Publications

Behrens, L., Matic, D., & Sasse, H.-J. (in press). Irony across cultures: An experimental study. Intercultural Pragmatics.
Matic, D. (in press). Information structure in linguistics. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.
Matic, D., & Odé, C. (in press). On prosodic signalling of focus in Tundra Yukaghir. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana.
Sauppe, S., Norcliffe, E., Konopka, A. E., Van Valin Jr., R. D., & Levinson, S. C. (in press). Dependencies first: Eye tracking evidence from sentence production in Tagalog. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. more >
Van Putten, S. (in press). Motion in serializing languages revisited: The case of Avatime. STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals.
Van Valin Jr., R. D. (in press). Head-marking languages and linguistic theory. In B. Bickel, L. A. Grenoble, D. A. Peterson, & A. Timberlake (Eds.), What’s where why? Language typology and historical contingency. A festschrift to honor Johanna Nichols. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Matic, D., & Pakendorf, B. (2013). Non-canonical SAY in Siberia: Areal and genealogical patterns. Studies in Language, 37, 356-412. doi:10.1075/sl.37.2.04mat. more >
Matic, D., & Wedgwood, D. (2013). The meanings of focus: The significance of an interpretation-based category in cross-linguistic analysis. Journal of Linguistics, 49, 127-163. doi:10.1017/S0022226712000345. more >
Van Putten, S. (2013). The meaning of the Avatime additive particle tsye. In M. Balbach, L. Benz, S. Genzel, M. Grubic, A. Renans, S. Schalowski, M. Stegenwallner, & A. Zeldes (Eds.), Information structure: Empirical perspectives on theory (pp. 55-74). Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam. Retrieved from http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-64804. more >
Van Putten, S. (2013). [Review of the book The expression of information structure. A documentation of its diversity across Africa, ed. by Ines Fiedler and Anne Schwarz]. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 34, 183 -186. doi:10.1515/jall-2013-0005. more >

Dingemanse, M., Hammond, J., Stehouwer, H., Somasundaram, A., & Drude, S. (2012). A high speed transcription interface for annotating primary linguistic data. In Proceedings of 6th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (pp. 7-12). Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics. more >
Matic, D. (2012). Review of: Assertion by Mark Jary, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 [Web Post]. The LINGUIST List. Retrieved from http://linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/get-review.cfm?SubID=4547242. more >
Van Valin Jr., R. D. (2012). Some issues in the linking between syntax and semantics in relative clauses. In B. Comrie, & Z. Estrada-Fernández (Eds.), Relative Clauses in languages of the Americas: A typological overview (pp. 47-64). Amsterdam: Benjamins. more >

Hammond, J. (2011). JVC GY-HM100U HD video camera and FFmpeg libraries [Technology review]. Language Documentation and Conservation, 5, 69-80. more >

Matic, D. (2010). Discourse and syntax in linguistic change: Decline of postverbal topical subjects in Serbo-Croat. In G. Ferraresi, & R. Lühr (Eds.), Diachronic studies on information structure: Language acquisition and change (pp. 117-142). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. more >
Matic, D. (2010). [Review of "A Historical Dictionary of Kolyma Yukaghir" by Irina Nikolaeva, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2006]. eLanguage. Book notices. Retrieved from http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=481. more >
Van Putten, S. (2010). [Review of the book Focus structures in African languages: The interaction of focus and grammar", edited by Enoch Oladé Aboh, Katharina Hartmann & Malte Zimmermann]. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 31(1), 101-104. doi:10.1515/JALL.2010.006. more >
Van Valin Jr., R. D. (2010). Role and reference grammar as a framework for linguistic analysis. In B. Heine, & H. Narrog (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of linguistic analysis (pp. 703-738). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Foley, W., & Van Valin Jr., R. D. (2009). Functional syntax and universal grammar (Repr.). Cambridge University Press. more >
Van Valin Jr., R. D. (2009). Case in role and reference grammar. In A. Malchukov, & A. Spencer (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of case (pp. 102-120). Oxford University Press.
Van Valin Jr., R. D. (2009). Privileged syntactic arguments, pivots and controllers. In L. Guerrero, S. Ibáñez, & V. A. Belloro (Eds.), Studies in role and reference grammar (pp. 45-68). Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Van Valin Jr., R. D. (2009). Role and reference grammar. In F. Brisard, J.-O. Östman, & J. Verschueren (Eds.), Grammar, meaning, and pragmatics (pp. 239-249). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Van Valin Jr., R. D.(2009). Information structure in Banawá, Wari’ and Karitiâna: An overview [Report to US National Science Foundation]. more >

Van Valin Jr., R. D. (Ed.). (2008). Investigations of the syntax-semantic-pragmatics interface. Amsterdam: Benjamins. more >

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