Research Interest
Dr. Brosig’s research can be described as language documentation and morpho-syntactic description, within
the overall frame of Linguistic Typology. His research so far has mostly focused on predicative categories
(evidentiality, aspect, tense, negation) of individual Mongolic varieties (Middle Mongol, Khalkha, Khorchin,
Deedmongol) or in the entire Mongolic language family. For this, he conducted fieldwork in Ulaanbaatar,
Tongliao (Inner Mongolia, China) and Haixi (Qinghai, China). He also worked on other interactionally
relevant categories of Khalkha Mongolian such as terms of address and self-reference, noun-phrase-related
stance and authority marking, as well as on extended functions of quotative verb constructions.
Benjamin Brosig holds a magister in Mongolian Studies from the Department of Central Asian Studies of
Bonn University (2009) and a Ph.D. from the Department of Linguistics of Stockholm University (2014). He
has worked as a postdoc at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2015-2017), Academia Sinica (Taipei, 2018-
2019), CNRS (Paris, 2020) and the University of Bern (2020-2023) before joining the Department of
Languages, Linguistics, and Literature at Nazarbayev University in August 2023.
Brosig, Benjamin. 2014. The aspect-evidentiality system of Middle Mongol. Ural-Altaic studies 13.2:
7-38. [https://www.academia.edu/77213974/The_aspect_evidentiality_system_of_Middle_Mongol]
Brosig, Benjamin. 2014. The tense-aspect system of Khorchin Mongolian. In: P. Suihkonen & L.
Whaley (eds.) Typology of Languages of Europe and Northern and Central Asia. Amsterdam:
Benjamins: 3-65. [https://www.academia.edu/77213969/The_tense_aspect_system_of_Khorchin_Mongolian]
Brosig, Benjamin. 2015. Negation in Mongolic. Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 95: 67-136.
[https://www.academia.edu/54601042/Negation_in_Mongolic]
Brosig, Benjamin. 2018. Factual vs. evidential? – The past tense forms of spoken Khalkha Mongolian.
In: Ad Foolen, Helen de Hoop & Gijs Mulder (eds.) Evidence for evidentiality. Amsterdam:
Benjamins: 45-75. [https://www.academia.edu/77213984/Factual_vs_evidential_The_past_tense_forms_of_spoken_
Khalkha_Mongolian]
Brosig, Benjamin & Elena Skribnik. 2018. Evidentiality in Mongolic. In: Alexandra Aikhenvald (ed.)
Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 554-579.
Brosig, Benjamin & Gegentana & Foongha Yap. 2018. Evaluative uses of postnominal possessives in
Central Mongolian. Journal of Pragmatics 135: 71-86.
[https://www.academia.edu/77213979/Evaluative_uses_of_postnominal_possessives_in_Central Mongolian]
Brosig, Benjamin & Foongha Yap & Kathleen Ahrens. 2019. Assertion, assumption and
presupposition: an account of the erstwhile nominalizer YUM in Khalkha Mongolian. Studies in
Language 43(4): 896-940.
[https://www.academia.edu/77213978/Assertion_presumption_and_presupposition]
Brosig, Benjamin. 2019. Terms of address and self-reference in Ulaanbaatar Mongolian. In: Bettina Kluge & María Irene Moyna (eds.) It’s not all about ‘you’ – New perspectives on address research. Topics in address research 1. Amsterdam: Benjamins: 415-433.
Canosa, Afonso Xavier & Benjamin Brosig. 2021. Mongolian place names in Fernão Mendes Pinto's
Peregrinação. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 74(2): 223–239.
[https://akjournals.com/view/journals/062/74/2/article-p223.xml]
Brosig, Benjamin. 2021. Expressing intent, imminence and ire by attributing speech/thought in
Mongolian. Folia Linguistica 55(2): 433-483.
[https://www.academia.edu/77213980/Expressing_intent_imminence_and_ire_by_attributing_spe
ech_thought_in_Mongolian]
LING 278 Sounds of the world’s languages
LING 374 Language contact in Central Asia