Below are a selection of my publications, some of which are also available on my Academia.edu site. A short, web-friendly version of my CV is downloadable here. If you are interested in accessing any of the work not linked here, please get in touch with me.

Forthcoming and working papers

• Ring, Hiram. The Khasian languages of Northeast India: Between, but not wholly of, South and Southeast Asia. The Journal of Burma Studies. Forthcoming.
• Ring, Hiram. 2025. Are most sentences unique? An empirical examination of Chomskyan claims. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19108.
• Ring, Hiram. 2025. Word length predicts word order: ”Min-Max”-ing drives language evolution. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13913.
• Ring, Hiram. 2025. Extending dependencies to the taggedPBC: Word order in transitive clauses. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06785.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Pang, Joyce S., Hiram Ring, Kate Y. Huang, and Alexa X. Khoo. 2026. Motivational computing: Transformer-based automation of implicit motive coding. Journal of Personality Assessment, 1–18. URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2026.2630930.

• Ring, Hiram. 2026. The taggedPBC: Annotating a massive parallel corpus for crosslinguistic investigations. Language Resources & Evaluation 60, 20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-026-09902-2. URL https://rdcu.be/e0vMk

• Ring, Hiram. Gender, classifiers, and diachrony in Khasian. 2023. In Marc Tang and Marcin Kilarski, eds., Nominal Classification in Asia: Functional and diachronic perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Allassonnière-Tang, Marc and Hiram Ring. 2021. Sociocultural gender in nominal classification: A study of grammatical gender. Indian Linguistics: Journal of the Linguistic Society of India, 81(1-2):43–62.

• Pang, Joyce S. and Hiram Ring. 2020. Automated coding of implicit motives: A machine-learning approach. Motivation and Emotion, pp. 1–19. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-020-09832-8. URL https://rdcu.be/b38pm. Both authors contributed equally to this work.

• Ring, Hiram. 2020. Word order and the grammaticalization of gender in Khasian. In Alves, Mark, Mathias Jenny, and Paul Sidwell, eds., Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective, pp. 107-134. Leiden: Brill. DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004425606_006

• Ring, Hiram and Gregory D. S. Anderson. 2018. On prosodic structures in Austroasiatic diachrony: ‘Rhythmic holism’ revisited in light of preliminary acoustic studies. In Ring, Hiram and Felix Rau, eds., Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics. Journal of the South-East Asian Linguistics Society, Special Publication 3, pp. 1–35. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52438

• Gawne, Lauren and Hiram Ring. 2016. Map making for language documentation and description. Language Documentation and Conservation, 10:188–242. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24692

• Ring, Hiram. 2015. Pnar. In Jenny, Matthias and Paul Sidwell, eds., Handbook of the Austroasiatic Languages, Volume 2, Ch. 20, pp. 1186–1226. Brill.

• Ring, Hiram. 2014. Nominalization in Pnar. Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, Volume 43 (ICAAL 5 special issue), pp. 16–23.

• Ring, Hiram. 2012. A phonetic description and phonemic analysis of Jowai-Pnar. Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, Volume 40, pp. 133–175.

Edited Volumes

• Ring, Hiram and Paul Sidwell, eds. 2023. Papers from the Eighth International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics. Journal of the South-East Asian Linguistics Society, Special Publication 11. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. https://hdl.handle.net/10524/52509

• Ring, Hiram and Felix Rau, eds. 2018. Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics. Journal of the South-East Asian Linguistics Society, Special Publication 3. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52438

Digital Resources

• The taggedPBC: POS-tagged verses (partly from the PBC) with code for extracting various metrics and making cross-linguistic comparisons. https://github.com/lingdoc/taggedPBC

• Pang, Joyce S. and Hiram Ring. Automating implicit motive coding: Replication data and descriptives. OSF. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/AURWB. Url: https://osf.io/aurwb/

• Data for paper on prosody in Austroasiatic languages. Url: https://github.com/lingdoc/data_AA_prosody_paper

• Maps of the Khasian Varieties. Url: http://github.com/lingdoc/maps-Khasian_lects

• Replication Data for: A grammar of Pnar, DR-NTU (Data), V1. Url: https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/KVFGBZ

• Analyze Tone and Plot: A Praat script for tonal exploration and analysis. Url: http://github.com/lingdoc/praatscripts/tree/master/Analyze_tone

• The trs2txt script: A conversion tool to produce time-aligned Toolbox files. Url: http://www.academia.edu/18967348/

• Pnar_Language_Archive: Pnar corpus files; time-aligned, transcribed, and interlinearized texts in .txt, .flac and .pdf formats.

• with Matthew Lou-Magnuson. Toolbox Searches and Writes v0.2: A Python script for searching a Toolbox corpus and returning collocations.

• Praat workshop - using textgrids with scripts for automatic measurement. Url: http://www.academia.edu/2049819/.

Refereed Conference Papers

2025

• Word order in Austroasiatic: Evidence from a parallel corpus. 13th International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 13), Chiang Mai, Thailand & online (29-31 Oct)

2019

• Advances in reconstruction of Austroasiatic clause structure (with Mathias Jenny and Wei Wei Lee). 8th International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 8), Chiang Mai, Thailand (27-30 Aug).

• Toward a comprehensive grammar of War (with Paul Sidwell). 8th International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 8), Chiang Mai, Thailand (27-30 Aug).

• Khasian clause structure and word order. Workshop: Reconstructing Austroasiatic syntax, 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 24), ANU, Canberra (1-5 July).

• Syntactic reconstruction in Austroasiatic - overview, perspectives, methodology (with Mathias Jenny and Wei Wei Lee). Workshop: Reconstructing Austroasiatic syntax, 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 24), ANU, Canberra (1-5 July).

• The Greater Burma Zone: Linguistics and questions of History and Ethnicity across borders and boundaries (with Patrick McCormick, Mathias Jenny, Andre Müller). Organized panel session: Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Denver (21-24 March).

• On reconstructing proto-Austroasiatic syntax: Methodology and implications (with Mathias Jenny and Wei Wei Lee). 29th meeting of the SouthEast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 29), May 27-29, 2019, Tokyo, Japan.

Invited Seminars and Workshops

2018

• Reconstructing word order in Austroasiatic: methodology and implications (with Mathias Jenny and Wei-Wei Lee). Perspectives on Word Order Evolution: Reconstruction, Typology, and Processing (Workshop), 8-9 November, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

2017

• Verb-initial clauses in Pnar and Khasi. Workshop: Perspectives on Word Order, 27 September, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

• Toward automatic coding of implicit motives via machine learning (with Joyce S. Pang). Invited talk given at Institute of Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Motivation, and Affective Neuroscience, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany

2017

• Verb-initial order, Gender, and Diachrony in Khasian. AA Workshop, 5-7 September, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

2015

• Building tools for linguistic fieldwork: A use case for Xigt and Python computational tools on the web. Xigt Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 18-19 November.

• Towards an expansive Khasi dictionary project with the aid of technology. Riti Academy, Shillong (Meghalaya, India), 20 October. http://theshillongtimes.com/2015/10/25/discussion-on-creating-expansive-khasi-dictionary/, http://thenortheasttoday.com/towards-an-expansive-khasi-dictionary-with-the-aid-of-technology/