University of Kansas

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Kansas*

The Sociopragmatics of Stance: Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials

Peter J. Grund

Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 329] 2021. | monograph

The Clause Structure of Wolof: Insights into the Left Periphery

Harold Torrence

Subjects Generative linguistics | Other African languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 198] 2013. xiii, 289 pp. | monograph

Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED)

Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund & Terry Walker

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Forensic & legal linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

2011. xxi, 360 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom) | monograph

New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion

Edited by Victoria Hasko & Renee Perelmutter

Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 115] 2010. x, 392 pp. | edited volume

Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages

Edited by K. David Harrison, David S. Rood & Arienne Dwyer

Subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 78] 2008. vi, 375 pp. | edited volume

Request Sequences: The intersection of grammar, interaction and social context

Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm

Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 19] 2006. x, 125 pp. | monograph

Coding the Hypothetical: A comparative typology of Russian and Macedonian conditionals

AuthorJane F. Hacking

Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Typology

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 38] 1998. vi, 156 pp. | monograph

Ghali, Samantha, Heba Salama & Mira Goral 2026 Acquisition of noun plurals in Egyptian‑Arabic speaking children: Using language corpora to inform language milestones

Keywords: nominal inflections | noun plurals | Egyptian Arabic | morphology | young children | corpus | milestones | language | CHILDES

Arabic Linguistics 1:2 pp. 168–187 | article

Duncan, Philip T., Harold Torrence & Pedro Mateo Pedro 2024 Indeterminate pronouns in Kaqchikel

Keywords: wh-question | relative clause | negative indefinite | free relative clause

Linguistic Variation 24:1 pp. 116–163 | article

Li, Xi 2024 The convergence of public sphere and state advocacy: A case study of the Qing Lang movement in China’s entertainment industry

Keywords: Chinese entertainment industry | Chinese public sphere | public argument | Qing Lang | reciprocal model | social movement advocacy

Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:1 pp. 49–73 | article

Hadizadeh Moghaddam, Arya & Masood Ghayoomi 2023 Language independent optimization of text readability formulas with deep reinforcement learning

Keywords: text readability | deep reinforcement learning | parameter optimization

Information Design Journal 28:1 pp. 33–52 | article

Grama, James, Tyler M. Heston & Melody Ann Ross 2024 Variation in the Fataluku voiced coronal (j)

Keywords: Fataluku | Timor-Leste | East Timor | Lautém | variation in minority languages | Boruta | random forests | classification trees | geographical variation | sociophonetics | language documentation

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 9:2 pp. 125–155 | article | open access

Borowski, Krzysztof E. 2023 Language typology as a discursive affordance in digital discourse: The case of the “camouflaged German option” online

In: Social Media and Society: Integrating the digital with the social in digital discourse , KhosraviNik, Majid (ed.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 100] pp. 127–145

Li, Yan 2022 Predicting the unpredictable: ‑le used in Chinese serial verb constructions1

In: New Horizons in Chinese Syntax, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] pp. 555–574

Innocenti, Beth 2023 Cultivating contexts for deliberative argumentation

Keywords: deliberation | normative pragmatics | feminism | Adrienne Rich | Audre Lorde

Journal of Argumentation in Context 11:3 pp. 394–416 | article

de Prada Pérez, Ana, Nicholas Feroce & Lillian Kennedy 2021 The use of default forms in codeswitching: Mood selection in Spanish

Keywords: codeswitching | subjunctive | Spanish-English bilingualism | heritage | default forms

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:4 pp. 439–467 | article

Perelmutter, Renee 2021 Online nicks, impoliteness, and Jewish identity in Israeli Russian conflict discourse

Keywords: conflict discourse | impoliteness | facework | inappropriate identity markers | migration | Jewish | Israeli | Russian | identity | nicknames | online discourse

In: Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice, Xie, Chaoqun, Francisco Yus & Hartmut Haberland (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 318] pp. 235–256

Bowler, Margit & John Gluckman 2021 Gradability across grammatical domains

Keywords: semantics | gradability | gradable predicates | modality | Bantu

Linguistic Variation 21:2 pp. 281–321 | article | open access

Grund, Peter J. 2020 What it means to describe speech: Pragmatic variation and change in speech descriptors in Late Modern English

In: Late Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja & Erik Smitterberg (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 214] pp. 295–314

Vu, Hong Tien, Maxwell McCombs, Annelise Russell & Paromita Pain 2020 Deepening the concept of  ‘compelling arguments’: Linking substantive and affective dimensions of attributes in assessing the effects of climate change news on public opinion

Keywords: climate change | agenda setting | compelling arguments | substantive attribute | affective attributes

The Agenda Setting Journal 4:2 pp. 219–240 | article

Thomas, M’Balia 2020 Rendering the untellable, tellable: The cooperative work of face in conversational storytelling

Keywords: face | face work | cooperation | Goffman | conversation analysis | conversational storytelling | girl talk | non-native speaker | tellability | Schegloff

Narrative Inquiry 30:2 pp. 364–380 | article

de Prada Pérez, Ana & Nick Feroce 2020 The effect of grammatical person on subject pronoun expression in the oral narratives of Spanish second language learners

Keywords: Spanish second language acquisition | subject pronoun expression | null subject parameter | variationist second language acquisition

In: Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Pascual y Cabo, Diego & Idoia Elola (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 27] p. 85

Walker, Terry & Peter J. Grund 2020 Saying, crying, replying, and continuing: Speech reporting expressions in Early Modern English

Keywords: speech representation verbs | direct speech | Early Modern English fiction | semantic-functional categories | word order

In: Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö, Jonsson, Ewa & Tove Larsson (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 97] pp. 63–78

Feroce, Nick, Robert Fiorentino, Lauren Covey & Alison Gabriele 2020 Neural evidence for the processing of referential ambiguity and referential failure in Spanish

Keywords: anaphora | pronouns | Spanish | ERPs | individual differences

In: Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Pascual y Cabo, Diego & Idoia Elola (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 27] pp. 153–174

Rowland, Robert C. 2019 Argument and ultimate definition in Donald Trump’s worldview

In: Argumentation in Actual Practice: Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context, van Eemeren, Frans H. & Bart Garssen[Argumentation in Context, 17] pp. 117–136

Grund, Peter J. 2019 Beyond speech representation: Describing and evaluating speech in Early Modern English prose fiction

Keywords: A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 (CED) | Early Modern English | prose fiction | speech descriptors | speech representation

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:2 pp. 265–285 | article

Aljasser, Faisal M., Keonya T. Jackson, Michael S. Vitevitch & Joan A. Sereno 2018 The influence of phoneme inventory on elicited speech errors in Arabic speakers of English

Keywords: speech production | speech errors | tongue twister | Arabic | phoneme inventory

The Mental Lexicon 13:1 pp. 26–37 | article

Guo, Lei & Hong Tien Vu 2018 Media vs. reality: Who sets the public agenda on health?

Keywords: agenda setting | health communication | health journalism

The Agenda Setting Journal 2:1 p. 3 | article

Boussofara, Naima 2017 When the president loses his voice, the people capture speech

Keywords: theory of practice | language and ideology | discourse analysis | diglossia | political discourse in the Arab world | Tunisian Revolution

In: Applied Linguistics in the Middle East and North Africa: Current Practices and Future Directions, Gebril, Atta (ed.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 15] pp. 11–35

Li, Yan & Lei Yan 2017 Effects of providing explicit negative evidence on students’ perception of ungrammatical sentences using –le

Keywords: negative evidence | teaching interference | Chinese aspect marker -le | 明确的反面证据 | 教学干扰 | 中文体标记 “了”

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 52:3 pp. 232–254 | article

Walker, Terry & Peter J. Grund 2017 “Speaking base approbious words”: Speech representation in Early Modern English witness depositions

Keywords: Early Modern English | speech representation | witness depositions

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18:1 pp. 1–29 | article

Pye, Clifton 2016 Mayan negation cycles

In: Cyclical Change Continued, van Gelderen, Elly (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 227] pp. 219–248

Thonus, Terese & Beth L. Hewett 2016 Follow this path: Conceptual metaphors in writing center online consultations

Keywords: online writing instruction | deliberateness | tutoring | writing center | conceptual metaphors

Metaphor and the Social World 6:1 pp. 52–78 | article

Yan, Hanbo & Jie Zhang 2016 Pattern substitution in Wuxi tone sandhi and its implication for phonological learning

Keywords: Maximum Entropy grammar | Tone Sandhi | opacity | Wuxi | productivity

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 3:1 pp. 1–44 | article

Vyatkina, Nina 2016 The Kansas Developmental Learner corpus (KANDEL): A developmental corpus of learner German

Keywords: beginning and intermediate L2 proficiency | inter-annotator agreement | error annotation | longitudinal learner corpus | L2 German | written corpus

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 2:1 pp. 101–119 | article

Grund, Peter J. 2016 Review of Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics by Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker & Jukka Tuominen (2014)

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 16:2 pp. 310–314 | book review

Gabriele, Alison, José Alemán Bañón, Beatriz López Prego & Alonso Canales 2015 Chapter 5. Examining the influence of transfer and prototypes on the acquisition of the present progressive in L2 Spanish

In: The Acquisition of the Present, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.)  pp. 113–152

Azevedo, Nancy, Ruth Ann Atchley & Eva Kehayia 2016 Electrifying the lexical decision: Examining a P3 ERP component reflecting early lexical categorization

Keywords: lexical processing | P3 component | lexicality | lexical decision | event-related potentials (ERP) | oddball task

The Mental Lexicon 10:3 pp. 339–363 | article

Prego, Beatriz López & Alison Gabriele 2014  Examining the impact of task demands on morphological variability in native and non-native Spanish*

Keywords: L2 Spanish | L2 morphological variability | gender and number agreement | markedness | task demands | default morphology.

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:2 pp. 192–221 | introduction

Keel, William D. 2014 German settlement varieties in Kansas: Some unusual phonological and morphological developments with the approach of language death

In: Perspectives on Phonological Theory and Development: In honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen, Farris-Trimble, Ashley W. & Jessica A. Barlow (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 56] pp. 155–172

Palmer, Deborah K., Susan Ballinger & Lizette Peter 2014 Classroom interaction in one-way, two-way, and indigenous immersion contexts

Keywords: corrective feedback | immersion education | equity in interaction | classroom interaction | indigenous language revitalization

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 2:2 pp. 225–240 | article

Peter, Lizette 2014 Language ideologies and Cherokee revitalization: Impracticality, legitimacy, and hope

Keywords: critical ethnography | language immersion | language ideologies | indigenous language revitalization

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 2:1 p. 96 | article

Gabriele, Alison, Robert Fiorentino & José Alemán Bañón 2013  Examining second language development using event-related potentials: A cross-sectional study on the processing of gender and number agreement

Keywords: Event-related potentials | second language acquisition | second language processing | agreement | gender | number | transfer | structural distance

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:2 pp. 213–232 | squibs

Brown, Penelope, Barbara Pfeiler, Lourdes de León & Clifton Pye 2013 The acquisition of agreement in four 
Mayan languages

In: The Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. & Sabine Stoll (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 9] pp. 271–306

Pye, Clifton, Barbara Pfeiler & Pedro Mateo Pedro 2013 The acquisition of extended ergativity in Mam, Q’anjob’al and Yucatec

In: The Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. & Sabine Stoll (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 9] pp. 307–336

Torrence, Harold 2013 The morphosyntax of wolof clefts: Structure and movement

In: Cleft Structures, Hartmann, Katharina & Tonjes Veenstra (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 208] pp. 187–224

Grund, Peter J. 2013 “I saw ye Child burning in ye fire”: Evidentiality in Early Modern English witness depositions

In: Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context, Jucker, Andreas H., Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler & Nicole Studer-Joho (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 148] pp. 319–342

Kulundary, Valeria & Alison Gabriele 2012 Examining the role of L2 syntactic development in L3 acquisition: A look at relative clauses

In: Third Language Acquisition in Adulthood, Cabrelli, Jennifer, Suzanne Flynn & Jason Rothman (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 46] pp. 195–222

Fiorentino, Robert, Jamie Bost, Alyson D. Abel & Jordan Zuccarelli 2012 The recruitment of knowledge regarding plurality and compound formation during language comprehension

Keywords: compounding | morphological constraints | ambiguity | parsing | inflection

The Mental Lexicon 7:1 pp. 34–57 | article

Boussofara, Naima 2011 Bleaching a dialectal voice in political discourse: Sociolinguistic choices in re-writing political speeches

Keywords: and language ideology | Arab political discourse | diglossia | bilingualism | linguistics practices | sociolinguistic choices

Journal of Language and Politics 10:2 pp. 204–226 | article

Aldwayan, Saad, Robert Fiorentino & Alison Gabriele 2010 Evidence of syntactic constraints in the processing of wh-movement: A study of Najdi Arabic learners of English

In: Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing, VanPatten, Bill & Jill Jegerski (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 53] pp. 65–86

Devitt, Amy J. 2009 Re-fusing form in genre study

In: Genres in the Internet: Issues in the theory of genre, Giltrow, Janet & Dieter Stein (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 188] pp. 27–48

Perelmutter, Renee 2009 Pragmatic functions of reported speech with jako in the Old Russian Primary Chronicle

Keywords: jako recitativum | Russian Primary Chronicle | reported speech | indirect speech | Old Russian | direct speech | evidentiality

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:1 pp. 108–131 | article

Dwyer, Arienne 2008 Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor.

In: Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages, Harrison, K. David, David S. Rood & Arienne Dwyer (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 78] pp. 111–128

Gabriele, Alison & Junko Maekawa 2008 Interpreting tense in a second language

EUROSLA Yearbook 8:1 p. 79 | article

Lin, Mei-Chen & Yan Bing Zhang 2008 Taiwanese older adults’ perceptions of aging and communication with peers and young adults

Keywords: age identity | intergenerational communication | filial piety | Taiwan

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 18:2 pp. 135–156 | article

Rankin, Robert L. 2006 Review of Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis edited by Peter Bellwood & Colin Renfrew (2002)

Diachronica 23:1 pp. 185–193 | book review

Herzfeld, Anita & David Moskowitz 2008 12. The Limonese calypso as an identity marker

In: Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications, Escure, Geneviève & Armin Schwegler (eds.) [Creole Language Library, 27] pp. 259–284

Herzfeld, Anita 2002 Review of Dread Talk: The language of Rastafari by Velma Pollard (2000)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 17:1 pp. 142–146 | book review

St. Clair, Robert N. 2001 Review of Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice by John Baugh (2000)

Language Problems and Language Planning 24:3 pp. 283–286 | book review

St. Clair, Robert N. 2001 Review of Foreign Language Teaching and Language Minority Education, Technical Report 19 edited by Kathryn A. Davis (1999)

Language Problems and Language Planning 24:3 pp. 287–289 | book review

Percival, W. Keith 1997 Nebrija’s syntatic theory in its historical setting

Historiographia Linguistica 24:1/2 pp. 1–14 | article

Herzfeld, Anita 1996 Review of Banana fallout: Class, color, and culture among West Indians in Costa Rica by Trevor W. Purcell (1993)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11:2 pp. 377–382 | book review

Wilhelm, Laura 2014 Form in Action: Functions of the Fable in Russian Literary Culture

Bestia 5:1 pp. 43–62 | article

Herzfeld, Anita 1992 Review of The speech of the negros congos of Panama by John M. Lipski (1989)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 7:1 pp. 141–149 | book review

Percival, W. Keith 1990 Reflections on the history of dependency notions in linguistics

Historiographia Linguistica 17:1/2 pp. 29–47 | article

Galton, Herbert 1986 Review of Grammaire du Vieux Bulgare (Vieux Slave) by Jean-Yves Le Guillou (1984)

Diachronica 3:2 pp. 261–268 | book review

Percival, W. Keith 1984 The reception of Hebrew in sixteenth-century Europe: The impact of the Cabbala

Historiographia Linguistica 11:1/2 pp. 21–38 | article

Percival, W. Keith 1982 Review of Quaestiones super Priscianum minorent by Radulphus BritoHeinz W. Enders & Jan Pinborg (1980)

Studies in Language 6:1 pp. 119–125 | book review

Herzfeld, Anita 1980 Bilingual Instability as a Result of Government Induced Policies

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 48:1 p. 3 | artictle

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.