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

X-Scapes: New horizons in Linguistic Landscapes. Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 5:2 (2019)

Edited by Crispin Thurlow & Kellie Gonçalves

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Linguistic Landscape: An international journal, 5:2] 2019. | special issue

Advances in Research on Semantic Roles

Edited by Seppo Kittilä & Fernando Zúñiga

Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Benjamins Current Topics, 88] 2016. v, 219 pp. |

Coordination, Collaboration and Cooperation: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Special issue of Interaction Studies 16:3 (2015)

Edited by Federica Amici & Lucas M. Bietti

Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies

[Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 16:3] 2015. | special issue

Advances in research on semantic roles: Special issue of Studies in Language 38:3 (2014)

Edited by Seppo Kittilä & Fernando Zúñiga

Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Studies in Language, 38:3] 2014. | special issue

Word Formation in South American Languages

Edited by Swintha Danielsen, Katja Hannss & Fernando Zúñiga

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

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 163] 2014. v, 228 pp. |

Peterson, David A. & Muhammad Zakaria 2025 Evolutionary pathways between applicative, causative, and middle

Keywords: causative | applicative | middle | portative | grammaticalization | South Central Tibeto-Burman

Studies in Language 50:1 pp. 109–159 | article

Brosig, Benjamin & Dolgor Guntsetseg 2025 From spatial noun to addressee-oriented demonstrative: Khalkha Mongolian naa-d=čin and caa-d=čin

Keywords: spatial noun | addressee-centered demonstrative | visual demonstrative | Khalkha-Mongolian | grammaticalization | epistemological authority

Journal of Historical Linguistics 15:2 pp. 230–262 | article

Bersier, Baptiste, Diana Mazzarella & Sandrine Zufferey 2025 “Troubles-talk”: How do we criticize and reply to criticisms in French? An experimental investigation

Keywords: speech acts | criticism | complaint | face-management | individual variations | workplace communication

Pragmatics & Cognition 32:2 pp. 382–408 | article

Auderset, Sandra, Rikker Dockum & Ryan Gehrmann 2025 Introduction

Diachronica 42:3/4 pp. 267–277 | introduction

Pellanda, Alessandro 2024 Garbage day as dispositive and semiotic landscape: A visual essay

Keywords: waste | dispositive | semiotic landscape | ethnography | discard studies

Linguistic Landscape 11:1 pp. 32–46 | article

Schwab, Sandra, Faustine Etter, Julie Kamber, Michael Mouthon, Lars Rogenmoser, Lea B. Jost & Jean-Marie Annoni 2024 The influence of linguistic and cognitive background on word stress processing in an unknown language

Keywords: lexical stress perception | unknown language | working memory capacity | musical aptitude | task complexity

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 10:2 pp. 204–231 | article

Wetzel, Mathis, Sandrine Zufferey & Pascal Gygax 2024 The role of complexity in the ability to notice incoherent uses of connectives for L2

Keywords: discourse connectives | second language | online reading | frequency | modality | register | self-paced reading task | sentence-evaluation-task

Journal of Second Language Studies 7:1 pp. 44–74 | article

Neuenschwander, Christoph 2024 Pacific transformations of the ‘Country of Babel’: The legacy of a colonial language myth in nationalist discourses on Hawai‘i Creole and Tok Pisin

Keywords: language myths | Babel | Hawai‘i Creole | Tok Pisin | language ideology | prescriptivism | standardisation | multilingualism | nationalism | topoi

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 40:2 pp. 262–301 | article | open access

Thurlow, Crispin & Adam Jaworski 2024 Regrounding work in elite discourse: Mediatizing and amplifying entitlement

Keywords: framing | regroundings | labour | elite status | entitlement | mediatization

Pragmatics and Society 16:2 pp. 151–173 | article

Scheller, Katharina 2024 Visualizing biodiversity on maps: Conflicting goals and limits of conventional presentation methods

Keywords: map design | biodiversity maps | visual analyses | critical cartography | ecology

Information Design Journal 29:1 p. 3 | article

Gonçalves, Kellie & Kristin Vold Lexander 2024 Permanent or temporary homes?: Investigating the discourses of lifestyle migration, lifestyle mobilities and multilingualism within a Norwegian context

Keywords: multilingualism | lifestyle migration | lifestyle mobilities | Norway | mediational repertoires | yoga teachers | cleaners

AILA Review 36:2 pp. 299–320 | article

Thurlow, Crispin 2023 Staging a tomatoscape: A case study in place branding and/as semiotic reflexivity

Keywords: place branding | semiotic reflexivity | mediatization | mediation | remediation | linguistic landscape

Linguistic Landscape 10:1 pp. 1–21 | article

Mathier, Marion 2022 Review of Language Teaching in the Linguistic Landscape: Mobilizing Pedagogy in Public Space edited by David Malinowski, Hiram H. Maxim & Sébastian Dubreil (2020)

Linguistic Landscape 8:1 pp. 118–121 | book review

Wetzel, Mathis, Ludivine Crible & Sandrine Zufferey 2022 Processing clause-internal discourse relations in a second language: A case study of specifications in German and French

Keywords: discourse coherence | specifications | connectives | online processing | offline judgment task

Journal of Second Language Studies 5:2 pp. 206–234 | article

Kempf, Luise & Stefan Hartmann 2022 What’s extravagant about be-sandal-ed feet?: Morphology, semantics and pragmatics of German pseudo-participles

Keywords: pseudo-participles | creativity | web corpora | givenness | stereotypes

In: Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology, Eitelmann, Matthias & Dagmar Haumann (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 223] pp. 19–50

Overmann, Karenleigh A., Thiago Chacon & Annick Payne 2022 Desana numerical symbols: An indigenous creation narrated by Diakuru and Kisibi

Keywords: Desana | numerical symbols | writing system

Written Language & Literacy 25:2 pp. 133–158 | 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

Gerber, Pascal 2022 Verb stem alternation in Gongduk: Synchronic and diachronic analysis

Keywords: Gongduk | verbal morphology | stem alternation | Trans-Himalayan | derivational morphology

Language and Linguistics 23:2 pp. 240–273 | article | open access

Comer, Joseph 2022 ‘Together, soon enough’: Melbourne’s affective-discursive landscape during and since lockdown

Keywords: affective-discursive practice | citizen Linguistic Landscapes | Covid-19 | Melbourne | autoethnography

Linguistic Landscape 8:2/3 pp. 149–167 | article

Driem, George van 2021 

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 44:2 pp. 310–312 | book review

Zúñiga, Fernando & Beatriz Fernández 2021 Antipassivization in Basque revisited

Keywords: Basque | antipassive | ergative displacement | ari-progressives | participial clauses | lexically constrained antipassive | voice

In: Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 130] pp. 621–640

Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus 2021 The Duhumbi perspective on Proto-Western Kho-Bwa onsets

Keywords: Western Kho-Bwa | proto-language | historical-comparative linguistics | Sartang | Sherdukpen

Journal of Historical Linguistics 11:1 pp. 1–59 | article

Britain, David & Sarah Grossenbacher 2021 Counterurbanisation, dialect contact and the levelling of non-salient traditional dialect variants: The case of the front short vowels in Eastern England

Keywords: language variation | dialect contact | dialect levelling | counterurbanisation | mobility | salience | East Anglia | mergers

In: Urban Matters: Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics, Ziegler, Arne, Stefanie Edler & Georg Oberdorfer (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 27] p. 89 | open access

Kempf, Luise 2021 German so-relatives: Lost in grammatical, typological, and sociolinguistic change

Keywords: German | grammatical obsolescence | corpus study | relativizer | genre | socio-cultural factors

In: Lost in Change: Causes and Processes in the Loss of Grammatical Elements and Constructions, Kranich, Svenja & Tine Breban (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 218] pp. 291–332

Marzo, Stefania, Silvia Natale & Stefano De Pascale 2021 Language attitudes among mobile speakers: Evidence from Italian speakers living abroad

Keywords: mobility | migration | standard language ideology | prestige

In: Urban Matters: Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics, Ziegler, Arne, Stefanie Edler & Georg Oberdorfer (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 27] pp. 119–140 | open access

Gopal, Deepthi, Tamsin Blaxter, David Willis & Adrian Leemann 2021 Testing models of diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations in Twitter data

Keywords: dialectology | syntactic variation | computational sociolinguistics | British English | dative alternation

In: Urban Matters: Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics, Ziegler, Arne, Stefanie Edler & Georg Oberdorfer (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 27] pp. 253–278 | open access

Gerber, Pascal 2020 Areal features in Gongduk, Bjokapakha and Black Mountain Mönpa phonology

Keywords: Gongduk | Black Mountain Mönpa | Bjokapakha | Tshangla | Sprachbund | phonology | Bhutan

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 43:1 pp. 55–86 | article

Grollmann, Selin 2020 Diachronic aspects of Bjokapakha epistemic verbal morphology: The role of nominalisers and copulas

Keywords: Bjokapakha | Tshangla | Trans-Himalayan | epistemic categories | grammaticalisation | nominalisation | copulas | internal reconstruction | historical-comparative linguistics | egophoricity | mirative | factual

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 43:1 p. 87 | article

Zemp, Marius 2020 Evidentials and their pivot in Tibetic and neighboring Himalayan languages

Functions of Language 27:1 pp. 29–54 | article

Lorente, Beatriz P. 2019 Dismantling the colonial structure of knowledge production

Language, Culture and Society 1:1 pp. 152–156 | article

Comer, Joseph 2019 Milani, Tommaso (ed). 2018. Queering Language, Gender and Sexuality

Journal of Language and Sexuality 8:2 pp. 247–251 | book review

Thurlow, Crispin & Kellie Gonçalves 2019 X-SCAPES: New horizons in linguistic landscapes

Linguistic Landscape 5:2 pp. 111–114 | introduction

Thöny, Luzius 2019 Waves in computer simulations of linguistic diffusion

Keywords: language change | diffusion | agent-based modeling | wave | cascade | simulation | German

In: Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27–31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela & Claudia Fabrizio (eds.) Parlato, Renato[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 348] pp. 615–630

Zúñiga, Fernando 2019 Grammatical relations in Mapudungun

In: Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations, Witzlack-Mackarevich, Alena & Balthasar Bickel (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 123] pp. 39–67

Fryba-Reber, Anne-Marguerite 2018  La “Collation Sechehaye” du Cours de linguistique générale de Ferdinand de Saussure. Édition, introduction et notes par.

Historiographia Linguistica 45:1/2 pp. 249–254 | book review

Britain, David 2018  One man is an island: the speech community William Marsters begat on Palmerston Island. By Rachel Hendery

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33:1 pp. 226–230 | book review

Bilkic, Maida 2018 Emplacing hate: Turbulent graffscapes and linguistic violence in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina

Keywords: Bosnia-Herzegovina | graffscapes | linguistic landscapes | linguistic violence | turbulence

Linguistic Landscape 4:1 pp. 1–28 | article

van Driem, George 2018 Linguistic history and historical linguistics

Keywords: Tibeto-Burman linguistics | Trans-Himalayan | historical linguistics | history of linguistics

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 41:1 pp. 106–127 | article

Hoek, Jet, Sandrine Zufferey, Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul & Ted J. M. Sanders 2019 The linguistic marking of coherence relations: Interactions between connectives and segment-internal elements

Keywords: coherence relations | connectives | signals | linguistic marking | parallel corpus

Pragmatics & Cognition 25:2 pp. 276–309 | article

Lemaina Veikho, Sahiinii & Priyankoo Sarmah 2018 Vowels and tones in Poula

Keywords: Poula | Poumai Naga | Trans-Himalayan | vowels | tones

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 41:1 pp. 22–44 | article

Kaufmann, Beatrice, Murielle Drack, Maja Steinlin, Sandra Bigi & Arne Scheuermann 2018 Picture sheets as visual aids for medical consultations

Information Design Journal 23:3 pp. 290–309 | article

Widmer, Manuel & Marius Zemp 2017 The epistemization of person markers in reported speech

Studies in Language 41:1 pp. 33–75 | article

Levey, Stephen, Susan Fox & Laura Kastronic 2017 A big city perspective on come/came variation: Evidence from London, U.K.

Keywords: come/came | variation | London English | adolescents | migrant-heritage speakers

English World-Wide 38:2 pp. 181–210 | article

van Driem, George 2017 The domestications and the domesticators of Asian rice

Keywords: rice (Oryza sativa) | Hmong-Mien | Austroasiatic | phylogeography | preservation bias

In: Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine & Alexander Savelyev (eds.)  pp. 183–214 | open access

Dupont, Maïté & Sandrine Zufferey 2017 Methodological issues in the use of directional parallel corpora: A case study of English and French concessive connectives

Keywords: translation corpora | concessive connectives | register variation | English | French

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22:2 pp. 270–297 | article

Kittilä, Seppo & Fernando Zúñiga 2016 Recent developments and open questions in the field of semantic roles

Keywords: lexical semantics | role complex | semantic role | subrole

In: Advances in Research on Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo & Fernando Zúñiga (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 88] pp. 1–26

Hirano, Keiko & David Britain 2016 Accommodation, dialect contact and grammatical variation: Verbs of obligation in the Anglophone community in Japan

Keywords: dialect contact | linguistic accommodation | social network approach | verbs of obligation

In: New Approaches in English Linguistics: Building Bridges, Timofeeva, Olga, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja & Sarah Chevalier (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 177] pp. 13–33

Britain, David 2015 Between North and South: The Fenland

Keywords: grammatical variation | linguistic characteristics of Fenland | location and history of Fenland | phonological variation

In: Researching Northern English, Hickey, Raymond (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G55] pp. 417–436

Bodt, Timotheus A. & Ismael Lieberherr 2015 First notes on the phonology and classification of the Bangru language of India

Keywords: Bangru | Tibeto-Burman | Hruso | Hrusish | genetic classification | Trans-Himalayan | Miji | Aka | phonology

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 38:1 p. 66 | article

Purmohammad, Mehdi 2015 Linguistic alignment in L1–L2 dialogue

Keywords: L2 speakers | L1–L2 dialogue | dialogue | linguistic alignment | lexical alignment | interlocutors | macro-linguistic alignment

Language and Dialogue 5:2 pp. 312–333 | article

Haurholm-Larsen, Steffen 2014 Review of Basic Linguistic Theory by R. M. W. Dixon (2012)

Studies in Language 38:4 pp. 1005–1013 | book review

Danielsen, Swintha, Katja Hannss & Fernando Zúñiga 2014 Introduction and acknowledgments

In: Word Formation in South American Languages, Danielsen, Swintha, Katja Hannss & Fernando Zúñiga (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 163] pp. 1–10

Kittilä, Seppo & Fernando Zúñiga 2014 Recent developments and open questions in the field of semantic roles

Keywords: semantic role | lexical semantics | role complex | subrole

Studies in Language 38:3 pp. 437–462 | article

Haller, Felix 2014 Roland Bielmeier: February 14, 1943 – December 23, 2013

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 37:1 pp. 147–149 | article

van Driem, George L. 2013 Biactantial agreement in the Gongduk transitive verb in the broader Tibeto-Burman context

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. 69–82

Post, Mark W. 2013 Person-sensitive TAME marking in Galo: Historical origins and functional motivation

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. 107–130

Rippl, Gabriele 2011 Iconicity and intermediality in Charles Simic’s Dime-Store Alchemy

In: Semblance and Signification, Michelucci, Pascal, Olga Fischer & Christina Ljungberg (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 10] pp. 313–326

Watts, Richard J. 2011 A socio-cognitive approach to historical politeness

Keywords: eighteenth century | conceptual relativity | Cognitive Blending Theory | first-order politeness | socio-cognitive linguistics

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12:1/2 pp. 104–132 | article

Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco, Nicola Grandi & Bernhard Wälchli 2010 Coordination in compounding

In: Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding, Scalise, Sergio & Irene Vogel (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 311] pp. 177–198

Watts, Richard J. 2010 Social institutions

In: Society and Language Use, Jaspers, Jürgen, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 7] pp. 261–273

Pfister, Jonas 2010 Communicative signs meaning naturally

Keywords: animal communication | non-natural meaning | Grice | natural meaning

Pragmatics & Cognition 18:1 pp. 40–67 | article

Leemann, Adrian 2009 Intonational variation in Swiss German

In: Language Variation – European perspectives II: Selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), Nicosia, June 2007, Tsiplakou, Stavroula, Marilena Karyolemou & Pavlos Pavlou (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 5] pp. 135–144

Werlen, Iwar 2008 5. Receptive multilingualism in Switzerland and the case of Biel/Bienne

Keywords: French | German | receptive multilingualism | Swiss model | Switzerland

In: Receptive Multilingualism: Linguistic analyses, language policies and didactic concepts, ten Thije, Jan D. & Ludger Zeevaert (eds.) [Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 6] pp. 137–157

Wälchli, Bernhard 2006 Typology of heavy and light again or the eternal return of the same

Studies in Language 30:1 p. 69 | article

Hentschel, Elke 2008 Serbian. The expression of gender in Serbian

In: Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 3, Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 11] pp. 287–309

Engler, Rudolf & Irina Vilkou-Poustovaïa 2003 À Propos de la réflexion phonologique de F. de Saussure

Historiographia Linguistica 30:1/2 p. 99 | article

Hess-Lüttich, Ernest W.B. 2008 Negotiating social relationships: Fontane’s gossip: The rhetoric of discreet indiscretion in L’Adultera

In: Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction, Weigand, Edda & Marcelo Dascal (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 214] pp. 267–288

Bächli, Andreas 2002 Bemerkungen zu Substanz und Wissen Gottes in Boethius’ Philosophiae consolatio

Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 6:1 pp. 21–51 | other

Engler, Rudolf 1982 Philologia Linguistica: Lionardo Salviatis Kommentar der Sprache Boccaccios (1584/86)

Historiographia Linguistica 9:3 pp. 299–319 | article

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