Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale*

Titles

The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations

EditorSonja Riesberg, Uta Reinöhl & Birgit Hellwig

Subjects Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] 2026. | edited volume | open access

Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating

Edited by David Gil & Antoinette Schapper

Subjects Austronesian languages | Historical linguistics | Linguistics of isolated languages | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 129] 2020. | edited volume

Gayler, Katharina & Sonja Riesberg 2026 Grammaticisation of medial speech verbs: A case study from Yali (West-New Guinea)

Keywords: grammaticisation of speech verbs | reported speech | clause chaining | quotative marking | NP marking | epistemic stance

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. 815–843 | 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

Bril, Isabelle 2026 Discourse and reference tracking effects on voice alternations in Northern Amis (Austronesian)

In: Topicality and the Shaping of Grammar: New perspectives from lesser-studied languages, Palancar, Enrique L., Claudine Chamoreau & Anaid Donabédian (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 137] pp. 218–259

Compensis, Paul, Marco García García, Birgit Hellwig, Sonja Riesberg & Gertrud Schneider-Blum 2026 Differential argument marking and discourse prominence

Keywords: differential argument marking | differential object marking | differential object indexing | differential agent marking | discourse prominence

Studies in Language | Online First Publication, 40 pp. | article | open access

Schapper, Antoinette & Maria Zielenbach 2025 Dutch loanwords in Ternate and their circulation in the Moluccas

In: Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries, Joby, Christopher & Nicoline van der Sijs (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 55] pp. 392–426

Persohn, Bastian & Antoinette Schapper 2025 Position-dependent polarity in the Alor-Pantar languages and its origins

Keywords: negation | phasal polarity | cyclicity | Timor-Alor-Pantar

Journal of Historical Linguistics | Online First Publication, 29 pp. | article | open access

Schapper, Antoinette 2025 One language or two?: The arbitrariness of isolate classifications in New Guinea

Keywords: Papuan languages | language classification | epistemic uncertainty | language contact | language divergence

In: Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives, Salaberri, Iker, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia & Eneko Zuloaga (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 135] pp. 306–333

Yang, Daxue, Sangsrgyas Tshering & Jesse P. Gates 2024 A voicing rule for non-continuant obstruents in Thebo Tibetan

Keywords: Tibetan | Thebo | G-yi.ba | verbal morphology

Language and Linguistics 25:4 pp. 710–746 | article | open access

Bialek, Joanna & Camille Simon 2024 The cycle of applicative in Tibetic: Lexicalization, grammaticalization and pragmaticization

Keywords: Tibetic languages | noun incorporation | applicative voice | sociative | benefactive | “attitude holder” | imperative marker | lexicalization | diachronic syntax | grammaticalization | pragmaticization | secondary grammaticalization

Diachronica 41:4 pp. 437–481 | article | open access

Nikitina, Tatiana, Ekaterina Aplonova & Leonardo Contreras Roa 2023 The use of interjections as a discourse phenomenon: A contrastive study of Chuvash (Turkic) and Wan (Mande)

Keywords: interjections | Mande | Turkic | reported speech | narrative grammar

In: Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective, Barotto, Alessandra & Simone Mattiola (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 227] pp. 65–89

Bellamy, Kate & M. Carmen Parafita Couto 2022 Gender assignment in mixed noun phrases: State of the art

Keywords: code-switching | mixed noun phrases | grammatical gender | gender assignment | bilingualism

In: The Acquisition of Gender: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 63] pp. 13–48

Margetts, Anna, Katharina Haude, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Dagmar Jung, Sonja Riesberg, Stefan Schnell, Frank Seifart, Harriet Sheppard & Claudia Wegener 2022 Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalisation of bring and take

Keywords: caused motion | accompanied motion | event representation | semantic typology | text-based typology

Studies in Language 46:4 pp. 934–993 | article

Riesberg, Sonja 2022 Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yali

Keywords: accompanied motion | caused motion | clause chaining | differential object marking

In: Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, Margetts, Anna, Sonja Riesberg & Birgit Hellwig (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 134] pp. 369–395

Hellwig, Birgit, Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg & Melanie Schippling 2022 Bringing and taking: A cross-linguistic perspective on caused accompanied motion events

Keywords: language documentation | three-participant events | caused motion | accompanied motion | lexical semantics

In: Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, Margetts, Anna, Sonja Riesberg & Birgit Hellwig (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 134] pp. 1–41

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & Sonja Riesberg 2022 Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Totoli, a western Austronesian language of Indonesia

Keywords: Austronesian | lexical semantics | deixis | applicatives | symmetrical voice

In: Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, Margetts, Anna, Sonja Riesberg & Birgit Hellwig (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 134] pp. 219–242

Moyse-Faurie, Claire 2021 Antipassive constructions in Oceanic languages

Keywords: depatientive | middle derivation | Oceanic languages | object incorporation | object omission | object peripherization

In: Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 130] pp. 149–176

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

Bril, Isabelle 2020 Indefinite expressions and accessibility hierarchy to core argument functions in a sample of Austronesian languages (and beyond)

Keywords: Austronesian | articles | indefinite NPs | accessibility hierarchy to argument functions | definiteness effect | existential constructions | presentational constructions | specificity | generic NPs | voice shifts | depivotisation

Studies in Language 44:2 pp. 407–460 | article

Schapper, Antoinette 2020 The origins of isolating word structure in eastern Timor

Keywords: Timor languages | phonological erosion | irregularity | lexicalisation | isolating word structure | convergence

In: Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating, Gil, David & Antoinette Schapper (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 129] pp. 391–446

Gil, David & Antoinette Schapper 2020 Introduction

In: Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating, Gil, David & Antoinette Schapper (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 129] pp. 1–8

Moyse-Faurie, Claire 2020 Linguistic expressions of Goal, Source and Place in Polynesian languages

Keywords: Polynesian languages | East Uvean | East Futunan | demonstratives | directional adverbs | locative prepositions | position and motion verbs

Studies in Language 45:1 p. 75 | article

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