Brigham Young University

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

Seeking Changes in a Challenging Time: New perspectives for proficiency-oriented Chinese teaching and beyond. Special issue of Chinese as a Second Language 59:2 (2024)

EditorYu Liu, Qiaona Yu & Yu Wu

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Sino-Tibetan languages

[Chinese as a Second Language ( 漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報 ): The journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA, 59:2] 2025. v, 153 pp. | special issue

Nordic literature: A comparative history

Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Thomas A. DuBois & Dan Ringgaard

Subjects Comparative literature & literary studies | Germanic literature & literary studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXI] 2017. | edited volume

Evidentiality in Interaction

Edited by Janis B. Nuckolls & Lev Michael

Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics

[Benjamins Current Topics, 63] 2014. v, 199 pp. |

Evidentiality in Interaction: Special Issue of Pragmatics and Society 3:2 (2012)

Edited by Janis B. Nuckolls & Lev Michael

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Pragmatics and Society, 3:2] 2012. | special issue

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XXI: Provo, Utah, March 2007

Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 301] 2008. x, 206 pp. | edited volume

Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding borders

Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Virgil Nemoianu & Gerald Gillespie

Subjects Comparative literature & literary studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVIII] 2004. viii, 477 pp. | edited volume

Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and quantitative perspectives

David Eddington

Subjects Morphology | Phonology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 53] 2004. xvi, 198 pp. | monograph

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XV: Salt Lake City 2001

Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson & Samira Farwaneh

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 247] 2003. x, 214 pp. | edited volume

Analogical Modeling: An exemplar-based approach to language

Edited by Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale & Dilworth B. Parkinson

Subjects Cognition and language | Natural language processing | Psycholinguistics

[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 10] 2002. x, 416 pp. | edited volume

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XIII-XIV: Stanford, 1999 and Berkeley, California 2000

Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson & Elabbas Benmamoun

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 230] 2002. xiv, 250 pp. | edited volume

Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges

Edited by William Eggington & Helen Wren

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language teaching | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

1997. xxviii, 170 pp. | course book

The Changing Scene in World Languages: Issues and challenges

Edited by Marian B. Labrum

Subjects Translation Studies

[American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, IX] 1997. 160 pp. | edited volume

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume IX: Washington D.C., 1995

Edited by Mushira Eid & Dilworth B. Parkinson

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 141] 1996. xiii, 249 pp. | edited volume

The Possibility of Language: A discussion of the nature of language, with implications for human and machine translation

Alan K. Melby & Terry Warner

Subjects Natural language processing | Translation Studies

[Benjamins Translation Library, 14] 1995. xxvi, 276 pp. | monograph

Liu, Yu 2026 Review of Defining and Assessing Chinese Syntactic Complexity via TC-Units by Qiaona Yu (2025)

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) | Online First Publication, 6 pp. | book review

Lundberg, Grant, Neil Lundberg, Jennifer Bown, Kirk Belnap & Rex Nielson 2026 Transformative learning in the experience typology: Results of a qualitative examination of students studying abroad

Keywords: experience | transformative | impact | scale | typology

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education | Online First Publication, 33 pp. | article

Stanley, Joseph A. 2026 Hypercorrect Moun[t^hɨn] in Utah English

Keywords: Utah English | released /t/ | fortition | hypercorrection | consonantal variation

English World-Wide | Online First Publication, 39 pp. | article

McBride, Adam F. 2025  Pas d’ schwa : The deletion of non-schwa French vowels in laboratory speech

Keywords: vowels | corpus | casual speech | acoustic phonetics | French

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. 115–136

Larsen, Kyra, McKayla Lindman, Brett Hashimoto, Elizabeth Hanks & Jesse Egbert 2025 A register approach to specialized word list creation: Using keywords to supplement the Contracts Word List

Keywords: contract vocabulary | specialized word lists | register | text dispersion keyness | English for specific purposes | legal language

Register Studies 7:1 pp. 11–41 | article

White, Michael 2026 The uncommonness of rāħ in Egyptian Arabic: Evidence for rāħ as a foregrounding device

Keywords: foregrounding | narratives | Egyptian Arabic

Arabic Linguistics 1:2 pp. 264–279 | article

Hashimoto, Brett 2024 Review of Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora: A Practical Framework for Corpus Representativeness by Jesse Egbert, Douglas Biber & Bethany Gray (2022)

Register Studies 6:1 pp. 91–97 | book review

Law, James, David Barny & Rachel Dorsey 2024 Addressing text difficulty in novice L2 digital social reading

In: Digital Social Reading and Second Language Learning and Teaching, Thoms, Joshua J. & Kristen Michelson (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 21] pp. 104–127

Liu, Yu & Steve Moody 2025 Aligning curriculum design with proficiency levels in a Chinese language program: A pilot study

Keywords: proficiency-based approach | OPI | ACTFL proficiency guidelines | HSK | program design | 汉语水平等级标准 | OPI | 汉语水平考试 | 课程项目设计

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 59:2 p. 90 | article

Liu, Yu, Qiaona Yu & Yu Wu 2025 Seeking changes in a challenging time: New perspectives for proficiency-oriented Chinese teaching and beyond

Keywords: proficiency-oriented instruction | Chinese as a second language | empirical studies | 以语言能力等级标准为导向 | 汉语作为第二语言 | 实证研究

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 59:2 pp. 85–89 | introduction

Ashby, Travis, Omar Lizardo, Dustin S. Stoltz & Michael Lee Wood 2023 The raw and the (over)cooked: states are physical qualities

Keywords: metaphor | states | evaluation | authenticity | development

Metaphor and the Social World 14:1 pp. 22–42 | article

Law, James 2023 Constructional change and frame element selection: Insights from the French Spending frame

Keywords: constructional change | semantic change | frame semantics | French | FrameNet | CoreSet | commercial transactions

Constructions and Frames 15:1 pp. 119–144 | article

Ellingson Eddington, David 2022 Processing Spanish gender in a usage‑based model with special reference to dual‑gendered nouns

Keywords: Spanish | gender | usage-based model | corpus | experiment

The Mental Lexicon 17:1 pp. 34–75 | article

Law, James 2022 Regularity of semantic change in Romance anatomical terms

Keywords: semantics | lexical change | lexical typology | metonymy | metaphor

Journal of Historical Linguistics 13:2 pp. 295–325 | article

Bourgerie, Dana Scott, Troy L. Cox & Steven L. Riep 2023 Does text entry method make a difference on Chinese writing test scores?

Keywords: assessment | writing | language testing | Chinese as a Second Language | Chinese | text entry method, Writing Proficiency Test

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 57:3 pp. 270–297 | article

Bourgerie, Dana Scott 2022 Language and identity: A report on a Cambodian Chinese village1

Keywords: Chinese diaspora | language identity | language contact | Hakka | Lao | Cambodia

Chinese Language and Discourse 14:2 pp. 265–284 | article

Brown, Alan V., Gregory L. Thompson & Troy Cox 2021 ACTFL OPIc question prompt and advanced Spanish fluency

Keywords: ACTFL | OPIc | question prompt | temporal fluency | advancedness

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. 41–64

Jarvis, Scott & Brett James Hashimoto 2021 How operationalizations of word types affect measures of lexical diversity

Keywords: lexical diversity | word types | MTLD | MTLD-W | MATTR

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 7:1 pp. 163–194 | article

Davies, Mark 2021 The Coronavirus Corpus: Design, construction, and use

Keywords: corpus design | NOW corpus | text archive | Coronavirus | COVID-19

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:4 pp. 583–598 | article

Rogers, Christopher & Barrett Hamp 2020 A comparison of vowel harmony in Xinkan, Jicaquean, and Lencan

Keywords: Xinkan | Jicaquean | Tol | Lencan | vowel harmony

Studies in Language 44:2 pp. 327–362 | article

Bateman, Blair, Michael Child & Eliane Berlendis Bueno 2020 A focus on language in the immersion language arts curriculum: Insights from a fourth-grade Portuguese classroom

Keywords: immersion education | immersion language arts | focus on form | counterbalanced instruction | CAPA model | Utah Dual Language Immersion | Portuguese | nominal agreement | verbal agreement

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 8:2 pp. 200–229 | article

Knell, Ellen & Shin Chi Fame Kao 2020 Repeated readings and Chinese immersion students’ reading fluency, comprehension and character recognition

Keywords: immersion education | Chinese dual language immersion | reading fluency | repeated readings | reading comprehension | character recognition

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 8:2 pp. 230–256 | article

Davies, Mark 2020 The TV and Movies corpora: Design, construction, and use

Keywords: TV | movies | diachronic | dialects | speech

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:1 pp. 10–37 | article

Nuckolls, Janis B. 2021 “How do you even know what ideophones mean?”: Gestures’ contributions to ideophone semantics in Quichua

Keywords: ideophones | iconic gestures | semantic features | sensory categories | depiction

Gesture 19:2/3 pp. 161–195 | article

Bejarano, Marie, Dan P. Dewey, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Lynn E. Henrichsen & Timothy Hall 2019 Adult second language learners’ social network development and perceived fluency gain in an intensive English program abroad

Keywords: immersion | social network | fluency | intensive English program

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 4:2 pp. 168–192 | article

Liu, Yu 2020 现代汉语常用文言虚词的语块教学 [Formulaic language instruction of classical grammatical words in modern Chinese]

Keywords: 文言虚词 | 语块教学 | 汉语书面语 | classical grammatical words | formulaic language instruction | Chinese written style

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 54:2 pp. 122–144 | article

Chapman, Don 2019 “Splendidly prejudiced”: Words for disapproval in English usage guides

Keywords: prescriptivism | usage guides | shibboleths | correctness | Standard English | terms of disapproval | popular metalanguage

In: Norms and conventions in the history of English, Bös, Birte & Claudia Claridge (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 347] pp. 29–48

Brown, Earl K. 2018 The company that word-boundary sounds keep: The effect of contextual ratio frequency on word-final /s/ in a sample of Mexican Spanish

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. 107–125

Parker, Jeff 2019 Effects of the relationships between forms within and across paradigms on lexical processing and representation: An experimental investigation of Russian nouns

Keywords: lexical processing | lexical representation | inflectional morphology | Russian | inflection classes

The Mental Lexicon 13:3 pp. 285–310 | article

Davies, Mark & Jong-Bok Kim 2018 Semantic and lexical shifts with the “into-causative” construction in American English

Keywords: corpus | causative | into | American English | lexical | semantic | diachronic

In: Explorations in English historical syntax, Cuyckens, Hubert, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert & Charlotte Maekelberghe (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 198] pp. 159–178

Ma, Rui, Lynn E. Henrichsen, Troy L. Cox & Mark W. Tanner 2018 Pronunciation’s role in English speaking-proficiency ratings

Keywords: ESL | English pronunciation | speaking proficiency | assessment | pronunciation rubric | suprasegmentals | sentence stress

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 4:1 p. 73 | article

Melby, Alan K. 2015 TBX: A terminology exchange format for the translation and localization industry

In: Handbook of Terminology: Volume 1, Kockaert, Hendrik J. & Frieda Steurs (eds.) [Handbook of Terminology, 1] pp. 393–424

Egbert, Jesse 2015 Publication type and discipline variation in published academic writing: Investigating statistical interaction in corpus data

Keywords: register | statistical interaction | academic writing | Multi-Dimensional analysis | discipline

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20:1 pp. 1–29 | article

Millard, Benjamin & Deryle Lonsdale 2014 French oral proficiency assessment: Elicited imitation with speech recognition

In: Variation within and across Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011, Côté, Marie-Hélène & Eric Mathieu (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 333] pp. 401–416

Nuckolls, Janis B. 2014 From quotative other to quotative self: Evidential usage in Pastaza Quichua

In: Evidentiality in Interaction, Nuckolls, Janis B. & Lev Michael (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 63] pp. 57–73

Feinauer, Erika & Elizabeth R. Howard 2014 Attending to the third goal: Cross-cultural competence and identity development in two-way immersion programs

Keywords: identity | cross-cultural competence | two-way immersion

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 2:2 pp. 257–272 | article

Nuckolls, Janis B. 2014 Ideophones’ challenges for typological linguistics: The case of Pastaza Quichua

Keywords: ideophones | semantics | motion verbs | Quechua | typology

Pragmatics and Society 5:3 pp. 355–383 | article

Davies, Mark 2014 Making Google Books n-grams useful for a wide range of research on language change

Keywords: Google Books | historical | syntactic | semantic | lexical

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:3 pp. 401–416 | article

Derwing, Bruce L. & David Eddington 2014 The experimental investigation of syllable structure

Keywords: syllable structure | onset-rime | mora | body-coda | phonology | psycholinguistics | word segmentation | ambisyllabic | syllabification | pause-break task

The Mental Lexicon 9:2 pp. 170–195 | article

Chapman, Don 2013 Enforcing or effacing useful distinctions?: Imply vs. infer

In: Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context, Jucker, Andreas H., Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler & Nicole Studer-Joho (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 148] p. 99

Elzinga, Dirk 2012 Review of From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages edited by Michael Adams (2011)

Language Problems and Language Planning 36:3 pp. 295–297 | book review

Russell, Robert A. 2012 Chapter 10. Syntactic attrition in L2 Japanese missionary language

In: Second Language Acquisition Abroad: The LDS Missionary Experience, Hansen, Lynne (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 45] pp. 221–244

Graham, C. Ray 2012 Chapter 2. Language learning and teaching in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

In: Second Language Acquisition Abroad: The LDS Missionary Experience, Hansen, Lynne (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 45] pp. 11–28

Dewey, Dan & Ray T. Clifford 2012 Chapter 3. The development of speaking proficiency of LDS missionaries

In: Second Language Acquisition Abroad: The LDS Missionary Experience, Hansen, Lynne (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 45] pp. 29–50

Larson-Hall, Jenifer & Dan Dewey 2012 Chapter 4. An examination of the effects of input, aptitude, and motivation on the language proficiency of missionaries mearning Japanese as a second language

In: Second Language Acquisition Abroad: The LDS Missionary Experience, Hansen, Lynne (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 45] pp. 51–88

Graham, C. Ray 2012 Chapter 7. Vocabulary attrition in adult speakers of Spanish as a second language

In: Second Language Acquisition Abroad: The LDS Missionary Experience, Hansen, Lynne (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 45] pp. 135–184

Davies, Mark 2012 The 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English (1810–2009)

In: English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010, Hegedűs, Irén & Alexandra Fodor (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 325] pp. 231–262

Melby, Alan K., Arle Lommel, Nathan Rasmussen & Jason Housley 2015 The Language Interoperability Portfolio (Linport) Project: Towards an Open, Nonproprietary Format for Packaging Translation Materials

Keywords: translation | specifications | standards | interoperability | localization | tools

The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 2:1 pp. 21–35 | article | open access

Smith, Laura Catharine 2009 Dialect variation and the Dutch diminutive: The role of prosodic templates

In: Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007, Dufresne, Monique, Fernande Dupuis & Etleva Vocaj (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 308] pp. 37–46

Lonsdale, Deryle 2009 Updating and Analyzing Father Chirouse's (1821 - 1892) Lushootseed Word List

In: Missionary Linguistics IV / Lingüística misionera IV: Lexicography. Selected papers from the Fifth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Mérida, Yucatán, 14-17 March 2007, Zwartjes, Otto, Ramón Arzápalo Marín & Thomas C. Smith-Stark (eds.) [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 114] pp. 197–212

Davies, Mark 2009 The 385+ million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (1990–2008+): Design, architecture, and linguistic insights

Keywords: American English | corpus | diachronic | relational databases | genres | phrasal verbs

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14:2 pp. 159–190 | article

Goodrich, Michael A., Bryan S. Morse, Cameron Engh, Joseph L. Cooper & Julie A. Adams 2009 Towards using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Wilderness Search and Rescue: Lessons from field trials

Interaction Studies 10:3 pp. 453–478 | article

Smith, Laura Catharine & Joseph C. Salmons 2008 

Historical Phonology and Evolutionary Phonology

Diachronica 25:3 pp. 411–430 | review article

Eggington, William 2008 Deception and fraud

In: Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics, Gibbons, John & M. Teresa Turell (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 5] pp. 249–264

Sondrup, Steven P. 2008 Framing C.J.L. Almqvist: The narrative frame of Törnrosens bok and Romantic irony

In: Romantic Prose Fiction, Gillespie, Gerald, Manfred Engel & Bernard Dieterle (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXIII] pp. 610–621

Smith, Laura Catharine 2008 The resilience of prosodic templates in the history of West Germanic

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. 351–365

Koschmann, Timothy, Curtis LeBaron, Charles Goodwin, Alan Zemel & Gary Dunnington 2007 Formulating the Triangle of Doom

Keywords: glossing practices | Conversation Analysis | ethnomethodology

Gesture 7:1 p. 97 | article

Davies, Mark 2005 The advantage of using relational databases for large corpora: Speed, advanced queries, and unlimited annotation

Keywords: n-grams | Spanish | historical | relational databases | SQL

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10:3 pp. 307–334 | article

Sowell, Madison U. 2008 Almanacs and Romantic Non-fictional Prose

In: Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding borders, Sondrup, Steven P., Virgil Nemoianu & Gerald Gillespie (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVIII] pp. 303–316

Sondrup, Steven P. 2008 Aspects of German Romantic Musical Discourse

In: Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding borders, Sondrup, Steven P., Virgil Nemoianu & Gerald Gillespie (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVIII] pp. 403–419

Sondrup, Steven P. 2008 Distorted Echoes: The Mythologies of Nordic Nationalism

In: Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding borders, Sondrup, Steven P., Virgil Nemoianu & Gerald Gillespie (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVIII] pp. 141–161

Parkinson, Dilworth B. 2008 Future Variability: A Corpus Study of Arabic Future Particles

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. 191–211

Houston, Stephen D. 2000 Floyd Lounsbury

Written Language & Literacy 3:1 pp. 189–193 | other

Kim, Han-Kon 1994 Morphological frequency count by means of computation: A case for Korean

Korean Linguistics 8:1 pp. 153–179 | article

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