University of Canterbury

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

Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders

Edited by Nino Amiridze, Boyd Davis & Margaret Maclagan

Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 93] 2010. vii, 224 pp. | edited volume

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 6 (2006)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, Marta Medved Krajnovic & Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 6] 2006. | yearbook

The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in English

Heidi Quinn

Subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 82] 2005. xii, 409 pp. | monograph

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 3 (2003)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen & Simona Pekarek Doehler

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 3] 2003. | yearbook

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 2 (2002)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, Tanja Ruthenberg & Marie Louise Poschen

Subjects Language acquisition

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 2] 2002. | yearbook

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 1 (2001)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen & Anna Nizegorodcew

Subjects Language acquisition

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 1] 2001. | yearbook

New Zealand English

Edited by Allan Bell & Koenraad Kuiper

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Varieties of English Around the World, G25] 2000. 368 pp. | edited volume

Culhane, Kirsten & Owen Edwards 2026 The phonetics and phonological behaviour of vowel length in Meto

Keywords: vowel length | double vowels | phonological analysis | Timor

In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl & Birgit Hellwig (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 429–463 | open access

Hurring, Gia & Lynn Clark 2025 Vowel variation in a segregated and isolated religious community

Keywords: new dialect formation | isolation | gender segregation | age-grading | vowel variation | communities of practice | Gloriavale | New Zealand English | cult

English World-Wide 46:1 pp. 52–92 | article

Davis, Boyd H., Margaret Maclagan & Meredith Troutman-Jordan 2023 Learning from initial reviews of multilingual graphics illustrating dementia caregiving

Keywords: dementia caregivers | medical comics | dementia | caregivers

Pragmatics and Society 15:1 p. 85 | article

Blain, Hayden & Paul Millar 2023 Shifting discourses of togetherness and heroism in retold earthquake stories

Keywords: narrative | positioning | discourses | disaster | tellability

Narrative Inquiry 35:1 pp. 70–94 | article

Schokkin, Dineke 2022 Verbal number in Idi

Keywords: Idi | Pahoturi River family | Papuan languages | nonplural | verbal inflection | stem alternation | lexical aspect | distributed exponence | composite number

Studies in Language 47:2 pp. 291–317 | article

Szreder, Marta, Donald Derrick & Chahla Ben-Ammar 2021 Affricate variation in Emirati Arabic: An exploratory study

Keywords: Emirati Arabic | affrication | variation | coronals

In: Experimental Arabic Linguistics, Ntelitheos, Dimitrios & Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung (eds.) [Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 10] pp. 57–82

Chao, Di-kai & Riccardo Moratto 2021 台湾对外汉语教学学科研究的发展与前景: 以年会论文为例 [Challenges and new horizons in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL) in Taiwan]

Keywords: 对外汉语教学 | 二语习得 | 台湾 | 学科建设 | Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL) | second language acquisition | Chinese as a foreign language | Taiwan | subject construction

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 56:1 pp. 1–20 | article

Schokkin, Dineke 2021 Variable realisation of verb-final /n/ in Idi

Keywords: Papuan languages | elision | Pahoturi River | age-graded variation | esoterogeny | non-WEIRD societies

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:1 pp. 1–29 | article

Keijsers, Merel, Christoph Bartneck & Friederike Eyssel 2021 What’s to bullying a bot?: Correlates between chatbot humanlikeness and abuse

Keywords: human-chatbot interaction | verbal aggression | chatbot abuse | chatbot humanlike-ness

Interaction Studies 22:1 pp. 55–80 | article

King, Jeanette, Margaret Maclagan, Ray Harlow, Peter Keegan & Catherine Watson 2021 Prestige norms and sound change in Māori

Keywords: Māori language | te reo Māori | style | prestige norms | indigenous language | sound change

Language Ecology 4:1 p. 95 | article

Shirakawa, Mineko 2020 Parental language attitudes and language use among Brazilian families in Japan

Keywords: Japanese-Brazilians | bilingualism | home language use | heritage languages

In: New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Bugel, Talia & Cecilia Montes-Alcalá (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 25] pp. 185–206

Meyerhoff, Miriam, Maya Ravindranath Abtahian, Roey J. Gafter, Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan, Peter Keegan & Jeanette King 2021 Styles, standards and meaning: Issues in the globalisation of sociolinguistics

Keywords: style variation | language standards | minority languages | sociolinguistic theory | superposed variety | indicators | markers | stereotypes

Language Ecology 4:1 pp. 1–16 | introduction

Cunningham, Una & Jeanette King 2019 Greening the information desert: Supporting emergent bilinguals with research-informed workshops

Keywords: caregiver information | workshop | multilingualism | emergent bilinguals

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 42:1 pp. 37–58 | article

Beckner, Clay 2018 The evidence add ups: An affix shift study of prefabs

In: Functionalist and usage-based approaches to the study of language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee, Smith, K. Aaron & Dawn Nordquist (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 192] pp. 199–224

Dunn, Jonathan 2018 Multi-unit association measures: Moving beyond pairs of words

Keywords: association strength | multi-unit association | sequences | ΔP | collocations

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 23:2 pp. 183–215 | article

Wang, Xuan 2018 Investigating the role of speaker attitudes in koinéisation in Hohhot, China

Keywords: attitudes | koinéisation | dialect contact | migration | China | social networks

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 3:2 pp. 232–270 | article

Moltchanova, Elena & Christoph Bartneck 2017 Individual differences are more important than the emotional category for the perception of emotional expressions

Keywords: emotion | expression | gender | individual | differences

Interaction Studies 18:2 pp. 161–173 | article

Davis, Boyd & Margaret Maclagan 2016 Sociolinguistics, language, and aging

In: Cognition, Language and Aging, Wright, Heather Harris (ed.)  pp. 221–245 | open access

Gruber, James, Jeanette King, Jen Hay & Lucy Johnston 2016 The hands, head, and brow: A sociolinguistic study of Māori gesture

Keywords: gesture | cross-cultural comparison | non-verbal behaviour | eyebrows | Maori

Gesture 15:1 pp. 1–36 | article

Davis, Boyd, Margaret Maclagan & Dena Shenk 2016 The silent violence of marginalization and teasing in dementia care residences

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 4:1 pp. 35–61 | article

Wyles, Christine 2016 “Patience, please”: Vocally disruptive behaviours in dementia care

Keywords: vocally disruptive behaviour | dementia | residential care

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 4:1 p. 90 | article

Gnevsheva, Ksenia 2015 Acoustic analysis in the Accents of Non-Native English (ANNE) corpus

Keywords: sociolinguistic variation | learner corpus | non-native speakers | acoustic analysis

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 1:2 pp. 256–267 | article

Gnevsheva, Ksenia 2015 Style-shifting and intra-speaker variation in the vowel production of nonnative speakers of New Zealand English

Keywords: vowel production | style-shifting | Sociolinguistic variation | second language acquisition | accentedness

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 1:2 pp. 135–156 | article

Loginova, Irina 2016 Creating disorder: The effect of impending elections on Question Time in two Houses of Representatives

Keywords: genrelect | discourse community | Parliament | Question Time | elections | disorder | unparliamentary language

Journal of Language and Politics 14:6 pp. 801–829 | article

Honeybone, Patrick & Kevin Watson 2013 Salience and the sociolinguistics of Scouse spelling: Exploring the phonology of the Contemporary Humorous Localised Dialect Literature of Liverpool

Keywords: orthography | dialect spelling | sociolinguistic salience | Scouse | Liverpool English | phonological salience

English World-Wide 34:3 pp. 305–340 | article

Maclagan, Margaret 2012 Review of Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and Beyond edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins & Adam Smith (2009)

English World-Wide 33:1 pp. 112–115 | book review

Clark, Lynn 2012 Dialect data, lexical frequency and the usage-based approach

In: The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change, De Vogelaer, Gunther & Guido Seiler (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 128] pp. 53–72

Gordon, Elizabeth 2010 Describing and complaining: Written evidence of early New Zealand English pronunciation

In: Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, Hickey, Raymond (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G41] pp. 349–364

Davis, Boyd & Margaret Maclagan 2010 Pauses, fillers, placeholders and formulaicity in Alzheimer’s discourse: Gluing relationships as impairment increases

In: Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders, Amiridze, Nino, Boyd Davis & Margaret Maclagan (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 93] pp. 189–216

Harlow, Ray, Peter Keegan, Jeanette King, Margaret Maclagan & Catherine I. Watson 2009 5. The changing sound of the Māori language

In: Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages, Stanford, James N. & Dennis R. Preston (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 25] pp. 129–152

Quinn, Heidi 2009 Pronoun forms

In: Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond, Peters, Pam, Peter Collins & Adam Smith (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G39] pp. 31–48

Kearns, Kate 2009 Zero complementizer, syntactic context, and regional variety

In: Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond, Peters, Pam, Peter Collins & Adam Smith (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G39] pp. 241–260

Maclagan, Margaret, Boyd Davis & Ron Lunsford 2008 11. Fixed expressions, extenders and metonymy in the speech of people with Alzheimer's disease

In: Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective, Granger, Sylviane & Fanny Meunier (eds.)  pp. 175–187

Kuiper, Koenraad 2008 Cathy Wilcox meets the phrasal lexicon: Creative deformation of phrasal lexical items for humorous effect

In: Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts, Munat, Judith (ed.) [Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 58] p. 93

Hay, Jen 2008 The phonetics of 'un'

In: Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts, Munat, Judith (ed.) [Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 58] pp. 39–57

Tagliamonte, Sali A. & Alexandra D'Arcy 2007 The modals of obligation/necessity in Canadian perspective

Keywords: grammaticalization | deontic modality | epistemic modality | obligation/necessity | Canadian English

English World-Wide 28:1 pp. 47–87 | article

Trudgill, Peter & Elizabeth Gordon 2006 Predicting the past: Dialect archaeology and Australian English rhoticity

Keywords: non-prevocalic r | colonial English | rhoticity | Australian English | New Zealand English | English dialects | 19th century English

English World-Wide 27:3 pp. 235–246 | article

Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew D. 2003 Review of Explaining Language Change: An evolutionary approach by Croft William (2000)

Diachronica 20:1 pp. 203–206 | book review

Foster-Cohen, Susan H. & Simona Pekarek Doehler 2003 Introduction

EUROSLA Yearbook 3:1 pp. 1–3 | other

Low, Peter 2003 Translating poetic songs: An attempt at a functional account of strategies

Keywords: art-song | Lieder | poem-translating | skopos | translation theory

Target 15:1 p. 91 | article

Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew D. 2003 4. How stems and affixes interact: Stem alternants as morphological signata

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. 49–57

Schreier, Daniel 2002 Dynamic mixing or archaic retention?: The ambiguous case of ‘completive done’ in Tristan da Cunha English

Diachronica 19:1 pp. 135–176 | article

Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew D. 2002 Review of Biolinguistics: Exploring the biology of language by Lyle Jenkins (1999)

Diachronica 18:2 pp. 374–379 | book review

Trudgill, Peter, Elizabeth Gordon, Gillian Lewis & Margaret Maclagan 2001 The role of drift in the formation of native-speaker southern hemisphere Englishes: Some New Zealand evidence

Diachronica 17:1 pp. 111–138 | article

Gordon, Elizabeth & Peter Trudgill 1999 Shades of Things to Come: Embryonic Variants in New Zealand English Sound Changes

English World-Wide 20:1 pp. 111–124 | article

Fisher, Rodney W. 1998  The Medieval Translator. Traduire au Moyen Age. Proceedings of the International Conference of Conques. Editors: Roger Ellis and René Tixier

Babel 44:4 pp. 365–369 | other

Fisher, Rodney W. 1998 Martin Sutton: The Sin-Complex. A Critical Study of English Versions of the Grimms' 'Kinder- und Hausmärchen' in the Nineteenth Century

Babel 44:3 pp. 274–276 | other

Fisher, Rodney W. 1998 Medieval German literature in modern German translation: A survey of some recent practices, with some comments on their rationale

Babel 44:2 pp. 110–127 | article

Gordon, Elizabeth 1998 The Origins of New Zealand Speech: The Limits of Recovering Historical Information from Written Records

English World-Wide 19:1 pp. 61–85 | article

Campbell, Lyle 1995 The Quechumaran Hypothesis and Lessons for Distant Genetic Comparison

Diachronica 12:2 pp. 157–200 | article

Fisher, Rodney W. 1993 Translating Medieval German: Some Observations from the Workshop

Babel 39:4 pp. 214–224 | article

Barker, Penny, Max Hailstone & Murray Simmonds 1986 An experimental study of some effects of figure-ground contrast on the use of street maps

Information Design Journal 4:3 pp. 212–220 | article

Barrett, C. Robin 1985 Review of A Sketch of Diachronic English Morphology by Alfred Bammes-berger (1984)

Diachronica 2:2 pp. 239–244 | book review

Kuiper, Koenraad 1979 Review of Compound Adjectives in English and the Ideal Speaker-Listener by W. J. Meys (1975)

Studies in Language 3:1 pp. 119–128 | book review

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