University of Oregon

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

Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages. Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 27:1 (2021)

Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet, Dorothea Hoffmann & Isabel O'Keeffe

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Cognition, 27:1] 2021. | special issue

Natural language processing for learner corpus research: Special issue of the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 7:1 (2021)

Edited by Kristopher Kyle

Subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

[International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 7:1] 2021. | special issue

The Life Cycle of Adpositions

T. Givón

Subjects Classical linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

2021. | monograph

Coherence

Edited by T. Givón

Subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies | Neurolinguistics | Philosophy | Sociology

2020. | monograph

Honorific language and linguistic politeness in Korean: Special issue of Korean Linguistics 17:2 (2015)

Edited by John Whitman & Lucien Brown

Subjects Linguistics of isolated languages | Theoretical linguistics

[Korean Linguistics, 17:2] 2017. | special issue

The Story of Zero

T. Givón

Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

2017. xv, 414 pp. |

Ute Dictionary

T. Givón, Pearl Casias, Vida Peabody & Mary Inez Cloud

Subjects Dictionaries | Language documentation | Languages of North America | Theoretical linguistics

[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 15] 2016. xiv, 373 pp. | course book

Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages

Edited by Doris L. Payne & Shahar Shirtz

Subjects Discourse studies | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 109] 2015. vii, 321 pp. |

Diachronic Construction Grammar

Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer & Spike Gildea

Subjects Cognition and language | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 18] 2015. xi, 263 pp. |

The Diachrony of Grammar

T. Givón

Subjects Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Syntax

2015. 928 pp. (Hb in 2 vols.) |

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

Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics

Edited by Zhuo Jing-Schmidt

Subjects Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 2] 2013. ix, 317 pp. | edited volume

Ute Texts

T. Givón

Subjects Language documentation | Languages of North America | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 7] 2013. xvi, 333 pp. | course book

The Primacy of Movement: Expanded second edition

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

Subjects Cognitive psychology | Consciousness research | Evolution of language | Philosophy

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 82] 2011. xxxii, 574 pp. | course book

Ute Reference Grammar

T. Givón

Subjects Language documentation | Languages of North America | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 3] 2011. xxiii, 441 pp. | course book

Ergativity in Amazonia

Edited by Spike Gildea & Francesc Queixalós

Subjects Languages of South America | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 89] 2010. v, 319 pp. | edited volume

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

The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, ontogeny, neuro-cognition, evolution

T. Givón

Subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

2009. xviii, 366 pp. | course book

Context as Other Minds: The Pragmatics of Sociality, Cognition and Communication

T. Givón

Subjects Cognition and language | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax

2005. xvi, 283 pp. | course book

Bio-Linguistics: The Santa Barbara lectures

T. Givón

Subjects Evolution of language | Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Typology

2002. xviii, 383 pp. | course book

The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language

Edited by T. Givón & Bertram F. Malle

Subjects Evolution of language | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics

[Typological Studies in Language, 53] 2002. x, 394 pp. | course book

Syntax: An Introduction. Volume I

T. Givón

Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

2001. xviii, 500 pp. | text book

Syntax: An Introduction. Volume II

T. Givón

Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

2001. x, 406 pp. | text book

External Possession

Edited by Doris L. Payne & Immanuel Barshi

Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 39] 1999. ix, 573 pp. | course book

Conversation: Cognitive, communicative and social perspectives

Edited by T. Givón

Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Typological Studies in Language, 34] 1997. viii, 302 pp. | course book

Grammatical Relations: A functionalist perspective

Edited by T. Givón

Subjects Functional linguistics | Syntax

[Typological Studies in Language, 35] 1997. viii, 350 pp. | course book

Coherence in Spontaneous Text

Edited by Morton Ann Gernsbacher & T. Givón

Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics

[Typological Studies in Language, 31] 1995. x, 267 pp. | course book

Functionalism and Grammar

T. Givón

Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

1995. xvii, 486 pp. | text book

Voice and Inversion

Edited by T. Givón

Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

[Typological Studies in Language, 28] 1994. viii, 402 pp. | edited volume

English Grammar: A function-based introduction. Volume I

T. Givón

Subjects English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax

1993. xxii, 318 pp. | text book

Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility

Edited by Doris L. Payne

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 22] 1992. viii, 320 pp. | course book

Syntax: A functional-typological introduction. Volume II

T. Givón

Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

1991. xxvi, 554 pp. | monograph

Syntax: A functional-typological introduction. Volume I

T. Givón

Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

1984. xx, 464 pp. | monograph

Topic Continuity in Discourse: A quantitative cross-language study

T. Givón

Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

[Typological Studies in Language, 3] 1983. vi, 492 pp. | course book

Tshering (Sangji Cili), Sangsrgyas, Erin Lowry, Shannon Kaspar, Connor Paddock, Ludwig Adisiswoyo & Nathaniel Sims 2026 An interlinear glossed text in Thebo Tibetan: The story of Gser.mo.’tsho and Dngul.mo.’tsho

Keywords: Thebo | Tibetan | text | folklore | morpho-syntax | language documentation | inter-linear glossing | Tibeto-Burman | Bodic

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 49:1 p. 83 | article

Sims, Nathaniel Aaron 2025 Labialized onsets in Rma

Keywords: Qiang | Rma | labialization | phonology | Sino-Tibetan/Trans-Himalayan | historical linguistics

Language and Linguistics 26:2 pp. 294–322 | article | open access

Belmar Viernes, Guillem & Jeremías Salazar 2026 The many things that thing can become: A story of discourse and grammar in Sà’án Sàvǐ ñà Ñuù Xnúvíkó (Mixtepec Mixtec)

Keywords: Mixtec | Sà’án Sàvǐ | discourse | discourse markers | grammaticalization | intonation units | prosody and grammar | discourse and grammar

Functions of Language 32:3 pp. 285–313 | article

Sims, Nathaniel A. 2025 Tonoexodus in Rma

Keywords: Tonoexodus | Rma | Qiang | Qiangic | Tibeto-Burman | Trans-Himalayan/Sino-Tibetan

Diachronica 42:2 pp. 198–249 | article

Bayless, Martha 2024 Fairies from Walter Map to European folklore

Keywords: fairy | fairies | elves | supernatural | magic | otherworld | folklore | Walter Map | demons

In: Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond: A millennium heritage, Stella, Francesco, Lucie Doležalová & Danuta Shanzer (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXIV] pp. 588–595

Brown, Lucien, Grace Eunhae Oh & Kaori Idemaru 2024 Prosodic features of polite speech: Evidence from Korean interactional data

Keywords: politeness | prosody | multimodality | social distance | power | Korean | gender

Pragmatics 35:3 pp. 321–347 | article

Daniels, Don 2024 Semi-embedded clauses in Aisi: Assertion, disengagement, and insubordination

Keywords: subordination | insubordination | backgrounding | presupposition | Papuan languages | Trans New Guinea languages

Functions of Language 31:2 pp. 115–141 | article

Sims, Nathaniel A., Bai Jianqiong & Ludwig Adisiswoyo 2024 Voice onset time in Rma

Keywords: Voice onset time | Rma | Qiang

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 47:1 pp. 17–31 | article

Grammon, Devin 2023 Limited gains, restricted access: Student insights from study abroad in Peru

Keywords: study abroad | access to input | study abroad context | individual differences

In: Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish, Zahler, Sara, Avizia Long & Bret Linford (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 37] pp. 54–81

Taylor-Adams, Allison 2023 Emergent bilingualism in language awakening ecologies

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 pp. 112–116 | article commentary

Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo 2022 Review of Aktuelle Themen aus Gesellschaft, Politik und Technik: Kommunikatives Chinesisch für die Mittelstufe by He‑Fang Lee & Hanlu Soufflet (2022)

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 57:2 pp. 184–188 | book review

DeLancey, Scott 2022 Copula to negator: Grammaticalization of the copula #ni in Tibeto-Burman languages

Keywords: negation | copula | grammaticalization | Tibeto-Burman | Sino-Tibetan | Trans-Himalayan

Studies in Language 47:3 pp. 505–525 | article

Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo 2022 

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:1 pp. 165–169 | book review

Vaughn, Charlotte & Aubrey Whitty 2022 Investigating the relationship between comprehensibility and social evaluation*

Keywords: social evaluation | status | solidarity | comprehensibility | processing fluency

In: The Evolution of Pronunciation Teaching and Research: 25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, Levis, John M., Tracey M. Derwing & Murray J. Munro (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 121] pp. 207–228

Daniels, Don 2022 The history of tense and aspect in the Sogeram family*

In: Development of Tense and Aspect Systems, Gvozdanović, Jadranka (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 123] pp. 21–61

Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo 2022 Euphemism

In: Handbook of Pragmatics: 24th Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics, 24] pp. 124–144

Gildea, Spike & Jóhanna Barðdal 2022 From grammaticalization to Diachronic Construction Grammar: A natural evolution of the paradigm

Keywords: evolution of the concept of grammaticalization | diachronic construction grammar | gradual nature of language change | theory of science | history of linguistics

Studies in Language 47:4 pp. 743–788 | 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

Sapién, Racquel-María, Natalia Cáceres Arandia, Spike Gildea & Sérgio Meira 2021 Antipassive in the Cariban family

Keywords: Cariban family | antipassive | detransitivizer | valence

In: Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 130] pp. 65–96

Hung, Steffi H. 2021 Manual action motivates networked meanings of a productive construction in Mandarin: Rethinking polysemy

Keywords: manual action | productivity | polysemy | usage-based constructionist approach | Chinese | 手動作 | 語言多產性 | 一詞多義 | 基於使用的構式理論 | 漢語

Chinese Language and Discourse 12:2 pp. 215–237 | article

Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo 2021 Metonymy: Mental simplism and our best and worst instincts

Keywords: metonymy | mental access | mental simplism | instinct | stereotyping

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1 pp. 133–151 | article

Kyle, Kristopher 2021 Natural language processing for learner corpus research

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 7:1 pp. 1–16 | introduction

Pons, Marie-Caroline 2021 On the origin of 2nd person prefix #tV- in Trans-Himalayan languages

Keywords: Proto-Trans-Himalayan | possessive | R-impersonal | nominalization | 2nd person indexation

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 44:2 pp. 226–263 | article

Hung, Hsiao-Hsuan 2020  The Routledge Handbook of Chinese second language acquisition, edited by Chuanren Ke

Chinese Language and Discourse 11:1 pp. 156–163 | book review

Shi, Heidi H. & Zhuo Jing-Schmidt 2020 Little cutie one piece: An innovative human classifier and its social indexicality in Chinese digital culture

Keywords: social indexicality | variation | digital culture | usage-based constructionist approach | 社会指向性 | 变异 | 网络文化 | 基于使用的构式理论

Chinese Language and Discourse 11:1 pp. 31–54 | article

Konnerth, Linda 2020 On the nature of inverse systems: The rise of inverse marking via antipassive constructions

Keywords: inverse | antipassive | hierarchical indexation | referential hierarchy | person indexation | pseudo-inverse | South-Central Trans-Himalayan | Kuki-Chin, Monsang

Diachronica 38:1 pp. 25–63 | article

Konnerth, Linda 2020 Recycling through perspective persistence in Monsang (Trans-Himalayan): Reconstructing the desiderative from a reported intentionality construction

Functions of Language 27:1 pp. 55–77 | article

Smith, George Fredrik, Kristopher Kyle & Scott A. Crossley 2020 Word lists and the role of academic vocabulary use in high stakes speaking assessments

Keywords: academic vocabulary | vocabulary lists | AWL | academic speaking | TOEFL speaking

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 6:2 pp. 193–219 | article

Cáceres Arandia, Natalia 2020 Asymmetries in Path expression in Ye’kwana

Keywords: motion events | Cariban languages | adpositions | adverbs | perlatives

Studies in Language 45:1 pp. 203–234 | article

Hoffmann, Dorothea 2021 Be happy when your stomach is: Figurative extensions of the body in MalakMalak

Keywords: MalakMalak | language of emotion | parts of speech | cultural salience

Pragmatics & Cognition 27:1 pp. 184–208 | article

Vaughn, Charlotte & Aubrey Whitty 2020 Investigating the relationship between comprehensibility and social evaluation

Keywords: social evaluation | status | solidarity | comprehensibility | processing fluency

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 6:3 pp. 483–504 | article

Lang, Jun 2020 Neological cancer metaphors in the Chinese cyberspace: Uses and social meanings

Keywords: cancer metaphors | neologism | construction | cognitive mechanism | social indexicality | social labeling | social meanings | linguistic humor | Chinese | 癌症隐喻 | 新词 | 构式 | 社会指示性 | 社会标签 | 社会意义 | 言语幽默

Chinese Language and Discourse 11:2 pp. 261–286 | 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

Long, Avizia, Kristopher Kyle & Graham Crookes 2020 Navigating the academic job market

In: Professional Development in Applied Linguistics: A Guide to Success for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty, Plonsky, Luke (ed.)  pp. 79–98

Daniels, Don 2020 The history of tense and aspect in the Sogeram family

Keywords: tense | aspect | comparative reconstruction | grammaticalization | Papuan languages | Trans New Guinea languages

Journal of Historical Linguistics 10:2 pp. 167–208 | article

Erbaugh, Mary S. 2019 How the Chinese language encourages the paradigm shift toward discourse in linguistics: Pressure from ‘the three zeros’

Keywords: history of linguistics – Chinese | isolating language – Chinese | zero subject | zero anaphora | zero tense | hidden complexity | discourse-oriented language

Chinese Language and Discourse 10:1 p. 84 | article

Lucero, Audrey & Yuuko Uchikoshi 2019 Narrative assessments with first grade Spanish-English emergent bilinguals: Spontaneous versus retell conditions

Keywords: oral narrative assessment | first grade | qualitative analysis | Spanish-English emergent bilinguals

Narrative Inquiry 29:1 pp. 137–156 | article

DeLancey, Scott 2019 Non-singular pronouns in Tibeto-Burman (Trans-Himalayan)

Keywords: Tibeto-Burman | Sino-Tibetan | Trans-Himalayan | pronouns | number | dual | clusivity

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 42:1 pp. 110–136 | article

Daniels, Don 2019 Using phonotactics to reconstruct degrammaticalization: The origin of the Sirva pronoun be

Keywords: comparative reconstruction | directionality | degrammaticalization | polygrammaticalization | focus | pronouns | Trans New Guinea languages | Sogeram languages | Sirva

Diachronica 36:1 pp. 1–36 | article

Lang, Jun 2020 What impacts L2 Chinese pragmatic competence in the study abroad context?: Current research and future directions

Keywords: pragmatic competence | L2 Chinese | L2 pragmatics | study abroad | 语用能力 | 中文作为第二语言 | 第二语言语用 | 留学

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 54:3 pp. 191–220 | article

Zhu, Lin 2019 Kinship metaphors in the Chinese construction A shi B zhi fu/mu : Biology and culture as conceptual basis

Keywords: kinship metaphor | the Chinese language | corpus linguistics | culture | semantics | cognitive linguistics | experiential basis of cognition

In: Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives, Xiao, Yun & Linda Tsung (eds.) [Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 10] pp. 200–219

Givón, T. 2019 Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes: Sex and sophistry in the Old Testament – A new English translation

In: Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes: Sex and sophistry in the Old Testament – A new English translation, Givón, T. (ed.) 

Vajrabhaya, Prakaiwan & Eric Pederson 2018 Teasing apart listener-sensitivity: The role of interaction

Keywords: co-speech gesture | repetition | reduction | automatization | interaction

Gesture 17:1 pp. 65–97 | article

Lang, Jun 2018 “I am not criticizing you”: A constructionist analysis of an indirect speech act

Keywords: construction | indirect speech act | politeness | earnest advice | Chinese | corpus | 构式 | 间接言语行为 | 礼貌 | 真诚建议

Chinese Language and Discourse 9:2 pp. 184–208 | article

Overall, Simon E., Rosa Vallejos & Spike Gildea 2018 Nonverbal predication in Amazonia: Typological and diachronic considerations

In: Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages, Overall, Simon, Rosa Vallejos & Spike Gildea (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 122] pp. 1–50

Payne, Doris L., Alejandra Vidal & Manuel A. Otero 2018 Locative, existential and possessive predication in the Chaco: Nivaĉle (Mataguayan) and Pilagá (Guaykuruan)

Keywords: existential | possession | location | negation | Guaykuruan | Mataguayan

In: Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages, Overall, Simon, Rosa Vallejos & Spike Gildea (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 122] pp. 263–294

Gildea, Spike 2018 Reconstructing the copulas and nonverbal predicate constructions in Cariban

Keywords: nonverbal predicate constructions | Cariban | Proto-Cariban

In: Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages, Overall, Simon, Rosa Vallejos & Spike Gildea (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 122] pp. 365–402

Kapatsinski, Vsevolod 2018 On the intolerance of the Tolerance Principle

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6 pp. 738–742 | article commentary

Gildea, Spike & Antoine Guillaume 2018 The evolution of argument coding patterns in South American languages

Keywords: syntactic reconstruction | diachronic typology | argument structure | verbal indexation | South American languages

Journal of Historical Linguistics 8:1 pp. 1–6 | introduction

Peng, Xinjia 2017  Teaching Chinese as a Second Language: Curriculum Design & Instruction, 汉语作为第二语言教学：课程设计与教学实例, by Xiaohong Wen

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 52:1 pp. 100–104 | book review

Tribur, Zoe 2016 Review of Endangered languages: An introduction by Sarah G. Thomason (2015)

Studies in Language 40:2 pp. 468–471 | book review

Peng, Xinjia 2016 Review of A Handbook of Tasks and Rubrics for Teaching Mandarin Chinese by Miao-fen Tseng (2014)

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 51:2 pp. 218–224 | book review

Givón, T. 2016 The usual suspects: Multiple grammaticalization of ‘do’, ‘be’, ‘have’, and ‘go’ in Ute

Keywords: grammaticalization | light verbs | Ute | verbal suffixes

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. 219–246

Konnerth, Linda 2016 The Proto-Tibeto-Burman *gV- nominalizing prefix

Keywords: diachronic nominalization | Proto-Tibeto-Burman | nominalization | Historical linguistics | morphological reconstruction

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 39:1 pp. 3–32 | article

Payne, Doris L. 2015 Aspect and thematic clause combining in Maa (Nilotic)

In: Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages, Payne, Doris L. & Shahar Shirtz (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 109] pp. 23–52

Konnerth, Linda 2015 A new type of convergence at the deictic center: Second person and cislocative in Karbi (Tibeto-Burman)

Keywords: cislocative | spatial deixis | ventive | venitive | hierarchical agreement | speech act participants | deictic center | Northeast India | Karbi | Tibeto-Burman

Studies in Language 39:1 pp. 24–45 | article

Brown, Lucien 2017 Expressive, social and gendered meanings of Korean honorifics

Keywords: expressive meaning | honorifics | indexicality | gender | social meaning

Korean Linguistics 17:2 pp. 242–266 | article

Brown, Lucien & John Whitman 2017 Honorifics and politeness in Korean

Korean Linguistics 17:2 pp. 127–131 | article

Jang, Taeho & Thomas E. Payne 2014 Conspiring motivations for causative and passive isomorphism:: Data from Xibe

Keywords: causative | grammatical description | morphology | passive | Sibe | syntax | valence | voice | Xibe

In: On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, Suihkonen, Pirkko & Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 164] p. 91

Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo 2014 Maternal affective input in mother–child interaction: A cross-cultural perspective

In: Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children, Hua, Zhu & Lixian Jin (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 60] pp. 57–89

DeLancey, Scott 2014 Second person verb forms in Tibeto-Burman

Keywords: Tibeto-Burman | rGyalrong | Kiranti | verb agreement | Kuki-Chin | second person | argument indexation

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 37:1 pp. 3–33 | article

Beavert, Virginia & Joana Jansen 2013 Agent case marking in Sahaptian

In: Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey, Thornes, Tim, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop & Joana Jansen (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 103] pp. 131–152

Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine 2013 Bodily resonance

In: Moving Imagination: Explorations of gesture and inner movement, De Preester, Helena (ed.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 89] pp. 19–36

Erbaugh, Mary S. 2013 Classifier choices in discourse across the seven main Chinese dialects

Keywords: Chinese dialects | classifier choice | discourse

In: Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.) [Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 2] pp. 101–126

Brown, Lucien 2013 Identity and honorifics use in Korean study abroad

In: Social and Cultural Aspects of Language Learning in Study Abroad, Kinginger, Celeste (ed.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 37] pp. 269–298

Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo 2013 Introduction

In: Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.) [Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 2] pp. 1–22

Givón, T. 2013 On the diachrony of the ‘Ethical Dative’

In: Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey, Thornes, Tim, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop & Joana Jansen (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 103] pp. 43–66

Jansen, Joana, Janne Underriner & Roger Jacob 2013 Revitalizing languages through place-based language curriculum: Identity through learning

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] pp. 221–242

DeLancey, Scott 2013 The origins of Sinitic

Keywords: Chinese | language contact | Sinitic | Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman

In: Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.) [Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 2] p. 73

Nguyen, Tam 2013 Verb serialization in Ede from a diachronic perspective

In: Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey, Thornes, Tim, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop & Joana Jansen (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 103] pp. 179–194

Pakulak, Eric 2012  Individual differences in native speakers and the broader picture: Socioeconomic status and neuroplasticity

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:3 pp. 277–280 | article commentary

Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine 2012 Fundamental and inherently interrelated aspects of animation

In: Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language, Foolen, Ad, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine & Jordan Zlatev (eds.) [Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 6] pp. 27–56 | open access

Jang, Taeho & Thomas E. Payne 2012 Topic marking and the construction of narrative in Xibe

In: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology, Suihkonen, Pirkko, Bernard Comrie & Valery Solovyev (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 126] pp. 151–176

Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo 2012 Maternal affective input in mother–child interaction: A cross-cultural perspective

Keywords: maternal affective input | American | Chinese | parenting | cross-cultural pragmatics

Chinese Language and Discourse 3:1 pp. 57–89 | article

Konnerth, Linda 2011 Review of A Grammar of Sunwar: Descriptive grammar, paradigms, texts and glossary by Dörte Borchers (2008)

Studies in Language 35:2 pp. 453–459 | book review

Kapatsinski, Vsevolod 2011 Review of Features: Perspectives on a key notion in linguistics edited by Anna Kibort & Greville G. Corbett (2010)

Studies in Language 35:1 pp. 217–227 | book review

Pucilowski, Anna & Eric Pederson 2012 Review of The Munda Languages edited by Gregory D. S. Anderson (2008)

Studies in Language 35:4 pp. 960–969 | book review

Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo 2011 Review of Modality in Modern Mandarin by Peng Lizhen [彭利贞] (2007)

Chinese Language and Discourse 2:1 pp. 131–135 | book review

DeLancey, Scott 2011 Finite structures from clausal nominalization in Tibeto-Burman

In: Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta & Janick Wrona (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 96] pp. 343–360

Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo 2011 Review of Corpus, cognition and causative constructions by Gaëtanelle Gilquin (2010)

Studies in Language 34:4 pp. 922–929 | book review

Peña, Jaime 2011 Review of The motivated syntax of arbitrary signs. Cognitive constraints on Spanish clitic clustering by Erica García (2009)

Studies in Language 34:3 pp. 717–725 | book review

Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo 2010 Review of Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison edited by Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, J. Lachlan Mackenzie & Elsa M. González Álvarez (2008)

Studies in Language 34:2 pp. 434–441 | book review

Queixalós, Francesc & Spike Gildea 2010 Manifestations of ergativity in Amazonia

In: Ergativity in Amazonia, Gildea, Spike & Francesc Queixalós (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 89] pp. 1–26

Gildea, Spike & Flávia Castro Alves 2010 Nominative-absolutive: Counter-universal split ergativity in Jê and Cariban

In: Ergativity in Amazonia, Gildea, Spike & Francesc Queixalós (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 89] pp. 159–200

Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo 2010 From positivity to possibility, propriety and necessity: Semantic change in culture

Keywords: Germanic | deontic modality | language and culture | Mandarin | semantic change

Chinese Language and Discourse 1:1 pp. 66–92 | article

Vallejos, Rosa 2010 Is there a ditransitive construction in Kokama-Kokamilla?

Keywords: ditransitive construction | Kokama-Kokamilla | oblique | core argument | causative

Studies in Language 34:1 p. 75 | article

Givón, T. 2009 Introduction

In: Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. & Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 85] pp. 1–20

Givón, T. 2009 Multiple routes to clause union: The diachrony of complex verb phrases

In: Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. & Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 85] p. 81

Tucker, Don M., Phan Luu & Catherine Poulsen 2009 Neural mechanisms of recursive processing in cognitive and linguistic complexity

In: Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. & Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 85] pp. 461–490

Tublitz, Nathan 2009 Neural plasticity: The driving force underlying the complexity of the brain

In: Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. & Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 85] pp. 509–530

Barker, Marjorie & Eric Pederson 2009 Syntactic complexity versus concatenation in a verbal production task

In: Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. & Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 85] pp. 391–404

Givón, T. 2009 The ontogeny of complex verb phrases: How children learn to negotiate fact and desire

In: Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. & Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 85] pp. 311–388

Givón, T. 2008 Grammar as an adaptive evolutionary product

In: Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing & Julia Lavid-López (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 85] pp. 1–40

DeLancey, Scott 2007 Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay. Explaining language structure through systems interaction

Functions of Language 14:2 pp. 277–283 | other

Givón, T. & Boniface Kawasha 2008 Indiscrete grammatical relations: The Lunda passive

In: Voice and Grammatical Relations: In Honor of Masayoshi Shibatani, Tsunoda, Tasaku & Taro Kageyama (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 65] pp. 15–41

DeLancey, Scott 2008 Adpositions as a non-universal category

In: Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories, Frajzyngier, Zygmunt, Adam Hodges & David S. Rood (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 72] pp. 185–202

Hennesy, Pelin Engin & T. Givón 2008 Note on the grammar of Turkish nominalizations

In: Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson, Bybee, Joan L. & Michael Noonan (eds.)  pp. 125–144

Pederson, Eric 2002 Mirror-image discrimination among nonliterate, monoliterate, and biliterate Tamil subjects

Written Language & Literacy 6:1 pp. 71–91 | other

Givón, T. 2002 Toward a neuro-cognitive interpretation of ‘context’

Pragmatics & Cognition 9:2 pp. 175–201 | article

Dickinson, Connie 2000 Mirativity in Tsafiki

Studies in Language 24:2 pp. 379–422 | article

Givón, T. & Loren Bommelyn 2000 The Evolution of De-Transitive Voice in Tolowa Athabaskan

Studies in Language 24:1 pp. 41–76 | article

Fujii, Noriko & Tsuyoshi Ono 2000 The Occurrence and Non-Occurrence of the Japanese Direct Object Marker o in Conversation

Studies in Language 24:1 pp. 1–39 | article

Kraus, Richard 1998 Review of The calligraphic state: Textual domination and history in a Muslim society by Brinkley Messick (1993 1986)

Written Language & Literacy 1:2 pp. 270–272 | book review

Givón, T. 2000 On the Co-Evolution of Language, Mind and Brain

Evolution of Communication 2:1 p. 45 | article

Danziger, Eve & Eric Pederson 1998 Through the Looking Glass: Literacy, Writing Systems and Mirror-Image Discrimination

Written Language & Literacy 1:2 pp. 153–169 | article

Adachi, Takanori 1996 Sarcasm in Japanese

Studies in Language 20:1 pp. 1–36 | article

Carpenter, Kathie 1996 Subordination by Reduplication in Wetan

Studies in Language 20:1 pp. 37–51 | article

Givón, T. 1994 Irrealis and the Subjunctive

Studies in Language 18:2 pp. 265–337 | article

Bayless, Martha 1993  Beatus quid est and the study of grammar in late anglo-saxon England

Historiographia Linguistica 20:1 p. 67 | article

Givón, T. 1991 Isomorphism in the Grammatical Code: Cognitive and Biological Considerations

Studies in Language 15:1 p. 85 | article

Givón, T. 1991 Markedness in Grammar: Distributional, Communicative and Cognitive Correlates of Syntactic Structure

Studies in Language 15:2 pp. 335–370 | article

DeLancey, Scott 1991 The Origins of Verb Serialization in Modern Tibetan

Studies in Language 15:1 pp. 1–23 | article

Thompson, Chad L. 1990 On the Treatment of Topical Objects in Chepang: Passive or Inverse?

Studies in Language 14:2 pp. 405–427 | article

Wright, Sue Ellen & T. Givón 1987 The Pragmatics of Indefinite Reference: Quantified Text-Based Studies

Studies in Language 11:1 pp. 1–33 | article

DeLancey, Scott 1984 Notes on Agentivity and Causation

Studies in Language 8:2 pp. 181–213 | article

Cooreman, Ann 1982 Topicality, Ergativity, and Transitivity in Narrative Discourse: Evidence from Chamorro

Studies in Language 6:3 pp. 343–374 | article

Peterson, Ronald E. 1980 A Little Known Aspect of Russian-Norwegian Relations

Studies in Language 4:2 pp. 249–256 | article

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