroni, Dima Volchenkov, and Søren Wichmann. 2010. The phylogeny of Malagasy dialects. In: Solovyev, Valery and Vladimir Polyakov (eds.), Text Processing and Cognitive Technologies. Collection of Papers. Issue 19. Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics: Proceedings of the XII International Conference, 253-256. Kazan: Kazan State University.
Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman. 2010. Pairwise comparisons of typological profiles. In: Wohlgemuth, Jan and Michael Cysouw (eds.), Rethinking Universals: How Rarities Affect Linguistic Theory. (=Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Typology, 45), 241-254. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2009 Wichmann, Søren and Holman, Eric W. 2009. Population size and rates of language change. Human Biology 81: 259-274.
Polyakov, Vladimir N., Valery D. Solovyev, Søren Wichmann, and Oleg Belyaev. 2009. Using WALS and Jazyki Mira. Linguistic Typology 13: 135-165.
Bakker, Dik, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Pamela Brown, Dmitry Egorov, Robert Mailhammer, Anthony Grant, and Eric W. Holman. 2009. Adding typology to lexicostatistics: a combined approach to language classification. Linguistic Typology 13: 167-179.
Wichmann, Søren and Kerry Hull. 2009. Q'eqchi' vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, Martin & Tadmor, Uri (eds.) World Loanword Database. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library. http://wold.clld.org/.
Wichmann, Søren and Kerry Hull. 2009. Loanwords in Q'eqchi', a Mayan language of Guatemala. In: Haspelmath, Martin and Uri Tadmor (eds.), Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, 873-896. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Wichmann, Søren. 2009. Case relations in a head-marking language: verb-marked cases in Tlapanec. In: Malchukov, Andrej and Andrew Spencer (eds.), The Handbook of Case, 797-807. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2008 Wichmann, Søren. 2008. The emerging field of language dynamics. Language and Linguistics Compass 2.3: 442-455.
Wichmann, Søren. 2008. Teaching & Learning Guide for: The Emerging Field of Language Dynamics. Language and Linguistics Compass 2.6: 1294–1297.
Donohue, Mark, Søren Wichmann, and Mihai Albu. 2008. Typology, areality and diffusion. Oceanic Linguistics 47.1: 223-232.
Brown, Cecil H., Eric W. Holman, Søren Wichmann, and Viveka Velupillai. 2008. Automated classification of the world's languages: A description of the method and preliminary results. STUF – Language Typology and Universals 61.4: 285-308.
Wichmann, Søren and David Kamholz. 2008. A stability metric for typological features. STUF – Language Typology and Universals 61.3: 251-262.
Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann. 2008. Longitud vocálica y glotalización en la escritura náhuatl. Revista Española de Antropología Americana 38.2: 121-150.
Wichmann, Søren. 2008. The study of semantic alignment: retrospect and state of the art. In Donohue, Mark and Søren Wichmann (eds.), The Typology of Semantic Alignment, pp. 3-23. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wichmann, Søren and Jan Wohlgemuth. 2008. Loan verbs in a typological perspective. In: Stolz, Thomas, Dik Bakker, and Rosa Salas Palomo (eds.), Aspects of Language Contact. New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Special Focus on Romancisation Processes, pp. 89-121. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Wichmann, Søren, Dmitri Beliaev, and Albert Davletshin. 2008. Posibles correlaciones lingüísticas y arqueológicas vinculadas con los olmecas. In: Uriarte, María Teresa and Rebecca B. González Lauck (eds.), Olmeca. Balance y perspectivas. Memoria de la Primera Mesa Redonda, 667-683. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México & Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes & Fundación Arqueológica del Nuevo Mundo, Universidad Brigham Young.
Holman, Eric W., Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Viveka Velupillai, André Müller, and Dik Bakker. 2008. Advances in automated language classification. In Arppe, Antti, Kaius Sinnemäki and Urpu Nikanne (eds), Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics, 40-43. Helsinki: University of Helsinki.
Wichmann, Søren. 2008. Om opdagelsen af et grænseoverskridende nyt sprog. In: Nielsen, Jesper and Mettelise Fritz Hansen (eds.), De mange veje til Mesoamerika. Hyldestskrift til Una Canger, pp. 63-80. København: Afdelingen for Indianske Sprog og Kulturer, Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, Københavns Universitet.
2007 Wichmann, Søren and Arpiar Saunders. 2007. How to use typological databases in historical linguistic research. Diachronica 24.2: 373-404.
Holman, Eric W., Christian Schulze, Dietrich Stauffer, and Søren Wichmann. 2007. On the relation between structural diversity and geographical distance among languages: observations and computer simulations. Linguistic Typology 11.2: 395-423 .
Wichmann, Søren. 2007. Valency-reduction in event-oriented languages. In: Estrada Fernández, Zarina, Søren Wichmann, Claudine Chamoreau, and Albert Álvarez González (eds.), Studies in Voice and Transitivity (Estudios de voz y transitividad), pp. 33-51. München: Lincom Europa.
Estrada Fernández, Zarina and Søren Wichmann. 2007. Introduction. In: Zarina Estrada Fernández, Søren Wichmann, Claudine Chamoreau, and Albert Álvarez González (eds.):] Studies in Voice and Transitivity (Estudios de voz y transitividad), pp. v-iv. München: Lincom Europa.
Stauffer, Dietrich, Christian Schulze, and Søren Wichmann. 2007. Computer-Simulation des Wettbewerbs zwischen Sprachen. In: Kolling, Stefan (ed.), Beiträge zur Experimentalphysik, Didaktik und computergestützten Physik – Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hans-Josef Patt, pp. 355-374. Berlin: Logos Verlag. .
Wichmann, Søren. 2007. Un panorama de las lenguas indígenas de México. In: Bob de Jonge (ed.): Las lenguas de México. México en Movimiento, vol. 11: 111-140. Actas del XI día de mexicanistas de Holanda 11 de noviembre de 2005. Groningen: Groningen University.
2006 Wichmann, Søren. 2006. Mayan historical linguistics and epigraphy: a new synthesis. Annual Review of Anthropology 35: 279-294.
Cysouw, Michael, Søren Wichmann, and David Kamholz. 2006. A critique of the separation base method for genealogical subgrouping, with data from Mixe-Zoquean. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 13.2-3: 225-264.
Wichmann, Søren. 2006. Sandhi tonal interno en la morfología verbal tlapaneca. In Ortiz Ciscomani, Rosa María (ed.), Memorias del VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, vol. 2, pp. 337-55. Hermosillo: Editorial UniSon.
Wichmann, Søren and Albert Davletshin. 2006. Writing with an accent: phonology as a marker of ethnic identity. In Sachse, Frauke (ed.), Maya Ethnicity: The Construction of Ethnic Identity from the Preclassic to Modern Times, 9th European Maya Conference, Bonn, December 2004. Acta Mesoamericana, Volume 19, pp. 99-106. Markt Schwaben: Verlag Anton Saurwein.
Wichmann, Søren. 2006. A new look at linguistic interaction in the lowlands as a background for the study of Maya codices. In: Valencia Rivera, Rogelio and Geneviève Le Fort (eds.), Sacred Books, Sacred Languages: Two Thousand Years of Ritual and Religious Maya Literature. Proceedings of the 8th European Maya Conference, Madrid, November 25-30, 2003. Acta Mesoamericana, 18, pp. 45-64. Markt Schwaben: Verlag Anton Saurwein.
Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman. 2006. Comparing Macro-Altaic and Native American languages: What can WALS tell us? Revista Asia y America 6.2: 51-80 (published by Institute for Asian and American Studies, Dankook University, South Korea).
2005 Wichmann, Søren. 2005. On the power-law distribution of language family sizes. Journal of Linguistics 41: 117-131.
Wichmann, Søren. 2005. Tlapanec cases. In: Beam de Azcona, Rosemary and Mary Paster (eds.), Conference on Otomanguean and Oaxacan Languages, March 19-21, 2004, University of California at Berkeley. Report 13, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, pp. 133-145.
Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann. 2005. The dynamics of language in the Western Lowland Maya region. In: Waters-Rist, Christine Cluney, Calla McNamee, and Larry Steinbrenner (eds.), Art for Archaeology's Sake. Material Culture and Style across the Disciplines. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference of the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, pp. 32-48 Calgary: The University of Calgary Archaeological Asssociation.
2004 Brown, Cecil H. and Søren Wichmann. 2004. Proto-Mayan syllable nuclei. International Journal of American Linguistics 70.2: 128-186.
Wichmann, Søren. 2004. A reply to Robertson. Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing 51a: 14-23. Barnardsville, NC: Center for Maya Research.
Wichmann, Søren. 2004. The linguistic epigraphy of Mayan writing: Recent advances and questions for future research. In: Wichmann, Søren (ed.), The Linguistics of Maya Writing, pp. 1-11. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Wichmann, Søren. 2004. The grammar of the half-period glyph. In: Wichmann, Søren (ed.), The Linguistics of Maya Writing, pp. 327-337. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Wichmann, Søren. 2004. Index of grammatical morphemes in the inscriptions. In: Wichmann, Søren (ed.), The Linguistics of Maya Writing, pp. 451-2. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Wichmann, Søren. 2004. The names of some major Classic Maya gods. In: Daniel Graña Behrens, Nikolai Grube, Christian M. Prager, Frauke Sachse, Stefanie Teufel, and Elisabeth Wagner (eds.), Continuity and Change–Mayan Religious Practices in Temporal Perspective. 5th European Maya Conference, University of Bonn, December 2000. Acta Americana, Vol. 14, pp. 77-86. Markt Schwaben: Verlag Anton Saurwein.
Wichmann, Søren. 2004. El concepto de camino entre los mayas a partir de las fuentes epigráficas, iconográficas y etnográficas. In: Mercedes Montes de Oca (ed.), La metáfora en Mesoamérica, pp. 13-32. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas.
Wichmann, Søren. 2004. La gramaticalización de un paradigma de auxiliares en popoluca de Texistepec. In: Morúa Leyva, María del Carmen & Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani (eds.), Memorias del VII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, tomo. 2, pp. 205-220. Hermosillo: Editorial UniSon.
2003 Wichmann, Søren and Cecil H. Brown. 2003. Contact among some Mayan languages: inferences from loanwords. Anthropological Linguistics 45.1: 57-93.
Wichmann, Søren. 2003. Georges Raynaud: An overlooked figure in the history of Maya epigraphy. The PARI Journal 3.2/3.3: 15-17, 2002/2003.
Wichmann, Søren. 2003. Contextualizing proto-languages, homelands and distant genetic relationship: some reflections on the comparative method from a Mesoamerican perspective. In: Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew (eds.), Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis, pp. 321-29. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
2002 Wichmann, Søren. 2002. Hieroglyphic evidence for the historical configuration of Eastern Ch'olan. Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing, 51. Washington, D.C.: Center for Maya Research.
Wichmann, Søren. 2002. Questioning the grid: a new distinction among the syllabic signs of the Maya hieroglyphic script? Mexicon 24.5: 98-106.
Wichmann, Søren and Cecil H. Brown. 2002. Contacto lingüístico dentro del área maya: Los casos de ixhil, q'eqchii' y chikomuselteko, Pueblos y fronteras 4: 133-167.
Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann. 2002. The distribution of Lowland Maya languages in the Classic period. In: La organización social entre los mayas. Memoria de la Tercera Mesa Redonda de Palenque. Vol. II, edited by Vera Tiesler, René Cobos, and Merle Greene Robertson, pp. 275-314. México D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán.
2001 Gutiérrez Morales, Salomé and Søren Wichmann. 2001. He'm ¢i¢imat, 'La Chichimeca'. Tlalocan 13: 315-334.
2000 Dakin, Karen and Søren Wichmann. 2000. Cacao and chocolate: A Uto-Aztecan perspective. Ancient Mesoamerica 11: 1-21.
Wichmann, Søren. 2000. Speaking versus writing in Texistepec Popoluca. In: Casad, Eugene and Thomas L. Willett (eds.), Uto-Aztecan: Structural, Temporal, and Geographic Perspectives; Papers in Memory of Wick R. Miller by the Friends of Uto-Aztecan, pp. 419-428. Hermosillo, Sonora: Universidad de Sonora.
Nielsen, Jesper and Søren Wichmann. 2000. America's first comics? Techniques, contents, and functions of sequential text-image pairing in the Classic Maya period (ca. 250-00 A.D.). In: Anne Magnussen and Hans-Christian Christiansen (eds.), Comics and Culture. Analytical and Theoretical Approaches to Comics, pp. 59-77. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
Wichmann, Søren. 1999. A conservative look at diffusion involving Mixe-Zoquean languages. In: Blench, Roger & Matthew Spriggs (eds.), Archaeology and Language II: Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses, pp. 297-323. London: Routledge.
1997 Wichmann, Søren. 1997. Breves observaciones sobre la representación de la vocal alta central en la lengua zoque. In: Ruz, Mario Humberto: Las lenguas del Chiapas colonial. Manuscritos en la Biblioteca Nacional de Paris. Vol. II, Lengua zoque, pp. 343-344. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
1996 Dakin, Karen and Søren Wichmann. 1996. Cacao, chocolate y los nahuas y mixezoques en el sur de Mesoamérica. Revista Latina de Pensamiento y Lenguaje, vol 2, no. 2B: 455-475.
Wichmann, Søren. 1996. The degrammaticalization of agentivity in Tlapanec. In: Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft and Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen (eds.), Content, Expression and Structure: Studies in Danish Functional Grammar. Studies in Languages Companion Series, pp. 343-360. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
1995 Wichmann, Søren. 1995. Functional Discourse Analysis. A theoretical sketch. In: Millar, Sharon & Jakob Mey (eds.), Form and Function in Language. RASK Supplement, vol. 1, pp. 77-97.
Wichmann, Søren. 1995. 'Empathy' and 'grounding' in Sayula Popoluca. In: Schousboe, Steen (ed.), Embedding in Functional Grammar. Publications of the Department of English, University of Copenhagen, 20, pp. 169-187.
Wichmann, Søren. 1995. Om lingvistisk feltarbejde. In: Knudsen, Sanne (ed.), Sprogligt årsskrift 1994. Artikelsamling for Sprogligt Årsmode 1994, pp. 82-94. Skrifter fra dansk og public relations. Roskilde: Roskilde Universitetscenter.
1994 Wichmann, Søren. 1994. Underspecification in Texistepec Popoluca phonology. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 27.2: 267-285.
Wichmann, Søren. 1994. Sprog og rumlig orientering i livsverdenen. Tidsskriftet antropologi 30: 107-117.
Wichmann, Søren. 1994. Mixe-Zoquean linguistics: A status report. In: Bartholomew, Doris, Yolanda Lastra and Leonardo Manrique (eds.), Panorama de los estudios de las lenguas indígenas de México, vol. 1., pp. 193-267. Biblioteca Abya-Yala, 16. Quito: Abya-Yala.
1993 Wichmann, Søren. 1993. Grammaticalization in Mixe-Zoquean languages. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 46.1: 45-60.
Wichmann, Søren. 1993. Spatial deixis in Azoyú Tlapanec. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 46.2: 113-132.
1992 Wichmann, Søren. 1992. A semantic framework for the Azoyú Tlapanec Iterative. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 25: 125-142.
Wichmann, Søren. 1992. Kalkuner og hieroglyffer. Tidlige sprog- og kulturmøder blandt mixe-zoque indianere i det sydlige Mexico. In: Tybjerg, Tove & Hjørdis Nielsen (eds.), Møde mellem to verdener. Amerikas opdagelse fra præcolumbiansk til nyeste tid, pp. 59-70. Special issue of the journal Chaos. København: Museum Tusculanums forlag.
1990 Lambert, Jakob and Søren Wichmann. 1990. System og deviation – nogle hovedtræk af Lotmans kultur- og kunstsemiotik. Litteratur og samfund 46: 150-166.
2013 Wichmann, Søren. 2013. Review of Jan Terje Faarlund, A Grammar of Chiapas Zoque. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lingua 137: 214-218.
2010 Wichmann, Søren. 2010. Review of John Newman (ed.), The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Studies in Language 34.2: 487-491.
2008 Wichmann, Søren. 2008. Review of Hidalgo, Margarita (ed.), Mexican Indigenous Languages at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter (2006). Journal of Mesoamerican Languages and Linguistics 1.2: 1-9.
Wichmann, Søren. 2008. Review of Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley, Saving Languages. An Introduction to Language Revitalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2006). Language 84.4: 883-885.
2007 Wichmann, Søren. 2007. Review of Leifer, Tore, Jesper Nielsen, and Toke Sellner, Det urolige blod – biografi om Frans Blom. København: Høst og Søn (2002). Acta Americana 15.1: 93-105.
Wichmann, Søren. 2007. Review of Looper, Matthew G., Lightning Warrior. Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua. Austin: University of Texas Press (2003). Latin American Antiquity 18.2: 223.
Wichmann, Søren. 2006. Review of van Sterkenburg, Piet (ed.), Linguistics Today—Facing a Greater Challenge. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company (2004). Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 37:243-50.
2005 Wichmann, Søren. 2005. Review of Macri, Martha J. and Matthew G. Looper, The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs. Vol. 1: The Classic Period Inscriptions. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press (2003). Latin American Antiquity 16.3:349-52.
2004 Wichmann, Søren. 2004. Review of Michael Cysouw, The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking. Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory. Oxford University Press (2003). Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 36: 194-200.
2002 Wichmann, Søren. 2002. Book notice on David Paul Foris, A Grammar of Sochiapan Chinantec. Studies in Chinantec Languages, 6. SIL International and The University of Texas at Arlington (2000). Language 78.4: 805-6.
Wichmann, Søren. 2002. Book notice on Marion Miller, Desano Grammar. Studies in the Languages of Columbia, 6. SIL International and The University of Texas at Arlington (1999). Language 78.4: 804-5.
2001 Wichmann, Søren. 2001. Review of Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven, eds., Evidence for Linguistic Relativity. Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science 198. John Benjamins (2000). LINGUIST List: Vol-12-1123. Apr 24, 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875. [The Internet].
1999 Wichmann, Søren. 1999. Review of Matthew Restall. The Maya World. Yucatec Culture and Society 1550-1850. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press (1997). Tidsskriftet Antropologi 40: 216.
Una Canger. 1999. Deceased: Arild Hvidtfelt (1915-1999). Mexicon. [P. 1. By mistake I am not mentioned in the journal as co-author of this].
1998 Wichmann, Søren. 1998. Review of Michael Dürr, Egon Renner & Wolfgang Oleschinski (eds.): Language and Culture in Native North America: Studies in Honor of Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow. LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics, 2. München/Newcastle: LINCOM EUROPA (1995). Language 74.1: 167-70.
Wichmann, Søren. 1998. Review of Thorstein Fretheim and Jeanette K. Gundel (eds.): Reference and Referent Accessibility. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins (1996). Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 30: 254-266.
1996 Wichmann, Søren. 1996. Book notice on Jaques Moeschler et al.: Langage et pertinence. Référence temporelle, anaphore, connecteurs et métaphore. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy (1994) Language 72.4: 875-877.
1993 Wichmann, Søren. 1993. Review of John Lucy: Language Diversity and Thought. A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis and Grammatical Categories and Cognition. A Case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis. Social Anthropology–Anthropologie Sociale 1 [Pp. 3.].
Wichmann, Søren. 1993. Review of William F. Hanks: Referential Practice. Language and Lived Space among the Maya. Journal of Pragmatics 20, 291-300.
1991 Wichmann, Søren. 1991. Review of Sarah G. Thomason and Terrence Kaufman: Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 23: 217-221.
n.d. Wichmann, Søren. N.d. Review of Sabloff, Jeremy A. (ed.), Tikal: Dynasties, Foreigners & Affairs of State. Advancing Maya Archaeology. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press / Oxford: James Currey (2003).
Wichmann, Søren. N.d. Review of Heinrich Werner, Die Diathese in den Jenissej-Sprachen aus typologischer Sicht. Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica, 64. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (2004).
Wichmann, Søren. N.d. Review of Luis Hernández Cruz, Moisés Victoria Torquemada, and Donaldo Sinclair Crawford, Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, Estado de Hidalgo. México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano (2004).
2018 Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, and Cecil H. Brown (eds.). 2018. The ASJP Database (version 18). http://asjp.clld.org/. Earlier versions, from 2010 onwards, available on the same site.
2008 Wichmann, Søren, Dietrich Stauffer, Christian Schulze, F. Welington S. Lima, and Eric W. Holman. 2008. Meaning and form in a language computer simulation. http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0109.
n.d. Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann. N.d. Harmony rules in the suffix domain: a study of Maya scribal conventions.
2003 Wichmann, Søren. 2003. Sound files for Cuentos y colorados en popoluca de Texistepec. Posted on http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/la_langs.html.
2007 Wichmann, Søren. 2007. On turning sixty from a Tlapanec perspective. In: Bernard's Birthday Book. Die etwas andere Festscrift. [In CD-ROM accompanying the book, which is published in just one copy, as a gift to Bernard Comrie on his 60th birthday].
2006-2007 2 new and 5 revised entries in for the electronic version of Den Store Danske Encyclopædi – Danmarks Nationalleksikon (The Great Danish Encyclopaedia): Canger, Una; Sweetser, Eve (new); Guatemala (sprog), indianere (sprog), mayaer (sprog & skrift), mellemamerikanske sprog, sydamerikanske sprog (revised).
2002 Wichmann, Søren. 2002. Lingvistiks vinkel. In: Dansk som videnkabssprog i en globaliseret verden. Arbejdspapir fra Årsmøde for stipendiater ved Danmarks Humanisitiske Forskningscenter, torsdag den 29. august, Blixensalen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Søren Kierkegaards Plads, pp. 72-76. Danmarks Humanistiske Forskningscenter.
1997-2002 55 entries in Den Store Danske Encyclopædi – Danmarks Nationalleksikon (The Great Danish Encyclopaedia): Indianere (sprog); Lenca; Mapudungun; Mayaer (kunst); Mayaer (religion); Mayaer (sprog og skrift); Mellemamerika (indianske sprog); Mellemamerika (sprog); Mexico (sprog); Mixe-zoque; Mixtekisk; Nahuatl; Na-Dene; Nordamerika (indianske sprog); Nordvestkystindianere (sprog); Oto-mangue; Panamá (sprog); Paraguay (sprog); Penutiske sprog; Pima-papago; Porhépecha (sprog); Prærieindianere (sprog); Puebloindianere (sprog); Quechua (sprog); Quetzalcoatl; Quiché; Salish (sprog); Sequoya; Surinam (sprog); Sydamerikanske sprog; Sydamerika (sprog); Taino; Tlingit; Tlapanekisk; Trinidad & Tobago (sprog); Tsimshian (sprog); Tucano; Tupí (sprog); Tupí-Guaraní; Uruguay (sprog); Uto-aztekiske sprog; Venezuela (sprog); Whorf, Benjamin Lee; Yaqui-mayo; Yuma (sprog); Xinca; Zapoteker (sprog). In supplementary volume: Arawakisk, Athapaskisk, Caribisk, Chibcha, Glottokronologi, Grammatikalisering, Hjælpeverbum, Yurij Knorosov.
2011 Lacadena, Alfonso and Søren Wichmann. 2011. Introduction to Nahuatl Hieroglyphic Writing. Workbook for the Advanced Workshop of the 16th European Maya Conference, December 5-8, København, Denmark.
n.d. Wichmann, Søren and Cecil H. Brown. N.d. Panchronic Mayan Dictionary. [Database with 6,800+ reconstructions and corresponding cognate sets; in addition all residual (unetymologized) forms are stored in the database; project begun in 2000 and still ongoing].
1996 Wichmann, Søren. 1996. Description and Typology of Some Grammatical Categories in Azoyú Tlapanec. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Copenhagen.


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Luke Warner leaned back and squinted up at the hole in the ceiling, certain he could see the blue sky beyond. He sure had his work cut out for him, but that was what he'd wanted, right? Something to do with his hands, something to connect him to his past. He grimaced as his gaze swept the broken countertops and shelves, the holes in the floor, the leaking pipes.
The old Warner family drugstore on the corner of Keystone and Main in Gulch Town, California had definitely seen better days. For some reason, he'd decided it was his job to put it right. It smelled of dirt and mildew now, but once, the store had its own distinct odor of popcorn, coffee, and candy. Luke remembered sitting on a high stool watching his grandpa weigh a handful of pills on the old scales, the way he'd wrapped them in brown paper, the clunking ring of the manual cash register.
His father hadn't wanted to run the shop, and it had been left to rot until Luke had shown up and demanded the key from his perplexed Aunt Josie. With a sigh, he picked up his sleeping bag and rucksack and walked to the back of the store. There was one room with a door that still locked and an outside toilet with running water and a sink. That would have to do until he got himself fixed up.
He laid out his sleeping bag, stretched out on it, and kicked off his dusty boots. It was a small town. It wouldn't take long for folks to hear he was back. He smiled into the gathering shadows. What would Paul and Julia do then?
Paul let himself in through the back door of Julia's small condo and found her in the kitchen stirring something that smelled like chicken on the stove. He came up behind her and planted a kiss on the back of her neck. She squeaked, and he wrapped his arms around her hips and nuzzled her throat. Strands of her silky brown hair tickled his face. She dropped the spoon into the pan and swung around to face him.
"Don't you ever knock?"
He touched the brim of his Stetson. "No, ma'am, I was brought up in a barn, remember?"
She leaned back against the countertop, her grey eyes serious, her normally laughing mouth a worried line. "That joke is getting old."
"Yeah, I reckon I've been making that one since kindergarten." He raised his eyebrows at her. "So, what's up? You seemed kind of jittery when you called."
"I just spoke to Roxanne. She says Luke is back in town."
Paul blinked at her. "Our Luke?"
"Well, he's scarcely 'ours' anymore, is he? We haven't seen or heard from him in ten years. But Luke Warner is definitely here."
Paul studied Julia's flushed face. "And?"
"And what?"
"What do you want to do about it?"
"About Luke?" She shrugged, and one of the thin straps of her blue camisole fell down from her shoulder. He noticed she had no bra underneath. "I don't know."
Paul stepped closer until his large body was only inches away from Julia's. Her nipples tightened through the thin cotton of her cami, and her breathing hitched. He put his hands on her waist and set her on the tiled countertop, reaching over to turn off whatever was cooking on the stove.
"You want to see him, don't you?"
She looked up at him, and he bent his head and licked a slow, lascivious line along the seam of her lips.
"He'll be hard to miss in a town as small as this."
"That's not an answer." Paul slid a hand under her camisole and cupped her right breast, used his finger and thumb to twist her nipple to a hard, needy point. She sighed and shoved her hand into his hair, wiggled closer to the edge of the counter, until her sex rode the thick ridge of his cock in his jeans.
"You want to see him up close and personal, right?" He murmured between kisses and nips. He went still when she caged his face in her hands.
"Don't you want to know why he left?"
"Of course I do, but…"
She smiled at him and unbuckled his belt and straining fly. "But, you're worried I'll run off with him?" She wrapped her hand around his cock and squeezed hard, just the way he liked.
"Yeah," he admitted, as she pulled down her shorts with one hand and let them fall to the floor. "You always liked him best."
His fingers plucked at her clit and then slid into the thick wetness of her pussy. He took her hand away from his cock and shoved himself deep into her slick heat, held still as she shuddered around him. Sometimes he liked it like this, hard and fast, Julia having to catch up, giving him every orgasm right around his thrusting shaft rather than against his fingers or mouth.
Tonight he wanted to fuck her hard, as if he could somehow slow down time and make her realize she didn't want to go anywhere near Luke Warner, that she wanted only him. She cried out and her pussy clenched around his cock. Paul kept slamming into her and only climaxed when she came again, squeezing every last drop of cum out of his balls.
She stroked the back of his neck, her fingers soft. "I don't like him best. I like you. You stayed, remember?"
He lifted his head to stare at her. "I had no choice. I couldn't go off and leave the ranch, now, could I?"
"My hero."
She smiled at him, and he had to smile back. "I don't mind if you see Luke, honey. I'd like to see him myself."
"You would?" Julia studied him and then her gray eyes narrowed. "Not if you're going to beat him up, Paul."
"I wouldn't do that." He pulled out of her and handed her his handkerchief to clean up. "I'd sure appreciate an explanation though. He was my best friend, too. We did everything together, had our first smoke, our first beer, our first mutual jerk off…"
"Your first fuck."
Paul kissed her nose. "I prefer to think we were making love to you. It was so fucking sweet. You were so fucking sweet to let us."
Julia slipped down from the countertop and pulled her shorts back on. Her slow, dreamy smile indicated that she was as caught up in the past as he was. "If it was so sweet, why did Luke skip town right after?"
Paul tucked his cock back into his boxers and zipped up his jeans. "I don't know. That's one of the reasons I want to talk to him."
Julia washed her hands and turned back to the stove. "I hear he's staying at the old drugstore on Main."
"That wreck? Why the hell isn't he bunking with his aunt? Maybe he's out of money and came back because he had no choice." Paul sat down at the table and stared at the stove expectantly. It was a five mile drive back to his ranch, and he already knew he had nothing but beer and beef in his refrigerator. If he was staying over, and after Julia's call, he'd had no choice but to turn around and come see her, he loved getting fed as well as fucked.
"I have no idea, but perhaps we should drop by tomorrow and see how's he's doing?"
Paul grinned at her. "Yeah, perhaps we should."


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