Queen Mary University of London

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Queen Mary University of London*

Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell

Edited by María J. Arche, Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache & Hagit Borer

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 288] 2025. | edited volume

Male Separatism: Discourse, ideology, and argumentation

Jessica Aiston

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociology

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 104] 2025. | monograph

English in the Indian Diaspora

Edited by Marianne Hundt & Devyani Sharma

Subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Varieties of English Around the World, G50] 2014. ix, 244 pp. |

Structuring the Argument: Multidisciplinary research on verb argument structure

Edited by Asaf Bachrach, Isabelle Roy & Linnaea Stockall

Subjects Generative linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 10] 2014. vii, 205 pp. |

The Linguistics Enterprise: From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics

Edited by Martin B.H. Everaert, Tom Lentz, Hannah N.M. De Mulder, Øystein Nilsen & Arjen Zondervan

Subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 150] 2010. ix, 379 pp. | edited volume

Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill

Edited by David Britain & Jenny Cheshire

Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 16] 2003. x, 344 pp. | edited volume

Language and National Identity: Comparing France and Sweden

Leigh Oakes

Subjects Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 13] 2001. x, 305 pp. | monograph

Fraiese, Lucia, Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Matt Hunt Gardner & Glenys Dale Collard 2026 “We was goin’ kangaroo shooting”: Was/were variation in Australian Aboriginal English

Keywords: sociolinguistic variation | social meaning | identity | Aboriginal English | grammatical variation | ethnography

English World-Wide | Online First Publication, 34 pp. | article | open access

Borer, Hagit 2025 Dims a dozen

Keywords: diminutives | gender | plural | gender agreement | the morpho-phonological domain of Content | the syntax of GenP | the lower DP spine | morphophonology | morphosyntax | Modern 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. 303–333 | open access

Holmes-Elliott, Sophie, Thomas Packer-Stucki & Becky Howard 2025 Telling tales: Tracking the real time development of gendered narrative style in children

Keywords: acquisition | developmental sociolinguistics | gendered development | gendered socialization | language socialization | narrative development

In: Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity, Rosseel, Laura & Eline Zenner (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 34] pp. 64–85

Adger, David 2025 Mind your Ps and Ks!: Quirky subjects and nominal licensing

In: Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell, Arche, María J., Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache & Hagit Borer (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 288] pp. 111–134

Borer, Hagit 2025 On the origins of phrase structure

In: Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell, Arche, María J., Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache & Hagit Borer (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 288] p. 2

Pountain, Christopher J. 2025 The Spanish progressives: Linguistic exploitation of a maverick category?

Keywords: progressive | Spanish | capitalization | grammaticalization | exploitation | periphrasis | auxiliary verb

In: The Progressive Revisited: Historical and Quantitative Studies in Germanic and Romance Languages, Carlucci, Alessandro & Jerzy Nykiel (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 236] pp. 230–254

Rodríguez Velasco, David & María Cecilia Ainciburu 2025 Dissenting emails in academia: The analysis of the micro- and macrostructure of Chinese university students’ emails to their lecturer in Spanish

Keywords: disagreement | academic discourse | Chinese students | Spanish as a foreign language | email communication | netiquette

Pragmatics 36:2 pp. 276–305 | article

Sharma, Devyani 2024 Language acquisition across the lifespan and the emergence of new varieties

Keywords: new dialect formation | language acquisition | lifespan | historical sociolinguistics | immigration | post-colonial Englishes

In: Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives, Sanz-Sánchez, Israel (ed.) [Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 14] pp. 127–147

McCracken, Scott 2024 Punctuation: Dorothy Richardson, the long modernist novel, and the literary draft

Keywords: literary draft | Dorothy Richardson | modernism | experiment | punctuation

In: A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe, Beloborodova, Olga & Dirk Van Hulle (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXV] pp. 378–389 | open access

Sandow, Rhys J., George Bailey, Natalie Braber & Eddie O’Hara-Brown 2024 How “U” are “U” words?: Exploring variation in the usage and perception of class-based lexical shibboleths in British English

Keywords: social class | U words | lexical variation and change | production | perception

English World-Wide 45:1 p. 94 | article

Camilleri, Maris & Louisa Sadler 2023 Raising in Arabic: Forms and structures

Keywords: (hyper)raising | grammaticalization | non-canonical ‘seem’ predicates | complementizer formation | Arabic vernaculars

In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV: Papers form the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, 2020, Azaz, Mahmoud (ed.) [Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 12] pp. 153–184

Maccaferri, Marzia & George Newth 2022 The delegitimisation of Europe in a pro-European country: ‘Sovereignism’ and populism in the political discourse of Matteo Salvini’s Lega

Keywords: sovereignism | populism | Euroscepticism | the Lega (Nord) | Italian political discourse

Journal of Language and Politics 21:2 pp. 277–299 | article

Sharma, Devyani, Erez Levon & Yang Ye 2022 50 years of British accent bias: Stability and lifespan change in attitudes to accents

Keywords: language attitudes | British accents | region | ethnicity | social class | bias | prestige | lifespan change | age-grading | real time change

English World-Wide 43:2 pp. 135–166 | article

Strange, Louis 2022 Covid-19 and public responsibility: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of blaming the public during the UK’s third wave

Keywords: neoliberalism | responsibilisation | British government | Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis

Linguistic Landscape 8:2/3 pp. 168–183 | article

Oakes, Leigh & Yael Peled 2022 Pluricentric linguistic justice in Quebec: An attitudinal study of the politics of norm setting in French

Keywords: linguistic justice | pluricentricity | endonormativity | standards | norms | French | Quebec | language attitudes

Language Problems and Language Planning 45:3 pp. 331–356 | article

Pavel, Thomas & Galin Tihanov 2021 What is realism?: Ideas and debates

Keywords: Marxist theory, realism | Georg Lukács | genre | society | history | high literature | popular literature | realist effects | moral psychology

In: Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives. Volume I: Mapping realism, Göttsche, Dirk, Rosa Mucignat & Robert Weninger (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXII] pp. 31–64

Strange, Louis 2021 The intersection of nation and gender in the Linguistic Landscape of Ireland’s Eighth Amendment referendum campaign

Keywords: Ireland | national identity | gender | abortion | referendum campaign | Eighth Amendment | stance | hegemony

Linguistic Landscape 8:1 pp. 1–31 | article

Tagg, Caroline & Agnieszka Lyons 2022 Polymedia repertoires of networked individuals: A day-in-the-life approach

Keywords: blended linguistic ethnography | device attention | mobile messaging | polymedia | repertoire

Pragmatics and Society 12:5 pp. 725–755 | article | open access

Beaman, Karen V. 2021 Exploring an approach for modelling lectal coherence

Keywords: sociolinguistics | language variation and change | linguistic coherence | dialects | quantitative models | longitudinal studies | lifespan change | Swabian | German

In: Language Variation – European Perspectives VIII: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019, Van de Velde, Hans, Nanna Haug Hilton & Remco Dr. Knooihuizen (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 25] pp. 135–160 | open access

Pfalzgraf, Falco 2021 Karl Tekusch (1890–1977), his concept of Sprachechtheit, and the purism movement in Austria

Historiographia Linguistica 48:1 pp. 60–82 | article

McGregor, Stephen, Matthew Purver & Geraint Wiggins 2020 Metaphor generation through context sensitive distributional semantics

Keywords: metaphor generation | pragmatics | distributional semantics | natural language processing | context sensitive semantic modelling

In: Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives, Barnden, John & Andrew Gargett (eds.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 10] pp. 421–448

Costa, Beverley, Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez & Tom Rausch 2020 Self-care as an ethical responsibility: A pilot study on support provision for interpreters in human crises

Keywords: burnout | professional pairing | ethical responsibility | remote support | self-care | resilience

Translation and Interpreting Studies 15:1 pp. 36–56 | article

de Leeuw, Esther 2020 The Frequency Code and gendered attrition and acquisition in the German-English heritage language community in Vancouver, Canada

Keywords: German | L1 attrition | prosody | pitch | Frequency Code | social significance

In: Lost in transmission: The role of attrition and input in heritage language development, Brehmer, Bernhard & Jeanine Treffers-Daller (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 59] pp. 229–254

Lyons, Agnieszka, Caroline Tagg & Rachel Hu 2019 Chronotopic (non)modernity in translocal mobile messaging among Chinese migrants in the UK

Keywords: chronotope | ethnography | migration | mobile communication | modernity

Internet Pragmatics 4:2 pp. 190–218 | article

Pountain, Christopher J. 2018 Variation and the use of discourse markers in 16th-century Spanish

Keywords: discourse markers | 16th century | Spanish | Lope de Rueda | variation | social indicator

In: Studies in historical Ibero-Romance morpho-syntax, Bouzouita, Miriam, Ioanna Sitaridou & Enrique Pato (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 16] pp. 303–324

Milani, Tommaso M., Erez Levon, Roey J. Gafter & Iair G. Or 2018 Tel Aviv as a space of affirmation versus transformation: Language, citizenship, and the politics of sexuality in Israel

Keywords: affect | affirmation | body | intimate citizenship | Israel | queer | transformation

Linguistic Landscape 4:3 pp. 278–297 | article

Somers, Katerina 2018 Verb-third in Otfrid’s Evangelienbuch

NOWELE 71:1 pp. 56–98 | article

Leeuw, Esther de 2018 How phonetics and phonology inform L1 attrition (narrowly defined) research

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:6 pp. 725–729 | article commentary

Hundt, Marianne & Devyani Sharma 2014 Introduction

In: English in the Indian Diaspora, Hundt, Marianne & Devyani Sharma (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G50] pp. 1–8

Bachrach, Asaf, Isabelle Roy & Linnaea Stockall 2014 Introduction: Argumenting the structure

In: Structuring the Argument: Multidisciplinary research on verb argument structure, Bachrach, Asaf, Isabelle Roy & Linnaea Stockall (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 10] pp. 1–19

Sharma, Devyani 2014 Transnational flows, language variation, and ideology

Keywords: British Asian diaspora | ideology | Indian English | transnationalism

In: English in the Indian Diaspora, Hundt, Marianne & Devyani Sharma (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G50] pp. 215–242

Fox, Sue 2012 Performed narrative: The pragmatic function of this is + speaker and other quotatives in London adolescent speech

In: Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives, Buchstaller, Isabelle & Ingrid van Alphen (eds.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 15] pp. 231–258

Adger, David 2011 Bare resumptives

In: Resumptive Pronouns at the Interfaces, Rouveret, Alain (ed.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 5] pp. 343–366

Fox, Sue, Arfaan Khan & Eivind Torgersen 2011 The emergence and diffusion of Multicultural English

In: Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas, Kern, Friederike & Margret Selting (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 8] pp. 19–44

Sharma, Devyani 2011 Typological diversity in New Englishes

In: The Typology of Asian Englishes, Lim, Lisa & Nikolas Gisborne (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 33] pp. 49–74

Sharma, Devyani 2010 Review of Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change by Andreas Sedlatschek (2009)

English World-Wide 31:2 pp. 209–214 | book review

Castellano, Ginevra & Christopher Peters 2010 Socially perceptive robots: Challenges and concerns

Interaction Studies 11:2 pp. 201–207 | article

Fox, Sue 2009 Review of Bengali-English in East London: A Study in Urban Multilingualism by Sebastian M. Rasinger (2007)

English World-Wide 30:3 pp. 350–354 | book review

Sharma, Devyani & John R. Rickford 2009 AAVE/creole copula absence: A critique of the imperfect learning hypothesis

Keywords: copula absence | quantitative measures | (Caribbean) English creoles | African American Vernacular English | typology | second language acquisition | creole origins controversy

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:1 pp. 53–90 | article

Sharma, Devyani 2009 Typological diversity in New Englishes

Keywords: Singapore English | past | perfective | progressive | copula | imperfective | universals | language transfer | Indian English | typology

English World-Wide 30:2 pp. 170–195 | article

Oakes, Leigh 2008 11. Language planning and policy in Quebec

In: Studies in French Applied Linguistics, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 21] pp. 345–385

Oakes, Leigh 2005 From internationalisation to globalisation: Language and the nationalist revival in Sweden

Language Problems and Language Planning 29:2 pp. 151–176 | article

Duffell, Martin J. 2003 From Vidal to Lentini: History, heresy, and metrics

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 15:1 pp. 151–171 | article

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