University of Iowa

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

Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 12: Papers from the 2009 Debrecen Conference

Edited by Tibor Laczkó, Catherine O. Ringen & György Rákosi

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages

[Approaches to Hungarian, 12] 2011. x, 242 pp. | edited volume

Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages

Edited by Mercedes Niño-Murcia & Jason Rothman

Subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Studies in Bilingualism, 37] 2008. vii, 365 pp. | course book

Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective

Edited by Belma Haznedar & Elena Gavruseva

Subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 46] 2008. vi, 363 pp. | edited volume

Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In honor of Lydia White

Edited by Roumyana Slabakova, Silvina Montrul & Philippe Prévost

Subjects Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics

2006. vi, 363 pp. | edited volume

Language and Ideology: Volume 2: descriptive cognitive approaches

Edited by René Dirven, Roslyn M. Frank & Cornelia Ilie

Subjects Cognition and language | Pragmatics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 205] 2001. vi, 264 pp. | edited volume

Telicity in the Second Language

Roumyana Slabakova

Subjects Language acquisition | Semantics

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 26] 2001. xii, 236 pp. | monograph

Francisco Varo's Grammar of the Mandarin Language (1703): An English translation of ‘Arte de la lengua Mandarina’. With an Introduction by Sandra Breitenbach

W. South Coblin & Joseph A. Levi

Subjects History of linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 93] 2000. liv, 282 pp. | monograph

Slavic Gender Linguistics

Edited by Margaret H. Mills

Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 61] 1999. xviii, 251 pp. | edited volume

Johnson, David Cassels 2025 Review of Reconceptualising power in language policy: Evidence form comparative studies by Abhimanyu Sharma (2022)

Language Problems and Language Planning 49:1 pp. 112–116 | book review | open access

Yoon, Sang-Seok, Soo Yeon Lee & Dong-Eun Lee 2026 Nurturing competent non-native Korean language teachers: Insights from a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural teacher education program

Keywords: non-native Korean language educators | teacher retraining | Korean as a foreign language (KFL) | cross-linguistic pedagogy | professional identity | intercultural competence | metalinguistic awareness | Global Korean language education

Korean Linguistics 21:2 pp. 109–134 | article | open access

Fagan, Sarah M. B. 2024 The semantics and grammatical status of -frei

Keywords: compound | German | grammaticalization | semi-affix

In: Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer & B. Richard Page (eds.) [Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 8] pp. 51–68

Destruel, Emilie & Glenn Starr 2024 Scalar diversity in L2 French speakers: Pragmatic inferences in adjective scales

Keywords: scalar implicatures | inferences | diversity | second language acquisition | French

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:6 pp. 843–871 | article | open access

Gonzalez, Becky 2024 The role of the lexicon

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1 pp. 58–62 | article commentary

Chai, Donglin 2024 基于体演文化开发中高级汉语视听说课程

Keywords: 视听说 | 中级汉语 | 高级汉语 | 体演文化 | Audio-Visual-Oral | intermediate Chinese | advanced Chinese | Performed Culture

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 59:1 pp. 26–45 | article

Kim, Lan & Sang-Seok Yoon 2024 L2 Korean learners’ pragmalinguistic features: Focusing on making requests in power‑asymmetrical situations

Keywords: Korean as a Foreign Language | Communicative Competence | L2 pragmatics | interlanguage pragmatics | request speech act | pragmalinguistic features | Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project (CCSARP)

Korean Linguistics 20:2 pp. 127–168 | article | open access

Windsor, Leah, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Tracy Osborn, Bryce Dietrich & Andrew J. Hampton 2022 Gender, language, and representation in the United States Senate

Keywords: gender | language | linguistics | Senate | double bind

Journal of Language and Politics 21:6 pp. 919–943 | article

Shea, Christine 2021 L2 proficiency and L2 dialect processing during study abroad

Keywords: advanced L2 proficiency | dialect processing | dialect representation | study abroad

In: Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, challenges, and possibilities, Menke, Mandy R. & Paul A. Malovrh (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 31] pp. 193–216

Walker-Cecil, Kezia & Emilie Destruel 2021 Interpretation of focus in Haitian Creole se-clefts

Keywords: Clefts | Predicate clefts | Focus | Haitian Creole | French | Information structure

In: East and West of The Pentacrest: Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky, Gupton, Timothy & Elizabeth Gielau (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 33] pp. 17–40 | open access

O’Neill, Sarah & Christine Shea 2021 The complicated timeline of Spanish: Implications for lexical processing

Keywords: lexicon | phonological change | lexical borrowing | doublets

In: East and West of The Pentacrest: Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky, Gupton, Timothy & Elizabeth Gielau (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 33] p. 93 | open access

Shea, Christine 2021 Mapping different L1 dialects to L2 words

Keywords: Spanish | phonological form priming | second language | variability | dialects

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:5 pp. 598–627 | article

Fuchs, Zuzanna 2021 Facilitative use of grammatical gender in Heritage Spanish

Keywords: grammatical gender | heritage languages | Spanish | eye-tracking | visual world paradigm

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:6 pp. 845–871 | article

Cabrelli, Jennifer, Michael Iverson, David Giancaspro & Becky Halloran González 2020 The roles of L1 Spanish versus L2 Spanish in L3 Portuguese morphosyntactic development

Keywords: third language (L3) acquisition | multilingualism | transfer | differential object marking (DOM) | morphosyntax | Portuguese | Spanish

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. 11–33

Destruel, Emilie & Caroline Féry 2019 Compression in French: Effect of length and information status on the prosody of post-verbal sequences

Keywords: post-focal compression | givenness | French | syntax-phonology interface

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 30, Frankfurt, Feldhausen, Ingo, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt & Mareike Neuhaus (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 15] pp. 157–176

Nishi, Yumiko & Yasuhiro Shirai 2019 Verb learning and the acquisition of aspect: L1 transfer of verb semantics

Keywords: the Aspect Hypothesis | L1 transfer | lexical aspect

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:3 pp. 323–367 | article

Hedding, Kylah J. & Kevin Ripka 2018 What’s political Twitter talking about?: Setting the media agenda for the 2016 presidential debates among influential left, center, and right political media

Keywords: agendamelding | political communication | political polarization | Twitter | media agendas

The Agenda Setting Journal 2:2 pp. 168–190 | article

Johnson, David Cassels, Crissa Stephens & Stephanie Gugliemo Lynch 2018 The past is prologue: Language policy and nativism in new immigrant contexts

Keywords: language policy | intertextuality | New Latino Diaspora | English | nativism | discourse analysis

Journal of Language and Politics 17:3 pp. 366–385 | article

Ke, Chuanren 2017  Integrating Chinese linguistic research and language teaching and learning, edited by Hongyin Tao

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 52:3 pp. 307–311 | book review

Shen, Helen H. 2017 Lexical accessing for ambiguous words among advanced Chinese L2 learners

Keywords: Chinese polysemies | lexical ambiguity | lexical accessibility | reading proficiency | 汉语多义词 | 词汇歧义 | 词义提取 | 阅读水平

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 52:3 pp. 209–231 | article

Leal, Tania, Emilie Destruel & Bradley Hoot 2017 The realization of information focus in monolingual and bilingual native Spanish

Keywords: syntax-discourse interface | information focus | heritage speakers | Spanish

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:2 pp. 217–251 | article

Farmer, Thomas A., Sarah E. Anderson, Jonathan B. Freeman & Rick Dale 2016 Coordinating action and language

In: Visually Situated Language Comprehension, Knoeferle, Pia, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck & Matthew W. Crocker (eds.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 93] pp. 323–356

Gielau, Elizabeth 2016 On the mistaken identity of negated epistemics

Keywords: Epistemic contexts | Mood distribution | Negation | Subjunctive

In: Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence, Cuza, Alejandro, Lori Czerwionka & Daniel Olson (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 12] pp. 111–130

Jayachandiran, Chenthuran, Kathryn E. Harrison, Tamara D. Afifi & Sharde M. Davis 2016 The United States of wealth: The communicative construction of master and counter narratives of prosperity in the aftermath of the Great Recession

Keywords: Great Recession | financial communication | master narratives

Narrative Inquiry 26:1 pp. 39–63 | article

Miller, David, David Giancaspro, Michael Iverson, Jason Rothman & Roumyana Slabakova 2016 Not just algunos, but indeed unos L2ers can acquire scalar implicatures in L2 Spanish

Keywords: scalar | implicature | algunos | unos

In: Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in Honour of Juana M. Liceras, Alba de la Fuente, Anahí, Cristina Martínez Sanz & Elena Valenzuela (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 51] pp. 125–145

Seung, Eulsun, Soonhye Park & Jinhong Jung 2015 Methodological approaches and strategies for elicited metaphor-based research: A critical review

Keywords: educational research | elicited metaphor | metaphor | metaphor elicitation methods | teachers’ metaphors

In: Elicited Metaphor Analysis in Educational Discourse, Wan, Wan & Graham Low (eds.) [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 3] pp. 39–64

Scranton, Audrey 2016 “I won’t change who I am for anyone”: Muslim women’s narrative identities

Keywords: narrative | counterstories | identities | Muslim women

Narrative Inquiry 25:1 pp. 148–165 | article

Slabakova, Roumyana 2013  Adult second language acquisition: A selective overview with a focus on the learner linguistic system*

Keywords: Critical Period Hypothesis | the Bilingual Turn | linguistic input | generative approaches to SLA | usage-based approaches to SLA | processing

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:1 pp. 48–72 | article

Slabakova, Roumyana 2013 Chapter 1. What is easy and what is hard to acquire 
in a second language: A generative perspective

In: Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, García Mayo, María del Pilar, María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado & María Martínez-Adrián (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 9] p. 5

Pederson, Joshua R. 2014 Disruptions of individual and cultural identities: How online stories of job loss and unemployment shift the American Dream

Keywords: narrative | disruption | unemployment | identities | American Dream

Narrative Inquiry 23:2 pp. 302–322 | article

Wesely, Pamela M. 2013 The nature of foreign language anxiety in elementary immersion program graduates

Keywords: middle school | elementary | mixed methods | one-way immersion | anxiety | persistence | student attrition

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 1:2 pp. 226–250 | article

Coblin, W. South 2012  The Language of the Sangleys: A Chinese vernacular in missionary sources of the seventeenth century. By Henning Klöter

Historiographia Linguistica 39:1 pp. 129–133 | book review

Slabakova, Roumyana 2012 L3/Ln acquisition: A view from the outside

In: Third Language Acquisition in Adulthood, Cabrelli, Jennifer, Suzanne Flynn & Jason Rothman (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 46] pp. 115–140

Slabakova, Roumyana 2011  Which features are at the syntax–pragmatics interface?

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 1:1 pp. 89–93 | article commentary

McMurray, Bob, Jennifer Cole & Cheyenne Munson 2011 Features as an emergent product of computing perceptual cues relative to expectations

In: Where Do Phonological Features Come From?: Cognitive, physical and developmental bases of distinctive speech categories, Clements, G. Nick & Rachid Ridouane (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 6] pp. 197–236

Slabakova, Roumyana, Jason Rothman & Paula Kempchinsky 2011 Gradient competence at the Syntax-Discourse Interface

EUROSLA Yearbook 11:1 pp. 218–243 | article

Fitch, Kristine L. & Gerry Philipsen 2009 Ethnography of speaking

In: Culture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 2] pp. 121–130

Gavruseva, Elena 2008 The development of copula and auxiliary be and overgeneration of be in child L2 English

In: Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective, Haznedar, Belma & Elena Gavruseva (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 46] pp. 145–175

Iverson, Michael, Paula Kempchinsky & Jason Rothman 2008 Interface vulnerability and knowledge of the subjunctive/indicative distinction with negated epistemic predicates in L2 Spanish

EUROSLA Yearbook 8:1 pp. 135–163 | article

Piñeros, Carlos Eduardo 2008 The phonology of nasal consonants in five Spanish dialects

Keywords: alignment | nasal absorption | neutralization | place assimilation | velar nasal

In: Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, Martínez-Gil, Fernando & Sonia Colina (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 99] pp. 146–171

Spencer, Bruce H. 2008 Urban interactions and written standards in Early Modern German

In: Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005, Salmons, Joseph C. & Shannon Dubenion-Smith (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 284] pp. 369–384

Davison, Alice 2008 Word Order, Parameters, and the Extended COMP Projection

In: Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in honour of K. A. Jayaseelan, Bayer, Josef, Tanmoy Bhattacharya & M.T. Hany Babu (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 102] pp. 175–198

Frank, Andrea J. 2004 Review of Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition edited by Steven C. Hayes, Dermot Barnes-Holmes & Bryan Roche (2001)

Pragmatics & Cognition 12:1 pp. 169–177 | book review

Gavruseva, Elena 2003 L2 root infinitives uprooted and revisited

EUROSLA Yearbook 3:1 pp. 57–75 | article

Culy, Chris 2008 9. The logophoric hierarchy and variation in Dogon

In: Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains, Güldemann, Tom & Manfred von Roncador (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 52] pp. 201–210

Kempchinsky, Paula 2011 Locative inversion, PP topicalization and the EPP

In: Current Issues in Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ann Arbor, 8–11 April 1999, Satterfield, Teresa, Christina Tortora & Diana Cresti (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 220] pp. 145–158

Niño-Murcia, Mercedes 1997 Linguistic Purism in Cuzco, Peru: A Historical Perspective

Language Problems and Language Planning 21:2 pp. 134–161 | article

Fagan, Sarah M.B. 1996 Review of The Middle Voice by Suzanne Kemmer (1993)

Studies in Language 20:1 pp. 228–235 | book review

Cooper, William E. 1986 Review of Phonology and Syntax: The Relation between Sound and Structure by Elizabeth O. Selkirk (1984)

Studies in Language 10:1 pp. 235–241 | book review

Rowe, Camille L. 1981 The connotative dimensions of selected display typefaces

Information Design Journal 3:1 pp. 30–37 | article

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