SOAS University of London

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

From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon

Edited by Mandana Seyfeddinipur & Marianne Gullberg

Subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Gesture Studies | Pragmatics

2014. ix, 379 pp. |

Bengali

Hanne-Ruth Thompson

Subjects Other Indo-European languages | Theoretical linguistics

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 18] 2012. xxviii, 384 pp. | reference work

Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning

Lucien Brown

Subjects Language acquisition | Linguistics of isolated languages | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 206] 2011. xiv, 311 pp. | monograph

Argument Structure

Edited by Eric J. Reuland, Tanmoy Bhattacharya & Giorgos Spathas

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 108] 2007. xviii, 243 pp. | edited volume

Hausa

Philip J. Jaggar

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Syntax

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 7] 2001. xxxiv, 754 pp. | monograph

Wh-Movement and the Theory of Feature-Checking

Andrew Simpson

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax

2000. xii, 244 pp. | monograph

Tibetan

Philip Denwood

Subjects Sino-Tibetan languages

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 3] 1999. xix, 372 pp. | reference work

Georgian: A structural reference grammar

George Hewitt

Subjects Caucasian languages

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 2] 1995. xviii, 716 pp. | monograph

Jiang, Yan 2026 COVID-19 and the Chinese community in London: Discourse circulation, semantic shifts, and transnational communication in a public health crisis

Keywords: COVID-19 discourse | Chinese diaspora | discourse circulation | subaltern public spheres | entextualization

Chinese Language and Discourse | Online First Publication, 25 pp. | article

Amir, Alia 2025 Review of Language Policy as Practice: Advancing the Empirical Turn in Language Policy Research by Florence Bonacina-Pugh (2024)

Language Problems and Language Planning | Online First Publication, 7 pp. | book review

Fernández, Montserrat Benítez 2025 Moroccan Arabic as a minority language in contact with Spanish in a diasporic context

Keywords: language contact | contact-induced change | Moroccan Arabic | Spanish

In: Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact, Ali, Farah, Carol Ann Ready & Sherez Mohamed (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 44] p. 8

Joby, Christopher 2025 The circulation of Dutch lexical phenomena in East Asia

Keywords: Japanese | lexical contact phenomena | circulation of loanwords | loanwords | calques | Chinese | Sinitic varieties | Korean | Vietnamese | Formosan languages

In: Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries, Joby, Christopher & Nicoline van der Sijs (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 55] pp. 46–81

Joby, Christopher & Nicoline van der Sijs 2025 Introduction

In: Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries, Joby, Christopher & Nicoline van der Sijs (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 55] pp. 1–11

Ugwuanyi, Kingsley, Christian Mair, Sender Dovchin, Iker Erdocia, Maria Kuteeva & Esther Airemionkhale 2026 Generative AI and linguistic diversity in academic writing and publishing: Perspectives from World Englishes

Keywords: Generative AI | World Englishes | academic writing and publishing (AWP) | linguistic diversity | English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) | language bias in AI

Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 6:2 pp. 265–289 | article

Marten, Lutz & Hannah Gibson 2025 Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties: ‘False cognates’ in Swahili

Keywords: language contact | borrowing | cognates | Swahili

In: Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri & Martin Maiden (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 369] pp. 184–197

Baley, Julien 2025 Automatic detection of phonological change in Chinese rhymed corpora

Keywords: Chinese rhymes | Middle Chinese phonology | phonological change | automated detection

Language and Linguistics 26:4 pp. 595–621 | article | open access

Mensah, Eyo O. 2026 She contracted eight: Linguistic strategies of naming diseases in Efik

Keywords: disease names | socio-onomastic theory | linguistic creativity | identity | medical semantics | Efik

Language, Culture and Society 7:2 pp. 121–143 | article

Gibson, Hannah, Chege Githiora, Fridah Kanana Erastus & Lutz Marten 2024 Morphosyntactic retention and innovation in Sheng, a youth language or stylect of Kenya

Keywords: language contact | youth languages | morphosyntax | Sheng | Swahili

Studies in Language 48:4 pp. 909–950 | article | open access

Zakaria, Muhammad 2024 Evidence of a contact-induced change: Relative-correlative clause in a South Central (Kuki-Chin) language of the Tibeto-Burman branch in Bangladesh

Keywords: language contact | relative-correlative | South Central (Kuki-Chin) | Tibeto-Burman | Bangla | Hindi | Sanskrit | Indo-Aryan

Asian Languages and Linguistics 5:1 pp. 132–177 | article

Jiang, Yan 2025 Temporal information in sentence-final particles: Tse and keh in Modern Shanghai Wu

Keywords: tense | aspect | sentence-final particle | Shanghainese | missionary linguistics

Asian Languages and Linguistics 5:2 pp. 251–280 | article

Joby, Christopher 2024 Missionary linguistics in the East Indies in the seventeenth century

Historiographia Linguistica 50:1 pp. 1–34 | article

Park, Chongwon & Jaehoon Yeon 2023 Notes on word order variation in Korean

Keywords: add-on | backmasking | floated quantifiers | juxtaposition | reference point | right-dislocation

Pragmatics 34:4 pp. 588–614 | article

Park, Chongwon & Jaehoon Yeon 2023 The Factive, IHRC, and Cleft constructions in Korean

Keywords: Cleft construction | Cognitive Grammar (CG) | Factive construction | Internally Headed Relative Clause (IHRC) construction | kes the schematic noun | Korean

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:1 pp. 140–177 | article

Wang, Dylan K. 2023 

Babel 69:3 pp. 429–432 | book review

Harumi, Seiko 2023 The facilitative use of learner-initiated translanguaging in Japanese EFL contexts

Keywords: translanguaging | conversation analysis | interactional repertoire | repair | classroom interactional competence | scaffolding

Applied Pragmatics 5:1 p. 86 | article

Zakaria, Muhammad 2024 Phonological, lexical and grammatical borrowings and replications in Hyow, a language of the Bangladesh-Burma border area

Keywords: language contact | borrowing | replication | Hyow | Bangla | Burmese | South and Southeast Asia

Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:2 pp. 291–330 | article

Wu, Mei-Shin, Timotheus A. Bodt & Tiago Tresoldi 2022 Bayesian phylogenetics illuminate shallower relationships among Trans-Himalayan languages in the Tibet-Arunachal area

Keywords: Tibeto-Arunachal | Trans-Himalayan | Bayesian phylogenetic analysis | language classification | historical linguistics

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 45:2 pp. 171–210 | article

Pennington, Martha C. 2021 

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 7:2 pp. 296–301 | book review

Laub, Robert W. 2021 The effects of language ecology on syntactic structure: A look at Kristang and Makista

Keywords: creole | language ecology | Makista | Kristang | substrate

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru & Adina Dragomirescu (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 355] pp. 193–204

Bárány, András & Irina Nikolaeva 2020 Possessive and non-identity relations in Turkic switch-reference

Keywords: possessive constructions | switch-reference | discourse continuity | Turkic | non-canonical switch-reference

Studies in Language 44:3 pp. 606–658 | article

Gong, Xun 2021 How many vowels are there in Lhasa Tibetan?

Keywords: Lhasa Tibetan | phonemicity | transcription convention | vowels

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 43:2 pp. 226–255 | article

Zakaria, Muhammad 2021 The segmental phonetics and phonology of Hyow, A Tibeto-Burman language of Bangladesh

Keywords: Hyow | Chin | Tibeto-Burman | phonological processes | coda cluster | glottalized sonorants

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 43:2 pp. 310–347 | article

Gawne, Lauren, Chelsea Krajcik, Helene N. Andreassen, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker & Barbara F. Kelly 2020 Data transparency and citation in the journal Gesture

Keywords: gesture studies | data citation | open data | data management

Gesture 18:1 p. 83 | article

Gawne, Lauren 2018 Contexts of use of a rotated palms gesture among Syuba (Kagate) speakers in Nepal

Keywords: Nepal | Tibetic | co-speech gesture | emblem | interrogative

Gesture 17:1 pp. 37–64 | article

Charette, Monik 2017 The internal TR clusters of Acadian French: A hint from schwa

Keywords: Acadian French | branching onsets | schwa | empty nuclei | proper government | bogus clusters | Québec French

In: Sonic signatures, Lindsey, Geoff & Andrew Nevins (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 14] pp. 17–32

Heine, Bernd, Gunther Kaltenböck & Tania Kuteva 2016 Chapter 2. On insubordination and cooptation

In: Insubordination, Evans, Nicholas & Honoré Watanabe (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 115] pp. 39–64

Austin, Peter 2016 Language documentation 20 years on

Keywords: archiving | documentary corpora | documentary linguistics | language archiving | language documentation | language revitalisation

In: Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights, Filipović, Luna & Martin Pütz (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 42] pp. 147–170 | open access

Hill, Nathan W. 2016 A refutation of Song’s (2014) explanation of the ‘stop coda problem’ in Old Chinese

Keywords: Old Chinese | Sino-Tibetan | | historical phonology | Tibetan

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 3:2 pp. 270–281 | article

Hassa, Samira & Chelsea Krajcik 2016 “Un peso, mami!”: Linguistic landscape and transnationalism discourses in Washington Heights, New York City

Keywords: linguistic landscape | language ideologies | transnationalism | Dominicans | Washington Heights | New York | immigration

Linguistic Landscape 2:2 pp. 157–181 | article

Pan, Haihua & Yan Jiang 2015 The Bound Variable Hierarchy and Donkey Anaphora in Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: Bound Variable Hierarchy | Mandarin Chinese | unselective binding | E-type pronouns | Donkey anaphora

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2:2 pp. 159–192 | article

Gawne, Lauren 2016 The reported speech evidential particle in Lamjung Yolmo

Keywords: evidentiality | Tibeto-Burman | reported speech

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 38:2 pp. 292–318 | article

Seyfeddinipur, Mandana & Marianne Gullberg 2014 From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance

In: From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon, Seyfeddinipur, Mandana & Marianne Gullberg (eds.)  pp. 1–12

Iwasaki, Noriko 2013 Getting over the hedge: Acquisition of mitigating language in L2 Japanese

In: Social and Cultural Aspects of Language Learning in Study Abroad, Kinginger, Celeste (ed.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 37] pp. 239–268

Bruno, Cosima 2013 The public life of contemporary Chinese poetry in English translation

Keywords: contemporary Chinese poetry | sociocultural approach to translation | publishing industry | reception | expectations | public debate

Target 24:2 pp. 253–285 | article

Lucas, Christopher 2011 Form-function mismatches in (formally) definite English noun phrases: Towards a diachronic account

In: The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change, Sleeman, Petra & Harry Perridon (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 171] pp. 159–174

Marten, Lutz 2010 The great siSwati locative shift

In: Continuity and Change in Grammar, Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts & David Willis (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 159] pp. 249–268

Jaggar, Philip J. & Malami Buba 2009 Metaphorical extensions of 'eat' --> [OVERCOME] and 'drink' --> [UNDERGO] in Hausa

In: The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking, Newman, John (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 84] pp. 229–251

Austin, Peter 2008 2. The classification of Pinikura, Western Australia

In: Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans & Luisa Miceli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] pp. 31–41

Marten, Lutz, Ruth M. Kempson & Miriam Bouzouita 2008 Concepts of structural underspecification in Bantu and Romance

In: The Bantu–Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure, De Cat, Cécile & Katherine Demuth (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 131] pp. 3–39

Pizziconi, Barbara 2005 Lindsay Amthor Yotsukura, 2003 Negotiating moves: Problem Presentation and Resolution in Japanese Business Discourse

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 15:2 pp. 313–317 | other

Göksel, Aslı 2008 The auxiliary verb ol at the morphology–syntax interface

In: The Verb in Turkish, Taylan, Eser Erguvanlı (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 44] pp. 151–181

Kempson, Ruth M. 1982 Review of The Semantics of Determiners edited by J. Van der Auwera (1980)

Studies in Language 6:2 pp. 300–302 | book review

Kempson, Ruth M. 1980 Review of Semantics I. by John Lyons (1977)

Studies in Language 4:1 pp. 139–150 | book review

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