SIL International

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with SIL International*

Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun

Edited by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Diane M. Hintz & Carmen Jany

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 173] 2016. viii, 416 pp. |

Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey

Edited by Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop & Joana Jansen

Subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 103] 2013. xviii, 294 pp. | edited volume

Perspectives on Grammar Writing

Edited by Thomas E. Payne & David J. Weber

Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Benjamins Current Topics, 11] 2007. viii, 218 pp. | edited volume

Perspectives on Grammar Writing: Special issue of Studies in Language 30:2 (2006)

Edited by Thomas E. Payne & David J. Weber

Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Studies in Language, 30:2] 2006. | special issue

Yliniemi, Juha 2024 Iconicity of modified reduplication in five Himalayan languages

Keywords: reduplication | iconicity | ideophones | Tibeto-Burman | Tibetic

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 47:2 pp. 161–253 | article

Watters, Stephen 2024 The discourse functions of simple copulas in Dzongkha

Keywords: Tibetic | mirativity | egophoricity | evidentiality | copula | conversational interaction

Functions of Language 31:1 pp. 34–62 | article

Nicolle, Steve 2024 A linguistic cycle for speech orienters: Constructional changes in the development and loss of quotative markers in Bantu languages

Keywords: constructionalization | Diachronic Construction Grammar | quotative markers | represented speech | reported speech

Constructions and Frames 15:2 pp. 257–281 | article

Roberts, David, Matthew Harley & Stephen L. Walter 2022 The contribution of full tone marking to oral reading fluency and comprehension in Yoruba and Ife

Keywords: tone orthography | experimental linguistics | reading fluency | comprehension | Ede languages, Yoruba | Ife

Written Language & Literacy 25:2 pp. 253–282 | article

Yang, Cathryn 2022 The phonetic tone change *high > rising: Evidence from the Ngwi dialect laboratory

Keywords: rising tone | tone change | Ngwi | dialect laboratory | pathways to sound change

Diachronica 39:2 pp. 226–267 | article

Vidal, Alejandra & Doris L. Payne 2021 Polyfunctional vanka- in Nivaĉle and the antipassive category

Keywords: middle | impersonal | non-ergative | split-S | Mataguayan

In: Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 130] pp. 349–382

Payne, Doris L. 2021 The profile and development of the Maa (Eastern Nilotic) antipassive

Keywords: valence | aspect | nominative alignment | diachrony | contact

In: Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 130] pp. 447–480

Roberts, David & JeDene Reeder 2021 Idaasha

In: Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David & Stephen L. Walter (eds.) [Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] pp. 127–142

Roberts, David & JeDene Reeder 2021 Ife

In: Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David & Stephen L. Walter (eds.) [Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] pp. 143–156

Roberts, David, Johannes Merz & JeDene Reeder 2021 Introduction

In: Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David & Stephen L. Walter (eds.) [Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] p. 3

Roberts, David, JeDene Reeder & Stephen L. Walter 2021 Epilogue

In: Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David & Stephen L. Walter (eds.) [Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] pp. 279–304

Roberts, David, JeDene Reeder & Andy Weathers 2021 Tem

In: Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David & Stephen L. Walter (eds.) [Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] pp. 27–42

Roberts, David & JeDene Reeder 2021 Nateni

In: Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David & Stephen L. Walter (eds.) [Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] pp. 43–60

Roberts, David, Johannes Merz & JeDene Reeder 2021 Mbelime

In: Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David & Stephen L. Walter (eds.) [Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] pp. 61–84

Roberts, David, JeDene Reeder & Valentin Vydrin 2021 Eastern Dan

In: Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David & Stephen L. Walter (eds.) [Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] p. 85

Harley, Matthew & JeDene Reeder 2021 Yoruba

In: Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David & Stephen L. Walter (eds.) [Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] pp. 107–126

Roberts, David, Ginger Boyd & JeDene Reeder 2021 Elip, Mmala and Yangben

In: Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David & Stephen L. Walter (eds.) [Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] pp. 157–186

Walters, Susan Gary 2021 Staying afloat: Emic perceptions of learning Chinese characters

Keywords: Chinese characters | Chinese as a foreign language | language learning | learning strategies | adult language learning | Mandarin study | L2 learners

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 56:1 pp. 49–76 | article

Casson, Sarah 2020 The Greek connective gar : Different genres, different effects?

Keywords: cognitive effect of strengthening | persuasion | connectives | gar | Koine Greek | argumentation | narrative | procedural marker | New Testament | epistemic vigilance

In: Relevance Theory, Figuration and Continuity in Pragmatics, Piskorska, Agnieszka (ed.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 8] p. 95

Levinsohn, Stephen H. 2020 The perfect in context in texts in English, Sistani Balochi and New Testament Greek

Keywords: Tense- versus Aspect-prominent | Default versus marked usages

In: Perfects in Indo-European languages and beyond, Crellin, Robert & Thomas Jügel (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 352] pp. 615–634

Helgestad Tombleson, Anette 2020 The copula system of Tawang Monpa

Keywords: Tawang Monpa [Dakpa, Cuona] | East-Bodish | copula

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 43:1 pp. 37–54 | article

Payne, Doris L. 2020 Robust argument phrases (DPs) but unruly NPs in Maa

In: The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages: An emergent unit in interaction, Ono, Tsuyoshi & Sandra A. Thompson (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 128] pp. 329–362

Yang, Cathryn & Yi Xu 2019 Crosslinguistic trends in tone change: A review of tone change studies in East and Southeast Asia

Keywords: tone change | diachronic typology | carry-over effects | truncation | Target Approximation Model

Diachronica 36:3 pp. 417–459 | article

Yang, Cathryn, James N. Stanford, Yang Liu, Jinjing Jiang & Liufang Tang 2019 Variation in the tonal space of Yangliu Lalo, an endangered language of Yunnan, China

Keywords: tonal space | tone variation | tonal reduction | endangered language | Lalo | Ngwi | sociotonetics | language contact | sociolinguistics

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 42:1 pp. 2–37 | article

Huttar, George L. 2019 Language contact in Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler. Edited by Cecilia Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzić & Philipp Angermeyer

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34:1 pp. 178–183 | book review

Wise, Mary Ruth 2018 From here to there and back again: Fieldwork in the Andean foothills

In: Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork, Sarvasy, Hannah & Diana Forker (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 194] pp. 157–169

Greed, Teija 2019 From perfect to narrative tense: The development of an evidential meaning examined generally and in the Even language

Keywords: evidentiality | perfect | Even

Studies in Language 42:4 pp. 923–966 | article

Ferreira, Jo-Anne S. 2017 The influence of Portuguese on Amazonian French Creole lexicon: Some preliminary observations

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:2 pp. 423–432 | short note

Yoder, Brendon 2017 Bakker & Haspelmath, (eds), 2013. Languages across boundaries: Essays in memory of Anna Siewierska

Studies in Language 41:1 pp. 223–231 | book review

Inglis, Douglas 2018 Khamti Shan anti-ergative construction: A Tibeto-Burman influence?

Keywords: Tai Khamti | Tibeto-Burman | anti-ergative | grammaticalization | language contact

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 40:2 pp. 133–160 | article

Cahill, Michael C. 2017 Review of The interplay of morphology and phonology by Sharon Inkelas (2014)

Studies in Language 40:4 pp. 988–995 | book review

Huttar, George L. 2016 Review of Agency in the emergence of creole languages edited by Nicholas Faraclas (2012)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31:1 pp. 217–222 | book review

Hintz, Daniel J. 2016 Auxiliation and typological shift: The interaction of language contact and internallymotivated change in Quechua

Keywords: Andean Spanish | auxiliary verb | language contact | Quechua | typological shift

In: Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun, Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Diane M. Hintz & Carmen Jany (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 173] pp. 315–338

Hintz, Diane M. 2016 Discourse pattern replication in South Conchucos Quechua and Andean Spanish

Keywords: Andean Spanish | language contact | pattern replication | present perfect | Quechua

In: Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun, Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Diane M. Hintz & Carmen Jany (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 173] pp. 339–362

Gibson, Maik & B. Araali Bagamba 2016 Language shift and endangerment in urban and rural East Africa: Three case studies

Keywords: choices | East Africa | ecology | EGIDS | maintenance | Nairobi | shift | Swahili | urban/urbanisation

In: Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights, Filipović, Luna & Martin Pütz (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 42] pp. 351–360 | open access

Unseth, Peter 2017 The syllabary used by the Kickapoo in Mexico

Keywords: Kickapoo | syllabary | Cherokee | Sequoyah | Great Lakes Algonquian Syllabary

Written Language & Literacy 19:2 pp. 246–256 | article

Benton, Joseph 2015 Chapter 7. Valence-changing operations in Coatecas Altas Zapotec

In: Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie & Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 110] pp. 117–138

Eaton, Helen 2015 Main event line structure and aspect in Sandawe narratives

In: Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages, Payne, Doris L. & Shahar Shirtz (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 109] pp. 53–80

Suggett, Colin 2015 The Factative and the Perfective-Inchoative in Cuurammã (Turka, Gur)

In: Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages, Payne, Doris L. & Shahar Shirtz (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 109] pp. 249–286

Yang, Cathryn, James N. Stanford & Zhengyu Yang 2015 A sociotonetic study of Lalo tone split in progress

Keywords: tone split | coarticulatory path | sociotonetics | Lalo | change in progress | sound change

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 1:1 pp. 52–77 | article

Hendriks, Bernadet & Shelley Dufoe 2014 Non-native or native vocabulary in Mexican Sign Language

Keywords: foreign lexicon | lexical families | lexicalization | initialization | native lexicon | Mexican Sign Language | fingerspelling

Sign Language & Linguistics 17:1 pp. 20–55 | article

Huttar, George L. 2013 Review of Topics in Kwa syntax edited by Enoch O. Aboh & James Essegbey (2010)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:1 pp. 193–197 | book review

Simons, Gary F. & M. Paul Lewis 2013 The world’s languages in crisis: A 20-year update

In: Responses to Language Endangerment: In honor of Mickey Noonan. New directions in language documentation and language revitalization, Mihas, Elena, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval & Kathleen Wheatley (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 142] p. 3

Cahill, Michael C. 2013 Review of Historical linguistics and the comparative study of African languages by Gerrit J. Dimmendal (2011)

Studies in Language 36:4 pp. 907–914 | book review

Pearce, Mary 2013 Effects of harmony on reduction in Kera

Linguistic Variation 12:2 pp. 292–320 | article

Roberts, John R. 2012 Serial verbs in English: An RRG analysis of catenative verb constructions

Functions of Language 19:2 pp. 201–234 | article

Roberts, John R. 2011 Review of Investigations of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface edited by Robert D. Van Valin (2008)

Functions of Language 18:1 pp. 108–118 | book review

van den Berg, René 2011 Review of Basic Linguistic Theory, Volume 1: Methodology by R. M. W. Dixon (2010)

Studies in Language 34:3 pp. 737–747 | book review

Ferreira, Jo-Anne S. 2010 Bilingual education among the Karipúna and Galibi-Marwono: Prospects and Possibilities for language preservation

In: Creoles in Education: An appraisal of current programs and projects, Migge, Bettina, Isabelle Léglise & Angela Bartens (eds.) [Creole Language Library, 36] pp. 211–236

Nicolle, Steve 2009  Go-and-V, come-and-V, go-V and come-V: A corpus-based account of deictic movement verb constructions

English Text Construction 2:2 pp. 185–208 | article

Simons, Gary F. 2008 12. Linguistics as a community activity: The paradox of freedom through standards

In: Time and Again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics. In honor of D. Terence Langendoen, Lewis, William D., Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley & Scott O. Farrar (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 135] pp. 235–250

Weber, David J. 2008 The linguistic example

In: Perspectives on Grammar Writing, Payne, Thomas E. & David J. Weber (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 11] pp. 199–213

Weber, David J. 2008 Thoughts on growing a grammar

In: Perspectives on Grammar Writing, Payne, Thomas E. & David J. Weber (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 11] pp. 173–198

Weber, David J. 2006 The linguistic example

Studies in Language 30:2 pp. 445–460 | article

Weber, David J. 2006 Thoughts on growing a grammar

Studies in Language 30:2 pp. 417–444 | article

Cahill, Michael C. 2005 Review of Talking rhythm stressing tone: The role of prominence in Anglo-West African creole languages by Hubert Devonish (2002)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20:2 pp. 378–382 | book review

Frank, David B. 2008 11. TMA and the St. Lucian Creole verb phrase

In: Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications, Escure, Geneviève & Armin Schwegler (eds.) [Creole Language Library, 27] pp. 237–257

Decker, Ken 2004 Moribund English: The case of Gustavia English, St. Barthélemy

English World-Wide 25:2 pp. 217–254 | article

Nicolle, Steve 2004 Mental models theory and relevance theory in quantificational reasoning

Pragmatics & Cognition 11:2 pp. 345–378 | article

Nicolle, Steve 2002 Review of Historical Semantics and Cognition by Andreas Blank & Peter Koch (1999)

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3:2 pp. 349–354 | book review

Lowe, Ivan-Margaret & Ruth Hurlimann 2008 3. Direct and indirect speech in Cerma narrative

In: Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains, Güldemann, Tom & Manfred von Roncador (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 52] pp. 71–90

Franklin, Karl J. 2000 Review of Perspectives on the Bird’s Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Proceedings of the Conference Leiden, 13–17 October 1997 edited by Jelle Miedema, Cecillia Odé & Rien A. C. DamConnie Baak (1998)

Studies in Language 24:1 pp. 188–199 | book review

Pike, Kenneth L. 2011 A Linguistic Pilgrimage

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. 143 ff.

Floyd, Rick 1996 Experience, certainty and control, and the direct evidential in Wanka Quechua questions

Functions of Language 3:1 pp. 69–93 | article

Gutt, Ernst-August 1996 Implicit Information in Literary Translation: A Relevance-Theoretic Perspective1

Target 8:2 pp. 239–256 | article

Roberts, John R. 1993 Haiman, John. Hua-English Dictionary

Studies in Language 17:2 pp. 504–506 | brief report

Andersen, T. David & John R. Roberts 1991 Hodiernal vs. Nondiernal

Studies in Language 15:2 pp. 295–299 | article

Gutt, Ernst-August 1990 A Theoretical Account of Translation - Without a Translation Theory

Target 2:2 pp. 135–164 | article

Reesink, Ger P. 1989 Review of The Papuan languages of New Guinea by William A. Foley (1986)

Studies in Language 13:1 pp. 206–212 | book review

Bruce, Les 1988 Serialization: From Syntax to Lexicon

Studies in Language 12:1 pp. 19–49 | article

Crofts, Marjorie 1988 Translating metaphors

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 11:1 pp. 47–53 | article

Casad, Eugene H. 1986 Review of The Mesoamerican Indian Languages by Jorge A. Suárez (1983)

Studies in Language 10:2 pp. 475–484 | book review

Bruce, Les 1983 Subject as a Conflation of Role and Topicality Factors

Studies in Language 7:1 pp. 1–24 | article

Reesink, Ger P. 1983 Switch Reference and Topicality Hierarchies

Studies in Language 7:2 pp. 215–246 | article

Hinch, H.E. & Evelyn G. Pike 1978 Speaker-Addressee Versus Third Person Axes Within the Maung Verb

Studies in Language 2:2 pp. 151–164 | article

Grimes, Joseph E. 1963 Translating Incommensurables

Babel 9:1/2 pp. 91–93 | article

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