University of Southern California

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

New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang

EditorAndrew Simpson

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 290] 2026. | edited volume

New Horizons in Chinese Syntax

Edited by Andrew Simpson

Subjects Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] 2022. | edited volume

The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality

Edited by Michael A. Arbib & Derek Bickerton

Subjects Evolution of language | Theoretical linguistics

[Benjamins Current Topics, 24] 2010. xi, 181 pp. | edited volume

The Linguistic Structure of Modern English

Laurel J. Brinton & Donna M. Brinton

Subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

2010. xx, 426 pp. | text book

Holophrasis vs Compositionality in the Emergence of Protolanguage: Special issue of Interaction Studies 9:1 (2008)

Edited by Michael A. Arbib & Derek Bickerton

Subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language

[Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 9:1] 2008. | special issue

Beyond Theory: Changing organizations through participation

Edited by Stephen Toulmin & Bjørn Gustavsen

Subjects Industrial & organizational studies

[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 2] 1996. viii, 233 pp. | edited volume

Poetry as Play: 'Gongorismo' and the 'Comedia.'

María Cristina Quintero

Subjects Romance literature & literary studies

[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 38] 1991. xviii, 260 pp. | monograph

Li, Yen-hui Audrey 2026 Complements in noun phrases?

In: New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 290] pp. 406–435

Simpson, Andrew & Linh Pham 2026 Revisiting the syntax and interpretation of Vietnamese được

In: New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 290] pp. 230–259

Simpson, Andrew 2026 New insights into theoretical syntax from Asian languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang

In: New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 290]

Hu, Yaqing & Andrew Simpson 2024 Specificity contrasts in Lalo Yi: Structure and interpretation

Keywords: Lalo Yi | specificity | numeral classifiers | articles

Studies in Language 49:1 pp. 224–241 | article

Fuchs, Zuzanna, Maria Polinsky & Gregory Scontras 2024 Explaining gender: Lessons from heritage Spanish

In: Multifaceted Multilingualism, Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 66] pp. 292–326

Gündoğdu, Songül & Betul Erbasi 2023  Ezafe as a linking feature within DP

Keywords: Ezafe | nominal linker | phase domain | Turkish | Kurdish

In: Advances in Iranian Linguistics II, Karimi, Simin, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri & Jian Gang Ngui (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 361] pp. 154–179

Simpson, Andrew & Zoe Wu 2022 Constraints on the representation of anaphoric definiteness in Mandarin Chinese: A reassessment

In: New Horizons in Chinese Syntax, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] pp. 301–330

Yip, Ka-Fai & Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee 2022 Modal movement licensed by focus

In: New Horizons in Chinese Syntax, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] pp. 165–192

Liu, Yi-Hsien & Heeju Hwang 2022 V-gei vs. double object construction: The mental representation of the Mandarin V-gei construction

Keywords: V-gei | double object | syntactic priming | syntactic representation

In: New Horizons in Chinese Syntax, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] pp. 539–554

Simpson, Andrew 2022 New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li

In: New Horizons in Chinese Syntax, Simpson, Andrew (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] p.  ff.

Kaiser, Elsi 2022 Evidentiality in Finnish: On the communicative functions of the reportative evidential kuulemma and the dubitative marker muka

Keywords: Finnish | evidentiality | dubitative | doubt | reportative evidential | hearsay | Principal | Animator | muka | kuulemma

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 1:1 p. 67 | article

Lv, Junyi 2023 Crafting multimodal argumentative meshworks: Li Ziqi’s “Mushroom at the End of the World”

Keywords: argumentative meshworks | visual argument | sound argument | multimodal argument | human-nonhuman entanglement | craft | food

Journal of Argumentation in Context 11:3 pp. 329–349 | article

Toquero-Pérez, Luis Miguel 2021 Revisiting extraction and subextraction patterns from arguments

Keywords: extraction | subextraction | freezing | CED | antilocality | Principle of Minimal Compliance

Linguistic Variation 22:1 pp. 123–207 | article

Fuchs, Zuzanna & Jenneke van der Wal 2021 The locus of parametric variation in Bantu gender and nominal derivation

Keywords: grammatical gender | Bantu languages | comparative syntax | nominal derivation | locatives | diminutives

Linguistic Variation 22:2 pp. 268–324 | article

Kelly, Kimberly R., Grace Ocular, Jennifer Zamudio & Jesus Plascencia 2020 “But what about the beginning?”: Young children’s independent narrative structure and how mothers promote chronological coherence during narrative conversations

Keywords: high-point analysis | chronological narrative | sequencing | maternal scaffolding | narrative co-construction | early childhood

Narrative Inquiry 32:2 pp. 424–451 | article

Finegan, Edward 2019 Afterword

Register Studies 1:1 pp. 199–208 | afterword

Allison, Marcia & Emma Frances Bloomfield 2020 Rhetorical imaginings and multimodal arguments at the European Green Belt: Juxtaposing nonhuman nature and technology in our collective memory of the Cold War

Keywords: Cold War | environmental memory | European Green Belt | juxtaposition | material rhetoric | transcendence

Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:3 pp. 354–382 | article

Ngo, Binh, Elsi Kaiser & Andrew Simpson 2019 Effects of grammatical roles and parallelism on referential form production in Vietnamese spoken and written narratives

Keywords: reference resolution | pronouns | Vietnamese | subjecthood | parallelism | narrative

In: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Vietnamese linguistics, Duffield, Nigel, Trang Phan & Tue Trinh (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 211] pp. 275–300

Morrison, Romi Ron 2020 Gaps between the digits: On the fleshy unknowns of the human

Keywords: artificial intelligence | machine bias | black studies

Information Design Journal 25:1 pp. 56–70 | article | open access

Lin, Candise Yue & Min Wang 2018 The use of lexical and sublexical cues in speech segmentation by second language learners of English

Keywords: speech segmentation | lexical knowledge | semantic relatedness | Mandarin | second language acquisition

Journal of Second Language Studies 1:1 pp. 166–198 | article

Soames, Scott 2018 Cognitive propositions in realist linguistics

Keywords: semantics | hyperintensional | representational content | cognitive content | recognition of recurrence

In: Essays on Linguistic Realism, Behme, Christina & Martin Neef (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 196] pp. 235–254

Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa & Roumyana Pancheva 2017 A note on the syntax of possession in Paraguayan Guaraní

Keywords: triforme nouns and verbs | inalienable possessors | Vergnaud’s Conjecture (VC) | sideward-merge | nP predicates vs. DP referential arguments | +participant pronouns vs. non-participant pronouns

In: Boundaries, phases, and interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte, Fernández-Soriano, Olga, Elena Castroviejo & Isabel Párez-Jimánez (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 239] p. 85

Devereaux, Jennifer J. 2016 Embodied historiography: Models for reasoning in Tacitus’ Annales

Keywords: Annales | enargeia | historiography | Latin | mental simulation | metaphor | narrative | Tacitus

In: Embodiment in Latin Semantics, Short, William Michael (ed.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 174] pp. 237–268

Li, Yen-hui Audrey 2016 Facilitating language learning: A generative perspective

Keywords: generative grammar | language learning as learners' internalizing linguistic system

In: Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning, Tao, Hongyin (ed.) [Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 7] pp. 33–58

Nava, Emily & Louis Goldstein 2015 Modeling prosody and rhythmic distributions in Spanish speech groups

In: The Phonetics–Phonology Interface: Representations and methodologies, Romero, Joaquín & María Riera (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 335] pp. 239–258

Samuels, Bridget D. 2014 Review of Origins of sound change: Approaches to phonologization edited by Alan C. L. Yu (2013)

Diachronica 31:2 pp. 291–297 | book review

Syed, Saurov 2014 Adjective-fronting as evidence for Focus and Topic within the Bangla nominal domain

Keywords: adjective-fronting | Bangla | focus | syntax | topic

In: The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages, Chandra, Pritha & Richa Srishti (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 209] pp. 53–70

Zubizarreta, María Luisa 2014 Chapter 9. On the grammaticalization of the Assertion Structure: A view from Spanish

In: Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas & Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 214] pp. 253–282

Menon, Mythili 2014 Property concepts and the apparent lack of adjectives in Dravidian

Keywords: adjective | Dravidian | feature sharing | nominalization | relativization

In: The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages, Chandra, Pritha & Richa Srishti (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 209] pp. 25–52

Tomaszewicz, Barbara 2012 The syntactic position of Polish by and Main Clause Phenomena

In: Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons, Aelbrecht, Lobke, Liliane Haegeman & Rachel Nye (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 190] pp. 257–278

Simpson, Andrew, Hooi Ling Soh & Hiroki Nomoto 2011 Bare classifiers and definiteness: A cross-linguistic investigation

Keywords: classifiers | definiteness | grammaticalization | bare nouns

Studies in Language 35:1 pp. 168–193 | article

Hobbs, Jerry R. 2010 Clause-internal coherence

In: Constraints in Discourse 2, Kühnlein, Peter, Anton Benz & Candace L. Sidner (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 194] pp. 15–34

Arbib, Michael A. 2010 Holophrasis and the protolanguage spectrum

In: The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality, Arbib, Michael A. & Derek Bickerton (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 24] pp. 153–166

Alcázar, Asier & Mario Saltarelli 2010 In support of a syntactic analysis of double agreement phenomena in Spanish

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2008: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Groningen 2008, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe & Bart Hollebrandse (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2] pp. 1–16

Borer, Hagit & Isabelle Roy 2010 The name of the adjective

In: Adjectives: Formal analyses in syntax and semantics, Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia & Ora Matushansky (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 153] p. 85

Baldauf, Richard B. & Robert B. Kaplan 2010 Australian Applied Linguistics in relation to international trends

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 33:1 pp. 4.1–4.32 | article | open access

Feil-Seifer, David & Maja J. Matarić 2010 Dry your eyes: Examining the roles of robots for childcare applications

Interaction Studies 11:2 pp. 208–213 | article

Zubizarreta, María Luisa 2009 The Left Edge in the Spanish Clausal Structure

In: Romance Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15–18 March 2007, Masullo, Pascual José, Erin O'Rourke & Chia-Hui Huang (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 304] pp. 339–357

Ionin, Tania 2008 Progressive aspect 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. 17–53

Simpson, Andrew 2008 The grammaticalization of clausal nominalizers in Burmese

In: Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives, López-Couso, María José, Elena Seoane & Teresa Fanego (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 76] pp. 265–288

Arbib, Michael A. 2008 Holophrasis and the protolanguage spectrum

Interaction Studies 9:1 pp. 154–168 | article

Silva-Corvalán, Carmen & Noelia Sánchez-Walker 2008 1. Subjects in early dual language development: A case study of a Spanish-English bilingual child

In: Spanish in Contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries, Potowski, Kim & Richard Cameron (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 22] p. 3

Sánchez Muñoz, Ana 2008 9. Style variation in Spanish as a heritage language: A study of discourse particles in academic and non-academic registers

In: Spanish in Contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries, Potowski, Kim & Richard Cameron (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 22] pp. 153–171

Saltarelli, Mario 2008 A paradigm account of Spanish number

Keywords: gender | markedness | Number | paradigm | Realize Number | syncretism

In: Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, Martínez-Gil, Fernando & Sonia Colina (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 99] pp. 339–357

Bhattacharya, Tanmoy & Andrew Simpson 2008 Argument prominence and the nature of superiority violations

In: Argument Structure, Reuland, Eric J., Tanmoy Bhattacharya & Giorgos Spathas (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 108] pp. 175–211

Del Gobbo, Francesca 2008 On the syntax and semantics of appositive relative clauses

In: Parentheticals, Dehé, Nicole & Yordanka Kavalova (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 106] pp. 173–201

Roy, Alice C. & Michael A. Arbib 2008 The syntactic motor system

Keywords: articulatory control | imitation | language evolution | mirror system | motor control | protosign | protospeech | symbolization | syntax

In: Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller & Simone Pika (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 10] p. 5

Feil-Seifer, David, Kristine Skinner & Maja J. Matarić 2007 Benchmarks for evaluating socially assistive robotics

Keywords: assistive technology | psychological benchmarks | human–robot interaction | socially assistive robotics

Interaction Studies 8:3 pp. 423–439 | article

Kaplan, Robert B. & Richard B. Baldauf 2007 Language policy spread: Learning from health and social policy models

Keywords: social planning | United States | political process | language policy | language planning | health policy

Language Problems and Language Planning 31:2 pp. 107–129 | article

Iscrulescu, Cristian 2008 The Nominal Stress System of Romanian (re)revisited

In: New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005, Montreuil, Jean-Pierre Y. (ed.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 276] pp. 127–140

Saltarelli, Mario 2008 Durational Asymmetries and the Theory of Quantity: Temporal Proportions at Phonetic Interface

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2003, Nijmegen, 20–22 November, Geerts, Twan, Ivo van Ginneken & Haike Jacobs (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 270] pp. 219–234

Wu, Zoe 2005 A minimalist approach to the re-grammaticalization of morphology: Chinese verbal ‑le as aspect and tense

Keywords: perfective | past | resultative | grammaticalization | aspect | tense | completive

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 4:1 pp. 261–297 | article

Gault, Thomas 2003 Adult immigrant Latinas' Attitudes towards ESL Classes

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 139-140:1 pp. 101–128 | article

Lacy, Richard 2004 Review article: Foreword

Sign Language & Linguistics 6:2 p. 209 | review article

Lacy, Richard 2004 Review article: Putting some of the syntax back into semantics

Sign Language & Linguistics 6:2 pp. 211–244 | review article

Gonnerman, Laura M. & Elaine S. Andersen 2003 11. Graded semantic and phonological similarity effects in morphologically complex words

In: Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer & Maria D. Voeikova (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 218] pp. 137–148

Freeman, Donald C. 2008 Afterword

In: Cognitive Stylistics: Language and cognition in text analysis, Semino, Elena & Jonathan Culpeper (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 1] pp. 319–324

Ozerk, Kamil & Stephen Krashen 2001 Subject Matter Teaching in Bilingual Education: Impact on Bilingual and Monolingual Students

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 131-132:1 pp. 1–10 | article

Toulmin, Stephen 2001 Be Reasonable, not Certain

Keywords: Certainty | rationality | postmodernity | reasonableness | reason

Concepts and Transformation 5:2 pp. 151–163 | article

Kim, Nam-Kil 2000 Reportative Evidential in Korean

Korean Linguistics 10:1 pp. 105–124 | article

Cho, Grace  Krashen, Stephen 2000 The Role of Voluntary Factors in Heritage Language Development: How Speakers Can Develop the Heritage Language on Their Own.

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 127-128:1 pp. 127–140 | article

Field, Fredric 1998 Review of The step-tongue: Children’s English in Singapore by Anthea Fraser Gupta (1994)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 13:2 pp. 403–408 | book review

Nicholas, Nick & Bernard Comrie 1998 Review of Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic Developments in the History of English edited by Andreas H. Jucker (1995)

Diachronica 15:1 pp. 165–174 | book review

Kim, Nam-Kil 1998 On Experiential Sentences

Studies in Language 22:1 pp. 161–204 | other

Field, Fredric 1997 Review of Mixed languages: Fifteen case studies in language intertwining edited by Peter Bakker & Maarten Mous (1994)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12:2 pp. 337–342 | book review

Comrie, Bernard 1997 Review of Perspectives on Grammaticalization edited by William Pagliuca (1994)

Diachronica 14:1 pp. 163–166 | book review

Toulmin, Stephen 1997 The Ambiguities of Globalization

Keywords: Globalization | Comparative Advantage | Global Competition | Transnational Union Policy. | Nongovernmental Organizations

Concepts and Transformation 2:3 pp. 269–278 | article

Comrie, Bernard 1997 Wehr, Barbara. SE-Diathese im Italienischen

Studies in Language 21:3 pp. 712–714 | brief report

Lee, Sy-Ying & Stephen Krashen 1997 Writing Apprehension in Chinese as a First Language

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 115-116:1 pp. 27–37 | article

Toulmin, Stephen 1996 Is Action Research Really 'Research1?

Keywords: Episteme | Value Free. | Theory | Knowledge | Scientific Research | Action Research | Phronesis

Concepts and Transformation 1:1 pp. 51–61 | article

Woodard, Roger D. 1995  Etymology. By Yakov Malkiel

Historiographia Linguistica 22:3 pp. 409–414 | book review

Gee, James Paul 2015 A Linguistic Approach to Narrative

Journal of Narrative and Life History 1:1 pp. 15–39 | article

Polkinghorne, Donald E. 2015 Narrative and Self-Concept

Journal of Narrative and Life History 1:2/3 pp. 135–153 | article

Krashen, Stephen D. & Howard White 1991 Is Spelling Acquired or Learned? A Re-analysis of Rice (1897) and Cornman (1902)

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 91-92:1 pp. 1–48 | article

Duranti, Alessandro & Elinor Ochs 1990 Genitive Constructions and Agency in Samoan Discourse

Studies in Language 14:1 pp. 1–23 | article

Kim, Nam-Kil 1990 Judgment and Evidence in Selecting Keyss or Ulkesi

Korean Linguistics 6:1 pp. 149–162 | article

Comrie, Bernard 1989 Review of A Select Catalog of Language Universals by Gyula Décsy (1988)

Diachronica 6:1 pp. 137–139 | book review

Comrie, Bernard 1989 Translatability and Language Universals

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 4:1 pp. 53–67 | article

Kaye, Alan S. & Franz Müller-Gotama 1988 Review of Comparison and Universal Grammar by Leon Stassen (1985)

Studies in Language 12:1 pp. 186–193 | book review

Kim, Nam-Kil 1988 A note on predication and scrambling in Korean

Korean Linguistics 5:1 pp. 121–129 | article

Kim, Nam-Kil 1986 Predication in Korean

Korean Linguistics 4:1 pp. 47–59 | article

Comrie, Bernard 1985 Hansjakob Seiler and Christian Lehmann (eds.). Apprehension: das sprachliche Erfassen von Gegenstanden

Studies in Language 9:3 pp. 459–462 | brief report

Comrie, Bernard 1984 Review of Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions by Paul Kent Andersen (1983)

Diachronica 1:2 pp. 255–260 | book review

Kaplan, Robert B. 1982 Review of Language and Social Psychology edited by Howard Giles & Robert St. Clair (1979)

Language Problems and Language Planning 6:2 pp. 185–188 | book review

Comrie, Bernard 1982 Review of The Slavic Literary Languages: Formation and Development edited by Alexander M. Schenker & Edward Stankiewicz (1980)

Language Problems and Language Planning 6:3 pp. 336–339 | book review

Kim, Nam-Kil 1980 Indirect Speech and Its Predicates in Korean

Korean Linguistics 2:1 p. 97 | article

Comrie, Bernard 1979 Review of Functional Grammar by Simon C. Dik (1978)

Studies in Language 3:2 pp. 267–276 | book review

Kaplan, Robert B. 1978 On the notion of topic in written discourse

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 1:2 pp. 1–9 | article

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