Shobha Satyanath
List of John Benjamins publications in which Shobha Satyanath is involved.
Journal
Book series
Title
Multilingualism and Language Contact in Asia-Pacific
Edited by Shobha Satyanath
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 11:1/2 (2025) vi, 222 pp.
2026 The multicultural turn in sociolinguistics Asia-Pacific Language Variation 12:1, pp. 1–12 | Editorial
2025 Dimensions of multilingualism and language contact Multilingualism and Language Contact in Asia-Pacific, Satyanath, Shobha (ed.), pp. 2–20 | Introduction
2022 Standard-ness, national ideologies and their embedding in ‘sociolinguistic theory’ What’s so standard about standards? Variationist principles and debates, Kasstan, Jonathan R. (ed.), pp. 174–205 | Article
In spite of the centrality of the vernacular in sociolinguistics, we find, it is constantly pitched against the standard, failing to make meaning on its own. It is common practice in western sociolinguistics to identify variants as standard or non-standard, thus marking a distinction between the… read more
2017 Editorial Asia-Pacific Language Variation 3:2, pp. 123–129 | Editorial
2017 Editorial Asia-Pacific Language Variation 3:1, pp. 1–4 | Editorial
2016 Editorial Asia-Pacific Language Variation 2:1, pp. 1–3 | Editorial
2009 19. Ethnicity, bilingualism and variable clitic marking in Bishnupriya Manipuri Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages, Stanford, James N. and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 441–462 | Article
This paper discusses variable patterns of overt marking in Bishnupriya NP structure. The main interest of the paper lies in the use of animacy-based classifier clitics (clf) which may be located on the head of a noun phrase, on one or more dependents, on both the head and the dependent(s) or on… read more








