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Linguistic theory

Index of SIL publications on Linguistic theory listed by country.

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General works

• ALLISON, Sean D., author. 1995. Review of: Modern theories of language: the empirical challenge, by Mortéza Mahmoudian.
• ALLISON, Sean D., author. 1999. Review of: University College London working papers in linguistics 8, 9, Phillip Backley and John Harris, editors.
• BERNSTEIN, Basil, author. 1997. "Sociolinguistics: a personal view."
• BLACK, Cheryl A., author. 2000. Review of: Chomsky: ideas and ideals, by Neil Smith.
• BLACKBURN, Perry L., author. 1999. The code model of communication: a powerful metaphor in linguistic metatheory.
• BLACKBURN, Perry L., author. 2007. The code model of communication: a powerful metaphor in linguistic metatheory.  
• BLOOMER, Robert K., author. 1995. Review of: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, no. 26, Rudolf P. Botha, editor.
• BREND, Ruth M.; HEADLAND, Thomas N.; WISE, Mary Ruth, editors. 2003. Language and Life: Essays in Memory of Kenneth L. Pike.  
• BUGENHAGEN, Robert D., author. 1979. Theme in English expository discourse and its applications to Bible translation.
• BURQUEST, Donald A., author. 1986. Review of: Functional syntax and universal grammar, by William A. Foley and Robert D. Van Valin, Jr..
• BURQUEST, Donald A., author. 2003. "A field guide for principles and parameters theory."
• BURQUEST, Donald A.; EDMONDSON, Jerold A., authors. 1992. A survey of linguistic theories.
• BURQUEST, Donald A.; EDMONDSON, Jerold A., authors. 1998. A Survey of Linguistic Theories.  
• BURQUEST, Donald A.; EDMONDSON, Jerold A., authors. 2003. "A survey of linguistic theories."
• BUSEMAN, Alan, author. 1995. Review of: Computational linguistics and formal semantics, Michael Rosner and Roderick Johnson, editors.
• BUSEMAN, Alan, author. 2001. Review of: Chomsky’s universal grammar, by Vivian Cook and Mark Newsom.
• CAHILL, Michael, author. 1999. ‘Unruly’ phonology: An introduction to optimality theory.
• DOOLEY, Robert A., author. 1997. Review of: Information structure and sentence form: topic, focus, and the mental representation of discourse referents, by Knud Lambrecht.
• EATOUGH, Andrew, author. 1993. Review of: Theoretical issues in sign language research, vol. 1: Linguistics, Susan D. Fischer and Patricia Siple, editors.
• EDMONDSON, Jerold A., author. 1984. Neurolinguistics: a justification and bibliography.
• EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1992. Formal linguistics and field work.
• EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1996. Why there are no clitics: An alternative perspective on pronominal allomorphy.  
• EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1996. Review of: Logical form: from GB to minimalism, by Norbert Hornstein.
• FARRELL, Timothy; HOYLE, Richard, authors. 1995. Translating implicit information in the light of Saussurean, relevance, and cognitive theories.
• FOLLINGSTAD, Carl M., author. 1997. University College London Working Papers in Linguistics (UCLWPL), vol 2, 4, 5, 6.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1990. Review of: Language topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday, by Ross Steele and Terry Threadgold, editors.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1992. Review of: Markedness theory: the union of asymmetry and semiosis in language, by Edna Andrews.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1996. K. L. Pike on etic vs emic: a review and interview.  
• GRIMES, Joseph E., author. 1986. "An interaction between morphology and discourse."
• GRUBER, M. Catherine; HIGGINS, Derrick; OLSON, Kenneth S.; WYSOCKI, Tamra, editors. 1998. CLS 34 part 1: Papers from the main session, April 17-19, 1998.
• HANSFORD, Keir, author. 1995. Review of: Jakobsonian poetics and Slavic narrative: from Pushkin to Solzhenitsyn, by Krystyna Pomorska.
• HEADLAND, Thomas N.; MCELHANON, Kenneth A., authors. 2004. "Emic/etic distinction."
• HOLBROOK, David J., author. 1993. Review of: Universal grammar and language learnability, by Anjum P. Saleemi.
• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1997. Review of: Linguistic categorization: Prototypes in linguistic theory, by John R. Taylor.
• HWANG, Shin Ja J., author. 1984. Review of: Universalism and relativism in language and thought: proceedings of a colloquium on the Sapir-Whorf hypotheses, Rik Pinxten, editor.
• INGLIS, Douglas, author. 2001. Review of: Toward a cognitive semantics, I and II, by Leonard Talmy.
• JANDA, Laura A., author. 1996. "Unpacking markedness."
• JENSEN, Joshua M., author. 2009. Review of: Mind design and minimal syntax, by Wolfram Hinzen.  
• KAYE, Alan S., author. 2001. Review of: How the brain evolved language, by Donald Loritz.
• KAYE, Alan S., author. 2001. Review of: Wilhelm von Humboldt: on language: on diversity of human language construction and its influence on the mental development of the human species, by Michael Losonsky, editor.
• KIEVIT, Dirk, author. 2009. Review of: Skeptical linguistic essays, by Paul M. Postal.  
• LARSON, Mildred L., author. 1994. "Translation and linguistic theory."
• LEHMANN, Winfred P., author. 1982. Linguistics at Wisconsin (1937-41) and at Texas (1949- ): a retrospective view.
• LEHMANN, Winfred P., author. 1984. The glottalic theory.
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1956. Review of: Four articles on metalinguistics, by Benjamin Lee Whorf.
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1956. Review of: Language and reality, by Wilbur M. Urban.
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1969. Review of: Parametric linguistics, by Louis G. Heller and James Macris.
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1979. "Why we need a vertical revolution in linguistics."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1982. "Linguistics and the humanities: Preface."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1983. "Communication: myth or reality?."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1989. "Two hypotheses regarding text generation and analysis."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1991. "Festschrift as smorgasbord: Food for thought."
• MACNAMARA, John, author. 1997. "Another time."
• MAKKAI, Adam, author. 1986. "The lexo-centric approach to descriptive linguistics."
• MALONE, Terry, author. 2001. Report on International Linguistic Association, 46th annual conference. Languages of the Americas, native and non-native. New York, NY. March 30, 31, April 1, 2001.
• MARTENS, Michael P., author. 1997. Review of: Linguistic reconstruction: an introduction to theory and method, by Anthony Fox.
• MAXWELL, Michael B., author. 1992. Review of: Proceedings of the Eighth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Jane E. Fee and Katherine Hunt, editors.
• MAXWELL, Michael B., author. 2003. Review of: Inflectional morphology: a theory of paradigm structure, by Gregory T. Stump.  
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 2005. "From Word to scenario: the influence of linguistic theories upon models of translation."  
• MERRIFIELD, William R., author. 1994. Review of: Linguistic theory and grammatical description, Flip G. Droste and John E. Joseph, editors.
• MYERS-SCOTTON, Carol, author. 1997. "On safari with sociolinguistics."
• NICHOLS, David S., author. 1978. Natural generative phonology: Introduction and commentary.
• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2003. "Mental models theory and relevance theory in quantificational reasoning."
• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2009. Review of: The Study of language (Third edition), by George Yule and An introduction to language and linguistics, Ralph W. Fasold and Jeff Connor-Linton, editors.  
• NUESSEL, Frank, author. 1987. "Recent trends in Hispanic linguistics."
• PAYNE, Doris L.; PEÑA, Jaime, editors. 2007. Selected proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.  
• PECK, Charles W., author. 1987. Review of: Principles of grammar and learning, by William O’Grady.
• PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1992. "Growing and bending—a linguistic autobiography: From structuralism to theory clash to universal dreams of communicability."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1956. "As correntes da linguística norteamericana."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1958. "Interpenetration of phonology, morphology and syntax."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1960. "Nucleation."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1964. "A linguistic contribution to composition: a hypothesis."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1965. "Language: where science and poetry meet."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1977. Linguistic complexity in a two-page instruction sheet.
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1978. Levels of observer relationship in verbal art.
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1980. "Here we stand: Creative observers of language."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1991. "A revolutionary ‘helix’ in linguistic history—as seen over half a century by one who has lived it."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1993. "Matrix formatives in N-dimensional linguistics."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1998. "A linguistic pilgrimage."  
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 2003. "Reminiscences by Pike on early American anthropological linguistics."
• ROBERTS, John R., author. 1992. Review of: Linguistic categorization: Prototypes in linguistic theory, by John R. Taylor.
• ROBERTS, John R., author. 1993. Review of: Linguistic theory and grammatical description, Flip G. Droste and John E. Joseph, editors.
• SIM, Ronald J., author. 1992. Linguistic Association of Great Britain spring meeting.
• SIMONS, Gary F., author. 2009. "Linguistics as a community activity: the paradox of freedom through standards."
• TEHAN, Thomas M., author. 1993. Review of: The language of First-Order Logic, including the Macintosh program Tarski’s World, by Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy.
• TEHAN, Thomas M., author. 1995. Review of: Natural language and universal grammar: Essays in linguistic theory, vol. 1, by John Lyons.
• VERHAAR, John W. M., author. 1991. Linguistics without books: a diary entry.
• VERHAAR, John W. M., author. 1992. Language and communication: a diary entry.
• VERHAAR, John W. M., author. 1992. Linguistics: An in-house thing? A diary entry.
• VERHAAR, John W. M., author. 1993. Linguistics as a stepchild: a diary entry.
• VERHAAR, John W. M., author. 1994. Differences: a diary entry.
• VERHAAR, John W. M., author. 1994. Language underived: a diary entry.
• WEBER, David J., author. 1995. Rejoinder to David Thomas’s Remarks on ‘Reflections on Isthmus Zapotec inflection.
• ZWARTS, Joost, author. 1999. Review of: Syntactic theory and the structure of English, by Andrew Radford.
• ZWARTS, Joost, author. 2000. Review of: Projections and interface conditions: essays on modularity, Anna-Maria Di Sciullo, editor.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Benin

• BERTHELETTE, John, author. 2004. Information structure in narrative texts in Byali (a Gur language of Benin).

Cameroon

• CAMBURN, Janet K., author. 1985. The French connection in linguistics.

Côte d’Ivoire

• BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1974. The dual structural criterion reviewed.

Ethiopia

• UNSETH, Peter, author. 1991. Review of: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, vol. 5, Anatoly Gromyko, editor.

Kenya

• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2007. "Metarepresentational demonstratives in Digo."

Tanzania

• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2007. "Metarepresentational demonstratives in Digo."

Americas

Brazil

• DOOLEY, Robert A., author. 1983. Review of: Speech act theory and pragmatics, John R. Searle and others, editors.
• GRIMES, Joseph E., editor. 1987. Série lingüística.
• GUDSCHINSKY, Sarah C., author. 1973. Review of: The origin and diversification of language, by Morris Swadesh and Joel Sherzer.

Colombia

• FRANK, Paul S., author. 1983. Review of: American structuralism, by Dell H. Hymes and John Fought.
• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 1986. Linguistics Association of Great Britain, 18-20 September 1985, Liverpool.
• MAXWELL, Michael B., author. 1985. Interface: Pike and Maxwell.
• MAXWELL, Michael B., author. 1991. Review of: Proceedings of the Seventh West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Hagit Borer, editor.

Ecuador

• MAXWELL, Michael B., author. 1985. Interface: Pike and Maxwell.

Guatemala

• COLLINS, Wesley M., author. 1979. An unlikely marriage: a merger of prosodic and phonemic analysis.
• FLEMING, Ilah, editor. 1987. The thirteenth LACUS forum 1986.

Mexico

• BREND, Ruth M., author. 1982. Review of: Tagmemics, discourse, and verbal art, by Kenneth L. Pike.
• GUDSCHINSKY, Sarah C., author. 1973. Review of: The origin and diversification of language, by Morris Swadesh and Joel Sherzer.
• MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1984. Review of: Syllable structure and stress in Spanish: a nonlinear analysis, by James W. Harris.
• PIKE, Eunice V.; PIKE, Kenneth L., authors. 1955. Live issues in descriptive linguistics.
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1967. Stir, change, create.
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1977. "Introduction: On the relation between modes of argumentation in linguistic analysis versus the documentation of change of behavior in reading."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1978. "Thresholdism versus reductionism."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1979. "Linguistics: From there to where?."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1981. "Dreams of an integrated theory of experience."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1985. "The need for the rejection of autonomy in linguistics."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1986. "On the value of local languages."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1987. "The relation of language to the world."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author; BAILEY, Richard W., editor. 1981. Tagmemics, discourse, and verbal art.
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author; CARRIÓN O., Enrique, translator. 1991. La relación del lenguaje con el mundo.
• WATERHOUSE, Viola G., author. 1961. "The psychological reality of linguistic structure."

Peru

• LORIOT, James, author. 1982. Review of: Essays on Wittgenstein’s tractatus, Irving M. Copi and Robert W. Beard, editors.
• PAYNE, David L., author. 1983. Review of: Roots of language, by Derek Bickerton.
• PAYNE, David L., author. 1984. Review of: Language universals and linguistic typology: Syntax and morphology, by Bernard Comrie.
• PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1986. Report on the fourteenth annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, March 29-30, 1985.
• PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1988. Roots and concerns of typological/functional linguistics.

Suriname

• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1977. "Linguistics and theology."  
• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1982. Review of: Schools of linguistics: Competition and evolution, by Geoffrey Sampson.

Asia

Indonesia

• GREGERSON, Kenneth J., author. 1980. "Pragmatics and the search for context in linguistics."

Malaysia

• DILLON, Kathleen L., author. 1988. An initial examination of schema theory’s relationship to the translation process.

Nepal

• HALE, Austin, author; SHAKYA, Kesar Man, translator. 1990. "Linguistic reflections on a Newari text."

Philippines

• HOHULIN, E. Lou, author. 1983. For the sake of argument….
• HOHULIN, E. Lou, author. 1988. Review of: Women, fire, and dangerous things: what categories reveal about the mind, by George Lakoff.
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1999. "Tensity and pressure in structure: ‘tensegrity’."
• PITTMAN, Richard S., author. 1954. "Relative relevance to total structure as criterion for determining priority of statement sequence in descriptive grammar."
• QUAKENBUSH, J. Stephen, author. 2003. "Philippine linguistics from an SIL perspective: trends and prospects."
• WIENS, Hartmut, author. 1986. Deep and surface structure in modern linguistic theories with application to translation theory.

Thailand

• BENNETT, J. Fraser, author. 2005. Reanalyzing Thai glottal codas: probability, perception, and displaced contrast.  
• MIGLIAZZA, Brian, author. 1989. Autonomous syntactic tiers.
• THOMAS, David D., author. 1974. What is why? (or, why is what).
• THOMAS, David D., author. 1977. Sentence components.  
• THOMAS, David D., author. 1980. "Centrifugal force and black holes in language."

Viet Nam

• HOÀNG Văn Hành, author. 1992. "The mechanism for forming nominating units in isolating languages."  

Europe

United Kingdom

• BLACK, Cheryl A., author. 2009. Review of: Principles and parameters in a VSO language: a case study in Welsh, by Ian G. Roberts.  

Pacific

Australia

• PITTMAN, Richard S., author. 1958. Review of: a new approach to Australian linguistics, by Arthur Capell.

Papua New Guinea

• KERR, Harland B., author. 1987. "A theory of language organisation based on Hjelmslev’s function oriented theory of language."
• LOVING, Richard; THOMAS, David D., editors. 1977. Proceedings of the S.I.L. consultants seminar, Ukarumpa 1976.  
• ROBERTS, John R., author. 1989. Review of: Universal grammar: 15 essays, by Edward L. Keenan.