University of California, Santa Cruz

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of California, Santa Cruz*

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

EditorMark Amengual & Amanda Dalola

Subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 45] 2025. | edited volume

Approaches to Hungarian 18: Special issue of the Journal of Uralic Linguistics 2:1 (2023)

Edited by Donka F. Farkas, Gábor Alberti & Balázs Surányi

Subjects Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages

[Journal of Uralic Linguistics, 2:1] 2023. | special issue

Mixing Metaphor

Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 6] 2016. xiv, 269 pp. |

Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997

Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs & Gerard J. Steen

Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 175] 1999. viii, 226 pp. | course book

Aissen, Judith 2026 Strategies for documenting topic and focus in understudied languages

In: Topicality and the Shaping of Grammar: New perspectives from lesser-studied languages, Palancar, Enrique L., Claudine Chamoreau & Anaid Donabédian (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 137] pp. 10–58

Nagle, Charlie, Melissa M. Baese-Berk, Mark Amengual & Joseph V. Casillas 2026 Sound communities: A quantitative proposal for studying bilingual speech

Keywords: bilingualism | multisite research | big team science | open science

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 12:1 p. 4 | article | open access

Sichel, Ivy & Rajesh Bhatt 2025 Licensing parasitic gaps without movement: Evidence from Hebrew resumptive pronouns

Keywords: relative clauses | resumptive pronouns | parasitic gaps | reconstruction | parasitic scope | 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. 118–135 | open access

Amengual, Mark & Amanda Dalola 2025  Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio: Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

In: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Amengual, Mark & Amanda Dalola (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 45]

Amengual, Mark & Amanda Dalola 2025 Introduction: Interdisciplinary approaches to Romance linguistics

In: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Amengual, Mark & Amanda Dalola (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 45] pp. 1–8

Dalola, Amanda & Mark Amengual 2025 Outroduction: Testimonies and perspectives in Romance linguistics

In: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Amengual, Mark & Amanda Dalola (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 45] pp. 324–327

Nguyen, Allison, Andrew J. Guydish & Jean E. Fox Tree 2024 Backchannels in the lab and in the wild

Keywords: backchannels | discourse processes | communicative setting | communicative task | spontaneous communication

Interaction Studies 25:1 pp. 70–99 | article

Abrams, Zsuzsanna 2023 Examining the role of peer collaborative feedback processing and task repetition in task-based L2 writing

Keywords: collaborative L2 writing | task-based L2 writing | collaborative feedback processing | revisions

In: L2 Collaborative Writing in Diverse Learning Contexts, Li, Mimi & Meixiu Zhang (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 59] pp. 109–129

Vallejos-Yopán, Rosa & Josefina Bittar 2023 Language shift ecologies in the Americas

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 pp. 117–121 | article commentary

Farkas, Donka F. 2023 Bias and anti-bias: Two case studies from Hungarian

Keywords: discourse particles | biased questions | non-intrusive questions | sentence type restrictions | conventional discourse effects

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 2:1 p. 96 | article

Amengual, Mark 2023 Cross-language influences in the acquisition of L2 and L3 phonology

Keywords: bilingual speech | trilingual speech | L2/L3 acquisition | phonology | speech perception | speech production | phonological processes | phonological contrasts | static phonetic interactions | dynamic phonetic interactions

In: Cross-language Influences in Bilingual Processing and Second Language Acquisition, Elgort, Irina, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia & Marc Brysbaert (eds.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 16] pp. 74–99

Karzmark, Christopher R. 2022 Review of Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age edited by M. Bolognesi, M. Brdar & K. Despot (2019)

Metaphor and the Social World 12:1 pp. 171–179 | book review

Terry, Kristen Kennedy 2022 Sociostylistic variation in L2 French: What schwa deletion patterns reveal about language acquisition during study abroad

Keywords: L2 French | language variation & change | sociostylistic variation | second language acquisition | sociolinguistics | study abroad | social networks | L2 phonology | schwa deletion | mixed-effects model

In: Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston & Xiaoshi Li (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 28] pp. 279–310

She, Yasheng 2021 A cure for woundless pain: Consumption of innocence in Japanese idol culture

Keywords: idol | Tokyo Idols | Perfect Blue | guardian gaze | feminism

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 33:1 p. 87 | article

Liu, Qiang, Bryan B. Holbrook, Alan H. Kawamoto & Peter A. Krause 2022 Verbal reaction times based on tracking lip movement

Keywords: acoustic latency | articulation | articulatory latency | naming task | reaction time

The Mental Lexicon 16:2/3 pp. 271–324 | article

Donaldson, Bryan 2020 Clitic position in Old Occitan affirmative verb-first declaratives coordinated by e : A variationist analysis

Keywords: old Occitan | medieval Romance | word order | clitic position | sentential coordination | variation

Journal of Historical Linguistics 10:3 pp. 389–426 | article

Okonski, Lacey, Raymond W. Gibbs & Elaine Chen 2020 Metaphor in multimodal creativity

Keywords: artistic expression | conceptual metaphor | creativity | dance | embodied metaphor | source domains

In: Performing metaphoric creativity across modes and contexts, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura & Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 7] pp. 19–42

Carrasco-Ortiz, Haydee, Mark Amengual & Stefan Th. Gries 2019 Cross-language effects of phonological and orthographic similarity in cognate word recognition: The role of language dominance

Keywords: bilingual word recognition | phonological and orthographic similarities | language dominance

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:3 pp. 389–417 | article

Amengual, Mark & Miquel Simonet 2019 Language dominance does not always predict cross-linguistic interactions in bilingual speech production

Keywords: unstressed vowel reduction | phonological processes | phonemic contrasts | language dominance | bilingual speech production

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:6 pp. 847–872 | article

Gibbs, Raymond W., Patrawat Samermit & Christopher R. Karzmark 2018 Humor, irony, and the body

Keywords: body | embodiment | humor | irony

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 16:1 pp. 72–96 | article

Gibbs, Raymond W. & Elaine Chen 2018 Metaphor and the automatic mind

Keywords: metaphor | automaticity | psycholinguistics

Metaphor and the Social World 8:1 pp. 40–63 | article

Cheng, Karen, Yeechi Chen, Kevin Larson & Marco Rolandi 2017 Proving the value of visual design in scientific communication

Keywords: data visualization | scientific communication | fluency | scientific figuresvisual design for scientists | table-of-contents graphic | visual communication design | scientific visualization | graphical abstract | information graphics

Information Design Journal 23:1 pp. 80–95 | article | open access

Donaldson, Bryan 2016 Aspects of interrogative use in near-native French: Form, function, and register

Keywords: French | interrogatives | variation | syntax | discourse | interface

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:4 pp. 467–503 | Article

Samermit, Patrawat & Raymond W. Gibbs 2016 Humor, the body, and cognitive linguistics

Keywords: cognitive science | cognitive linguistics | body | humor

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3:1 pp. 32–49 | article

Donaldson, Bryan 2016 Discourse functions of subject left dislocation in Old Occitan

Keywords: discourse | Occitan | information structure | dislocation | word order | syntax

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 16:2 pp. 159–186 | article

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2015 The allegorical character of political metaphors in discourse

Keywords: conceptual metaphor | fiction | poetry | allegory | psychology

Metaphor and the Social World 5:2 pp. 264–282 | article

Zyzik, Eve 2014  Causative verbs in the grammar of Spanish heritage speakers

Keywords: heritage speakers | causative errors | argument structure

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:1 pp. 1–33 | article

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2014 Is a general theory of utterance interpretation really possible?

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 28:1 pp. 19–44 | article

Plaster, Keith, Maria Polinsky & Boris Harizanov 2013 Noun classes grow on trees: Noun classification in the North-East Caucasus

In: Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, Bickel, Balthasar, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson & Alan Timberlake (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 104] pp. 153–170

Gibbs, Raymond W., Lacey Okonski & Miles Hatfield 2014 Crazy creative metaphors: Crazy metaphorical minds?

Keywords: creativity | metaphorical minds | metaphor

Metaphor and the Social World 3:2 pp. 141–159 | article

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2013 Metaphoric cognition as social activity: Dissolving the divide between metaphor in thought and communication

Keywords: social psychology | implicit sociality | communication | conceptual metaphor | metaphor

Metaphor and the Social World 3:1 pp. 54–76 | article

Perlman, Marcus, Joanne E. Tanner & Barbara J. King 2012 A mother gorilla’s variable use of touch to guide her infant: Insights into iconicity and the relationship between gesture and action

In: Developments in Primate Gesture Research, Pika, Simone & Katja Liebal (eds.) [Gesture Studies, 6] pp. 55–72

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2012 Chapter 16. Metaphors, snowflakes, and termite nests: How nature creates such beautiful things

In: Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication, MacArthur, Fiona, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García & Ana M. Piquer-Píriz (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 38] pp. 347–372

Gibbs, Raymond W. & Natalia Blackwell 2013 Climbing the ladder to literary Heaven: A case study of allegorical interpretation of fiction

Keywords: psycholinguistics | metaphor | embodied simulation | interpretation | allegory

Scientific Study of Literature 2:2 pp. 199–217 | article

Gibbs, Raymond W. & Nathaniel Clark 2013 No need for instinct: Coordinated communication as an emergent self organized process

Keywords: Cognitive science | coordinated communication | instincts | instinctual behavior | modularity self-organization

Pragmatics & Cognition 20:2 pp. 241–262 | article

Gibbs, Raymond W. & Luciane Corrêa Ferreira 2011 Do people infer the entailments of conceptual metaphors during verbal metaphor understanding?

In: Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion, Brdar, Mario, Stefan Th. Gries & Milena Žic Fuchs (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 32] pp. 221–236

Farkas, Donka F. 2011 Polarity particles in English and Romanian

In: Romance Linguistics 2010: Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010, Herschensohn, Julia (ed.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 318] pp. 303–328

McCloskey, James 2011 Resumptive pronouns, A-binding,and levels of representations in Irish

In: Resumptive Pronouns at the Interfaces, Rouveret, Alain (ed.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 5] p. 63

Laury, Ritva & Shigeko Okamoto 2011 Teyuuka and I mean as pragmatic parentheticals in Japanese and English

In: Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective, Laury, Ritva & Ryoko Suzuki (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 24] pp. 209–238

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2011 Advancing the debate on deliberate metaphor

Metaphor and the Social World 1:1 pp. 67–69 | article

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2011 Are ‘deliberate’ metaphors really deliberate?: A question of human consciousness and action

Metaphor and the Social World 1:1 pp. 26–52 | article

Hammack, Phillip L. 2012 Narrative and the politics of meaning

Keywords: politics | transformative | meaning | interpretive | narrative

Narrative Inquiry 21:2 pp. 311–318 | article

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2011 The individual in the scientific study of literature

Keywords: cognition | scientific methods | individual differences | metaphor | poetry | self-organizational theory

Scientific Study of Literature 1:1 p. 95 | article

Alrenga, Peter 2010 Comparisons of similarity and difference

In: Adjectives: Formal analyses in syntax and semantics, Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia & Ora Matushansky (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 153] pp. 155–186

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2010 Stability and variability in linguistic pragmatics

Keywords: ‘self-organisation’ | ‘pragmatic regularities’ | ‘variability’ and ‘stability’ | ‘situation-specificity’

Pragmatics and Society 1:1 pp. 32–49 | article

Farkas, Donka F. 2009 Polarity particles in Hungarian

In: Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 11: Papers from the 2007 New York Conference, den Dikken, Marcel & Robert M. Vago (eds.) [Approaches to Hungarian, 11] p. 95

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2008 Metaphor and gesture: Some implications for psychology

In: Metaphor and Gesture, Cienki, Alan & Cornelia Müller (eds.) [Gesture Studies, 3] pp. 291–301

Okamoto, Shigeko & Tsuyoshi Ono 2008 Quotative tte in Japanese: Its multifaceted functions and degrees of "subordination"

In: Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions, Laury, Ritva (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 80] pp. 205–230

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2007 Review of How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence by Rolf Pfeifer & Josh Bongard (2007)

Pragmatics & Cognition 15:3 pp. 610–614 | book review

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2008 Experiential tests of figurative meaning construction

Keywords: conceptual metonymy | corpus linguistics | figurative language | meaning construction | metaphor | metonymy | pragmatics | psycholinguistic experiments

In: Aspects of Meaning Construction, Radden, Günter, Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Thomas Berg & Peter Siemund (eds.)  pp. 19–32

Aissen, Judith & Joan Bresnan 2008 Remarks on description and explanation in grammar: Commentary on Haspelmath

In: What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina & Anette Rosenbach (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 7] pp. 109–112

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2007 Why irony sometimes comes to mind: Paradoxical effects of thought suppression

Keywords: thought suppression | intentionality | mental control | ironic events | irony

Pragmatics & Cognition 15:2 pp. 229–251 | article

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2006 Introspection and cognitive linguistics: Should we trust our own intuitions?

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 4:1 pp. 135–151 | article

McCloskey, James 2008 A note on predicates and heads in Irish clausal syntax

In: Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages, Carnie, Andrew, Heidi Harley & Sheila Dooley (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 73] pp. 155–174

Chung, Sandra 2008 What fronts?: On the VP-raising account of verb-initial order

In: Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages, Carnie, Andrew, Heidi Harley & Sheila Dooley (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 73] p. 9

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2005 Marcelo Dascal, Interpretation and Understanding

Pragmatics & Cognition 13:2 pp. 405–413 | article

Aissen, Judith & Joan Bresnan 2004 Remarks on description and explanation in grammar: Commentary on Haspelmath

Studies in Language 28:3 pp. 580–583 | article

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2003 Review of Bridging and Relevance by Tomoko Matsui (2000)

Pragmatics & Cognition 11:1 pp. 191–196 | book review

Darrow, James 2008 Relative Clauses in Syrian Arabic: Two Reconstruction Problems

In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XV: Salt Lake City 2001, Parkinson, Dilworth B. & Samira Farwaneh (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 247] pp. 53–83

Gibbs, Raymond W. & Guy Van Orden 2003 Are emotional expressions intentional?: A self-organizational approach

Keywords: emotional expressions | intentions | self-organized behaviors | embodiment

Consciousness & Emotion 4:1 pp. 1–16 | article

Gibbs, Raymond W. 2008 15. Embodied standing and the psychological semantics of stand

In: The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying, Newman, John (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 51] pp. 387–400

Mikkelsen, Line 2008 Expletive subjects in subject relative clauses

In: Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax: Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000), Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter & Werner Abraham (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 53] pp. 69–91

Sarbin, Theodore R. 2001 Review of Storylines: Craftartists’ Narratives of Identity by Elliot G. Mishler (1999)

Narrative Inquiry 10:2 pp. 483–488 | book review

Jesse, Alexandra, Nick Vrignaud, Michael M. Cohen & Dominic W. Massaro 2003 The processing of information from multiple sources in simultaneous interpreting

Interpreting 5:2 p. 95 | article

He, Agnes Weiyun & Brian Lindsey 1998 "You know" as an information status enhancing device: Arguments from grammar and interaction

Functions of Language 5:2 pp. 133–155 | article

Thorne, Avril, Linda Cutting & Danielle Skaw 1998 Young Adults' Relationship Memories and the Life Story: Examples or Essential Landmarks?

Narrative Inquiry 8:2 pp. 237–268 | article

Sarbin, Theodore R. 2015 A Narrative Approach to "Repressed Memories"

Journal of Narrative and Life History 5:1 pp. 51–66 | article

Sarbin, Theodore R. 2015 Emotional Life, Rhetoric, and Roles

Journal of Narrative and Life History 5:3 pp. 213–220 | article

Singer, Jefferson A. & Theodore R. Sarbin 2015 Introduction: Narrative Construction of Emotional Life

Journal of Narrative and Life History 5:3 pp. 205–206 | article

Miller, Philip H., Geoffrey K. Pullum & Arnold M. Zwicky 1992 Le Principe D'inaccessibilité de la Phonologie par la Syntaxe: Trois Contre-Exemples Apparents en Français

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 16:2 pp. 317–343 | article

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