Australian National University

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

Talk Goes Many Ways: Language and social life in a Papua New Guinea village

AuthorDarja Hoenigman

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 25] 2026. | monograph | open access

Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019

Edited by Bethwyn Evans, Maria Kristina Gallego & Luisa Miceli

Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 367] 2024. | edited volume

Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell

Edited by Jennifer Hendriks & B. Richard Page

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 8] 2024. | edited volume

The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives

Edited by Carsten Levisen & Zhengdao Ye

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] 2024. | edited volume

Australian Contact Languages: Special issue of the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1 (2024)

EditorCarmel O'Shannessy, Denise Angelo & Jane Simpson

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 39:1] 2024. vi, 311 pp. | special issue

Moving towards Peace, Compassion and Empathy through Semiotic Enquiry: Special issue of the Journal Language, Context and Text 6:1 (2024)

EditorElizabeth A. Thomson, Awni Etaywe, Ingrid Wijeyewardene & Penny Wheeler

Subjects Applied linguistics | Functional linguistics | Semiotics | Theoretical linguistics

[Language, Context and Text: The Social Semiotics Forum, 6:1] 2024. vi, 225 pp. | special issue

Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space

Edited by Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze & Jukka Tyrkkö

Subjects Communication Studies | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] 2023. | edited volume

The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures: Special issue of the International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 (2021)

Edited by Anna Gladkova & Jesús Romero-Trillo

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics

[International Journal of Language and Culture, 8:1] 2021. | special issue

Understanding language genealogy: Alternatives to the tree model. Special issue of the Journal of Historical Linguistics 9:1 (2019)

Edited by Siva Kalyan, Alexandre François & Harald Hammarström

Subjects Historical linguistics

[Journal of Historical Linguistics, 9:1] 2019. | special issue

Landscape and Culture: Cross-linguistic Perspectives

Helen Bromhead

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Semantics

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 9] 2018. | monograph

Involvement and Attitude in Japanese Discourse: Interactive markers

Naomi Ogi

Subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 272] 2017. xi, 232 pp. |

Insubordination

Edited by Nicholas Evans & Honoré Watanabe

Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 115] 2016. xii, 435 pp. |

“Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Cliff Goddard & Zhengdao Ye

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Benjamins Current Topics, 84] 2016. vi, 145 pp. |

"Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures: Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2 (2014)

Edited by Cliff Goddard & Zhengdao Ye

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics

[International Journal of Language and Culture, 1:2] 2014. | special issue

Culture, Interaction and Person Reference in an Australian Language: An ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication

Murray Garde

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Australian languages | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax

[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 11] 2013. xx, 274 pp. | monograph

Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey

Edited by Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop & Joana Jansen

Subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 103] 2013. xviii, 294 pp. | edited volume

Relative Clauses in Time and Space: A case study in the methods of diachronic typology

Rachel Hendery

Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 101] 2012. xii, 281 pp. | monograph

Reciprocals and Semantic Typology

Edited by Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson & Asifa Majid

Subjects Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 98] 2011. viii, 349 pp. | edited volume

Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method

Edited by Claire Bowern & Harold Koch

Subjects Australian languages | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Historical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 249] 2004. xii, 377 pp. (incl. CD-Rom) | edited volume

Tok Pisin Texts: From the beginning to the present

Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton & Suzanne Romaine

Subjects Creole studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Varieties of English Around the World, T9] 2003. x, 284 pp. | monograph

Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings. Volume 1

Edited by Cliff Goddard & Anna Wierzbicka

Subjects Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 60] 2002. xvi, 337 pp. | edited volume

Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings. Volume 2

Edited by Cliff Goddard & Anna Wierzbicka

Subjects Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 61] 2002. xvi, 337 pp. | edited volume

Issues in the Teaching and Learning of Japanese

Edited by Nicolette Bramley & Naoko Hanamura

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 15] 1998. | yearbook

Language Processing and Second Language Development: Processability theory

Manfred Pienemann

Subjects Multilingualism

[Studies in Bilingualism, 15] 1998. xviii, 366 pp. | course book

Teaching Languages, Teaching Culture

Edited by Anthony J. Liddicoat & Chantal Crozet

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 14] 1997. | yearbook

Semantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and empirical findings

Edited by Cliff Goddard & Anna Wierzbicka

Subjects Functional linguistics | Semantics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 25] 1994. viii, 510 pp. | edited volume

Bardají, Maria, Rowena Garcia, Christoph Bracks & Evan Kidd 2026 The acquisition of symmetrical voice systems: Comparative notes on Tagalog, Indonesian, and Totoli

Keywords: symmetrical voice | child language documentation | child-directed speech | Tagalog | Totoli | Indonesian | western Austronesian

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. 610–641 | open access

Heeschen, Volker & Darja Hoenigman 2026 Songs in Eipo, Yale, Awiakay and Meakambut, four Papuan languages

Keywords: multilingualism | metaphor | mockery | parallelism | translation | song language | unintelligibility

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. 314–342 | open access

Schapper, Antoinette 2026 Of Malays, Moluccans and Papuans: The development and spread of Malay in Papua

Keywords: Papuan Malay | Ternate | lexical documentation | historical linguistics | loanwords

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. 844–865 | open access

Arka, I Wayan 2026 Diversifying science: Insights of native- and non-native-speaker collaborations in linguistic descriptions

Keywords: native-speaker linguists | collaborative grammar writing | positionality | authority and co-production | community-led documentation | ethically grounded fieldwork | capacity building | decolonial linguistics | endangered languages | sustained institutional engagement

In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl & Birgit Hellwig (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] p. 75 | open access

Evans, Nicholas & Manuel Pamkal 2026 From the audible to the meaningful: The role of listener/speakers in making sense of 60 years of Dalabon recordings

Keywords: Dalabon | hermeneutics | language documentation | reversal constructions | triangular kin terms | field semantics

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. 107–133 | open access

Gnevsheva, Ksenia & Carmel O’Shannessy 2026 English language attitudes in Australia

Keywords: language attitudes | Australia | L1 and L2 speakers | semantic differential scales

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics | Online First Publication, 29 pp. | article | open access

Edmonds-Wathen, Cris, Melissa Alimankinni, Merrilyn Bara, James Bednall, Christine Bennett, Sharon Carrol, Kate Charlwood, Leanne Goldsworthy, Roshania Lalara, Lucinda Nipper, Peter Nyhuis, Sarah Peters, Rachel Lisa Puantulura, Sasha Wilmoth & Holly Yantarrnga 2026 Strengthening language through first language mathematics education

Keywords: bilingual education | Indigenous education | Indigenous languages | intergenerational knowledge transmission | language maintenance | mathematical language | mathematics education

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 49:2 pp. 240–263 | article | open access

Angelo, Denise, Christopher Day, Michael Jarrett, Susan Poetsch & Jasmine Seymour 2026 Co-constructed co-signed gestures (CoCos): A gesture-based second language teaching toolkit developed in Indigenous contexts

Keywords: second language teaching | gesture pedagogy | teacher professional development | traditional Indigenous languages | TESOL, Indigenous learners

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics | Online First Publication, 26 pp. | article | open access

Lui, Pun Ho 2026 The associative plural in Cantonese

Keywords: Cantonese | associative plural | morphosyntax | typology | apposition | communicative efficiency

Language and Linguistics 27:2 pp. 228–256 | article | open access

Smith, Hilary A, Renee Houldsworth, Rebecca Holland & Christopher Orchard 2026 Craft-based activities in early childhood Gamilaraay language reclamation

Keywords: Language reclamation | Indigenous language | First Nations pedagogies | early childhood education

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics | Online First Publication, 27 pp. | article | open access

Ye, Zhengdao & Cliff Goddard 2026 Conceptualizing the environment: Words as cultural lenses for seeing the world

Keywords: environmental semantics | landscape terms | cultural key words | semantic analysis | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (nsm) | semantic primes and molecules

International Journal of Language and Culture | Online First Publication, 16 pp. | article | open access

Ye, Zhengdao & Emma Xu Rao 2026 Landscape and/in ethnonational concepts in Chinese: The cultural keywords héshān 河山 and jiānghú 江湖

Keywords: ethnonational concepts | landscape terms | patriotism | jianghu and wuxia | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (nsm) | concrete and abstract concepts | Chinese language and culture

International Journal of Language and Culture | Online First Publication, 19 pp. | article | open access

Nath, Saurabh Kumar 2026 Contrast, context, and contact: Phonetic variation in the Assamese mid front vowel space

Keywords: Assamese | mid front vowel | acoustics | standard | vowel variation and change

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 11:1/2 pp. 187–222 | article | open access

Pun Ho, Lui 2026 Reported thought in Cantonese

Keywords: reported thought | politeness | morphosyntax | Cantonese | quotation

Asian Languages and Linguistics 6:2 pp. 353–383 | article | open access

Al-Ghadeer, Moneera, Charles Forsdick, Mohammed Al-Sudairi, Andreas Karatsolis, Eric Calderwood & Mohammed Allwaish 2025 Rethinking translating cultures

Keywords: translating cultures | contemporary Arabophone | Sino-Arab cultural exchanges | artificial intelligence | geopolitical concepts | the global South | traduction des cultures | arabophone contemporain | échanges culturels sino-arabes | intelligence artificielle | concepts géopolitiques | Sud

Babel 71:6 pp. 725–739 | introduction

Carr, Georgia 2025 Turning your thesis into a book: Advice for publishing a monograph in functional linguistics

Keywords: systemic functional linguistics | publishing | monograph | PhD | thesis | guide | technicality | sex education | consent

Language, Context and Text 7:1 pp. 147–160 | article | open access

Wood, Matthew & Susan Stocklmayer 2026 Visual context in biological life cycle diagrams is associated with elevated empathy

Keywords: affect | empathy | diagrams | visual context | communication

Information Design Journal 30:2 pp. 117–133 | article | open access

Terrill, Angela 2025 Baroque accretions and isolation: A case study of grammatical complexity in complex social situations in Solomon Islands

Keywords: language isolates | Papuan languages | Oceanic languages | Solomon Islands | structural complexity

In: Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives, Salaberri, Iker, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia & Eneko Zuloaga (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 135] pp. 248–269

Koch, Harold 2025 Nominal privative suffixes as a diachronic source of verbal negative markers: Evidence from Australian languages

Keywords: privative | negatives | prohibitives | insubordination | Australian

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. 198–214

Barth, Danielle, Laura Arnold, Kira Davey, Caroline Hendy, Saurabh Kumar Nath, Keira Mullan & Sam Passmore 2026 Talk across the Pacific: Developments in understanding traditional and modern multilingualism

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 11:1/2 pp. 31–40 | article commentary | open access

Ueda, Ruri 2025 The effect of oral repetition during discrimination training on L2 perceptual learning

Keywords: L2 perception and production | phonetic training | oral repetition | English as a foreign language | L1 Japanese speakers

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 11:3 pp. 312–337 | article | open access

Gan, Qiao & Min Wang 2025 Examining contextual constraints on the English dative alternation in L2 written production: A contrastive multifactorial analysis

Keywords: syntactic variation | probabilistic grammar | English dative alternation | multifactorial analysis | EFL learners

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:3 pp. 265–295 | article

Hendriks, Jennifer 2024 The dynamics of lifelong acquisition in dialect contact and change

Keywords: dialect contact | lifespan change | language dominance | linguistic repertoire | crosslinguistic transfer

In: Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives, Sanz-Sánchez, Israel (ed.) [Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 14] p. 84

O’Shannessy, Carmel 2024 The influences of adult and child speakers in the emergence of Light Warlpiri, an Australian mixed language

Keywords: Warlpiri | Light Warlpiri | acquisition | child language | Australia | mixed language | language contact | innovation

In: Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives, Sanz-Sánchez, Israel (ed.) [Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 14] pp. 179–202

Hendriks, Jennifer & B. Richard Page 2024 Investigating West Germanic Languages

In: Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer & B. Richard Page (eds.) [Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 8] p. 2

Hendriks, Jennifer 2024 Investigating change from a perspective of continuity: Dutch two-verb clusters in sixteenth-century Antwerp

Keywords: data biases | sociohistorical change | dialect contact | sixteenth-century Antwerp | verb clusters

In: Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer & B. Richard Page (eds.) [Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 8] pp. 188–224

Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego & Luisa Miceli 2024  Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019

In: Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego & Luisa Miceli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 367]

Hendriks, Jennifer & B. Richard Page 2024  Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell

In: Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer & B. Richard Page (eds.) [Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 8]

Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye 2024 “When bad things happen to people”: Cultural pragmatics and cross-linguistic perspectives on danger

Keywords: cultural pragmatics | discourse studies | discourse of danger | linguaculture | cross-linguistic studies | cultural keywords | cultural scripts | global crisis

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] pp. 1–22

Ye, Zhengdao 2024 The cultural pragmatics of “danger” in Chinese political discourse

Keywords: cultural pragmatics | state political discourse | natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) | discourse of danger | cultural scripts | Chinese elite politics | discourse studies | analysis of political discourse

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] pp. 194–216

Goddard, Cliff, Tine-Marie Junker & Zhengdao Ye 2024  Security, Sicherheit, ānquán : Similar-but-different key concepts in English, German and Chinese

Keywords: security concepts | lexical semantics | discourse of security | natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) | German | Chinese

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] pp. 217–235

Bromham, Lindell 2024 Solving Galton’s problem: Practical solutions for analysing language diversity and evolution

Keywords: cross-cultural analysis | Galton | phylogenetic non-independence | language diversity

In: Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego & Luisa Miceli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 367] p. 74

Sadow, Lauren & Katie Cox 2024 Superheroes, war heroes, health care heroes: The pragmatics of danger and the discourse of heroism

Keywords: semantics | discourse analysis | natural semantic metalanguage | hero | cultural keywords | English | Anglosphere

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] p. 86

Dalle Ceste, Carlo 2024 Recurrent change in pronouns: The case of Western Oceanic subject markers

Keywords: recurrent change | historical linguistics | grammaticalisation | morphology | Oceanic | pronouns | paradigm formation

In: Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego & Luisa Miceli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 367] pp. 146–171

Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego & Luisa Miceli 2024 Editors’ introduction

In: Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego & Luisa Miceli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 367] pp. 1–7

Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye 2024 Epilogue: Beyond dangers and disasters: Further reflections and a guide for future research in cultural pragmatics

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] pp. 236–242

Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye 2024 The cultural pragmatics of danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346]

Simpson, Jane 2024 After 1788* : Contact varieties in the first sixty years of Australia’s colonisation

Keywords: Australian Indigenous languages | Australian English-lexified contact varieties | NSW pidgin | English foreigner talk | learner English | historical linguistics | slang | nautical jargon

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1 p. 71 | article | open access

Meakins, Felicity, Lindell Bromham & Xia Hua 2025 Depending on gender: The role of Gurindji women in contact-induced language change

Keywords: gender paradox | Gurindji Kriol | language contact | BayesVarbrul | language variation

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 10:2 pp. 183–208 | article

Angelo, Denise 2024 Indigenous Language Ecologies framework: A tool for inserting Indigenous contact languages and their speakers into policy in Australia

Keywords: contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages and multilingualisms | Indigenous language policy | First Nations language ecologies | Indigenous Australian contact languages | creoles in language policy | creoles in language planning | linguistic diversity in policy | unrepresentative language data | multilingual language policy | linguistics and policy

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1 pp. 34–70 | article | open access

O’Shannessy, Carmel 2024 Source language influences in the Australian mixed language, Light Warlpiri

Keywords: mixed language | Australia | Warlpiri | Light Warlpiri | Kriol | English

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1 pp. 125–148 | article | open access

O’Shannessy, Carmel, Denise Angelo & Jane Simpson 2024 Toward a typology of Australian contact languages

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1 pp. 1–33 | introduction | open access

Kotze, Haidee, Minna Korhonen, Adam Smith & Bertus van Rooy 2023 Salient differences between Australian oral parliamentary discourse and its official written records: A comparison of ‘close’ and ‘distant’ analysis methods

Keywords: Australian Hansard | close reading | distant reading | editorial practice | informality | conservatism | spoken language

In: Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space, Korhonen, Minna, Haidee Kotze & Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] pp. 54–88

Lee, Duck-Young & Naomi Ogi 2023 The function of names: A case study of usage in Japanese original TV dramas and Korean remakes

Keywords: Japanese | Korean | name | identification | social relationship | TV drama

In: It’s different with you: Contrastive perspectives on address research, Baumgarten, Nicole & Roel Vismans (eds.) [Topics in Address Research, 5] pp. 35–60

Yeatman, Bernadine & Denise Angelo 2023 Recognising Yarrie Lingo, the creole language of Yarrabah community in far north-eastern Queensland Australia

Keywords: Yarrie Lingo | Yarrabah Creole | Australian creoles | pidgin and creole languages | language recognition | language awareness | language shift | creoles in education | English as a Second Language for creole speakers | grounded language research methodology

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1 pp. 219–249 | article | open access

Schnell, Stefan, Geoffrey Haig, Nils Norman Schiborr & Maria Vollmer 2023 Are referent introductions sensitive to forward planning in discourse?: Evidence from Multi-CAST

Keywords: reference processing | grammatical relations | discourse structure | thematic prominence | discourse topic | referent introduction | corpus-based typology

In: Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective, Barotto, Alessandra & Simone Mattiola (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 227] pp. 231–268

Li, Ran & Louise Jansen 2023 The acquisition of polar questions in Chinese learners of English as a foreign language: A processability approach

In: Processability and Language Acquisition in the Asia-Pacific Region, Kawaguchi, Satomi, Bruno Di Biase & Yumiko Yamaguchi (eds.) [Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 9] pp. 258–279

Liu, Bo, Bruno Di Biase & Satomi Kawaguchi 2023 The development of lexical mapping in Chinese L2: The mapping of multiple arguments, passive and causative structures

In: Processability and Language Acquisition in the Asia-Pacific Region, Kawaguchi, Satomi, Bruno Di Biase & Yumiko Yamaguchi (eds.) [Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 9] pp. 63–90

Itani-Adams, Yuki & Bruno Di Biase 2023 Development of Japanese and English polar questions in bilingual first language acquisition

In: Processability and Language Acquisition in the Asia-Pacific Region, Kawaguchi, Satomi, Bruno Di Biase & Yumiko Yamaguchi (eds.) [Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 9] pp. 192–227

Rademaker, Laura 2023 Interpreters of mission: How indigenous peoples shaped mission projects across Australia and the Pacific

Keywords: Australia | Pacific | missions | colonisation | interpreting | Christianity

In: Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting: Voices from around the world, Ruiz Rosendo, Lucía & Jesús Baigorri-Jalón (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 159] pp. 193–211

Vollmer, Maria 2023 Comparing zero and referential choice in eight languages with a focus on Mandarin Chinese

Keywords: Mandarin Chinese | zero arguments | corpus analysis | usage-based approach | referential choice

Studies in Language 48:2 pp. 351–389 | article

Davey, Kira & Danielle Barth 2024 Directional constructions in Matukar Panau: A Bayesian approach to assessing variation

Keywords: Bayesian regression | Oceanic | directionals | serial verbs | morphosyntactic variation | grammaticalization | lexicalization | corpus linguistics

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 9:2 pp. 156–194 | article | open access

Korhonen, Minna, Haidee Kotze & Jukka Tyrkkö 2023 Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space

In: Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space, Korhonen, Minna, Haidee Kotze & Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] p.  ff.

O’Shannessy, Carmel & Denise Angelo 2023 Insights from the perspective of language ecologies and new contact languages in Australia

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 pp. 88–92 | article commentary

Travis, Catherine E., James Grama & Benjamin Purser 2023 Stability and change in (ing): Ethnic and grammatical variation over time in Australian English

Keywords: (ing) | social class | ethnic variation | real- and apparent-time | language change | stable variable | Australian English

English World-Wide 44:3 pp. 435–469 | article

Meritan, Camille & Solène Inceoglu 2023 Teaching perspectives: French

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 9:2 pp. 263–268 | discussion

Chen, Victoria, Jonathan Kuo, Maria Kristina S. Gallego & Isaac Stead 2022 Is Malayo-Polynesian a primary branch of Austronesian?: A view from morphosyntax

Keywords: Austronesian higher-order subgrouping | Malayo-Polynesian | East Formosan | syntactic reanalysis | Austronesian diaspora | Out-of-Taiwan Hypothesis | triangulation

Diachronica 39:4 pp. 449–489 | article

Koch, Harold 2022 Development of aspect markers in Arandic languages, with notes on associated motion*

In: Development of Tense and Aspect Systems, Gvozdanović, Jadranka (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 123] p. 63

Duhamel, Marie-France 2022 The role of older men in a phonological change: (ɣ) in Raga, Vanuatu

Keywords: Oceanic language | phonetic variation | language change | apparent-time study | gender variation | v-shaped pattern | velar fricative | consonant deletion | diachronic change

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 8:2 pp. 206–239 | article

Verstraete, Jean-Christophe 2021 Pathways of initial consonant loss: A Middle Paman case study

Keywords: initial consonant loss | Pama-Nyungan | Middle Paman

Journal of Historical Linguistics 12:1 pp. 1–30 | article

Luk, Ellison & Jean-Christophe Verstraete 2021 Conjunctions and clause linkage in Australian languages: A typological study

Keywords: conjunctions | clause linkage | Australian languages | typology

Studies in Language 46:3 pp. 594–646 | article

Chen, Eve J. 2021  essentials and valuables : Cultural conceptualizations of Cantonese rice idioms

Keywords: Cantonese rice idioms | cultural conceptualizations | conceptual processing | idiomaticity | Cantonese worldview

In: Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Denisa Latić & Anna Finzel (eds.) [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 14] pp. 237–266

Travis, Catherine E. & Inas Ghina 2021 Gender, mobility and contact: Stability and change in an Acehnese dialect

Keywords: variation and change | language contact | mobility | sociophonetics | glottalization | Acehnese | Indonesian | variasi dan perubahan bahasa | kontak bahasa | mobilitas | sosiofonetik | glotalisasi | Bahasa Aceh | Bahasa Indonesia

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:2 pp. 142–167 | article

Gladkova, Anna & Jesús Romero-Trillo 2021 Is ugliness in the mind of the beholder?: The conceptualization of ‘ugly’ in English

Keywords: corpus pragmatics | folk aesthetics | English | natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) | ugly | polysemy

International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 pp. 106–127 | article

Gladkova, Anna & Jesús Romero-Trillo 2021 The linguistic conceptualization in folk aesthetics: Past, present and future

Keywords: folk aesthethics | linguistic variation | language and culture | beautiful | ugly

International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 pp. 1–13 | introduction

Gladkova, Anna 2021 “What is beauty?”: Cultural semantics of the Russian folk aesthetics

Keywords: cultural semantics | folk aesthetics | Russian | natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) | beautiful | ugly | polysemy | politeness

International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 p. 84 | article

Dunn, Vivien, Felicity Meakins & Cassandra Algy 2021 Acquisition or shift?: Interpreting variation in Gurindji children’s expression of spatial relations

Keywords: language contact | mixed languages | spatial relations | cardinal directions | language change

In: Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko Mufwene, Aboh, Enoch O. & Cécile B. Vigouroux (eds.) [Contact Language Library, 59] pp. 105–131

Grama, James, Catherine E. Travis & Simon Gonzalez 2021 Ethnic variation in real time: Change in Australian English diphthongs

Keywords: ethnolects | ethnic variation | diphthongs | Australian English | language change | gender | socio-economic status

In: Language Variation – European Perspectives VIII: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019, Van de Velde, Hans, Nanna Haug Hilton & Remco Dr. Knooihuizen (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 25] pp. 291–314 | open access

Riesberg, Sonja, Maria Bardají i Farré, Kurt Malcher & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann 2021 Predicting voice choice in symmetrical voice languages: All the things that do not work in Totoli

Keywords: western Austronesian | symmetrical voice | voice choice | discourse | Totoli

Studies in Language 46:2 pp. 453–516 | article

Hendy, Caroline & Catherine Bow 2021 Should Munanga learn Kriol?: Exploring attitudes to non-Indigenous acquisition of Kriol language in Ngukurr

Keywords: Kriol | language attitudes | language acquisition | Indigenous Australian languages | contact languages

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 46:1 pp. 76–98 | article

Allen, Cynthia L. 2020 Case and preposition stranding in Old English free relatives

NOWELE 73:2 pp. 193–220 | article

Macqueen, Susy & Ute Knoch 2020 Adaptive imitation: Formulaicity and the words of others in L2 English academic writing

Keywords: formulaic language | imitation | second language writing | academic literacy

In: Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and L2 Writing Development, Fogal, Gary G. & Marjolijn H. Verspoor (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 54] p. 81

Zhang, Yanyin 2020 The impact of learning context on L2 Chinese word order structure development: From the beginning

Keywords: learning context | ab-initio learners | learning processes | acquisition sequences | rate of learning word order

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 5:2 pp. 258–280 | article

Reed, Lauren W. 2020 “Switching caps”: Two ways of communicating in sign in the Port Moresby deaf community, Papua New Guinea

Keywords: sign language | bilingualism | translanguaging | Papua New Guinea | metalinguistics

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 6:1 pp. 13–52 | article

Woodhams, Jay M. 2020 “What we do and don’t do”: Defining team in the discourse of academic learning advisers’ post-consultation notes

Keywords: community of practice | workplace discourse | academic language and learning | professional identity | higher education

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 43:1 pp. 52–78 | article

Donohue, Mark & Tim Denham 2020 Becoming Austronesian: Mechanisms of language dispersal across southern Island Southeast Asia and the collapse of Austronesian morphosyntax

Keywords: language contact | creolisation | substrate | family profile | typology | Island Southeast Asia | Austronesian

In: Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating, Gil, David & Antoinette Schapper (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 129] pp. 447–482

Reed, Lauren W. & Alan Rumsey 2020 Sign Languages in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

In: Sign Language in Papua New Guinea: A primary sign language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province, Kendon, Adam (ed.)  pp. 141–184

Duhamel, Marie-France 2020 Borrowing from Bislama into Raga, Vanuatu: Borrowing frequency, adaptation strategies and semantic considerations

Keywords: borrowing | loanword | Oceanic linguistics | Raga | Vanuatu | variation | Bislama | nativisation | quantitative study | minority language

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 6:2 pp. 160–195 | article

Carroll, Matthew J. 2020 Discontinuous noun phrases in Ngkolmpu

Keywords: discontinuity | information-structure | Papuan | Yam | Kanum

Studies in Language 44:3 pp. 700–721 | article

Bednall, James 2021 Feeling through your chest: Body-based tropes for emotion in Anindilyakwa

Keywords: emotion | metaphor | body | Anindilyakwa | Australian Indigenous languages

Pragmatics & Cognition 27:1 pp. 139–183 | article

Ponsonnet, Maïa & Kitty-Jean Laginha 2021 The role of the body in descriptions of emotions: A typology of the Australian continent

Keywords: figurative language | metaphors | metonymies | body parts | emotions | linguistic typology | Australian languages

Pragmatics & Cognition 27:1 pp. 20–82 | article

Kashima, Eri 2020 Word-initial [h]-drop variation in Nmbo: Change-in-progress in an egalitarian multilingual speech community of Papua New Guinea

Keywords: Papua New Guinea | Pacific | exogamy | deletion | lenition | phonological variation | network analysis | egalitarian multilingualism | apparent time construct

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 6:2 pp. 250–277 | article

Sánchez, Liliana & Elisabeth Mayer 2020 Clitics and argument marking in Shipibo-Spanish and Ashéninka-Perené-Spanish bilingual speech

Keywords: clitic doubling | differential object marking | argument systems | bilingual acquisition | typological differences | Amazonian Spanish

In: Amazonian Spanish: Language contact and evolution, Fafulas, Stephen (ed.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 23] pp. 127–154

Koch, Harold 2020 Development of aspect markers in Arandic languages, with notes on associated motion

Keywords: associated motion | attenuative | continuous | habitual | nominalisation | reduplication

Journal of Historical Linguistics 10:2 pp. 209–250 | article

Kidd, Evan, Amy Bidgood, Seamus Donnelly, Samantha Durrant, Michelle S. Peter & Caroline F. Rowland 2020 Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications

In: Current perspectives on child language acquisition: How children use their environment to learn, Rowland, Caroline F., Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge & Katherine E. Twomey (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 27] pp. 189–219

Inceoglu, Solène 2019 Exploring the effects of instruction on L2 French learner pronunciation, accentedness, comprehensibility, and fluency: An online classroom study

Keywords: L2 pronunciation instruction | French as a foreign language | experimental L2 classroom experiment | accentedness | comprehensibility | fluency

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 5:2 pp. 223–246 | article

Bellwood, Peter 2019 Listening in on the conversations of early farmers

Studies in Language 43:1 pp. 231–241 | book review

Daniels, Don, Danielle Barth & Wolfgang Barth 2019 Subgrouping the Sogeram languages: A critical appraisal of Historical Glottometry

Keywords: Historical Glottometry | subgrouping | language diversification | comparative reconstruction | Sogeram languages | Madang languages | Papuan languages

Journal of Historical Linguistics 9:1 p. 92 | article

Wierzbicka, Anna 2020 The biblical roots of English ‘love’: The concept of ‘love’ in a historical and cross-linguistic perspective

Keywords: the meaning of ‘love’ | NSM | Minimal English | New Testament | from Hebrew ’āhēb to Greek agapao

International Journal of Language and Culture 6:2 pp. 225–254 | article

Barth, Danielle 2020 Variation in Matukar Panau kinship terminology

Keywords: Oceanic | possession | kinship | classifiers | random forest | mixed-effects regression

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 5:2 pp. 138–170 | article

Dickson, Greg & Gautier Durantin 2020 Variation in the reflexive in Australian Kriol

Keywords: Kriol | dialectology | reflexives | classification trees | random forests | Boruta | variation in contact languages | geographic variation | pidgin and creole languages | perceptual dialectology

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 5:2 pp. 171–207 | article

Kalyan, Siva & Alexandre François 2019 When the waves meet the trees: A response to Jacques and List

Journal of Historical Linguistics 9:1 pp. 168–177 | article commentary

Evans, Nicholas 2019 Linguistic divergence under contact

Keywords: complexification | correspondence mimicry | doppel avoidance | language contact | language convergence | language divergence | metalinguistic awareness | metatypy | multilingualism | naboopposition

In: Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela & Claudia Fabrizio (eds.) Parlato, Renato[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 348] pp. 563–592

Kalyan, Siva, Alexandre François & Harald Hammarström 2019 Problems with, and alternatives to, the tree model in historical linguistics

Journal of Historical Linguistics 9:1 pp. 1–8 | introduction

Sadow, Lauren 2018 Can cultural scripts be used for teaching interactional norms?

Keywords: natural semantic metalanguage | cultural scripts | English language teaching | teaching methods | migrant education | English as a second language | invisible culture | interactional norms | pragmatic awareness | cultural competence

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 41:1 p. 91 | article

Huang, Hui, Farzad Sharifian, Susan Feldman, Hui Yang, Harriet Radermacher & Colette Browning 2019 Cross-cultural conceptualizations of ageing in Australia

Keywords: Cultural Linguistics | cultural conceptualizations | ageing | Anglo-Australian | Chinese-Australian

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:2 pp. 261–281 | article

Reinöhl, Uta & Antje Casaretto 2018 When grammaticalization does not occur: Prosody-syntax mismatches in Indo-Aryan

Keywords: grammaticalization | prosodic phrasing | Indo-Aryan | Indo-European | local particles | adverbs | adpositions

Diachronica 35:2 pp. 238–276 | article

Ponsonnet, Maïa & Marine Vuillermet 2018 Introduction: Morphology and emotions: A preliminary typology

Studies in Language 42:1 pp. 1–16 | introduction

Ponsonnet, Maïa 2018 Lexical semantics in language shift: Comparing emotion lexica in Dalabon and Barunga Kriol (northern Australia)

Keywords: creole | lexical resemblance | lexical typology | substrate influence

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33:1 p. 92 | article

Ponsonnet, Maïa 2018 A preliminary typology of emotional connotations in morphological diminutives and augmentatives

Keywords: evaluative morphology | diminutive | augmentative | expressivity | emotions

Studies in Language 42:1 pp. 17–50 | article

Sarvasy, Hannah & Diana Forker 2018 Word hunters: Unsung heroes of linguistics

In: Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork, Sarvasy, Hannah & Diana Forker (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 194] pp. 1–8

Amaral, Patrícia & Manuel Delicado Cantero 2018 Subcategorization and change: A diachronic analysis of sin embargo (de que)

Keywords: concessive | clausal complementation | change | subcategorization | Spanish

In: Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, MacDonald, Jonathan E. (ed.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 15] pp. 31–48

Ponsonnet, Maïa 2018 Expressive values of reduplication in Barunga Kriol (northern Australia)

Keywords: reduplication | expressivity | creole | emotions | aspect

Studies in Language 42:1 pp. 226–255 | article

Hassall, Tim 2018 Leave-taking in Indonesian during short-term study abroad

Keywords: interlanguage pragmatics | study abroad | leave-taking | pragmatic routines | Indonesian

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 3:1 p. 84 | article

Green, Jennifer, Anastasia Bauer, Alice Gaby & Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis 2018 Pointing to the body: Kin signs in Australian Indigenous sign languages

Keywords: Australian Indigenous languages | sign language typology | kinship | bimodal contact

Gesture 17:1 pp. 1–36 | article

Loakes, Deborah, John Hajek & Janet Fletcher 2017 Can you t[æ]ll I’m from M[æ]lbourne?: An overview of the dress and trap vowels before /l/ as a regional accent marker in Australian English

Keywords: Australian English | sound change | vowel merger | speech production | speech perception | regional variation

English World-Wide 38:1 pp. 29–49 | article

Sless, David 2017 From Semiotics to Choreography

Information Design Journal 23:2 pp. 173–183 | article

Zhang, Yanyin 2017 从“知其然” 到“知其所以然”: 在语言教学中培养思辨能力

Keywords: 人文教育 | 思辨能力 | 课堂互动 | 外语教学 | 课程设置 | liberal arts education | critical thinking | classroom interaction | foreign language pedagogy | syllabus design

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 52:1 pp. 77–92 | article

Daniels, Don 2017 A method for mitigating the problem of borrowing in syntactic reconstruction

Keywords: comparative method | syntactic reconstruction | Papuan languages | Madang languages | Sogeram languages | subordination | grammatical borrowing | desiderative construction

Studies in Language 41:3 pp. 577–614 | article

Lee, Duck-Young & Naomi Ogi 2017 Directive strategies in Modern Korean and Japanese: With special reference to commands and requests

In: Imperatives and Directive Strategies, Van Olmen, Daniël & Simone Heinold (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 184] pp. 241–264

Merlan, Francesca & Alan Rumsey 2017 Flexibles and polyvalence in Ku Waru: A developmental perspective

Keywords: child language acquisition | word classes | serial verb constructions | Papuan languages | longitudinal study

In: Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, Vapnarsky, Valentina & Edy Veneziano (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 182] pp. 307–341

van den Bos, Jackie, Felicity Meakins & Cassandra Algy 2017 Searching for “Agent Zero”: The origins of a relative case system

Keywords: case system | Gurindji Kriol | language contact | language change | child language | children’s agency

Language Ecology 1:1 p. 4 | article

François, Alexandre 2017 The economy of word classes in Hiw, Vanuatu: Grammatically flexible, lexically rigid

Studies in Language 41:2 pp. 294–357 | article

Evans, Nicholas 2016 Born, signed and named: Naming, country and social change among the Bentinck Islanders

In: Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, Verstraete, Jean-Christophe & Diane Hafner (eds.) [Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 18] pp. 305–336

Merlan, Francesca 2016 Correlation of textual and spatial reference: This and that

In: Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, Verstraete, Jean-Christophe & Diane Hafner (eds.) [Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 18] pp. 199–218

Goddard, Cliff & Zhengdao Ye 2016 Exploring “happiness” and “pain” across languages and cultures

Keywords: cross-linguistic semantics | happiness studies | language and culture. | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | pain research

In: “Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures, Goddard, Cliff & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 84] pp. 1–18

Mushin, Ilana, Denise Angelo & Jennifer Munro 2016 Same but different: Understanding language contact in Queensland Indigenous settlements

In: Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, Verstraete, Jean-Christophe & Diane Hafner (eds.) [Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 18] pp. 383–408

Bułat-Silva, Zuzanna 2016 Some remarks on “pain” in Latin American Spanish

Keywords: cross-cultural psychology | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | pain | Spanish

In: “Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures, Goddard, Cliff & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 84] pp. 109–122

Ye, Zhengdao 2016 The meaning of “happiness” (xìngfú) and “emotional pain” (tòngkŭ) in Chinese

Keywords: Chinese corpora | Chinese emotion | happiness studies | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | pain | subjective well-being

In: “Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures, Goddard, Cliff & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 84] pp. 65–86

Zhang, Yanyin & Bo Liu 2016 The ‘tense’ issue: Variable past tense marking by advanced end-state Chinese speakers of L2 English

In: Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages, Keßler, Jörg-U., Anke Lenzing & Mathias Liebner (eds.) [Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 5] pp. 101–120 | open access

Wierzbicka, Anna 2016 “Pain” and “suffering” in cross-linguistic perspective

Keywords: Buddhism | Christianity | crying | laughing | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | pain | suffering

In: “Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures, Goddard, Cliff & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 84] pp. 19–43

Goddard, Cliff & Anna Wierzbicka 2016 Explicating the English lexicon of ‘doing and happening’

Functions of Language 23:2 pp. 214–256 | article

Mayer, Elisabeth & Liliana Sánchez 2017 Object agreement marking and information structure along the Quechua-Spanish contact continuum

Keywords: monolingual and bilingual contact varieties | syntax | information structure | object agreement markers | direct object clitics

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 29:2 pp. 544–581 | article

Walsh, Michael 2017 Ten postulates concerning narrative in Aboriginal Australia

Keywords: Aboriginal Australia | narrative comparison | Dreamtime | Indigenous narrative | narrative inquiry

Narrative Inquiry 26:2 pp. 193–216 | article

Goddard, Cliff, Anna Wierzbicka & Jock Wong 2017 “Walking” and “running” in English and German: The conceptual semantics of verbs of human locomotion

Keywords: contrastive semantics | conceptual semantics | lexical polysemy | Manner | verbs of motion | semantic template | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:2 pp. 303–336 | article

Zhang, Yanyin 2015 Chapter 3. The emergence of sentence Topic in a Topicprominent language: A descriptive study of L2 Chinese

In: Theoretical and Methodological Developments in Processability Theory, Baten, Kristof, Aafke Buyl, Katja Lochtman & Mieke Van Herreweghe (eds.) [Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 4] pp. 45–70

Wierzbicka, Anna 2015 A whole cloud of culture condensed into a drop of semantics: The meaning of the German word Herr as a term of address

Keywords: terms of address | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | semantic evolution | cross-linguistic semantics | language and culture.

International Journal of Language and Culture 2:1 pp. 1–37 | article

Levisen, Carsten & Melissa Reshma Jogie 2015 The Trinidadian ‘Theory of Mind’: Personhood and postcolonial semantics

Keywords: postcolonial semantics | ethnolexicology | ethnopsychology | ‘Theory of Mind’ | Trinidadian Creole | Anglo English

International Journal of Language and Culture 2:2 pp. 169–193 | article

Kingstone, Sydney 2015 “Scottish”, “English” or “foreign”: Mapping Scottish dialect perceptions

Keywords: perceptual dialectology | folk linguistics | Scotland | language ideology | Scots | Scottish English | language and culture

English World-Wide 36:3 pp. 315–347 | article

Rendle-Short, Johanna 2014 Chapter 9. Using conversational structure as an interactional resource: Children with Asperger’s syndrome and their conversational partners

In: Communication in Autism, Arciuli, Joanne & Jon Brock (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 11] pp. 217–244

Delicado Cantero, Manuel 2014 Dequeísmo and queísmo in Portuguese 
and Spanish

In: Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact, Amaral, Patrícia & Ana Maria Carvalho (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 1] p. 95

Pineda-Bernuy, Edith 2014 The development of standard negation in Quechua: A reconstruction

In: The Diachrony of Negation, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt & Jacqueline Visconti (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 160] p. 83

Dixon, Sally & Denise Angelo 2014 Dodgy data, language invisibility and the implications for social inclusion: A critical analysis of indigenous student language data in Queensland schools

Keywords: English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D) | Indigenous education | multilingual education | student assessment | school language data

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 37:3 pp. 213–233 | article | open access

Goddard, Cliff & Zhengdao Ye 2014 Exploring “happiness” and “pain” across languages and cultures

Keywords: cross-linguistic semantics | pain research | language and culture. | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | happiness studies

International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2 pp. 131–148 | article

Schmidt, Gabriele 2014 Personal growth as a strong element in the motivation of Australian university students to learn German

Keywords: language learning motivation | qualitative research | German | university students | Ideal L2 Self

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 37:2 pp. 145–160 | article | open access

Ross, Malcolm D. 2014 Reconstructing the history of languages in northwest New Britain: Inheritance and contact

Keywords: comparative method | language shift | Papuan | Oceanic Austronesian | contact-induced change

Journal of Historical Linguistics 4:1 p. 84 | article

Koch, Harold, Robert Mailhammer, Robert A. Blust, Claire Bowern, Don Daniels, Alexandre François, Simon J. Greenhill, Brian D. Joseph, Lawrence A. Reid, Malcolm D. Ross & Paul J. Sidwell 2014 Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics: A view from Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Diachronica 31:2 pp. 267–278 | article

Bulat-Silva, Zuzanna 2014 Some remarks on “pain” in Latin American Spanish

Keywords: | Spanish | cross-cultural psychology | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | pain

International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2 pp. 239–252 | article

Ye, Zhengdao 2014 The meaning of “happiness” (xìngfú) and “emotional pain” (tòngkŭ) in Chinese

Keywords: Chinese emotion | Chinese corpora | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | happiness studies | pain | subjective well-being

International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2 pp. 194–215 | article

Wierzbicka, Anna 2014 “Pain” and “suffering” in cross-linguistic perspective

Keywords: pain | laughing | crying | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | suffering | Christianity | Buddhism

International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2 pp. 149–173 | article

Wang, Yan Yan & Johanna Rendle-Short 2013 Making the ‘invisible’ visible: A conversation analytic approach to intercultural teaching and learning in the Chinese Mandarin language classroom

In: Linguistics for Intercultural Education, Dervin, Fred & Anthony J. Liddicoat (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 33] pp. 113–136

Hyslop, Gwendolyn 2013 The Kurtöp -si construction: Converbs, clause-chains and verb serialization

In: Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey, Thornes, Tim, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop & Joana Jansen (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 103] pp. 155–178

Rumsey, Alan, Lila San Roque & Bambi B. Schieffelin 2013 The acquisition of ergative marking in Kaluli, Ku Waru and Duna (Trans New Guinea)

In: The Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. & Sabine Stoll (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 9] pp. 133–182

Donohue, Mark 2013 Who inherits what, when?: Toward a theory of contact, substrates, and superimposition zones

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. 219–240

Spronck, Stef 2012 Minds divided: Speaker attitudes in quotatives

In: Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives, Buchstaller, Isabelle & Ingrid van Alphen (eds.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 15] p. 71

Hassall, Timothy 2012 Request modification by Australian learners of Indonesian

In: Interlanguage Request Modification, Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria & Helen Woodfield (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 217] pp. 203–242

Greenhill, Simon J. & Russell D. Gray 2012 Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics: Issues of understanding and representation

Diachronica 29:4 pp. 523–537 | article

Donohue, Mark, Tim Denham & Stephen Oppenheimer 2012 Consensus and the lexicon in historical linguistics: Rejoinder to “Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics”

Diachronica 29:4 pp. 538–546 | article

Donohue, Mark, Tim Denham & Stephen Oppenheimer 2012 New methodologies for historical linguistics?: Calibrating a lexicon-based methodology for diffusion vs. subgrouping

Keywords: Austronesian | Polynesian | areality | computational methods | historical linguistics | lexical borrowing

Diachronica 29:4 pp. 505–522 | article

Hendriks, Jennifer 2012 Re-examining the ‘origins’ of the prenominal periphrastic possessive construction Jan z’n boek in Dutch: An empirical approach

Keywords: prenominal periphrastic possessive constructions | case marking strategies | possessive constructions | relational case | case attraction | concordial case | German | Dutch

Diachronica 29:1 pp. 28–71 | article

Wierzbicka, Anna 2013 Understanding others requires shared concepts

Keywords: kinship | Cultural scripts | polysemy | natural semantics metalanguage (NSM) | numbers | universal human concepts | psychological concepts | semantic universals

Pragmatics & Cognition 20:2 pp. 356–379 | article

Tryon, Darrell 2011 Review of Endangered Languages of Austronesia edited by Margaret Florey (2010)

Studies in Language 35:2 pp. 460–467 | book review

Evans, Nicholas, Stephen C. Levinson, Alice Gaby & Asifa Majid 2011 1. Introduction: Reciprocals and semantic typology

In: Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson & Asifa Majid (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 98] pp. 1–28

Majid, Asifa, Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby & Stephen C. Levinson 2011 2. The semantics of reciprocal constructions across languages: An extensional approach

In: Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson & Asifa Majid (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 98] pp. 29–60

Evans, Nicholas & Toshiki Osada 2011 6. Mundari reciprocals

In: Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson & Asifa Majid (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 98] pp. 115–128

Wigglesworth, Gillian, Jane Simpson & Deborah Loakes 2011 Naplan language assessments for Indigenous children in remote communities: Issues and problems

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 34:3 pp. 320–343 | article | open access

Donohue, Cathryn & Mark Donohue 2010 The case of possessors and ‘subjects’

In: Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics, Mercado, Raphael, Eric Potsdam & Lisa deMena Travis (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 167] pp. 103–116

Wierzbicka, Anna 2010 ‘Story’ — An English cultural keyword and a key interpretive tool of Anglo culture

Keywords: NSM semantic theory | Anglo culture | cultural semantics | life story | story vs. history | chirographic culture | narrative turn

Narrative Inquiry 20:1 pp. 153–181 | article

Goddard, Cliff & Anna Wierzbicka 2010 ‘Want’ is a lexical and conceptual universal: Reply to Khanina

Studies in Language 34:1 pp. 108–123 | article

Wierzbicka, Anna 2009 All people eat and drink. Does this mean that 'eat' and 'drink' are universal human concepts?

In: The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking, Newman, John (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 84] pp. 65–89

Allen, Cynthia L. 2009 On the disappearance of genitive types in Middle English: Objective genitives with nouns of love and fear and the nature of syntactic change

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. 49–60

Pawley, Andrew 2009 On the origins of serial verb constructions in Kalam

In: Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. & Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 85] pp. 119–144

Wierzbicka, Anna 2009 “Reciprocity”: An NSM approach to linguistic typology and social universals

Studies in Language 33:1 pp. 103–174 | article

Hercus, Luise & Stephen Morey 2008 10. Some remarks on negatives in Southeastern 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. 139–154

Rose, Phil 2008 17. Oujiang Wu tones and acoustic reconstruction

In: Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans & Luisa Miceli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] pp. 235–250

Andrews, Avery D. 2008 6. Splitting vs. lumping in morphological analysis: Evidence from Greek

In: Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans & Luisa Miceli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] pp. 91–97

Giacon, John 2008 8. Associated eating and movement: further examination of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay verb suffixes

In: Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans & Luisa Miceli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] pp. 107–121

Goddard, Cliff & Anna Wierzbicka 2009 Universal human concepts as a basis for contrastive linguistic semantics

In: Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and cognitive perspectives, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, J. Lachlan Mackenzie & Elsa M. González Álvarez (eds.) [Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 60] pp. 205–226

Koch, Harold 2007 Review of The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia: Comparative studies of the continent’s most linguistically complex region edited by Nicholas Evans (2003)

Diachronica 24:2 pp. 405–413 | book review

Skelt, Louise 2007 Damage control: Closing problematic sequences in hearing-impaired interaction

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30:3 pp. 34.1–34.15 | article | open access

Nevile, Maurice & Johanna Rendle-Short 2007 Language as action

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30:3 pp. 30.1–30.13 | other | open access

Goddard, Cliff & Anna Wierzbicka 2007 NSM analyses of the semantics of physical qualities: sweet, hot, hard, heavy, rough, sharp in cross‑linguistic perspective

Studies in Language 31:4 pp. 765–800 | article

Allen, Cynthia L. 2006 Review of English in the middle ages by Tim William Machan (2003)

Studies in Language 30:1 pp. 221–225 | book review

Foley, Tony 2006 Lawyers and legal interpreters: Different clients, different culture

Interpreting 8:1 p. 97 | article

Rendle-Short, Johanna 2003 “So what does this show us?”: Analysis of the discourse marker ‘so’ in seminar talk

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 26:2 pp. 46–62 | article

Rumsey, Alan 2008 8. Men stand, women sit: On the grammaticalization of posture verbs in Papuan languages, its bodily basis and cultural correlates

In: The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying, Newman, John (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 51] pp. 179–211

Ye, Zhengdao 2002 Different modes of describing emotions in Chinese: Bodily changes, sensations, and bodily images

Pragmatics & Cognition 10:1/2 pp. 307–339 | article

Priestley, Carol 2002 Insides and emotion in Koromu

Pragmatics & Cognition 10:1/2 pp. 243–270 | article

Enfield, N.J. & Anna Wierzbicka 2002 Introduction: The body in description of emotion

Pragmatics & Cognition 10:1/2 pp. 1–25 | article

Rubino, Carl 2008 Iconic morphology and word formation in Ilocano

In: Ideophones, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard & Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 44] pp. 303–320

Hassall, Tim 2001 Do learners thank too much in Indonesian?

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 24:2 p. 97 | article

So’o, Ainslie & Anthony J. Liddicoat 2000 Telephone openings in Samoan

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 23:1 p. 95 | article

Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. 1999 Review of Double case: Agreement by Suffixaufnahme edited by Frans Plank (1995)

Studies in Language 23:2 pp. 447–454 | book review

Allen, Cynthia L. 2000 Bernd Heine. Possession

Studies in Language 23:3 pp. 663–674 | article

Arsyad, Safnil 1999 The Indonesian and english argument structure: A cross-cultural rhetoric of argumentative texts

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 22:2 p. 85 | article

Rose, Phil 1999 Differences and distinguishability in the acoustic characteristics of hello in voices of similar-sounding speakers: A forensic phonetic investigation

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 22:1 pp. 1–42 | article

Liddicoat, Anthony J. & Glenda Shopen 1999 What makes partnership valid? Home-school communication and parent-school partnerships

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 22:1 pp. 43–60 | article

Rendle-Short, Johanna 1999 When “okay” is okay in computer science seminar talk

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 22:2 pp. 19–33 | article

Dixon, R.M.W. 1998 Review of A grammar of Kayardild, with historical-comparative notes on Tangkic by Nicholas Evans (1995)

Studies in Language 22:2 pp. 507–515 | book review

Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. 1998 Review of Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia edited by Mark Harvey & Nicholas Reid (1997)

Studies in Language 22:3 pp. 693–703 | book review

Lee, Duck-Young & Chiharu Mukai 1998 A study of Japanese back channels

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 15 pp. 77–92 | article

Littleton, Peita 1998 An individual approach to imitation: One child’s strategy toward first language acquisition

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 21:1 pp. 71–92 | article

Hanamura, Naoko 1998 Teaching telephone closings in Japanese: A comparison between textbook materials and actual conversation

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 15 pp. 29–56 | article

Liddicoat, Anthony J. & Susanne Döpke 1998 The structure of callers’ contributions in talkback radio

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 21:2 p. 79 | article

Bramley, Nicolette & Naoko Hanamura 1998 The teaching and learning of Japanese in Australian universities: An overview

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 15 pp. 1–10 | article

Yoshikawa, Mariko 1998 Vocabulary acquisition by advanced learners: Factors that cause difficulty for advanced learners

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 15 pp. 169–182 | article

Buckingham, Joanna & Maurice Nevile 1997 A model of citation options

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 20:2 pp. 51–66 | article

Liddicoat, Anthony J., Chantal Crozet, Louise M. Jansen & Gabriele Schmidt 1997 The role of language learning in academic education: An overview

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 20:2 pp. 19–32 | article

Emery, Fred & Merrelyn Emery 1997 Towards a Logic of Hypotheses: Everyone Does Research

Concepts and Transformation 2:2 pp. 119–144 | article

Liddicoat, Anthony J. 1997 Everyday speech as culture: Implications for language teaching

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 14 pp. 55–70 | article

Yunxia, Zhu 1997 Examining the native speakers’ understanding of communicative purposes of a written genre in modern standard Chinese

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 20:1 pp. 133–149 | article

Schmidt, Gabriele 1997 Teaching culture and language for specific purposes: An approach to the development of appropriate teaching material

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 14 pp. 135–146 | article

Crozet, Chantal & Anthony J. Liddicoat 1997 Teaching culture as an itegrated part of language teaching: An introduction

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 14 pp. 1–22 | article

Crozet, Chantal 1996 Teaching verbal interaction and culture in the language classroom

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 19:2 pp. 37–57 | article

Emery, Merrelyn 1996 The Influence of Culture in Search Conferences: A Rare Case of Fight/Flight

Keywords: Laissezfaire. | Dissociation | Design Principles | Culture | Bion's Dynamics | Basic Group Assumptions | Community | Communication

Concepts and Transformation 1:2/3 pp. 143–164 | article

Moore, Harumi 1996 Word-attack skills in beginners’ Japanese reading comprehension

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 19:1 pp. 73–88 | article

Allen, Cynthia L. 1995 Review of English Historical Syntax by David Denison (1993)

Diachronica 12:2 pp. 255–262 | book review

Liddicoat, Anthony J. 1995 Argumentation as an interactional process in conversation

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 18:2 p. 85 | article

Curnow, Timothy Jowan 1995 The functions of voice in scientific writing in Spanish

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 18:2 pp. 33–64 | article

Döpke, Susanne, Anne Brown, Anthony Liddicoat & Kristina Love 1994 Closings in talkback radio: Institutional effects on conversational routines

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 11 pp. 21–46 | article

Toda, Takako 1994 Interlanguage phonology: Acquisition of timing control in Japanese

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 17:2 pp. 51–76 | article

Rieschild, Verna Robertson 1994 ‘Yes Kylie, Echidna’s are almost wombats!’: Adult responses to young children’s answers in two languages: Lebanese-Arabic and English

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 17:1 pp. 104–124 | article

Liddicoat, Anthony J. 1993 Choosing a liturgical language: Language policy and the Catholic mass

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 16:2 pp. 123–141 | article

Kirkpatrick, Andy 1993 Information sequencing in Modern Standard Chinese

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 16:2 pp. 27–60 | article

Wierzbicka, Anna 1993 Why do We Say in April, on Thursday, at 10 O'Clock? In Search of an Explanation

Studies in Language 17:2 pp. 437–454 | article

Dixon, R.M.W. 1992 Review of Handbook of Amazonian Languages edited by Desmond C. Derbyshire & Geoffrey K. Pullum (1991)

Diachronica 9:1 pp. 111–114 | book review

Kirkpatrick, Andy 1992 Schemas, authentic texts and cross-cultural communication

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 9 pp. 101–119 | article

Ross, Malcolm D. 1991 Refining Guy's Sociolinguistic Types of Language Change

Diachronica 8:1 pp. 119–129 | other

Wierzbicka, Anna 1991 Semantic Rules Know no Exceptions

Studies in Language 15:2 pp. 371–398 | article

Ameka, Felix K. 1990 Review of Studies in Lexicography edited by Robert Burchfield (1987)

Studies in Language 14:2 pp. 479–489 | book review

Fisher, Phil & David Sless 1990 Information design methods and productivity in the insurance industry

Information Design Journal 6:2 pp. 103–129 | article

Koch, Harold 1990 Language and communication in Aboriginal land claim hearings

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 5:1 pp. 1–47 | article

Wierzbicka, Anna 1990 Cross-cultural pragmatics and different values

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 13:1 pp. 43–76 | article

Ameka, Felix K. 1989 Review of The case for lexicase: An outline of lexicase grammatical theory by Stanley Starosta (1988)

Studies in Language 13:2 pp. 506–518 | book review

Wierzbicka, Anna 1986 What's in a Noun? (Or: How Do Nouns Differ in Meaning from Adjectives?)

Studies in Language 10:2 pp. 353–389 | article

Wierzbicka, Anna 1983 The Semantics of Case Marking

Studies in Language 7:2 pp. 247–275 | article

Van Valin Jr., Robert D. 1981 Grammatical Relations in Ergative Languages

Studies in Language 5:3 pp. 361–394 | article

Foley, William 1980 Toward a Universal Typology of the Noun Phrase

Studies in Language 4:2 pp. 171–199 | article

Wierzbicka, Anna 1979 Ethno-Syntax and the Philosophy of Grammar

Studies in Language 3:3 pp. 313–383 | article

Dixon, R. M. W. 1977 Where Have all the Adjectives Gone?*

Studies in Language 1:1 pp. 19–80 | article

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