Rice University

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

Language learning and interactional experiences in Study Abroad settings: Special issue of Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 4:1 (2019)

Edited by M. Rafael Salaberry, Kate White & Alfred Rue Burch

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

[Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, 4:1] 2019. | special issue

Impersonals and other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French

Michel Achard

Subjects Cognition and language | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 50] 2015. ix, 372 pp. |

Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution

Edited by T. Givón & Masayoshi Shibatani

Subjects Evolution of language | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Typological Studies in Language, 85] 2009. vi, 553 pp. | course book

Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction

Edited by Robert Englebretson

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 164] 2007. viii, 323 pp. | edited volume

Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages: Theoretical and applied perspectives

Edited by Dalila Ayoun & M. Rafael Salaberry

Subjects Language acquisition | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax

[Studies in Bilingualism, 29] 2005. x, 318 pp. | edited volume

Searching for Structure: The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation

Robert Englebretson

Subjects Austronesian languages | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 13] 2003. x, 205 pp. | monograph

The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation

Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani

Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 48] 2002. xviii, 551 pp. | course book

The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology

Edited by M. Rafael Salaberry & Yasuhiro Shirai

Subjects Language disorders & speech pathology | Theoretical linguistics

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 27] 2002. x, 489 pp. | edited volume

Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition: Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb

Edited by David G. Lockwood, Peter H. Fries & James E. Copeland

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | History of linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 163] 2000. xxxiv, 656 pp. | edited volume

Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization

Edited by Spike Gildea

Subjects Historical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 43] 2000. xiv, 269 pp. | course book

Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language

Sydney M. Lamb

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Neurolinguistics | Neuropsychology

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 170] 1999. xii, 418 pp. | text book

Wang, Wei & Meng Yeh 2025 Assessing interactive listening in beginning-level L2 Chinese: Developing a data-driven rating scale

Keywords: interactive listening | interactional competence | language assessment | rating criteria | Chinese as a second language | 互动聆听 | 交际能力 | 语言测试 | 评估量表 | 中文二语习得

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 59:2 pp. 175–201 | article

Ionin, Tania & Hélade Scutti Santos 2021 Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:1 pp. 65–69 | article commentary

Kulbayeva, Aisulu 2021 Presenting self and aligning as a team through narratives of victimhood among Kazakh-speaking village neighbors

Keywords: self-presentation | teams | idealized self | alignment | narrative positioning | victimhood | Kazakh | neighbors | mealtime conversation | rural community

Narrative Inquiry 32:2 pp. 309–342 | article

Lu, Wei-lun, Svitlana Shurma & Suzanne Kemmer 2020 Delivering the unconventional across languages: A Cognitive Grammar analysis of nonce words in “Jabberwocky” and its Ukrainian renditions

Keywords: cognitive poetics | Cognitive Grammar | translation | lexical blending

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:1 pp. 244–274 | article

Campbell, Baird & Nell Haynes 2020 Constructing the digital self in the Global South

Keywords: construction of the self | digital media | Global South | sexuality | gender identity | queer | masculinity | Chile | Senegal | Trinidad and Tobago

Journal of Language and Sexuality 9:1 pp. 1–13 | introduction

Fleck, Jonathan, M. Rafael Salaberry & Hélade Scutti Santos 2020 Implementing the concept of ‘pedagogic mediation’ with the use of language corpora for the teaching of Portuguese as an L2 or L3

Keywords: language corpus | deductive | inductive | guided induction | Portuguese | C-ORAL BRASIL

In: Linguistic approaches to portuguese as an additional language, Molsing, Karina Veronica, Cristina Becker Lopes Perna & Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 24] pp. 167–190

Salaberry, M. Rafael, Kate White & Alfred Rue Burch 2019 Language learning and interactional experiences in Study Abroad settings: An introduction to the special issue

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 4:1 pp. 1–18 | article

Yeh, Meng & Xian Zhang 2018 Corpus-based instruction: Teaching discourse-linking jiu (就) in storytelling

Keywords: corpus | Chinese | jiu | second language teaching | 语料库 | 汉语 | 就 | 外语教学

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 53:1 pp. 1–23 | article

Seewoester Cain, Sarah 2018 Teasing as audience engagement: Setting up the unexpected during television comedy monologues

Keywords: teasing | stand-up comedy | comedy audiences | functions of teasing | audience engagement | transposition | miming

In: The dynamics of interactional humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters, Tsakona, Villy & Jan Chovanec (eds.) [Topics in Humor Research, 7] pp. 127–152

Wittke, Jonas B. 2018 Recovering alcoholic: Competing construals of a socially constructed identity category

Keywords: Corpus linguistics | Membership Categorization Device | competing motivations | alcoholism | addiction | recovery | identity

Pragmatics & Cognition 24:1 pp. 119–135 | article

Howe, Cymene 2016 Sexual adjudications and queer transpositions

In: Queering Borders: Language, sexuality, and migration, Murray, David A.B. (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 85] pp. 137–156

Willis Oko, Christina M. 2015 Deictic expressions in Darma (Almora)

Keywords: typology | deictics | demonstratives | Almora group

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 38:1 pp. 26–65 | article

Lee, Sarah 2014 Review of English in Singapore. Modernity and Management edited by Lisa Lim, Anne Pakir & Lionel Wee (2010)

English World-Wide 35:1 p. 99 | book review

Salaberry, M. Rafael & Custodio Martins 2014 Cross-linguistic transfer of core aspectual conceptualizations in Portuguese and Spanish: Theoretical and methodological factors

In: Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact, Amaral, Patrícia & Ana Maria Carvalho (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 1] pp. 335–355

Howe, Cymene 2014 Sexual adjudications and queer transpositions

Keywords: asylum | law | LGBTQ | immigration | sexuality | discourse | subjectivity | adjudication | epistemics

Journal of Language and Sexuality 3:1 pp. 136–155 | article

Barbançon, François, Steven N. Evans, Luay Nakhleh, Don Ringe & Tandy Warnow 2013 An experimental study comparing linguistic phylogenetic reconstruction methods

Keywords: maximum parsimony | UPGMA | neighbor-joining | Indo-European | maximum compatibility | phylogenetics | simulation. | glottochronology | lexicostatistics

Diachronica 30:2 pp. 143–170 | article

Achard, Michel 2012 The impersonal value of demonstrative and middle constructions

In: Constructions in French, Bouveret, Myriam & Dominique Legallois (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 13] pp. 177–200

Nagaya, Naonori 2011 Rise and fall of referentiality: Articles in Philippine languages

In: Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta & Janick Wrona (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 96] pp. 589–626

Hilpert, Martin & Christian Koops 2009 A quantitative approach to the development of complex predicates: The case of Swedish Pseudo-Coordination with sitta “sit”

In: Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. & Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 85] pp. 145–162

Shibatani, Masayoshi 2009 Elements of complex structures, where recursion isn’t: The case of relativization

In: Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. & Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 85] pp. 163–198

Niedzielski, Nancy & Dennis R. Preston 2009 Folk Pragmatics

In: Culture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 2] pp. 146–155

Koops, Christian & Martin Hilpert 2009 The co-evolution of syntactic and pragmatic complexity: Diachronic and cross-linguistic aspects of pseudoclefts

In: Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. & Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 85] pp. 215–238

Englebretson, Robert 2008 From subordinate clause to noun-phrase: Yang constructions in colloquial Indonesian

In: Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions, Laury, Ritva (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 80] pp. 1–33

Hilpert, Martin & Christian Koops 2008 A quantitative approach to the development of complex predicates: The case of Swedish Pseudo-Coordination with sitta “sit”

Keywords: Germanic | Swedish | grammaticalization | corpus linguistics | gradual change | pseudo-coordination | complex predicates

Diachronica 25:2 pp. 242–261 | article

Hilpert, Martin 2007 Review of Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective edited by Mirjam Fried & Jan-Ola Östman (2004)

Studies in Language 31:2 pp. 479–485 | book review

Hilpert, Martin 2008 Chained metonymies in lexicon and grammar: A cross-linguistic perspective on body-part terms

Keywords: body part terms | chained metonymies | cross-linguistic comparisons | grammaticalization | interaction of metaphor and metonymy | lexicalization | metaphor | metonymy

In: Aspects of Meaning Construction, Radden, Günter, Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Thomas Berg & Peter Siemund (eds.)  pp. 77–98

Koops, Christian 2008 Constraints on inferential constructions

Keywords: cleft construction | corpus analysis | discourse | discourse analysis | focus | inferential construction | information structure | pragmatic inference | pragmatics | presupposition

In: Aspects of Meaning Construction, Radden, Günter, Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Thomas Berg & Peter Siemund (eds.)  pp. 207–224

Englebretson, Robert 2008 Grammatical resources for social purposes: Some aspects of stancetaking in colloquial Indonesian conversation

In: Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction, Englebretson, Robert (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 164] p. 69

Shibatani, Masayoshi 2008 Grammaticalization of converb constructions: The case of Japanese -te conjunctive constructions

In: Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse, Rehbein, Jochen, Christiane Hohenstein & Lukas Pietsch (eds.) [Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 5] pp. 21–49

Englebretson, Robert 2008 Stancetaking in discourse: An introduction

In: Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction, Englebretson, Robert (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 164] pp. 1–25

Kupisch, Tanja & Christian Koops 2008 The definite article in non-specific object noun phrases: Comparing French and Italian

In: Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, Stark, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Leiss & Werner Abraham (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 89] pp. 189–213

Hilpert, Martin 2006 Review of Corpus approaches to grammaticalization in English edited by Hans Lindquist & Christian Mair (2004)

Studies in Language 30:1 pp. 225–229 | book review

Hilpert, Martin 2007 Auxiliaries in spoken Sinhala

Functions of Language 13:2 pp. 229–253 | article

Ziegeler, Debra & Sarah Lee 2006 Causativity reduction in Singaporean English

Keywords: causativity | conventionalised scenarios | metonymy | resultative constructions | Singaporean English

English World-Wide 27:3 pp. 265–294 | article

Mackie, Hilary 2000 Review of Wax tablets of the mind: Cognitive studies of memory and literacy in Classical antiquity by Jocelyn Penny Small (1997)

Written Language & Literacy 3:2 pp. 267–271 | book review

Achard, Michel 2008 Construal and Complementation in French: The Perspective Dimension

In: Complementation: Cognitive and functional perspectives, Horie, Kaoru (ed.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 1] p. 91

Lamb, Sydney M. 2011 Linguistics to the Beat of a Different Drummer

In: First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences, Koerner, E.F.K. (ed.) [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 88] p. 97 ff.

Barlow, Michael 1996 Corpora for Theory and Practice

Keywords: Reflexive | Lexis | Schema | Language Learning

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 1:1 pp. 1–37 | article

Pulju, Tim 1991 A short history of American linguistics: As seen by a linguistics student

Historiographia Linguistica 18:1 pp. 221–246 | other

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