SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Carr, Jo and Pauwels, Anne (2008) Boys and foreign language learning: Real boys don’t do languages. London: Macmillan.

Kim, Jong-Bok and Sells, Peter (2008) English Syntax: An Introduction. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Li, Defeng (2008) Translating Commercial Texts. Taiwan: Bookman. (Unpublished)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Austin, Peter, ed. (2008) 1000 languages. The worldwide history of living and lost tongues. London: Thames and Hudson.

Nikolaeva, Irina and Spencer, Andrew, eds. (2008) Editorial. Morphosyntactic mismatches and mixed categories. Amsterdam: Elsevier. (Special issue of Lingua. Vol 118 No. 4)

Chang, C. B. and Haynie, Hannah J., eds. (2008) Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Austin, Peter and Musgrave, Simon, eds. (2008) Transitivity and Voice in Austronesian Languages. Stanford: CSLI Publications. (Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism)

Book Chapters

Bond, Oliver (2008) 'Multiple analytical perspectives of the Eleme Anterior-Perfective.' In: Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages: Collection of Papers Selected from the CIL 18 [CD-ROM]. Seoul: Linguistic Society of Korea, pp. 1480-1496.

Chang, C. B. (2008) 'Variation in palatal production in Buenos Aires Spanish.' In: Westmoreland, M. and Thomas, J. A., (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 54-63.

Chang, C. B. (2008) 'The acoustics of Korean fricatives revisited.' In: Kuno, S., Lee, I.-H., Whitman, J., Maling, J., Kang, Y.-S., Sells, Peter, Sohn, ‪Hyang-Sook and Jang, Y., (eds.), Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics XII. Seoul, Korea: Hanshin Publishing Company, pp. 137-150.

Gerassimova, Veronica and Sells, Peter (2008) 'Long-Distance Dependencies in Tagalog: The Case for Raising.' In: Chang, C. B. and Haynie, Hannah J., (eds.), Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference. Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 190-198.

Ingham, Bruce (2008) 'Najdi Arabic.' In: Versteegh, Kees, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Vol.3. Leiden; Boston: Brill, pp. 326-334.

Kim, Jong-Bok, Sells, Peter and Wescoat, Michael T. (2008) 'Korean Copular Constructions: A Lexical Sharing Approach.' In: Clancy, P., Hudson, M. E., Jun, S.-A. and Sells, Peter, (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics. Vol.13. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Kula, Nancy C. and Marten, Lutz (2008) 'Central, East and Southern African Languages.' In: Austin, Peter, (ed.), One Thousand Languages. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Ivy Press/University of California Press, pp. 86-111.

Levin, Beth and Sells, Peter (2008) 'Unpredicated Particles.' In: Uyechi, Linda and Wee, Lian-Hee, (eds.), Reality Exploration and Discovery: Pattern Interaction in Language and Life. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Marten, Lutz, Kempson, Ruth and Bouzouita, Miriam (2008) 'Concepts of structural underspecification in Bantu and Romance.' In: de Cat, Cécile and Demuth, Katherine, (eds.), The Romance-Bantu Connection. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 3-39.

Xia, Yun and Li, Defeng (2008) '<可比语料量化比较分析与应用文体翻译 
——一项基于自建小型语料库的研究 >.' In: 第18届世界翻译大会论文集. Beijing: 外文出版社, pp. 561-566.

Journal Article

Charette, Monik (2008) 'The vital role of the trochaic foot in explaining Turkish word endings.' Lingua, 118 (1). pp. 46-65.

Iida, Masayo and Sells, Peter (2008) 'Mismatches between Morphology and Syntax in Japanese Complex Predicates.' Lingua, 118 (7). pp. 947-968.

Iwasaki, Noriko (2008) 'L2 Japanese Acquisition of the Pragmatics of Requests during a Short-term Study Abroad.' Japanese Language Education in Europe, 12. pp. 51-58.

Iwasaki, Noriko and Kumagai, Yuri (2008) 'Promoting critical reading in an advanced-level Japanese course: Theory and practice through reflection and dialogues.' Japanese Language and Literature, 42 (1). pp. 123-156.

Iwasaki, Noriko, Vinson, David P., Vigliocco, Gabriella, Watanabe, Masumi and Arciuli, Joanne (2008) 'Naming action in Japanese: Effects of semantic similarity and grammatical class.' Language and Cognitive Processes, 23 (6). pp. 889-930.

Marten, Lutz and Kula, Nancy C. (2008) 'Meanings of money: national identity and the semantics of currencies in Zambia and Tanzania.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 20 (2). pp. 183-199.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2008) 'Between nouns and adjectives: a constructional view.' Lingua, 118 (7). pp. 969-996.

Seyfeddinipur, Mandana, Kita, Sotaro and Indefrey, Peter (2008) 'How speakers interrupt themselves in managing problems in speaking: Evidence from self-repairs.' Cognition, 108 (3). pp. 837-842.

Shah, Sheena (2008) 'Negotiating multilingual identities in interaction: The Südwesters of Namibia.' Achieving Multilingualism: Wills and Ways. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Multilingualism (ICOM). pp. 389-402.

Ulfsbjorninn, Shanti (2008) 'The Formal Dynamism of Categories: Stops vs. Fricatives, Primitivity vs. Simplicity.' Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 44 (1). pp. 121-146.

Theses

Cobbinah, Alexander Yao (2008) Das morphologisch unmarkierte Passiv in Bambara. Masters dissertation. University of Cologne.

Guérois, Rozenn (2008) O pretérito no presente : identidade e memória sertanejas na arte de Juraci Dórea. Masters dissertation. University of Rennes 2.

Translations

Jiang, Yan, trans. (2008) 关联:交际与认知 [Relevance: Communication and Cognition]. Contemporary Linguistic Theory Series . Beijing: China Social Science Publishing House. pp. 1-432.

Other

Merin, Arthur and Nikolaeva, Irina (2008) 'Exclamative as a Universal Speech Act Category: a case study in Decision-Theoretic Semantics and typological implications.' Online Semantics Archive: