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

Historical Dutch for Reading Knowledge: Grammar guide and reading strategies

AuthorFrans R. E. Blom, Bryan Averbuch & Wijnie de Groot

Subjects Applied linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics

2026. | text book

A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond. Volume II: Slavery, memory and literature

Edited by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Madeleine Dobie & Mads Anders Baggesgaard

Subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXVII] 2025. | reference work

A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: Volume I: Slavery, literature and the emotions

Edited by Madeleine Dobie, Mads Anders Baggesgaard & Karen-Margrethe Simonsen

Subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXVI] 2024. | reference work

Bringing Figurative Language into Real L2 Classrooms: The challenges of empirical testing. Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:2 (2024)

EditorAna M. Piquer-Píriz & Reyes Llopis-García

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics

[Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association, 22:2] 2024. vi, 316 pp. | special issue

Interlanguage: Forty years later

Edited by ZhaoHong Han & Elaine Tarone

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 39] 2014. vii, 255 pp. | course book

Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins

Edited by Joseph Davis, Radmila J. Gorup & Nancy Stern

Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 57] 2006. x, 344 pp. | edited volume

Multiple Perspectives on L1 and L2 Academic Literacy in Asia Pacific and Diaspora Contexts: Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 15:1 (2005)

Edited by Xiaoming Li & Christine Pearson Casanave

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages | Communication Studies

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 15:1] 2005. | special issue

The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century. Volume 2: Mathematics and computability of language

Edited by Bruce E. Nevin & Stephen B. Johnson

Subjects Corpus linguistics | History of linguistics | Natural language processing | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 229] 2002. xix, 312 pp. | edited volume

Ding, Qingyun 2025 Review of Foreign Languages Planning in China from the Perspective of Global Governance by Qi Shen (2023)

Language Problems and Language Planning 49:2 pp. 215–222 | book review | open access

Shi, Zhongqi 2025 Review of 《初级中文小故事》 by 陈彤, 万敏, 何小蔓, 李慧敏, 陈凯迪, 张庭瑄 & 郭文 (2025)

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 60:2 pp. 168–171 | book review | open access

Kwak, Jaehee & Jaeeun Kwak 2025 Hanja usage in Korean newspaper headlines: A diachronic analysis of language in shaping national identity

Keywords: Hanja | Hangul | Korean print media | national identity | language reform

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 35:2 pp. 184–201 | article

Grover, Vikas, Valerie L. Shafer, Luca Campanelli, D. H. Whalen, Stephanie Kakadelis & Erika S. Levy 2025 Production of American English consonants /v/ and /w/ by Hindi speakers of English

Keywords: speech production | Hindi | second language | length of residence | goodness rating

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 11:2 pp. 174–212 | article

Peng, Tao 2025 从理解到欣赏: 试论AI时代高年级课堂上的审美阅读和翻译练习 [From Understanding to Appreciation]

Keywords: 人工智能(AI) | 康德美学 | 合目的性 | 流水句 | 欧化 | 翻译 | artificial intelligence | kantian aesthetics | purposiveness | flowing sentences | europeanized style | translation

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 60:1 pp. 55–68 | article

Foley, William A. 2024 Review of The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages edited by Claire Bowern (2023)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:2 pp. 463–467 | book review | open access

Boynton, Susan 2024 Liturgy, drama, preaching, and narration

Keywords: liturgy | drama | preaching | hymns | sequences

In: Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond: A millennium heritage, Stella, Francesco, Lucie Doležalová & Danuta Shanzer (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXIV] pp. 453–464

Ferrante, Joan 2024 Gendering authorship: The underestimated contribution of women writing in Latin

Keywords: women writers | Middle Ages | queen Radegund | Venantius Fotuatus | Hrotswit | Hilldebert of Lavardin | Muriel | Herrad of Landsberg

In: Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond: A millennium heritage, Stella, Francesco, Lucie Doležalová & Danuta Shanzer (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXIV] pp. 487–497

Voss, Erik 2024 Artificial Intelligence and Linguistic Landscape research: Affordances, challenges & considerations

Keywords: Linguistic Landscape | artificial intelligence | computer vision | large language models | LLM | AR glasses

Linguistic Landscape 10:4 pp. 400–424 | article | open access

Llopis-García, Reyes & Irene Alonso-Aparicio 2024 Shortcomings and challenges in the intersection of L2 pedagogy and applied cognitive linguistics: A case study of the Spanish simple pasts

Keywords: Spanish/L2 | Applied Cognitive Linguistics | assessment design | L2 pedagogy | classroom-based research

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:2 pp. 426–449 | article

Baggesgaard, Mads-Anders, Madeleine Dobie & Karen-Margrethe Simonsen 2024 General introduction

In: A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: Volume I: Slavery, literature and the emotions, Dobie, Madeleine, Mads Anders Baggesgaard & Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXVI] pp. xi–xxiv

Llopis-García, Reyes & Ana M. Piquer-Píriz 2024 Introduction: Lessons learned at the intersection of applied cognitive linguistics and L2 classrooms

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:2 pp. 301–308 | introduction | open access

Dobie, Madeleine 2024 Race and affect in Gustave de Beaumont’s Marie, ou L’esclavage aux Etats‑Unis

Keywords: Gustave de Beaumont | Alexis de Tocqueville | history of race | Romanticism | affect theory | stigma | shame

In: A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: Volume I: Slavery, literature and the emotions, Dobie, Madeleine, Mads Anders Baggesgaard & Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXVI] pp. 34–49

Dobie, Madeleine 2024 Slavery, literature and the emotions: Introduction

In: A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: Volume I: Slavery, literature and the emotions, Dobie, Madeleine, Mads Anders Baggesgaard & Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXVI] pp. 1–15

McWhorter, John 2023 Review of Variation and change in Abui: The impact of Alor Malay on an indigenous language of Indonesia by George Saad (2020)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 pp. 198–201 | book review

Arcia, Adriana, Nicole Spiegel-Gotsch & Maureen George 2023 Design of tailored asthma control status infographics

Keywords: health literacy | health communication | patient education | iterative participatory design | tailored infographics

Information Design Journal 28:2 pp. 115–140 | article

Bošković, Aleksandar & Ainsley Morse 2023 Soviet socialist su(pe)rrealism for children

In: Photography in Children’s Literature, Druker, Elina & Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.) [Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 17] p. 94

Shi, Zhongqi & Qiaosi Yuan 2024 A machine learning-based investigation of syntactic complexity measures in second language acquisition of Chinese

Keywords: syntactic complexity | machine learning | multidimensionality | 句法复杂度 | 机器学习 | 多维度测量

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 58:3 pp. 262–298 | article

Dakwar, Reem Khamis, Iman Salam, Amanda Nagler & Karen Froud 2023 Arabic and English plural formation in typically developing heritage speakers of Arabic: A longitudinal study

Keywords: Arabic language acquisition | heritage language learners | plural | dual | speakers

In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV: Papers form the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, 2020, Azaz, Mahmoud (ed.) [Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 12] pp. 231–254

Tao, Peng 2023 高年级汉语课上怎么教“可说的”中文？—以鲁迅小说为例

Keywords: “可说的”中文 | 鲁迅小说 | 话语分析 | 文体 | 叙事学 | “sayable” Chinese | Lu Xun’s short stories | discourse analysis | style | narratology

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 57:3 pp. 189–210 | article

Grover, Vikas, Valerie L. Shafer, Luca Campanelli, D. H. Whalen & Erika S. Levy 2021 Perception of American English consonants /v/ and /w/ by Hindi speakers of English

Keywords: speech perception | Hindi | Bilingualism | length of residence

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 7:3 pp. 370–407 | article

Waring, Hansun Zhang 2021 Socializing the emotions of joy and surprise in parent-child interaction

Keywords: emotion | joy | surprise | socialization | conversation analysis | play | parent-child interaction | gifting sequence

In: How Emotions Are Made in Talk, Robles, Jessica S. & Ann Weatherall (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 321] pp. 211–232

Reddington, Elizabeth, Ignasi Clemente, Hansun Zhang Waring & Di Yu 2021 “Doing being collegial”: Participants’ positioning work in Q&A sessions

Keywords: Q&A sessions | conversation analysis | collegiality | identity | positioning | institutional interaction | philanthropy communication

In: Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 323] pp. 257–284

Vafaee, Payman 2020 The role of breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge in second language listening comprehension

Keywords: breadth | depth | vocabulary knowledge | measurement | listening comprehension

Journal of Second Language Studies 3:1 pp. 55–81 | article

McWhorter, John 2020 Concluding reflections

In: Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating, Gil, David & Antoinette Schapper (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 129] pp. 483–506

McWhorter, John 2019  Contact languages: A comprehensive guide. Edited by Peter Bakker and Yaron Matras

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34:1 pp. 171–177 | book review

McWhorter, John M. 2019 The radically isolating languages of Flores: A challenge to diachronic theory

Keywords: Austronesian | drift | diachronic linguistic theory | creolization | second language acquisition | analyticity

Journal of Historical Linguistics 9:2 pp. 177–207 | article

Watson, Caitlin Wei-Ming, Jennifer J. Manly & Laura B. Zahodne 2019 Does bilingualism protect against cognitive aging?: Methodological issues in research on bilingualism, cognitive reserve, and dementia incidence

Keywords: cognitive aging trajectories | bilingualism and dementia | cognitive reserve

In: Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond: Questions and insights, Sekerina, Irina A., Lauren Spradlin & Virginia Valian (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 57] pp. 355–369

Musi, Elena & Mark Aakhus 2019 Framing fracking: Semantic frames as meta-argumentative indicators for knowledge-driven argument mining of controversies

Keywords: argumentative patterns | argumentative indicators | fracking | frames | polylogue

Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:1 pp. 112–135 | article

Jaki, Sylvia, Tom De Smedt, Maja Gwóźdź, Rudresh Panchal, Alexander Rossa & Guy De Pauw 2019 Online hatred of women in the Incels.me forum: Linguistic analysis and automatic detection

Keywords: misogyny | hate speech | social media | forensic linguistics | text analytics | text profiling

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 7:2 pp. 240–268 | article

Khamis-Dakwar, Reem, May Ahmar & Karen Froud 2019 Palestinian Arabic dual formation in typically developing heritage speakers of Palestinian Arabic

Keywords: heritage speakers | Arabic | dual | plural | bilingualism | language acquisition | children

In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017, Khalfaoui, Amel & Youssef Haddad (eds.) [Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 8] pp. 205–234

McWhorter, John H. 2018  Functional categories in three Atlantic creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu. By Claire Lefebvre

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33:1 pp. 212–215 | book review

Alonso-Aparicio, Irene 2018 The impact of prior knowledge on second language grammar practice

In: Usage-inspired L2 Instruction: Researched pedagogy, Tyler, Andrea, Lourdes Ortega, Mariko Uno & Hae In Park (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 49] pp. 143–164

Han, ZhaoHong, Gang Bao & Paul Wiita 2017 Energy conservation in SLA: The simplicity of a complex adaptive system

In: Complexity theory and language development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman, Ortega, Lourdes & ZhaoHong Han (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 48] pp. 209–232

Ortega, Lourdes & ZhaoHong Han 2017 Introduction

In: Complexity theory and language development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman, Ortega, Lourdes & ZhaoHong Han (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 48] pp. 1–10

Spinelli, Barbara 2017 The multilingual turn in FL education: Investigating L3/Ln learners’ reading-writing

Keywords: plurilingualism | L3/Ln reading comprehension | L3/Ln writing ability | pluralistic instruction | language abilities

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 3:2 pp. 184–209 | article

McWhorter, John H. 2016 Is radical analyticity normal: Implications of Niger-Congo and Southeast Asia for typology and diachronic theory

In: Cyclical Change Continued, van Gelderen, Elly (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 227] pp. 49–92

Han, ZhaoHong 2017 Research meets practice: Holding off and holding on

Keywords: corrective feedback | practice | teaching | second language acquisition | Chinese as a foreign language | research

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 51:3 pp. 236–251 | article

Han, ZhaoHong 2014 Chapter 3. From Julie to Wes to Alberto: Revisiting the construct of fossilization

In: Interlanguage: Forty years later, Han, ZhaoHong & Elaine Tarone (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 39] pp. 47–74

McWhorter, John 2014 A response to Mufwene

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:1 pp. 172–176 | article

McWhorter, John 2013 Review of The handbook of pidgin and creole studies edited by Silvia Kouwenberg & John Victor Singler (2008)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:2 pp. 441–445 | book review

McWhorter, John 2014 Review of External influences on English: From its beginnings to the Renaissance by D. Gary Miller (2012)

Diachronica 30:4 pp. 593–598 | book review

Timberlake, Alan 2013 Culture and the spread of Slavic

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. 331–356

Rosand, David 2013 Time lines: The temporal dimension of marking

In: Moving Imagination: Explorations of gesture and inner movement, De Preester, Helena (ed.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 89] pp. 205–220

McWhorter, John 2013 It’s not over: Why it matters whether there is a such thing as a creole

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:2 pp. 409–423 | article

McWhorter, John 2013 Language Turned Off?: The legacy of the bioprogram hypothesis

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:1 pp. 131–136 | article

McWhorter, John 2013 Why noncompositional derivation isn’t boring: A second try on the ‘other’ part of the Creole prototype hypothesis

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:1 pp. 167–179 | article

McWhorter, John 2012 Review of The Emergence of pidgin and creole languages by Jeff Siegel (2008)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:2 pp. 389–393 | book review

McWhorter, John 2012 Case closed?: Testing the feature pool hypothesis

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:1 pp. 171–182 | article

McWhorter, John 2012 The Nature of Argument: Is the Creole Exceptionalism Hypothesis Dead?

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:2 pp. 377–387 | article

McWhorter, John 2011 Tying up loose ends: The Creole Prototype after all

Keywords: tone | reduplication | language contact | pidgin | creole | complexity | language change | inflection

Diachronica 28:1 p. 82 | article

Llopis-García, Reyes 2010 Why cognitive grammar works in the L2 classroom: A case study of mood selection in Spanish

AILA Review 23:1 pp. 72–94 | article

Zhang, Jiajie & Vimla L. Patel 2008 Distributed cognition, representation, and affordance

Keywords: affordance | distributed cognition | internal and external representations

In: Cognition Distributed: How cognitive technology extends our minds, Dror, Itiel E. & Stevan Harnad (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 16] pp. 137–144

Kwon, Eun-Young & ZhaoHong Han 2008 Language transfer in child SLA: A longitudinal case study of a sequential bilingual

In: Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner: Child's play?, Philp, Jenefer, Rhonda Oliver & Alison Mackey (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 23] pp. 303–331

Kleifgen, Jo Anne 2007 Review of Spanish/English codeswitching in a written corpus by Laura Callahan (2004)

Spanish in Context 4:1 pp. 127–130 | book review

Charon, Rita 2008 The self-telling body

Keywords: Doctor–Patient Relationships | Life-Writing | Medical Interviewing | Narrative Medicine

In: Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 6] pp. 225–235

Kleifgen, Jo Anne & Trang Thi Huynh Le 2007 Vietnamese immigrants’ shifting patterns of status display at work: Impressions from Hanoi

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 17:2 pp. 259–279 | article

Zhang, Jiajie & Vimla L. Patel 2006 Distributed cognition, representation, and affordance

Keywords: affordance | internal and external representations | distributed cognition

Pragmatics & Cognition 14:2 pp. 333–341 | article

Charon, Rita 2006 The self-telling body

Keywords: Doctor–Patient Relationships | Narrative Medicine | Life-Writing | Medical Interviewing

Narrative Inquiry 16:1 pp. 191–200 | article

Rosen, Russel S. 2004 Beginning L2 production errors in ASL lexical phonology: A cognitive phonology model

Keywords: Phonology | second language acquisition | Universal Grammar | ASL | cognition | lexicon | L1 transfer

Sign Language & Linguistics 7:1 pp. 31–61 | article

Han, ZhaoHong 2002 'Novel unaccusatives': Is detransitivization taking place?

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 135-136:1 p. 97 | article

Perin, Dolores 2002 Review of Word recognition in beginning literacy edited by Linnea C. Ehri & Jamie L. Metsala (1998)

Written Language & Literacy 4:2 pp. 256–260 | book review

Jing, Hongyan & Evelyne Tzoukermann 2008 Determining semantic equivalence of terms in information retrieval: An approach based on context distance and morphology

In: Recent Advances in Computational Terminology, Bourigault, Didier, Christian Jacquemin & Marie-Claude L'Homme (eds.) [Natural Language Processing, 2] pp. 245–260

Cimino, James J. 2008 Knowledge-based terminology management in medicine

In: Recent Advances in Computational Terminology, Bourigault, Didier, Christian Jacquemin & Marie-Claude L'Homme (eds.) [Natural Language Processing, 2] pp. 111–126

Zetzel, James E. G. 1998  Varro De Lingua Latina X: A new critical text and English translation with prolegomena and commentary. By Daniel J. Taylor

Historiographia Linguistica 25:3 pp. 433–438 | book review

Labov, William & Joshua Waletzky 2015 Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience1

Journal of Narrative and Life History 7:1/4 pp. 3–38 | article

Shandler, Jeffrey 2015 "This Is Your Life": Telling a Holocaust Survivor's Life Story on Early American Television

Journal of Narrative and Life History 4:1/2 pp. 41–68 | article

Rounds, Carol 1991 Review of Textanalyse und Sprachwandel: historische Syntax des Ungarischen: ein empirisches Modell by Leila Behrens (1989)

Studies in Language 15:2 pp. 459–463 | book review

Austerlitz, Robert 1983 Review of Quantitative Aspekte des Multilingualismus: Studien zur Gruppen-mehrsprachigkeit ethnischer Minderheiten in der Sowjetunion by Harald Haarmann (1979)

Language Problems and Language Planning 7:2 pp. 205–211 | book review

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