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Comparative and historical studies

Index of SIL publications on Comparative and historical studies listed by country.

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General works

• Allen, David L. 1996. "The Lukan authorship of Hebrews: a proposal."
• Anderson, Gregory D. S. 2004. "Advances in proto-Munda reconstruction."  
• Annamalai, E. 1997. "Development of sociolinguistics in India."
• Bauer, Christian. 1994. "Symposium ‘Sources de l’histoire du pays khmer’, Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Paris, Sorbonne, 28 June-2 July 1993."  
• Bendor-Samuel, John T. 1971. "Niger-Congo: Gur."
• Benedict, Paul K. 1996. "Monic ‘*clur’ and other Southeast Asian ‘dogs’."  
• Benedict, Paul K. 1997. "Interphyla flow in Southeast Asia."  
• Biber, Douglas and Eric Fleischman. 1982. Historical and comparative.
• Blust, Robert A. 2007. "The linguistic position of Sama-Bajaw."
• Boerger, Brenda. 1987. "On reconstructing voiced aspirated stops and retroflexed stops for proto-Gypsy."
• Bright, William. 1997. "Reminiscences: beginnings of sociolinguistics."
• Bruce, Leslie P. 1998. "The semantics of reconciliation in three languages."
• Buth, Randall J. 1983. Review of: a history of the Hebrew language, by Eduard Yechezkel Kutscher.
• Cahill, Michael. 2001. "The value of historical and comparative linguistics."
• Casali, Roderic F. 1996. Resolving hiatus.
• Chamberlain, James R. 1997. "Tai-Kadai arthropods: a preliminary biolinguistic investigation."
• Costello, John R. 1983. Syntactic change and syntactic reconstruction: a tagmemic approach.
• Darden, Bill and Kenneth Olson. 1999. "On the question of the relevance of family trees in comparative reconstruction."
• Davis, Irvine. 1997. Review of: The languages of the ‘First Nations’: Comparison of the Native American languages from an ethnolinguistic perspective, by Stefan Liedtke.
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1999. "Carib."
• Dyen, Isidore. 2006. "Some evidence favoring the central hypothesis."  
• Dyen, Isidore. 2007. "Some evidence favoiring the Central Hypothesis."
• Edmondson, Jerold A. and David B. Solnit, editors. 1997. Comparative Kadai: the Tai branch.  
• Ferlus, Michel. 2009. "Le mot 'sang' in austroasiatique."  
• Franklin, Karl. 2000. Review of: The comparative method: regularity and irregularity in language change, Mark Durie and Malcolm Ross, editors.
• Franusich, Anne. 1980. Review of: Principles and methods for historical linguistics, by Robert J. Jeffers and Ilse Lehiste.
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1964. "Measures of linguistic divergence."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1992. "Correlations between vocabulary similarity and intelligibility."  
• Grimes, Joseph E. 2001. "The value of comparative linguistics."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 2003. "A gap to fill: language history."
• Grimshaw, Allen Day. 1997. "Origins and milestones."
• Hall, Robert A. 1975. "Relexification and regrammaticalisation."
• Hartell, Rhonda L., editor. 1993. Alphabets de Langues Africaines.
• Hartell, Rhonda L., editor. 1993. Alphabets of Africa.
• Hayes, La Vaughn H. 1997. "On the track of Austric, part II: Consonant mutation in early Austroasiatic."  
• Hayes, La Vaughn H. 1999. "On the track of Austric part III. basic vocabulary comparison."  
• Hoenigswald, Henry M. and Robert E. Longacre, editors. 1973. Diachronic, areal, and typological linguistics.
• Höhlig, Monika. 1997. Kontaktbedingter sprachwandel in der adygeischen umgangssprache im Kaukasus und in der Türkei: Vergleichende analyse des russischen und türkischen einflusses in mündlichen adygeischen texten.
• Huttar, George. 1993. "Identifying africanisms in new world languages: how specific can we get?."
• Hwang, Shin Ja J. 1995. "Purpose clauses in Korean and iconicity."
• Hwang, Shin Ja J. 1996. "The grammar and discourse of relative clauses."
• Hymes, Dell. 1997. "History and development of sociolinguistics."
• Jensen, Cheryl. 1998. "Comparative Tupí-Guaraní morphosyntax."
• Jensen, Cheryl. 1999. "Tupí-Guaraní."
• Jernudd, Björn. 1997. "The [r]evolution of sociolinguistics: a personal retrospect of the early 1960s."
• Kaufman, Terrence. 1990. "Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more."
• Kindell, Gloria E. 1997. "Summer Institute of Linguistics: what does SIL have to do with sociolinguistics?."
• Kirk, Neile A. 1995. Review of: The syntax and semantics of middle constructions: a study with special reference to German, by Sarah M. Fagan.
• Kirk, Neile A. 1998. Review of: How to kill a dragon: Aspects of Indo-European poetics, by Calbert Watkins.
• Lancioni, Giuliano. 1999. Review of: Negation and clausal structure: a comparative study of Romance languages, by Raffaella Zanuttini.
• Larish, Michael D. 2006. "Possible Proto-Asian archaic residue and the statigraphy of diffusional cumulation in Austro-Asian languages."  
• Lee, Ernest W. 1997. "Austronesian for ordinary speakers of Austronesian languages."  
• Lehmann, Winfred P. 1984. Workbook for historical linguistics.
• Lehmann, Winfred P. 1992. Workbook for historical Linguistics.
• Lieberson, Stanley. 1997. "Early developments in sociolinguistics."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1962. Review of: Language change and linguistic reconstruction, by Henry M. Hoenigswald.
• Lynch, John. 1996. "On the relative instability of *tina- ‘mother’ in the languages of eastern Oceania."
• Marcellesi, J. B. 1997. "Contribution to the history of sociolinguistics: origins and development of the Rouen school."
• Matisoff, James A. 2003. "Aslian: Mon-Khmer of the Malay peninsula."  
• Matteson, Esther, editor. 1972. Comparative studies in Amerindian languages.
• Migliazza, Brian. 1996. "Mainland southeast Asia: a unique linguistic area."
• Morris, Gregory. 1995. Review of: The English language: a historical introduction, by Charles Barber.
• Myers-Scotton, Carol. 1997. "On safari with sociolinguistics."
• Nicole, Jacques. 1999. Les classes nominales dans les langue voltaïques: esquisse d’un cadre de description.
• Nicolle, Steve. 2001. Review of: Bantu historical linguistics: theoretical and empirical perspectives, Jean-Marie Hombert and Larry M. Hyman, editors.
• Paulston, Christina Bratt and G. Richard Tucker, editors. 1997. "History of sociolinguistics: interview with Charles Ferguson."
• Paulston, Christina Bratt. 1997. "Introduction."
• Payne, David L. 1987. "Some morphological elements of Maipuran Arawakan: agreement affixes and the genitive construction."
• Payne, David L. 1997. Review of: Mixed languages: 15 case studies in language intertwining, Peter Bakker and Maarten Mous, editors.
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1950. Axioms and procedures for reconstructions in comparative linguistics: an experimental syllabus.
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1957. Axioms and procedures for reconstructions in comparative linguistics: an experimental syllabus.
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1996. "Linguistic ‘Venn Diagrams’ with their ‘formative blocks’ in morphology, semantics, and historical reconstruction."
• Pike, Kenneth L. and Gary F. Simons. 1993. "Toward the historical reconstruction of matrix patterns in morphology."
• Pittman, Richard S. 1986. "Possible new solutions for some sticky old problems."
• Rehg, Kenneth L. 1993. "Proto-Micronesian prosody."
• Robinson, Clinton D. W. 1994. "Is sauce for the goose sauce for the gander? Some comparative reflections on minority language planning in North and South."
• Ross, Malcolm. 1995. "Diachronic typology and changing paradigms in historical linguistics: a review article of ‘Linguistic diversity in space and time’."
• Ross, Malcolm. 1995. Review of: The formation of Afrikaans, by Paul T. Roberge.
• Ross, Malcolm. 1996. Review of: Germano-European: breaking the sound law, by Tony D. Griffen.
• Sagart, Laurent. 1993. "Austronesian final consonants and the origin of Chinese tones."
• Savage, T. Dale. 1992. "Understanding correlation."  
• Shuy, Roger W. 1997. "A brief history of American sociolinguistics, 1949-1989."
• Sidwell, Paul. 2006. "Dating the separation of Acehnese and Chamic by etymological analysis of the Aceh-Chamic lexicon."
• Slater, Keith W. 1999. Review of: Historical linguistics and language change, by Roger Lass.
• Snider, Keith. 1997. Review of: Bantu phonology and morphology, Francis Katamba, editor.
• Sok, Phal. 2004. "L'amuïssement du r final en khmer: allongement et diphtongaison."  
• Tabouret-Keller, Andrée. 1997. "From sociolinguistics to the anthropology of language."
• Tehan, Thomas M. and William Hanna. 1997. Review of: Linguistica Tyrrhenica: a compendium of recent results in Etruscan linguistics, by Frank C. Woudhuizen.
• Thomas, David. 1991. "Communicatives, existives, and statives in proto-South-Bahnaric."
• Thomas, David. 1992. "On sesquisyllabic structure."  
• Tucker, G. Richard. 1997. "The development of sociolinguistics as a field of study: concluding observations."
• Unseth, Pete. 2000. Review of: Historical linguistics: an introduction, by Lyle Campbell.
• Van Dyken, Julia R. and Constance Kutsch Lojenga. 1993. "Word boundaries: Key factors in orthography development."
• Warren, Andy. 1997. Review of: Ancient Egyptian: a linguistic introduction, by Antonio Loprieno.
• Watson, Richard. 1998. Review of: The grammar of inalienability: a typological perspective on body part terms and the part-whole relation, Hilary Chappell and William McGregor, editors.
• Weera Ostapirat. 1996. "Kadai dummy ‘-w’."  
• Werth, Ronald N. 1983. Review of: The Indo-Europeans in the fourth and third millennia, E. C. Polomé, editor.
• Wise, Mary Ruth. 1999. "Small language families and isolates in Peru."
• Wolff, John U. 1993. "Proto-Austronesian stress."
• Wolff, John. 2007. "Petrified prefixes in the Austronesian languages."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Benin

• Kluge, Angela. 2008. "The Gbe language varieties of West Africa: a quantitative analysis of lexical and grammatical features."  
• Ross, Malcolm. 1996. Review of: The Yoruba koiné—its history and linguistic innovations, by J. Gbenga Fagborun.

Cameroon

• Canvin, Maggie. 1996. The educational implications of multilingualism for Cameroon and the Gambia: a comparative study.
• Hedinger, Robert. 1984. A comparative-historical study of the Manenguba languages (Bantu A.15 Mbo cluster) of Cameroon.
• Hedinger, Robert. 1987. The Manenguba languages (Bantu A.15, Mbo cluster) of Cameroon.  
• Mfonyam, Joseph N. 1990. "Tone analysis and tone orthography."
• Phillips, Kathleen. 1979. The initial standardization of the Yambɛta language.
• Ubels, Edward H. 1975. An historical-comparative study of some West Bamileke dialects.  
• Watters, John R. 1982. Review of: Les classes nominales dans se bantou des Grassfields. L’expansion bantoue, vol. 1 (Numéro special 9), Larry M. Hyman and Jan Voorhoeve, editors.
• Watters, John R. 1986. "Conference on comparative Bantu linguistics, Butare, Rwanda, August 15-23, 1984."
• Watters, John R. 2003. "Grassfields Bantu."

Chad

• McKone, Louise. 1993. A phonological description of Yedǝna (Buduma), language of Lake Chad.

Congo

• Buchanan, Deborah L. 1996/97. "The Munukutuba noun class system."

Côte d’Ivoire

• Bentinck, Julie. 1995. "A comparison of certain discourse features in biblical Hebrew and Nyaboa and their implications for the translation process."
• Burmeister, Jonathan L. 1983. "Volta-Bandama language structures."
• Kouadio NʼGuessan, Jérémie. 1993. "Côte d’Ivoire: Introduction."
• Marchese, Lynell. 1978. Atlas linguistique kru: Essai de typologie.
• Marchese, Lynell. 1982. "Basic aspectual categories in Proto-Kru."
• Marchese, Lynell. 1984. "Exbraciation in the Kru language family."

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Olson, Kenneth S. 1996. "On the comparison and classification of Banda dialects."

Ethiopia

• Ahland, Colleen Anne. 2004. Linguistic variation within Gumuz: a study of the relationship between historical change and intelligibility.
• Ahland, Michael Bryan. 2004. Language death in Mesmes: a sociolinguistic and historical-comparative examination of a disappearing language.
• Arensen, Jonathan and others. 1997. "Interrogatives in Surmic languages and Greenberg’s universals."
• Korhonen, Elsa, Mirja Saksa, and Ronald J. Sim. 1986. "A dialect study of Kambaata-Hadiyya (Ethiopia) [part 1]."
• Korhonen, Elsa, Mirja Saksa, and Ronald J. Sim. 1986. "A dialect study of Kambaata-Hadiyya (Ethiopia), part 2: Appendices."
• Sim, Ronald J. 1988. "The diachronic derivation of the verb in Northern Highland East Cushitic."
• Unseth, Peter Edward. 2002. Bi-consonantal reduplication in Amharic and Ethio-Semitic.
• Unseth, Peter. 1986. "Word order shift in negative sentences of Surma languages."
• Unseth, Peter. 1987. Review of: Typology, relationship, and time, by Vitaly V. Shevroshkin and T. L. Markey.
• Unseth, Peter. 1989. "An initial comparison and reconstruction of case suffixes in Surmic languages."
• Unseth, Peter. 1997. "An archaic Surmic causative prefix."
• Unseth, Peter. 1998. "Two old causative affixes in Surmic languages."
• Unseth, Peter. 2003. "Surveying bi-consonantal reduplication in Semitic."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1980. "Sidamo, Gedeo (Derasa), Burji: Phonological differences and likenesses."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1985. "Why Bench’ (Ethiopia) has five level tones today."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1990. "Glottalization constraints and Ethiopian counter-evidence."

Gambia

• Canvin, Maggie. 1996. The educational implications of multilingualism for Cameroon and the Gambia: a comparative study.

Ghana

• Cahill, Michael. 1991. "The case of the ‘missing’ kɔnni P."
• Cahill, Michael. 1999. "Triple splits from proto-Buli-Kɔnni."
• Casali, Roderic F. 1995. "On the reduction of vowel systems in Volta-Congo."
• Kluge, Angela. 2008. "The Gbe language varieties of West Africa: a quantitative analysis of lexical and grammatical features."  
• Naden, Anthony J. 1988. "Language, history, and legend in Northern Ghana."
• Snider, Keith L. 1989. "The vowels of proto-Guang."
• Snider, Keith L. 1989. North Guang comparative wordlist: Chumburung, Krachi, Nawuri, Gichode, Gonja.
• Snider, Keith L. 1990. "The consonants of Proto-Guang."
• Snider, Keith L. 1990. "Tone in proto-Guang nouns."
• Snider, Keith L. 1990. Studies in Guang phonology.

Guinea

• Mohamed Lamine Sano. 1993. "Guinea: Introduction."

Kenya

• Omondi, Lucia N. 1993. "Kenya: Introduction."

Liberia

• Marchese, Lynell. 1984. "Exbraciation in the Kru language family."

Mali

• Kodio, Koungarma. 1993. "Mali: Introduction."

Niger

• Begna, Mohamed. 1993. "Niger: Introduction."

Nigeria

• Edmondson, Thomas and Eileen Edmondson. 1971. "Some dialect shifts in Ejagham."
• Marchese, Lynell. 1985. Review of: Defaka: Ijo’s closest linguistic relative, by Charles E. W. Jenewari.
• Ross, Malcolm. 1996. Review of: The Yoruba koiné—its history and linguistic innovations, by J. Gbenga Fagborun.
• Van Dyken, Julia. 1986. "The genetic linguistic postulates: Some applications."

Senegal

• Dialo, Amadou. 1993. "Senegal: Introduction."

Sierra Leone

• Coomber, Ajayi. 1993. "Sierra Leone: Introduction."

Sudan

• Ahland, Colleen Anne. 2004. Linguistic variation within Gumuz: a study of the relationship between historical change and intelligibility.
• Arensen, Jonathan and others. 1997. "Interrogatives in Surmic languages and Greenberg’s universals."
• Eluzai, Moga Yokwe. 1993. "Sudan: Introduction."
• Unseth, Peter. 1997. "An archaic Surmic causative prefix."

Tanzania

• Stegen, Oliver. 2003. First steps in reconstructing Rangi language history.  

Togo

• Karan, Mark E. 1983. "Comparaison entre les discours narratifs kabiyè et lukpa."
• Kluge, Angela. 2008. "The Gbe language varieties of West Africa: a quantitative analysis of lexical and grammatical features."  
• Nicole, Jacques. 1987. Le nawdm et ses parlers locaux: Étude phonologique, synchronique et comparative d’une langue voltaïque du Togo.
• Poidi, Napo. 1989. Etude synchronique et comparative des phonèmes de deux parlers Bassar: Linaŋmanli de Bapuré et le parler de Bassar-ville.

Americas

Bolivia

• Key, Mary R. 1968. Comparative Tacanan phonology, with Cavineña phonology and notes on Pano-Tacanan relationship.
• Loos, Eugene E. 1973. "Algunas implicaciones de la reconstrucción de un fragmento de la gramática del proto-pano."  
• Olson, Ronald D. 1964. "Mayan affinities with Chipaya of Bolivia I: Correspondences."
• Olson, Ronald D. 1965. "Mayan affinities with Chipaya of Bolivia II: Cognates."
• Olson, Ronald D. 1980. Algunas relaciones del chipaya de Bolivia con las lenguas mayenses.
• Priest, Perry N. 1987. "A contribution to comparative studies in the Guaraní linguistic family."

Brazil

• Alleyne, Mervyn C. and Jo-Anne S. Ferreira. 2007. "Comparative perspectives on the origins, development and structure of Amazonian (Karipúna) French Creole."  
• Barnes, Janet. 1999. "Tucano."
• Boswood, Joan. 1973. "Evidências para a inclusão do aripaktsá no filo macro-jê."
• Crofts, Marjorie. 1967. "Notas sôbre dois dialetos do mundurukú."
• Davis, Irvine. 1966. "Comparative Jê phonology."
• Davis, Irvine. 1968. "Some macro-Jê relationships."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1961. "Notas comparativas sôbre três dialetos Karibe."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1986. "Comparative survey of morphology and syntax in Brazilian Arawakan."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1991. "Are Cariban languages moving away from or towards ergative systems?."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1994. "Clause subordination and nominalization in Tupí-Guaranian and Cariban languages."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. and Geoffrey K. Pullum, editors. 1986. Handbook of Amazonian languages, vol. 1.
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. and Geoffrey K. Pullum, editors. 1991. Handbook of Amazonian languages, vol 3.
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. and Geoffrey K. Pullum, editors. 1998. Handbook of Amazonian languages, vol 4.
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. and Geoffrey K. Pullum. 1998. "Introduction."
• Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1971. "Ofaié Xavánte, a Jê language."
• Gudschinsky, Sarah C., editor. 1971. Estudos sôbre línguas e culturas indígenas: Trabalhos linguísticos realizados no Brasil (edição especial).
• Jensen, Allen A. 1988. Sistemas indígenas de classificação de aves: Aspectos comparativos, ecológicos e evolutivos.
• Jensen, Cheryl J. 1984. O desenvolvimento histórico da língua wayampi.
• Jensen, Cheryl J. 1989. O desenvolvimento histórico da lingua wayampi.
• Jensen, Cheryl J. 1990. "Cross-referencing changes in some Tupi-Guaraní languages."
• Jensen, Cheryl. 2008. "Excerpts from cross-referencing changes in some Tupí-Guaraní languages."
• Loos, Eugene E. 1999. "Pano."
• Lowe, Ivan. 1999. "Nambiquara."
• Payne, David L. 1991. "A classification of Maipuran (Arawakan) languages based on shared lexical retentions."
• Payne, Doris L. 1992. Review of: Handbook of Amazonian languages, vol 3, Desmond C. Derbyshire and Geoffrey K. Pullum, editors.
• Payne, Doris L., editor. 1990. Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages.
• Weir, E. M. Helen. 1981. "Desenvolvimento diacrônico de certos prefixos verbais na língua Nadëb."
• Wiesemann, Ursula. 1978. "Os dialetos da língua kaingáng e o xokléng."

Canada

• Manrique, Leonardo, Yolanda Lastra and Doris A. Bartholomew, editors. 1994, 1995. Panorama de los estudios de las lenguas indígenas de México, tomo I, II.

Chile

• Croese, Robert A. 1989. "Evidencias léxicas y gramaticales para una posible filiación del mapudungun con la familia arawak."
• Croese, Robert A. 1991. "Evidencias léxicas y gramaticales para una posible filiación del mapudungun con la macro-familia arawaka."

Colombia

• Aschmann, Richard P. 1993. Proto Witotoan.
• Barnes, Janet. 1980. "La reconstrucción de algunas formas del proto tucano-barasano-tuyuca."
• Barnes, Janet. 1999. "Tucano."
• Bostrom, Paula Kaye. 1998. Nominalizations and relative clauses in Tatuyo: a prototype approach.
• Captain, David. 2005. "Proto Lokono-guajiro."
• Christian, Diane R. and Esther Matteson. 1972. "Proto Guahiban."
• Frank, Paul S. 1992. "Reconstrucción de las variaciones en proto-aruaco."
• Frank, Paul S. 1993. "Proto-Arhuacan phonology."
• Huber, Randal Q. and Robert B. Reed, compilers. 1992. Vocabulario comparativo: Palabras selectas de lenguas indígenas de Colombia (Comparative vocabulary: Selected words in indigenous languages of Colombia).  
• Jackson, Frances L. 1972. "Proto Mayan."
• Kondo, Riena. 2002. En pos de los Guahibos: prehistóricos, históricos y actuales: con pistas lingüísticas.
• Levinsohn, Stephen H., editor. 1992. Estudios comparativos: Proto tucano.
• Metzger, Ronald G. 1998. "The morpheme KA- of Carapana (Tucanoan)."  
• Payne, David L. 1991. "A classification of Maipuran (Arawakan) languages based on shared lexical retentions."
• Smith, Richard D. 1979. "Algunos rasgos contrastivos del barasano del sur y el español."  
• Tandioy, Francisco and Stephen H. Levinsohn. 1989. "Fonología comparativa de los dialectos del inga."
• Van Otterloo, Roger and James Peckham. 1982. "Macaguán."  
• Waltz, Nathan E. and Alva Wheeler. 1972. "Proto Tucanoan."
• Wheeler, Alva. 1972. "Proto Chibchan."
• Wheeler, Alva. 1992. "Comparaciones lingüísticas en el grupo Tucano occidental."

Ecuador

• Borman, M. B. and others. 1991. Listas comparativas de palabras en diez idiomas autóctonos ecuatorianos.
• Moore, Bruce R. 1962. "Correspondences in South Barbacoan Chibcha."  
• Orr, Carolyn and Nancy S. Pearson. 1979. Nombres de aves en cinco idiomas.  
• Orr, Carolyn and Robert E. Longacre. 1968. "Proto-Quechumaran."
• Orr, Carolyn. 1978. Dialectos quichuas del Ecuador con respecto a lectores principiantes.  
• Payne, Doris L. 1984. "Evidence for a Yaguan-Zaparoan connection."
• Payne, Doris L. 1989. La evidencia para una conexión yagua-záparo.
• Waters, William. 1996. "Una breve comparación entre los rasgos gramaticales del quichua Ecuatoriano de Napo y el quechua Peruano del Pastaza."  

Guadeloupe

• Decker, Ken. 2004. "Moribund English: the case of Gustavia English, St. Barthélmy."

Guatemala

• Fleming, Ilah. 1966. "Carib."
• Fleming, Ilah. 1966. "Caribe."
• Frank, Vernon R. 1976. The Proto Mayan verb phrase.
• Mayers, Marvin K. 1960. "The linguistic unity of Pocomam-Pocomchi."
• Mayers, Marvin K. 1966. "Comparaciones lingüísticas."
• Mayers, Marvin K. 1966. "Linguistic comparisons [between Mayan languages]."
• Mayers, Marvin K., editor. 1966. Languages of Guatemala.
• Mayers, Marvin K., editor. 1966. Lenguas de Guatemala.
• McArthur, Harry S. 1966. "Xinca [word list]."
• Townsend, William Cameron. 1937. "Comparaciones morfológicas entre cakchiquel y nahuatl."

Guyana

• Derbyshire, Desmond C. and Geoffrey K. Pullum, editors. 1991. Handbook of Amazonian languages, vol 3.

Honduras

• Campbell, Lyle and David F. Oltrogge. 1980. "Proto-Tol (Jicaque)."
• Dennis, Ronald K., Margaret Dennis, and Ilah Fleming. 1975. "Vocabulario comparativo del tol (jicaque)."
• Oltrogge, David F. 1975. Proto Jicaque-Subtiaba-Tequistlateco: a comparative reconstruction.
• Oltrogge, David F. 1977. "Proto Jicaque-Subtiaba-Tequistlateco: a comparative reconstruction."  
• Oltrogge, David F. and Calvin R. Rensch. 1977. Two studies in Middle American comparative linguistics.  

Mexico

• Bartholomew, Doris A. 1960. "Some revisions of Proto-Otomi consonants."
• Bartholomew, Doris A. 1965. The reconstruction of Otopamean (Mexico).
• Bartholomew, Doris A. 1969. "Los numerales uno a diez en los idiomas otopameanos."
• Bartholomew, Doris A. 1980. "Otomanguean influence on Pochutla Aztec."
• Bartholomew, Doris A. 1994. "Panorama of studies in Otopamean languages."
• Bartholomew, Doris. 1992. "Reverberaciones de la pérdida de la ‘h’ en la transcripción del matlatzinca en los siglos XVI y XVII."
• Bascom, Burton. 1965. Proto-Tepiman (Tepehuan-Piman).
• Biber, Douglas. 1978. "Evidence for rule re-ordering from the Otomanguean languages."
• Biber, Douglas. 1982. "Proto-Mixtec."
• Carrasco Zúñiga, Abad. 1995. "Estudios lingüísticos sobre el tlapaneco."
• Casad, Eugene H. 1988. "Post-conquest influences on Cora (Uto-Aztecan)."
• Casad, Eugene H. 1995. "Seeing it in more than one way."
• Casad, Eugene H. and Thomas L. Willett, editors. 2000. Uto-Aztecan: structural, temporal, and geographic perspectives: papers in memory of Wick R. Miller by the friends of Uto-Aztecan.
• Christiansen, Landis G. 1937. "Totonaco."
• Elson, Benjamin F. 1992. "Reconstructing Mixe-Zoque."  
• Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1953. "Proto-Mazateco."
• Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1958. "Mazatec dialect history: a study in miniature."
• Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1959. Proto-Popotecan: a comparative study of Popolocan and Mixtecan.
• Hollenbach, Barbara E. 1995. "Resumen bibliografico del huave."
• Hollenbach, Barbara E. 2003. "The historical source of an irregular Mixtec tone-sandhi pattern."
• Hopkins, Nicholas A. and J. Kathryn Josserand. 1994. "Pasado, presente y futuro en la lingüística maya."
• Kirk, Paul L. 1966. Proto-Mazatec phonology.
• Langacker, Ronald W. 1977. An overview of Uto-Aztecan grammar: Studies in Uto-Aztecan grammar 1.  
• Longacre, Robert E. 1957. Proto-Mixtecan.
• Longacre, Robert E. 1961. "Swadesh’s Macro-Mixtecan hypothesis."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1962. "Amplification of Gudschinsky’s Proto-Popolocan-Mixtecan."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1964. "Progress in Otomanguean reconstruction."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1966. "On linguistic affinities of Amuzgo."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1966. "The linguistic affinities of Amuzgo."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1967. "Systemic comparison and reconstruction."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1968. "Comparative reconstruction of indigenous languages."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1975. "The tone system of Proto-Mixtecan."
• Longacre, Robert E. 2001. "Comparative-historical mesoamerican reconstruction and SIL personnel: accomplishments and problems."
• Mackay, Carolyn J. 1994. "Prospects and proposals for Totonacan research."
• Mak, Cornelia and Robert E. Longacre. 1960. "Proto-Mixtec phonology."
• Mak, Cornelia. 1953. "A comparison of two tonemic systems."
• Mak, Cornelia. 1961. "Estudio comparativo de dos dialectos mixtecos."
• Manrique, Leonardo, Yolanda Lastra and Doris A. Bartholomew, editors. 1994, 1995. Panorama de los estudios de las lenguas indígenas de México, tomo I, II.
• Marlett, Stephen A. 2000. "Why the Seri language is important and interesting."  
• Marlett, Stephen A. 2007. "Las relaciones entre las lenguas "hokanas" en México: ¿cuál es la evidencia?."
• Marlett, Stephen A. 2008. "The Seri-Salinan connection revisited."
• Merrifield, William R. 1966. "Linguistic clues for the reconstruction of Chinantec prehistory."
• Merrifield, William R. 1973. Ponencias de los miembros del Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., en la XIII Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, Jalapa, Veracruz, 9 al 15 de Septiembre de 1973.
• Merrifield, William R. 1995. "Progress in Chinantec language studies."
• Nordell, Norman. 1962. "On the status of Popoluca in Zoque-Mixe."
• Nordell, Norman. 1984. "Spanish loan words via Aztec."
• Olson, Ronald D. 1964. "Mayan affinities with Chipaya of Bolivia I: Correspondences."
• Olson, Ronald D. 1965. "Mayan affinities with Chipaya of Bolivia II: Cognates."
• Oltrogge, David F. and Calvin R. Rensch. 1977. Two studies in Middle American comparative linguistics.  
• Pérez-González, Benjamin. 1994. "Panorama de los estudios lingüísticos sobre el Tarasco."
• Pickett, Velma B. 1988. "Algunos rasgos sintácticos de las lenguas zapotecas de México."
• Pickett, Velma B. 1990. "Comparación de dos ‘dialectos’ zapotecos."
• Pickett, Velma B. 1990. "Zapotec—language or languages?."
• Pickett, Velma B. 1997. "Nuestra gente y nuestra lengua."
• Piper, Michael J. and Doris A. Bartholomew, editors. 1995. El protozapoteco.
• Rensch, Calvin R. 1966. Comparative Otomanguean phonology.
• Rensch, Calvin R. 1968. Proto Chinantec phonology.
• Rensch, Calvin R. 1976. Comparative Otomanguean phonology.
• Rensch, Calvin R. 1977. "Classification of the Otomanguean languages and the position of Tlapanec."  
• Rensch, Calvin R. 1989. An etymological dictionary of the Chinantec languages: Studies in Chinantec languages 1.  
• Riggs, David B. 1991. A comparative grammar of English for Zapotec speakers (Gramática comparativa Inglés - Zapoteco).
• Smith Stark, Thomas C. 1995. "El estado actual de los estudios de las lenguas mixtecanas y zapotecanas."
• Spotts, Hazel. 1956. "Some post-conquest changes in Mazahua."
• Townsend, William Cameron. 1937. "Comparaciones morfológicas entre cakchiquel y nahuatl."
• Townsend, William Cameron. 1937. "Morphological similarities between Cakchiquel and Nahuatl."
• Upson, B. W. and Robert E. Longacre. 1965. "Proto-Chatino phonology."
• Veerman-Leichsenring, Annette. 1995. "Popolocan studies: Results, suggestions for further research and bibliographical data."
• Wares, Alan C. 1965. A comparative study of Yuman consonantism.
• Wares, Alan C. 1968. A comparative study of Yuman consonantism.
• Waterhouse, Viola G. 1969. "Oaxaca Chontal in reference to Proto-Chontal."
• Waterhouse, Viola G. 1985. "True Tlaquistlateco."
• Wichmann, Søren. 1994. "Mixe-Zoquean linguistics: a status report."
• Willett, Thomas L. 1987. "A cross-linguistic survey of the grammaticization of evidentiality."
• Wonderly, William L. 1949. "Some Zoquean phonemic and morphophonemic correspondences."

Nicaragua

• Oltrogge, David F. and Calvin R. Rensch. 1977. Two studies in Middle American comparative linguistics.  

Panama

• Gunn, Robert D., compiler. 1980. Clasificación de los idiomas indígenas de Panamá con un vocabulario comparativo de los mismos.
• Levinsohn, Stephen H. 1975. "El bokotá, el guaymí y el teribe, respecto al proto-chibcha."

Peru

• Barnes, Janet. 1999. "Tucano."
• Brauch, Christa. 1975. "Expresiones locativas y temporales en el quechua del Pastaza."  
• Chavez, Margarethe. 1998. "The animistic concept of the soul."
• Coombs, Heidi. 1975. "La cláusula relativa en quechua de Cajamarca."  
• Coombs, Thomas. 1992. "Diferencias lingüísticas entre el quechua de Porcón y el de Chetilla."  
• Fast, Gerhard. 1975. "Descripción comparativa de los rasgos distintivos fonémicos de varios idiomas de la familia lingüística jíbara."
• Floyd, Rick. 1992. "Una comparación entre el quechua Shawsha y el quechua Wanka."  
• Heitzman, Allene. 1973. Reflexes of some proto-Campa consonants in modern Campan languages and dialects.
• Heitzman, Allene. 1975. "Correspondencias entre ciertos grupos de fonemas en varios dialectos campa."
• Hintz, Daniel J. 1992. "Pasado y ablativo en el quechua de Corongo."  
• Hintz, Diane M. 1996. "¿Adonde va /qa/? Cambio lingüístico: Un estudio sobre la manera de expresar las relaciones espaciales en el quechua de Ancash."  
• Jakway, Martha A., compiler. 1975. Listas comparativas de palabras usuales en idiomas vernáculos de la selva.  
• Landerman, Peter N. 1982. "Las sibilantes castellanas, quechuas y aimaras en el siglo XVI: Un enigma tridimensional."
• Landerman, Peter. 1997. "Internal reconstruction in Aymara and Quechua."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1968. "Proto-Quechumaran: An ethnolinguistic note."
• Loos, Eugene E. 1973. "Algunas implicaciones de la reconstrucción de un fragmento de la gramática del proto-pano."  
• Loos, Eugene E. 1975. "Rasgos sintáctico-fonémicos en la historia lingüística de los idiomas de la familia pano."
• Loos, Eugene E. 1986. "Capanahua syllable restructuring in relation to comparative studies."
• Loos, Eugene E. 2005. "Un breve estudio de la gramática del proto-Pano."
• Loriot, James. 1975. Notas sobre referencia en un texto quechua de Cuzco.  
• Matteson, Esther. 1972. "Proto Arawakan."
• Matteson, Esther. 1972. "Toward Proto Amerindian."
• Montag, Richard. 1998. A tale of Pudicho’s people: Cashinahua narrative accounts of European contact in the 20th century.
• Payne, David L. 1981. "Bosquejo fonológico del proto-shuar-candoshi: Evidencia para una relación genética."
• Payne, David L. 1989. "La clasificación genética del resigaro."
• Payne, David L. 1990. "Some widespread grammatical forms in South American languages."
• Payne, David L. 1991. "A classification of Maipuran (Arawakan) languages based on shared lexical retentions."
• Payne, Doris L. 1984. "Evidence for a Yaguan-Zaparoan connection."
• Payne, Doris L. 1985. "-ta in Zaparoan and Peba-Yaguan."
• Payne, Doris L. 1989. La evidencia para una conexión yagua-záparo.
• Payne, Thomas E. 1996. "Estatividad y movimiento."  
• Ribeiro, Darcy and Mary Ruth Wise. 1978. Los grupos étnicos de la amazonía peruana.  
• Shaver, Dwight A. 1992. "El quechua de Lambayeque en relación con las demas variedades quechuas."  
• Shaver, Dwight and Gwynne Shaver. 1992. "Diferencias lingüísticas entre el quechua de Lambayeque y el de Cajamarca."  
• Shell, Olive A. 1965. Pano reconstruction.
• Shell, Olive A. 1975. Estudios panos 3. Las lenguas pano y su reconstrucción.  
• Toliver, Ralph H. 1992. "¿Fonéticos o fonémicos? Cambios lingüísticos en los dialectos quechuas de Pasco y Huánuco."  
• Trudell, Barbara L. 1991. Factors affecting literacy in Spanish and the vernacular among Indian communities of the Peruvian Amazon.
• Waters, William. 1996. "Una breve comparación entre los rasgos gramaticales del quichua Ecuatoriano de Napo y el quechua Peruano del Pastaza."  
• Weber, David J. 1975. Apuntes sobre el quechua de Lamud.  
• Weber, David J. 1981. "llañu or *ñañu in Proto-Quechua."
• Weber, David J. 1982. "¿*Llañu o *ñañu?."
• Weber, David J. 1987. Estudios quechua: Planificación, historia y gramática.  
• Wise, Mary Ruth. 1976. "Apuntes sobre la influencia inca entre los amuesha: Factor que oscurece la clasificación de su idioma."
• Wise, Mary Ruth. 1986. "Grammatical characteristics of preandine Arawakan languages of Peru."
• Wise, Mary Ruth. 1989. "Afijos causativos y comitativos en idiomas de la familia arawaka maipurán."
• Wise, Mary Ruth. 1990. "Valence-changing affixes in Maipuran Arawakan languages."
• Wise, Mary Ruth. 1991. "Morfosintaxis de las lenguas arawakas maipurán."
• Wise, Mary Ruth. 1992. "Prominencia y cohesión en textos narrativos: Contrastes entre una lengua de orden SOV y una de orden VSO."
• Wise, Mary Ruth. 2005. "Apuntes sobre las lenguas Záparos—familia que se extingue."
• Wise, Mary Ruth. 2005. "Introducción [issue title: Lingüística Arawaka]."

Suriname

• Huttar, George L. 1972. "A comparative word list for Djuka."  
• Huttar, George L. 1981. "Some Kwa-like features of Djuka syntax."
• Huttar, George L. 1982. A Creole-Amerindian pidgin of Suriname.
• Huttar, George L. 1985. "Sources of Ndjuka African vocabulary."
• Huttar, George L. 1985. Review of: De talen van Suriname: Achtergronden en ontwikkelingen, Eddy Charry, Geert Koefoed and Pieter Muysken, editors.
• Huttar, George L. 1986. "Kikongo, Saramaccan, and Ndjuka."
• Huttar, George L. 1988. Notes on Kwinti, a creole of Central Suriname.
• Huttar, George L. 1989. "The Portuguese contribution to the Ndjuka lexicon."
• Huttar, George L. 1994. "Lexical borrowing, creolization and basic vocabulary."  

Trinidad and Tobago

• Ferreira, Jo-Anne S. 1994. The Portuguese of Trinidad and Tobago: Portrait of an ethnic minority.

United States

• Casad, Eugene H. and Thomas L. Willett, editors. 2000. Uto-Aztecan: structural, temporal, and geographic perspectives: papers in memory of Wick R. Miller by the friends of Uto-Aztecan.
• Davis, Irvine. 1959. "Linguistic clues to northern Rio Grande prehistory."
• Davis, Irvine. 1966. "Numic consonantal correspondences."
• Davis, Irvine. 1974. "Keresan-Caddoan comparisons."
• Davis, Irvine. 1979. "The Kiowa-Tanoan, Keresan, and Zuni languages."
• Feenstra, Jaap. 2003. "Yankee (doodle)."
• Hill, Faith. 1963. "Some comparisons between the San Carlos and White Mountain dialects of Western Apache."
• Langacker, Ronald W. 1977. An overview of Uto-Aztecan grammar: Studies in Uto-Aztecan grammar 1.  
• Leman, Wayne E. 1980. "Evidence for a PA *k: Cheyenne n correspondence."
• Manrique, Leonardo, Yolanda Lastra and Doris A. Bartholomew, editors. 1994, 1995. Panorama de los estudios de las lenguas indígenas de México, tomo I, II.
• Marlett, Stephen A. 2007. "Las relaciones entre las lenguas "hokanas" en México: ¿cuál es la evidencia?."
• Marlett, Stephen A. 2008. "The Seri-Salinan connection revisited."
• Miller, Wick R. and Irvine Davis. 1963. "Proto-Keresan phonology."
• Payne, Thomas E. 1996. "Estatividad y movimiento."  
• Wares, Alan C. 1965. A comparative study of Yuman consonantism.
• Wares, Alan C. 1968. A comparative study of Yuman consonantism.

Venezuela

• Derbyshire, Desmond C. and Geoffrey K. Pullum, editors. 1991. Handbook of Amazonian languages, vol 3.
• Ferreira, Jo-Anne S. 2009. "The history and future of Patuá in Paria: report on initial language revitalization efforts for French creole in Venezuela."

Asia

Cambodia

• Prakorb Phon-Ngam. 1993. "The problem of aspirates in Central Khmer and Northern Khmer."  
• Sidwell, Paul. 2003. "A note on the reconstruction of proto West Bahnaric and investigation of early West Bahnaric-Katuic contact."  

China

• Bauer, Robert S. 1998. Review of: Zhongguó menggāo mían yuzú yuyán yu nányà yukì (China’s Mon-Khmer languages and the Austroasiatic language family), by Yan Qixiang and Zhou Zhizhi.  
• Benedict, Paul K. 1988. "Kadai linguistics: The rules of engagement."
• Brush, Beaumont. 1997. "The status of Coronal in the historical development of Lhasa Tibetan rhymes."  
• Dai, Quingxia and Liu Yan. 1997. "Analysis of the tones in the Guangka subdialect of Deʼang."  
• Denlinger, Paul B. 1981. "Tibetan and Mon-Khmer: a short communication."
• Edmondson, Jerold A. and David B. Solnit, editors. 1988. Comparative Kadai: Linguistic studies beyond Tai.  
• Edmondson, Jerold A. and David B. Solnit. 1997. "Comparative Shan."
• Edmondson, Jerold A. and Yang Quan. 1988. "Word initial preconsonants and the history of Kam-Sui resonant initials and tones."
• Gedney, William J. 1997. "‘Near’ and ‘far’ in Tai."
• Hansell, Mark. 1988. "The relation of Be to Tai: Evidence from tones and initials."
• Hashimoto, Mantaro J. 1981. "A phonological characterization of syllabic intonations in the so-called tone languages."
• Huang Yuanwei. 1997. "The interaction between Zhuang and the Yue (Cantonese) dialects."
• Lin, Shi and Cui Jianxin. 1988. "An investigation of the Ai-Cham language."
• Luo Yongxian. 1997. "Expanding the Proto-Tai lexicon—a supplement to Li (1977)."  
• Matisoff, James A. 1988. "Proto-Hlai initials and tones: a first approximation."
• Matisoff, James A. 1997. "Dàyáng Pumi phonology and adumbrations of comparative Qiangic."  
• Morev, Lev N. 1998. "Expressing comparison in the Tai languages."  
• Peiros, Ilia. 1997. "Lolo-Burmese linguistic archaeology."  
• Pelkey, Jamin R. 2005. "Puzzling over Phula: toward the synthesis and statement of a sub-branch."
• Pranee Kullavanijaya. 1997. "Village names in Guangxi Province and northeastern Thailand."
• Qin Xiaohang. 1998. "Some Kam-Tai loan-words in Mon-Khmer languages."  
• Ratliff, Martha. 1997. "Hmong-Mien demonstratives and pattern persistence."  
• Slater, Keith W. 1998. Minhe Mangghuer: a mixed language of the Inner Asian frontier.
• Snyder, Wil C. and Lu Tianqiao. 1997. "Wuming Zhuang tone sandhi: a phonological, syntactic, and lexical investigation."
• Solnit, David B. 1988. "The position of Lakkia within Kadai."
• Strecker, David. 1988. "Gedney’s puzzle in Kam-Sui."
• Tehan, Thomas M. 1992. Review of: Comparative Kadai: Linguistic studies beyond Tai, Jerold A. Edmondson and David B. Solnit, editors.
• Theraphan L.- Thonkum. 1992. "A preliminary reconstruction of Proto-Lakkja (Cha Shan Yao)."  
• Theraphan L.-Thongkum. 1993. "A view on Proto-Mjuenic (Yao)."  
• Thurgood, Graham. 1988. "Notes on the reconstruction of Proto-Kam-Sui."
• Thurgood, Graham. 1993. "Phan Rang Cham and Utsat: Tonogenetic themes and variants."
• Wang, Dewen. 1988. "A comparative study of Kam and Sui initial consonants."
• Wilaiwan Khanittanan. 1992. Review of: Comparative Kadai: Linguistic studies beyond Tai, Jerold A. Edmondson and David B. Solnit, editors.
• Yao Shun An. 1994. "A comparison of the culture of the Yao people in China and Thailand."
• Zhang Yuansheng and Wei Xingyun. 1997. "Regional variants and vernaculars in Zhuang."
• Zhu Yongzhong and others. 1997. "Gangou Chinese dialect: A comparative study of a stronglyaltaicized Chinese dialect and its Mongolic neighbor."

India

• Boehm, Edward Daniel. 1998. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Tharu.
• Johnson, Jane E. and Russell J. Johnson. 2008. "Assessment of regional language varieties in Indian Sign Language."  
• Moral, Dipankar. 1997. "North-East India as a linguistic area."  
• Nagaraja, K. S. 1996. "The status of Lyngngam."  
• Osada, Toshiki. 2004. "A historical note on inclusive/exclusive opposition in South Asian languages—borrowing or retention or innovation?."  
• Simon, I. M. 1997. "On first looking into Paul K. Benedict’s Sino-Tibetan."  

Indonesia

• Anceaux, J. C., Charles E. Grimes and René van den Berg. 1995. "Wolio: introduction and wordlist."
• Anderbeck, Karl. 2006. "An initial reconstruction of proto-Lampungic: phonology and basic vocabulary."  
• Anderbeck, Karl. 2007. "An initial reconstruction of Proto-Lampungic: phonology and basic vocabulary."
• Chou Shu Hsiu. 1999. Melanau and Indonesian: a comparative grammatical study.  
• Clouse, Duane A. 1997. "Towards a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya."
• Clouse, Duane. 1998. "Taking the pulse of Irian Jaya."
• Clouse, Heljä and Duane Clouse. 1993. "Kirikiri and the western Lakes Plains languages: Selected phonological phenomena."
• Fox, James J. and Charles E. Grimes. 1995. "Roti: introduction and wordlist."
• Friberg, Barbara. 1991. "Ergativity, focus and verb morphology in several South Sulawesi languages."
• Friberg, Barbara. 1996. "Konjo’s peripatetic person markers."
• Gregerson, Kenneth J. and Margaret Hartzler. 1987. "Towards a reconstruction of Proto Tabla-Sentani phonology."
• Grimes, Barbara D. 1991. "The development and use of Ambonese Malay."
• Grimes, Barbara D. 1994. "Buru inside out."
• Grimes, Barbara D. 1997. "Knowing your place: Representing relations of precedence and origin on the Buru landscape."
• Grimes, Charles E. 1997. "Compounding and semantic bleaching in languages of eastern Indonesia."
• Grimes, Charles E. and Barbara D. Grimes. 1987. Languages of South Sulawesi.
• Grimes, Charles E. and Kenneth R. Maryott. 1994. "Named speech registers in Austronesian languages."
• Grimes, Charles E. and Wesly M. Lesnussa. 1995. "Buru (Masarete): introduction and wordlist."
• Grimes, Charles E., editor. 2000. Spices from the east: Papers in languages of eastern Indonesia.
• Hughes, Jock. 1995. "Dobel (Aru Islands): introduction and wordlist."
• Jones, Larry B. 1986. "The dialects of Yawa."
• Laskowske, Tom. 2006. "The Seko languages of South Sulawesi: a reconstruction."  
• Lewis, E. Douglas and Charles E. Grimes. 1995. "Sika: introduction and wordlist."
• Liebner, Horst. 1990. "Istilah-istilah kemaritiman dalam bahasa-bahasa buton."
• Martens, Michael P. 1979. Review of: Mechanisms of syntactic change, Charles N. Li, editor.
• Martens, Michael P. 1990. "Rekonstruksi bahasa purba kailipamona."
• Maryott, Kenneth R. 1978. "Pre-Sangir *1, *d, *r and associated phonemes, part 1."  
• Maryott, Kenneth R. 1986. "Pre-Sangir *l, *d, *r and associated phonemes."
• Maryott, Kenneth R. 1990. "Pre-Sangir *l, *d, *r and associated phonemes, part 3."
• Mead, David. 1998. Proto-Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax.
• Mead, David. 2002. "Proto Celebic focus revisited."
• Mead, David. 2003. "The Saluan-Banggai micro group of eastern Sulawesi."
• Moeliono, Anton M. and Charles E. Grimes. 1995. "Indonesian (Malay): introduction and wordlist."
• Purwo, Bambang K. 1993. "Factors influencing comparison of Sundanese, Javanese, Madurese, and Balinese."
• Smith, Beverly K. 1993. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Pitu Ulunna Salu.
• van den Berg, René. 1991. "Muna dialects and Munic languages: Towards a reconstruction."
• van den Berg, René. 1991. "Muna historical phonology."
• van den Berg, René. 1996. "The demise of focus and the spread of conjugated verbs in Sulawesi."
• Verheijen, J. A. J. and Charles E. Grimes. 1995. "Manggarai: introduction and wordlist."
• Whisler, Ronald and Jacqui Whisler. 1995. "Sawai: introduction and wordlist."
• Wimbish, Sandra G. 1990. Review of: Bathera injil di Halmahera, by Thimotheus Magana.

Iraq

• Fleischman, Eric. 1982. "Proto-Iraqi-Kurdish."

Korea, South

• Hwang, Shin Ja J. 1994. "Relative clauses, adverbial clauses, and information flow in discourse."

Laos

• Morev, Lev N. 1998. "Expressing comparison in the Tai languages."  
• Nomura, Naomitsu Mikami. 1992. "A semantic analysis of the so-called passive verbs in some Indochinese languages."  
• Ratliff, Martha. 1997. "Hmong-Mien demonstratives and pattern persistence."  
• Sidwell, Paul. 2003. "A note on the reconstruction of proto West Bahnaric and investigation of early West Bahnaric-Katuic contact."  

Malaysia

• Anderbeck, Karl Ronald. 2003. Malay dialects of the Batanghari river basin (Jambi, Sumatra).
• Brewis, Kielo A. 1997. "A comparative study on leadership in the Malaysian context."
• Chou Shu Hsiu. 2002. A reconstruction of proto-Melanau.
• Harris, A. Sue. 1997. "The Rundum rebellion: The legend."
• Miller, Carolyn. 1993. "Kadazan/Dusun phonology revisited."
• Rensch, Calvin R. 2006. "Studies in the early Bidayuh language: proto Bidayuh and its relatives."
• Rensch, Calvin R. and others. 2006. The Bidayuh language: yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Myanmar

• Bradley, David. 1997. "What did they eat? Grain crops of the Burmic groups."  
• Edmondson, Jerold A. and David B. Solnit. 1997. "Comparative Shan."
• Kauffman, William G. 1993. The great tone split and Central Karen.
• Mann, Noel Walter. 1998. A phonological reconstruction of Proto Northern Burmic.
• Nai Pan Hla. 1998. "Kyansittha and the Indic words in Myanmar from Mon."  
• Peiros, Ilia. 1997. "Lolo-Burmese linguistic archaeology."  
• Pittayaporn, Pittayawat . 2006. "When words erode: Moken trisyllabic syncopation and PAn stress."  

Nepal

• Boehm, Edward Daniel. 1998. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Tharu.
• Hale, Austin and Kenneth L. Pike, editors. 1970. Tone systems of the Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 2: Lexical lists and comparative studies.
• Hale, Austin and Kenneth L. Pike, editors. 1970. Tone systems of the Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 3: Texts 1.
• Hale, Austin and Kenneth L. Pike, editors. 1970. Tone systems of Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 1: Studies on tone and phonological segments.
• Hale, Austin and Kenneth L. Pike, editors. 1970. Tone systems of Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 4: Texts 2.
• Hale, Austin. 1974. "Syntactic matrices: An approach to descriptive comparability."
• Hari, Maria, editor and Burkhard Schöttelndreyer, compiler. 1972. Comparative vocabularies of languages of Nepal (Swadesh 100-word list).
• Toba, Sueyoshi. 1983. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Northern Rai.
• Watters, David E. 1975. "The evolution of a Tibeto-Burman pronominal verb morphology: a case-study from Kham (Nepal)."
• Watters, David E. 1985. "Emergent word tone in Kham: a Tibeto-Burman halfway house."
• Yadava, Yogendra P. and Warren W. Glover, editors. 1999. Topics in Nepalese linguistics.

Pakistan

• Backstrom, Peter C. 1994. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Western Tibetan.  
• Marshall, David L. 1990. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Hindko.
• Trail, Gail H. 1996. "Tysam revisited: a study of Kalasha origins."

Philippines

• Abrams, Norman. 1963. "Historical development of Bilaan vowels and some consonant reflexes in Bilaan and related dialects."
• Allison, E. Joseph. 1979. "Proto-Danaw: a comparative study of Maranaw, Magindanaw, and Iranun."
• Antworth, Evan L. 1984. "Sambal reflexes of Proto-Austronesian phonemes."
• Barlaan, Rodolfo R. 1995. "Isnag: introduction and wordlist."
• Burton, Scott L. 2003. "A case study of lexical borrowing between language families in the southern Philippines."
• Burton, Scott Lynn. 1996. A case study of lexical borrowing between language families: The East Mindanao and Manobo languages.
• Diment, Eunice. 1995. "Bāngingi Sama: introduction and wordlist."
• Elkins, Richard E. 1973-74. "A preliminary Proto-Manobo word list."
• Elkins, Richard E. 1974. "A Proto-Manobo word list."
• Elkins, Richard E. 1977. "Root of a language: How one Manobo word led to another."
• Elkins, Richard E. 1984. "An extended Proto-Manobo word list."
• Fukuda, Takashi. 1997. A discourse-oriented grammar of Eastern Bontoc.
• Gallman, Andrew F. 1979. "Proto-South-East Mindanao and its internal relationships."
• Gallman, Andrew F. 1983. Proto East Mindanao and its internal relationships.
• Gallman, Andrew F. 1997. Proto East Mindanao and its internal relationships.
• Healey, Alan. 1973. "Dyen’s laryngeals in some Philippine languages."
• Himes, Ronald S. 2006. "The Kalamian microgroup of Philippine languages."  
• Himes, Ronald S. 2007. "The Kalamian microgroup of Philippine languages."
• Laskowske, Tom. 2007. "The Seko languages of South Sulawesi: a reconstruction."
• MacGregor, Louise A. 1995. "Kagayanen: introduction and wordlist."
• Maryott, Kenneth R. 1986. "Pre-Sangir *l, *d, *r and associated phonemes."
• Maryott, Kenneth R. 1990. "Pre-Sangir *l, *d, *r and associated phonemes, part 3."
• Molony, Carol H. 1992. "The Tasaday language: Evidence for authenticity?."
• Newell, Leonard E. 1953. "Some sound correspondences in six Philippine languages."
• Odal-Devora, Grace. 2006. "Some problems in determining the origin of the Philippine word 'mutya' or 'mutia'."  
• Pallesen, A. Kemp. 1977. "On pan-Philippine semantic universals."
• Pallesen, A. Kemp. 1977. Culture contact and language convergence.
• Pallesen, A. Kemp. 1979. "The pepet in Sama-Bajaw."
• Pallesen, A. Kemp. 1985. Culture contact and language convergence.
• Reid, L. A. 1974. "The central cordilleran subgroup of Philippine languages."
• Reid, Lawrence A. 1981. "Proto-Austronesian genitive determiners."
• Reid, Lawrence A. 1992. "The Tasaday language: a key to Tasaday prehistory."
• Reid, Lawrence A., editor. 1971. Philippine minor languages: Word lists and phonologies.
• Rhea, Mary E. 1995. "Sarangani Blaan: introduction and wordlist."
• Savage, T. Dale. 1986. "A reconstruction of Proto-Southern Mindanaon."  
• Schumacher, Ronald L. and Donna Schumacher. 1978. "Proto-Manobo *l in Agusan Manobo."  
• Thiessen, H. Arnold. 1980. Phonological reconstruction of Proto-Palawan.
• Thiessen, H. Arnold. 1981. Phonological reconstruction of Proto-Palawan.
• Walton, Charles. 1979. "A Philippine language tree."
• Wiens, Hartmut. 1995. "Kalinga (Linimos): introduction and wordlist."
• Wolff, John. 2006. "Petrified prefixes in PAn and PMP."  
• Zorc, R. David and Arnold Thiessen. 1995. "Molbog: introduction and wordlist."
• Zorc, R. David. 1993. "Overview of Austronesian and Philippine accent patterns."

Russian Federation

• Munger, Scott T. 1996. Russian New Testaments: a comparative study of selected portions from three Russian New Testament translations in relation to various Greek source texts and to native speaker reaction and comprehension.

Thailand

• Benedict, Paul K. 1997. "Linguistic prediction: The case of Saek."
• Bennett, Jefferson Fraser. 1995. Metrical foot structure in Thai and Kayah Li: Optimality-theoretic studies in the prosody of two southeast Asian languages.
• Filbeck, David. 1997. "The Protasis-Apodosis construction in Mal."  
• Hopple, Paulette. 2001. "Historical linguistics in Southeast Asian language programs."
• Kauffman, William G. 1993. The great tone split and Central Karen.
• Luo Yongxian. 1997. "Expanding the Proto-Tai lexicon—a supplement to Li (1977)."  
• Miller, John D. and Carolyn P. Miller. 1995. "Notes on phonology and orthography in several Katuic Mon-Khmer groups in Northeast Thailand."  
• Miller, John D. and Carolyn P. Miller. 1996. "Lexical comparison of Katuic Mon-Khmer languages with special focus on So-Bru groups in northeast Thailand."  
• Morev, Lev. 1996. "Reciprocal and cooperative in Tai."  
• Nomura, Naomitsu Mikami. 1992. "A semantic analysis of the so-called passive verbs in some Indochinese languages."  
• Phaiboon, Duangchan. 2006. "Glossary of Aslian languages: the northern Aslian languages of southern Thailand."
• Prachakij-karacak Phraya, David Thomas andSophana Srichampa. 1995. Some languages of Siam.
• Prakorb Phon-Ngam. 1993. "The problem of aspirates in Central Khmer and Northern Khmer."  
• Pranee Kullavanijaya. 1997. "Village names in Guangxi Province and northeastern Thailand."
• Puttachart Dhananjayananda. 1997. "The emergence of the length distinction in the mid-front vowels ‘e-ee’ in Thai."
• Ratliff, Martha. 1997. "Hmong-Mien demonstratives and pattern persistence."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 1997. "Linguistic contributions to the study of the Northern Khmer language of Thailand in the last two decades."  
• Theraphan L.-Thongkum. 1993. "A view on Proto-Mjuenic (Yao)."  
• Thomas, David. 1990. "On early Monic, Vietic, and Bahnaric relations."  
• Yao Shun An. 1994. "A comparison of the culture of the Yao people in China and Thailand."

Viet Nam

• Barker, Milton E. 1963. "Proto-Vietnamuong initial labial consonants."
• Barker, Milton E. 1966. "Vietnamese-Muong tone correspondences."
• Barker, Miriam A. 1993. "Nguồn: a dialect of Vietnamese or a dialect of Mường? By Ngyễn Văn Tài."  
• Barker, Muriel A. and Milton E. Barker. 1970. "Proto-Vietnamuong (Annamuong) final consonants and vowels."
• Blood, Doris E. 1962. "Reflexes of Proto-Malayopolynesian in Cham."
• Blood, Henry F. 1966. A reconstruction of Proto-Mnong.
• Burnham, Eugene C. 1976. The place of Haroi in the Chamic languages.
• Cobbey, Maxwell E. 1979. "A statistical comparison of verbs and nouns in Roglai."
• Donaldson, Jean and Jerold A. Edmondson. 1997. "A preliminary examination of Tay Tac."
• Edmondson, Jerold A. and Kenneth J. Gregerson. 1997. "Outlying Kam-Tai: Notes on Ta Mit Laha."  
• Ferlus, Michel. 1992. "Histoire abregée de l’évolution des consonnes initiales du Vietnamien et du Sino-Vietnamien."  
• Ferlus, Michel. 1997. "Le maleng brô et le vietnamien."  
• Gedney, William J. 1997. "‘Near’ and ‘far’ in Tai."
• Gregerson, Kenneth J. 1963. The phonemes of Middle Vietnamese.
• Gregerson, Kenneth J. 1969. "A study of Middle Vietnamese phonology."
• Gregerson, Kenneth J. 1990. "Dân tộc Rơngao, Bahnar và các dân tộc lân cận."
• Gregerson, Kenneth J. and Kenneth D. Smith. 1973. "The development of Todrah register."  
• Gregerson, Kenneth J., Kenneth D. Smith, and David D. Thomas. 1976. "The place of Bahnar within Bahnaric."
• Hayes, La Vaughn H. 1996. "Another look at final spirants in Mon-Khmer."  
• Hopple, Paulette. 2001. "Historical linguistics in Southeast Asian language programs."
• Jenner, Philip N. 1976. "The value of ī, and ū, in Middle Khmer."  
• Lee, Ernest W. 1974. "Southeast Asian areal features in Austronesian strata of the Chamic languages."
• Lee, Ernest W. 1996. "Bipartite negatives in Chamic."  
• Morev, Lev N. 1998. "Expressing comparison in the Tai languages."  
• Nomura, Naomitsu Mikami. 1992. "A semantic analysis of the so-called passive verbs in some Indochinese languages."  
• Ratliff, Martha. 1997. "Hmong-Mien demonstratives and pattern persistence."  
• Smith, Kenneth D. 1972. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-North-Bahnaric.
• Smith, Kenneth D. 1975. "The velar animal prefix relic in Vietnam languages."
• Smith, Kenneth D. 1989. "Kinship variation among Vietnam language groups."  
• Smith, Kenneth D. 1992. "The -VC rhyme link between Bahnaric and Katuic."  
• Solntsev, V. 1996. "Some remarks on the Ruc language."  
• Thomas, David D. 1964. "A survey of Austroasiatic and Mon-Khmer comparative studies."  
• Thomas, David D. 1966. "A note on Proto-Viet-Muong tones."
• Thomas, David D. and Marilyn Smith. 1967. "Proto-Jeh-Halang."
• Thomas, David. 1989. "Some Proto-Bahnaric clause grammar."  
• Thomas, David. 1990. "A 19th century perception of Chamic relationships."  
• Thomas, David. 1993. Review of: Những vấn đề ngôn ngữ các dân tộc ở Việt Nam và Khu Vực Ðông Nam á (Papers on the languages of the people of Vietnam and Southeast Asia), Hoàng Văn Hành, editor.  
• Thomas, Dorothy M. 1963. "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian reflexes in Rade, Jorai and Chru."
• Thomas, Dorothy M. 1967. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-East-Katuic.
• Thomas, Dorothy M. 1976. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-East-Katuic.
• Thurgood, Graham. 1993. "Phan Rang Cham and Utsat: Tonogenetic themes and variants."
• Wilson, Ruth. 1966. "A comparison of Muong with some Mon-Khmer languages."
• Zhizhi, Zhou and Yan Qixiang. 1997. "On the genetic affiliation of Vietnamese."  

Europe

Russian Federation

• Munger, Scott T. 1996. Russian New Testaments: a comparative study of selected portions from three Russian New Testament translations in relation to various Greek source texts and to native speaker reaction and comprehension.

Pacific

Australia

• Pym, Noreen. 1984. "Observations on language change at Hope Vale."
• Sandefur, John R. 1984. A language coming of age: Kriol of North Australia.
• Sandefur, John R. 1986. Kriol of North Australia: a language coming of age.
• Simons, Gary F. 1982. "Word taboo and comparative Austronesian linguistics."  

Micronesia

• Chavez, Margarethe. 1998. "The animistic concept of the soul."

New Caledonia

• Rivierre, Jean-Claude. 1993. "Tonogenesis in New Caledonia."

Papua New Guinea

• Bee, Darlene. 1965. "Comparative and historical problems in East New Guinea highland languages."
• Bolyanatz, Alexander H. 1998. "Where is Claes Pietersz Bay? An episode in the history of the Sursurunga of New Ireland."
• Bruce, Leslie P. 1977. "On the origin of language."
• Bugenhagen, Robert D. 1993. "The semantics of irrealis in Austronesian languages of Papua New Guinea. A cross-linguistic study."
• Cochran, Anne M. 1978. "A comparative study of Milne Bay phonology."
• Dutton, Tom and Malcolm Ross. 1992. "A note on Hees’ ‘Tolai-Nakanai’ trade language."
• Franklin, Karl J. 1975. "Comments on Proto-Engan."
• Franklin, Karl J. 1990. Review of: a world of language: Papers presented to Professor S.A. Wurm on his 65th birthday, Donald C. Laycock and Werner Winter, editors.
• Franklin, Karl J. 1993. Review of: Language, education and development: urban and rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea, by Suzanne Romaine.
• Franklin, Karl J. 2001. "Kutubuan (Foe and Fasu) and proto Engan."
• Franklin, Karl J. and J. A. Z’graggen, compilers. 1975. "Comparative wordlists of the Gulf District and adjacent areas."  
• Healey, Alan. 1970. "Proto-Awyu-Dumut phonology."
• Hooley, Bruce A. 1972. "The languages of the Morobe district."
• Johnston, Raymond L. 1978. Steps towards the grammar and phonology of proto-Kimbe.
• Johnston, Raymond L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea hypothesis."
• Lithgow, David. 1973. "Language change on Woodlark Island."
• Lithgow, David. 1992. "Using grammatical data to determine language relationships in Fergusson and Normanby Island languages of the Papuan Tip Cluster."
• Litteral, Robert L. 1978. "Changes in the Bibriari communicative system."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1970. "Paragraph and sentence structure in New Guinea Highlands languages."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1972. Hierarchy and universality of discourse constituents in New Guinea languages: Discussion.
• Loving, Richard, editor. 1975. Comparative wordlists 1.
• McElhanon, Kenneth A. 1978. Review of: Lexical reconstruction: The case of the Proto-Athapaskan kinship system, by Isidore Dyen and David F. Aberle.
• McKaughan, Howard P., editor. 1973. The languages of the Eastern family of the East New Guinea Highlands stock.
• McKaughan. 1967. Review of: Comparative and historical problems in East New Guinea highland languages, by Darlene Bee.
• McKaughan. 1974. Review of: a comparative study of Kuman and Pawaian: Non-Austronesian languages of New Guinea, by David Trefry.
• Patton, Jack T. 1994. "Vernacular languages in primary education in Papua New Guinea: a brief historical overview."
• Reesink, Gerard P. 1992. "The Melanesian content in Tok Pisin, by Rick J. Goulden. Pacific Linguistics B-104 [revuew]."
• Roosman, Raden S. 1975. "The Malay element in Melanesian Pidgin."
• Ross, Malcolm D. 1992. "The position of Gumawana among the languages of the Papuan Tip Cluster."
• Ross, Malcolm D. 1993. "Tonogenesis in the North Huon Gulf Chain."
• Rule, Joan. 1965. "A comparison of certain phonemes of the languages of the Mendi and Nembi Valleys, Southern Highlands, Papua."
• Scott, Graham K. 1979. "Lexical expansion in a non-Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea."
• Simons, Gary F. and Linda Simons. 1977. A vocabulary of Biliau, an Austronesian language of New Guinea, with notes on its development from Proto Oceanic.  
• Simons, Linda. 1983. "A comparison of the pidgins of Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea."
• Smythe, W. E. and Alan Healey. 1970. "Melanesian, Micronesian and Indonesian features in languages of the Admiralty Islands."
• Snyder, David M. 1992. "Lexicography in Papuan Tip Cluster languages: Where will it lead?."
• Trefry, David. 1965. A comparative study of Kuman and Pawaian: Non-Austronesian languages of New Guinea.
• Trefry, David. 1969. A comparative study of Kuman and Pawaian: Non-Austronesian languages of New Guinea.
• Weimer, Harry and Natalia Weimer. 1977. Phoneme comparisons of the Yareban languages.  
• Wurm, Stephen A., C. L. Voorhoeve, and Kenneth A. McElhanon. 1975. "The Trans-New Guinea phylum in general."
• Z’graggen, J. A. 1975. "Comparative wordlists of the Admiralty Island languages, collected by W. E. Smythe."  

Solomon Islands

• Lee, Ernest W. 1998. "Unexpected shared features in Melanesian Pidgins/Creoles: Is broken a Melanesian Pidgin/Creole?."
• Simons, Linda. 1983. "A comparison of the pidgins of Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea."

Vanuatu

• Early, Robert. 1995. "Lewo: Introduction and word list."