University of Massachusetts Amherst

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

Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World

Edited by Patricia Gubitosi & Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia

Subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 35] 2021. | edited volume

Child Language Variation: Sociolinguistic and formal approaches. Special issue of Linguistic Variation 16:1 (2016)

Edited by Véronique Lacoste & Lisa Green

Subjects Generative linguistics | Typology

[Linguistic Variation, 16:1] 2016. | special issue

Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields

Edited by Meghan E. Armstrong, Nicholas Henriksen & Maria del Mar Vanrell

Subjects Phonetics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 6] 2016. xxi, 389 pp. |

Translation and the Spanish Empire in the Americas

Roberto A. Valdeón

Subjects History of linguistics | Language policy | Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Translation Studies

[Benjamins Translation Library, 113] 2014. xii, 272 pp. |

Narrative and Identity: Studies in Autobiography, Self and Culture

Edited by Jens Brockmeier & Donal Carbaugh

Subjects Consciousness research | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Studies in Narrative, 1] 2001. vi, 307 pp. | edited volume

Sichel, Ivy & Rajesh Bhatt 2025 Licensing parasitic gaps without movement: Evidence from Hebrew resumptive pronouns

Keywords: relative clauses | resumptive pronouns | parasitic gaps | reconstruction | parasitic scope | Hebrew

In: The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci & Andrew Nevins (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 20] pp. 118–135 | open access

Filani, Ibukun 2025 The discursive construction of femininity in metacommentaries on a rape-joke in Nigeria

Keywords: Humour Ideology | Figures of Personhood | Coloniality | Gender | Intertextuality | Internet forum | Hybridity

Pragmatics and Society 17:2 pp. 196–222 | article

Amaral, Luiz & Tom Roeper 2025 Understanding multiple types of multiple grammars

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:2 pp. 137–140 | article commentary

Neu, Eva 2025 Hybridity and change in Turkish inflectional morphology

Keywords: Agreement | morphology | Turkish | copula | diachronic change

Linguistic Variation | Online First Publication, 46 pp. | article

Nirheche, Ali 2026 Modeling distance-based variable sibilant harmony in Moroccan Arabic with a MaxEnt grammar

Keywords: Moroccan Arabic | sibilant harmony | variability | exceptionality | Agreement-by-Correspondence | Maximum Entropy | lexically-indexed constraints

Arabic Linguistics 1:2 pp. 188–215 | article

Filani, Ibukun 2025 The comedian’s identity, audience’s perspective(s) and problematic jokes

Keywords: egocentrism | socio-cognitive pragmatics | performance humour | institutional identity | Trevor Noah

Pragmatics & Cognition 32:1 pp. 69–92 | article

Vasilyeva, Alena L. 2024 Review of Argumentation in Complex Communication: Managing Disagreement in a Polylogue by Marcin Lewiński & Mark Aakhus (2023)

Language and Dialogue 14:1 pp. 163–169 | book review

Akkuş, Faruk 2024  No-Reversal Constraint and beyond: Word-internal language mixing in Anatolia

Keywords: word-internal language mixing | multilingualism | No-Reversal Constraint | code-switching | light verbs | Anatolia

Linguistic Variation 25:1 pp. 43–85 | article

Thane, Patrick D. 2024 School, age, and exposure effects in the child heritage language acquisition of the Spanish volitional subjunctive

Keywords: heritage language acquisition | child bilingualism | protracted development | Spanish as a heritage language | dual language immersion

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:6 pp. 745–775 | article

Vasilyeva, Alena L. 2024 Framing interactivity in complex communication of debate talk show

Keywords: communication design | debate | discourse analysis | framing | multi-party interaction

Language and Dialogue 14:3 pp. 473–491 | article

Aldawood, Sarah I. 2023 Review of Translation and Contemporary Art: Transdisciplinary Encounters by MªCarmen África Vidal Claramonte (2022)

Babel 71:1 pp. 133–136 | book review

Mendes Galvão, Maíra 2023 Meschonnic, Wittgenstein and translation as form of life

Keywords: translation | language game | form of life | translation theory | performance | orality

Pragmatics and Society 14:3 pp. 434–441 | article

Trigoso, Marco 2023 Parody against hate speech: On how political hate speech can be fought by turning the world upside down

Keywords: parody | hate speech | politics | Twitter | Peru

Internet Pragmatics 6:2 pp. 259–284 | article

Gubitosi, Patricia & Paola Medina González 2024 Visibility and (re)vitalization: The case of Asturian language in Asturias, Spain

Keywords: Asturian language | language policy | language visibility and revitalization | minority languages in the linguistic landscape

Language Problems and Language Planning 47:2 pp. 208–229 | article

Amaral, Luiz & Liliana Sánchez 2023 Carefully considering the need, precision, and usefulness of classifying bilingual speakers in language shift contexts

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 pp. 45–50 | article commentary

Vasilyeva, Alena L. 2023 Debaters’ actions to manage interaction in the context of the debate talk show

Keywords: conflict | debate | discourse analysis | multi-party interaction | talk show

Language and Dialogue 13:2 pp. 229–253 | article

Gubitosi, Patricia & Irina Lifszyc 2022 Lunfardo and political (dis)agreements in the public space

Keywords: linguistic landscape | political dialogue | Mock Lunfardo | political disagreements

Language and Dialogue 12:1 pp. 12–34 | article

Tetzloff, Katerina 2022 Exceptionality and ungrammaticality in Spanish stress: A Stratal OT approach

Keywords: phonology | stress | Spanish | Stratal OT | exceptionality

In: Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018, Alboiu, Gabriela & Ruth King (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 360] pp. 257–272

García-Fernández, Eduardo 2022 Intonational form and speaker belief in Mieres Asturian polar questions

Keywords: Asturian | intonation | intonational meaning | polar questions | epistemic meaning

In: Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias, Lorenzo, Guillermo (ed.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 36] pp. 173–194

Harris, Alice C. & Arthur G. Samuel 2021 The suffixing preference: A preliminary report on processing affixes in Georgian

Keywords: suffixing preference | word recognition | processing | lexical decision | Georgian

In: All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces, Moradi, Sedigheh, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller & Andrija Petrovic (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 353] pp. 147–168

Vasilyeva, Alena L. 2021 Constructing disagreement space: Talk show host’s actions

Keywords: argumentation | disagreement space | debate | discourse analysis | multi-party interaction | talk show

Language and Dialogue 11:3 pp. 379–404 | article

Puma Ninacuri, Christian & Daniela Narváez 2021 Linguistic Landscape in Otavalo: Kichwa, Spanish or English?

Keywords: linguistic landscape | Kichwa | identity | commodification | globalization

In: Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World, Gubitosi, Patricia & Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 35] pp. 313–340

Arias Álvarez, Alba & Patricia Gubitosi 2021 Ideologies in the linguistic landscape: The semiotic construction of the Puerto Rican identity

Keywords: linguistic landscape | semiotic landscape | Puerto Rican identity | Puerto Rican flag | linguistic landscape perceptions

In: Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World, Gubitosi, Patricia & Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 35] pp. 105–132

Gubitosi, Patricia & Michelle Ramos Pellicia 2021 Introduction: Uncovering the voice of minority groups

In: Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World, Gubitosi, Patricia & Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 35] pp. 1–16

Gubitosi, Patricia & Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia 2021 Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking world

In: Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World, Gubitosi, Patricia & Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 35] p.  ff.

Gross, Megan C. & Helen Tager-Flusberg 2021 Expanding contexts for exploring the intersection of autism and bilingualism

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1 pp. 48–53 | article commentary

Sánchez-Alvarado, Covadonga 2020 Syntactic and prosodic marking of subject focus in American English and Peninsular Spanish

Keywords: information structure | syntax | prosody | pragmatics

In: Hispanic Linguistics: Current Issues and New Directions, Morales-Front, Alfonso, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow & Cristina Sanz (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 26] pp. 183–204

Pearson, Barbara Zurer 2020 Commentary: Time travel in the development of cross-linguistic narrative evaluation

In: Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives, Bohnacker, Ute & Natalia Gagarina (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 61] pp. 331–336

Vasilyeva, Alena L. 2020 Constructing others and dialogue with them in the course of public educational meetings

Keywords: dialogue | discourse analysis | identity | language attitudes | language ideology | other

Language and Dialogue 10:1 pp. 118–145 | article

Ibrahim Aibo, Laurence Jay-Rayon 2020 The Politics of Translating Sound Motifs in African Fiction

In: The Politics of Translating Sound Motifs in African Fiction, Ibrahim Aibo, Laurence Jay-Rayon (ed.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 150]

Jeong, Heeok 2020 Agency and pedagogy in literacy education: Toward culturally sustaining pedagogy for immigrant adolescents

Keywords: teacher agency | funds of knowledge | culturally relevant pedagogy | culturally sustaining pedagogy

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 31:1 pp. 79–99 | article

Bolozky, Shmuel & Ruth A. Berman 2020 Parts of speech categories in the lexicon of Modern Hebrew

In: Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax, Berman, Ruth A., Elitzur Dattner, Eitan Grossman, Bracha Nir & Yael Reshef (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 210] pp. 265–330

Kratzer, Angelika, Luigi Rizzi, Roberta Pires de Oliveira, Ina Emmel & Monica Deitos Stedile 2020 Informal formal conversation on Syntax-Semantics

In: Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics: 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais, Pires De Oliveira, Roberta, Ina Emmel & Sandra Quarezemin (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 260] p. 7

Gubitosi, Patricia & Judy de Olivieira 2020 Portuguese in Massachusetts: Linguistic attitudes, social networks and language maintenance

Keywords: language attitudes | Portuguese in Massachusetts | language maintenance | social networks

In: New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Bugel, Talia & Cecilia Montes-Alcalá (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 25] pp. 207–230

Bui, Thuy 2019 Temporal reference in Vietnamese

Keywords: (future) tense | aspect | viewpoint aspect | tenselessness | cross-linguistic comparisons

In: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Vietnamese linguistics, Duffield, Nigel, Trang Phan & Tue Trinh (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 211] pp. 115–140

Vasilyeva, Alena L. 2018 The facilitator’s communicative actions to construct meetings in a semi-informal educational context

Keywords: communication design | communicative actions | discourse analysis | discussions | meetings | semi-informal interaction

Language and Dialogue 8:3 pp. 414–438 | article

Sánchez-Alvarado, Covadonga, Alba Arias, Eduardo García Fernández, Isaac McAlister & Meghan E. Armstrong 2018 Mothers’ use of F0 after the first year of life in American English and Peninsular Spanish

Keywords: Mean F0 | F0 range | child-directed speech | infant-directed speech | Peninsular Spanish | American English

In: Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, MacDonald, Jonathan E. (ed.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 15] pp. 281–308

Roeper, Tom 2018 Grammar acquisition and grammar choice in the variationist model

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6 pp. 758–763 | article commentary

Henriksen, Nicholas, Meghan E. Armstrong & Lorenzo García-Amaya 2016 The intonational meaning of polar questions in Manchego Spanish spontaneous speech

Keywords: intonation | Manchego Spanish | polar questions | pragmatics

In: Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Armstrong, Meghan E., Nicholas Henriksen & Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 6] pp. 181–206

Vasilyeva, Alena L. 2016 Confrontation and collaboration in the course of the election debate

Keywords: collaboration | communication design | conflict talk | debate | institutional talk | social interaction

Language and Dialogue 6:3 pp. 370–395 | article

Wang, Zhijun 2015 Review of Teaching and Learning Chinese in Global Contexts: Multimodality and Literacy in the New Media Age edited by Linda Tsung & Ken Cruickshank (2011 2011)

Chinese Language and Discourse 6:1 pp. 104–108 | book review

Armstrong, Meghan E., Nicholas Henriksen & Christian DiCanio 2015 Sociophonetic analysis of young Peninsular Spanish women’s voice quality

Keywords: Peninsular Spanish | phonation type | social meaning | spectral tilt | voice quality

In: Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2013, Klassen, Rachel, Juana M. Liceras & Elena Valenzuela (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 4] pp. 293–312

Vasilyeva, Alena L. 2015 Identity as a resource to shape mediation in dialogic interaction

Keywords: communication design | Collaboration | institutional talk | identity | deliberation | mediation

Language and Dialogue 5:3 pp. 355–380 | article

Pearson, Barbara Zurer & Luiz Amaral 2014 Interactions between input factors in bilingual language acquisition: Considerations for minority language maintenance

In: Input and Experience in Bilingual Development, Grüter, Theres & Johanne Paradis (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 13] p. 99

Armstrong, Meghan E. & Marisa Cruz 2014 The intonational phonology of Peninsular Spanish and European Portuguese

In: Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact, Amaral, Patrícia & Ana Maria Carvalho (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 1] pp. 151–174

Harris, Alice C. 2013 Origins of metathesis in Batsbi

In: In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque, Lohndal, Terje (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 202] pp. 221–238

Molina-Markham, Elizabeth 2013 Lives that preach: The cultural dimensions of telling one’s “spiritual journey” among Quakers

Keywords: ethnography of communication | cultural discourse theory | cultural communication | spiritual journey | identity | Quakerism

Narrative Inquiry 22:1 p. 3 | article

Walkow, Martin 2011 Person restrictions and the representation of third person – an argument from Barceloní Catalan

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Nice 2009, Berns, Janine, Haike Jacobs & Tobias Scheer (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 3] pp. 343–362

Roeper, Thomas & Timothy Roeper 2010 Game Theory and the control of empty categories in grammar

In: Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster, Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter & Mark de Vries (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 164] pp. 299–312

Zaretsky, Elena, Jelena Kuvac Kraljevic, Cynthia Core & Mirjana Lencek 2009 Literacy predictors and early reading and spelling skills as a factor of orthography: Cross-linguistic evidence

Keywords: deep orthography | early literacy skills | transparent orthography | English | Croatian | vocabulary | verbal working memory | phonological awareness

Written Language & Literacy 12:1 pp. 52–81 | article

Partee, Barbara H. 2008 9. Negation, intensionality, and aspect: Interaction with NP semantics

In: Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect, Rothstein, Susan (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 110] pp. 291–317

Gubrium, Aline 2006 “I was my momma baby. I was my daddy gal”: Strategic stories of success

Keywords: Rural African American women | Narrative analysis | Social construction of identity | American Dream | Gender socialization | Contrast structure

Narrative Inquiry 16:2 pp. 231–253 | article

Wallace, Rex E. 1998 Review of Where Do Words Come From? An introduction to etymology by Gary Bevington (1995)

Diachronica 15:1 pp. 155–156 | book review

Lewis, Justin 2015 The Absence of Narrative: Boredom and the Residual Power of Television News

Journal of Narrative and Life History 4:1/2 pp. 25–40 | article

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