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February 2011
- SIL Electronic Book Reviews
January 2011
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December 2010
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September 2010
August 2010
- SIL Electronic Book Reviews
- SIL Electronic Book Review 2010-014 Cinque, Gigielmo, and Kayne, Richard. 2008. "The Oxford handbook of comparative syntax."
Reviewed by James Watters
- SIL Electronic Book Review 2010-013 McCaffery, Juliet, Merrifield, Juliet, and Millican, Juliet. 2007. "Developing adult literacy: Approaches to planning, implementing and delivering literacy initiatives."
Reviewed by Ian Cheffy
- SIL Electronic Book Review 2010-012 Wolfgang, Mieder. 2009. "International bibliography of paremiology and phraseology."
Reviewed by Peter Unseth
- Journal of Translation Volume 5 (2009), Number 1
June 2010
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2010-011 Stenning, Keith, Lascarides, Alex, Calder, Jo. 2006. Introduction to Cognition and Communication.
Reviewed by George Huttar
- SIL Forum for Language Fieldwork 2010-003 Peck, Charles. 2010. Improving the readability of technical papers by studying paragraph cohesion.
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-023 Lindfors, Anna-Lena, Nagler, Louise, Woodward, Mark. 2010. "A sociolinguistic survey of the Fipa language community: ethnic identity and dialect diversity."
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-022 Spencer, Juliann, Van Cott, Sara. 2010. "A sociolinguistic survey of Setaman [stm]."
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-021 Potter, Margaret, Rueck, Michael J, Vila, Badi. 2010. "A sociolinguistic profile of the Tairuma [uar] language group."
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-020 Aprilani, Herdian, Susilawati, Tanti, Tarp, Kristina. 2010. "The Banggai of central Sulawesi: a Rapid Appraisal survey report."
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-019 Bombay, Elaine. 2010. "Enquete sociolinguistique sur les parlers Bayo, Morbo, Morom, and Bolong du Tchad: rapport."
- SIL Language and Culture Documentation and Description
May 2010
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2010-010 Macaulay, Ronald. 2006. The social art: Language and its uses (2nd edition).
Reviewed by Elizabeth Parks
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2010-009 Glenn, Phillip. 2003. Laughter in interaction.
Reviewed by Carol Magnusson
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2010-008 Wettstein, Howard. 2004. The magic prism: An essay in the philosophy of language.
Reviewed by Samuel Mubbala
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2010-007 Garcia, Ofelia. and Beardsmore, Hugo Baetens. 2008. Bilingual education in the 21st century: A global perspective.
Reviewed by James Arritt
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-018 Abbess, Elizabeth, Clifton, John, Müller, Katja, Paul, Daniel, Tiessen, Calvin and Tiessen, Gabriela. 2010. "Language access and Tajik language proficiency among the Yazghulami of Tajikistan."
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-017 Abbess, Elizabeth, Clifton, John, Müller, Katja, Paul, Daniel, Tiessen, Calvin and Tiessen, Gabriela. 2010. "The ethnolinguistic vitality of Yaghnobi."
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-016 Abbess, Elizabeth, Clifton, John, Müller, Katja, Paul, Daniel, Tiessen, Calvin and Tiessen, Gabriela. 2010. "Language in community-oriented and contact-oriented domains: the case of the Shughni of Tajikistan."
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-015 Abbess, Elizabeth, Clifton, John, Müller, Katja, Paul, Daniel, Tiessen, Calvin and Tiessen, Gabriela. 2010. "Literacy and the vernacular in Tajik Badakhshan: research in Rushani, Khufi, Bartangi, and Roshorvi."
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-014 Abbess, Elizabeth, Clifton, John, Müller, Katja, Paul, Daniel, Tiessen, Calvin and Tiessen, Gabriela. 2010. "Language maintenance among the Parya of Tajikistan."
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-013 Abbess, Elizabeth, Clifton, John, Müller, Katja, Paul, Daniel, Tiessen, Calvin and Tiessen, Gabriela. 2010. "Ishkashimi: a father's language."
- SIL e-Books 20 Eaton, Helen. 2010. A Sandawe grammar.
April 2010
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2010-006 Kymlicka, Will. and Patten, Alan. 2003. Language Rights and Political Theory.
Reviewed by Joan Bomberger Yoder
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2010-005 Newmeyer, Fredrick. 2005. Possible and Probable Languages: A Generative Perspective on Linguistic Typology.
Reviewed by Brian O'Herin
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2010-004 Taylor, John. 2002. Cognitive Grammar.
Reviewed by Thomas M. Tehan
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2010-003 Fought, Carmen. 2004. Sociolinguistic Variation: Critical Reflections.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Parks
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2010-002 Coffin, Edna Amir. and Bolozky, Shmuel. 2005. A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew.
Reviewed by Craig Soderberg
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2010-001 Ackerman, Farrell. and Moore, John. 2001. Proto-properties and grammatical encoding: A correspondenece theory of argument selection.
Reviewed by Terry Malone
- SIL e-Books 19 McElhanon, Kenneth A. and Ger Reesink, editors. 2010. A Mosaic of languages and cultures: studies celebrating the career of Karl J. Franklin.
- SIL Language and Culture Documentation and Description 6 Olson, Kenneth S., and others. 2010. "Mono 2000-item digital wordlist: presentation form."
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports
March 2010
February 2010
- SIL Electronic Working Papers 2010-001 Dooley, Robert A. 2010. "Exploring clause chaining."
- SIL e-Books 16 Stark, Janie P. 2010. Kambari orthography design.
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-002 Anonby, Stan and David J. Holbrook. 2010. "Panará/Kreen-Akarore language survey report."
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-001 Castro, Andy, Brian Cook, and Royce Fleming. 2010. "A sociolinguistic survey of Kua-nse and related Yi varieties in Heqing county, Yunnan province, China."
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2009-017 Lambrecht, Philip, and others. 2009. "The sociolinguistic profile of the Waube [kop] language."
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2009-008 Brye, Edward. 2009. "Jimjimen, Gude, Tsuvan, and Sharwa wordlists."
- SIL Forum for Language Fieldwork
January 2010
- ISO 639-3 2009 series change request outcomes
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2009-013 Dixon, R. M. W. and with Alan R. Vogel. 2004. The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia.
Reviewed by Mary Ruth Wise
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2009-012 McShane, Marjorie J. 2005. A Theory of Ellipsis.
Reviewed by Stephen H. Levinsohn
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2009-011 Janson, Tore. 2004. A natural history of Latin.
Reviewed by George L. Huttar
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2009-010 Aveni, Valerie Pellegrino. 2005. Study abroad and second language use: Constructing the self.
Reviewed by Paul Thomas
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2009-009 Lee, David. 2001. Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction.
Reviewed by Thomas M. Tehan
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2009-008 Lust, Barbara C. 2006. Child language: Acquisition and growth.
Reviewed by Paul Thomas
December 2009
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports
- 2009-019
Sociolinguistic survey report of the deaf community of Peru
Elizabeth Parks and Jason Parks
- 2009-018
Report on the Merauke Subdistrict Survey, Papua, Indonesia
Myo-Sook Sohn, Randy Lebold and Ronald Kriens
- 2009-016
Thai signed languages survey - a rapid appraisal
Hope M. Hurlbut
- 2009-015
Mungkip: an endangered language
Thom Retsema, Margaret Potter and Rachel Gray
- 2009-014
A sociolinguistic survey of Sichela speech community
Anna-Lena Lindfors, Mark Woodward and Louise Nagler
- 2009-013
The sociolinguistic situation of the Lala language
Alison Kassell and Margaret Potter
- 500th manuscript submitted to SIL’s Electronic Survey Reports (SILESR)
October 2009
September 2009
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports
- 2009-012
A sociolinguistic survey of the Nyiha and Nyika language communities
in Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi Anna-Lena Lindfors, Mark Woodward,
Louise Nagler and Susanne Krüger
- 2009-011 The Malvi-speaking
people of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan: a sociolinguistic
profile Bijumon Varghese, Mathews John and Nelson Samuel
- 2009-010 A sociolinguistic
survey among the Nagarchi community of central India
Eldose K. Mathai and Symon George
August 2009
- SIL e-Books 15 Merrifield, William R. 2009. Insufficient land: the fortunes of the Tlatepuzcan Chinantecs of San Juan Palantla 1928-2005.
July 2009
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2009-007 Communicating science: The scientific article from the 17th century to the present by Alan G. Gross, Joseph E. Harmon, and Michael Reidy
Reviewed by Thomas M. Tehan
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2009-006 The Origins of Vowel Systems: Studies in the Evolution of Language I by Bart de Boer
Reviewed by Coleen Anderson Starwalt
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2009-005 Constructions at work: The nature of generalization in language by Adele E. Goldberg
Reviewed by David J. Weber
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2009-004 Language and ethnicity by Carmen Fought
Reviewed by Reviewed by George L. Huttar
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2009-003 Skeptical Linguistic Essays by Paul M. Postal
Reviewed by Dirk Kievit
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2009-002 Eighteenth-Century Cholón by Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus
Reviewed by Mary Ruth Wise
- SIL Electronic Survey Report: 2009-009 A sociolinguistic survey of the Anii-Akpe language area Angela Kluge and Barbara Tompkins
- SIL Electronic Working Paper: 2009-003 Disambiguating grammatical tone in Gwere orthography by using clarifying words Richard Nzogi
June 2009
- SIL Forum for Language Fieldwork
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports
- 2009-007 Nisu dialect geography Cathryn Yang
- 2009-006 A report on the Irantxe and Myky Stan Anonby
- 2009-005 Language use on the Tubarao-Latunde Reserve, Rondonia, Brazil Stan Anonby
- 2009-002 Bolivia deafcommunity and sign language pre-survey report David J. Holbrook
- SIL Electronic Working Papers
- 2009-002 Hooked on
the fish: the Christian sign of the fish David Beine
- 2009-001 Eating aids: using
indigenous cognitive illness schemata (cognitive metaphors)
in HIV/AIDs prevention messages in Nepal David Beine
May 2009
April 2009
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2008-007 English in modern times, 1700-1945 by Joan C. Beal; English in the Middle Ages by Tim William Machan; The development of Standard English, 1300-1800: Theories, descriptions, conflicts edited by Laura Wright
Reviewed by Ken Decker
March 2009
- SIL Electronic Survey Report
February 2009
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports
- 2009-004 A rapid appraisal survey of Malimba in Cameroon Melinda Lamberty
- 2009-001 Report on the Ansus survey, West Yapen Island,
Papua, Indonesia David S. Price and Mark Donohue
January 2009
December 2008
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports
- 2008-023 The Gbe language varieties of West Africa: a quantitative analysis
of lexical and grammatical features Angela Kluge
- 2008-022 Tivoid survey Alan Starr and Clark D. Regnier
- 2008-021 A survey of three northern Nambiquara groups:
the Mamaindê, Negarotê, and Latundê Stan Anonby and David Eberhard
- 2008-020 Ginyanga literacy development: a survey of attitudes
and strategies Jason Diller, Kari Jordan-Diller
- 2008-019 The sociolinguistic situation of the Uyajitaya [duk]
language Philip Lambrecht, Alison Kassell, Margaret Potter
and Sarah Tucker
- SIL Electronic Working Papers
- 2008-006 Mongghul phonology sketch Vesa Akerman
- 2008-005 La phonologie du Naténi Ulrich Bukies and Brigitte Nédellec
- SIL e-Books 12 Firchow, Irwin B. and Jacqueline Firchow. 2008. The Rotokas people of Bougainville Island.
November 2008
- SIL e-Books 11 Dieterman, Julia Irene. 2008. Secondary palatalization in Isthmus Mixe: a phonetic and phonological account.
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports
- 2008-018 A sociolinguistic survey among the Pardhan community of central India Thangmualian Valte, Eldose K. Mathai and Symon George
- 2008-017 Language use and language attitudes among rural Nisu Kenneth Chan,
Bai Bibo and Yang Liujin
- 2008-016 Sociolinguistic survey report of the deaf community of Guatemala Elizabeth Parks and Jason Parks
- 2008-015 A sociolinguistic survey of Tai Ya in Thailand Erin Dawkins and
Cortney Kirkland
- 2008-012 The sociolinguistic situation of the Ambakich language Margaret Potter,
Philip Lambrecht, Laura Aleman and Correna Janzen
- 2008-010 Philippine signed languages survey: a rapid appraisal Hope M. Hurlbut
- SIL Electronic Working Paper
- 2008-004 A description of the phonology of the Sandawe language Helen Eaton,
Daniel Hunziker and Elisabeth Hunziker
October 2008
- Literacy and Educational Materials
- SIL e-Books 10 Hoyle, Richard A. 2008. Scenarios, discourse, and translation: the scenario theory of Cognitive Linguistics, its relevance for analysing New Testament Greek and modern Parkari texts, and its implications for translation theory.
- SIL Forum for Language Fieldwork
- 2008-013 Malone, Susan. 2008. "Literacy resource manual."
- 2008-012 Spaeth, Carole. 2008. "Volunteers as aides in literacy programs."
- 2008-011 Moe, Ronald. 2008. "FieldWorks Language Explorer 1.0."
- 2008-010 Stark, John E. 2008. "Reflections on identifying change-gates."
- 2008-009 Hunt, Geoffrey. 2008. "A comparison of phonology tools."
August 2008
- Three new SIL e-Books:
- SIL e-Books 9 Schroeder, Leila. 2008. Bantu Orthography Manual.
- SIL e-Books 8 Combrink, Hans J. B., compiler, and others. 2008. Indigenous groups of Sabah: an annotated bibliography of linguistic and anthropological sources. Part 2: ethnic group index; topical index.
- SIL e-Books 7 Combrink, Hans J. B., compiler, and others. 2008. Indigenous groups of Sabah: an annotated bibliography of linguistic and anthropological sources. Part 1: author index.
- SIL Forum for Language Fieldwork
- 2008-008 Cahill, Michael. 2008. "Word games as experimental linguistics."
- 2008-007 Cahill, Michael. 2008. "Measuring duration with speech analyzer."
- 2008-006 Wiesemann, Ursula. 2008. "Learn that language—without using paper?."
- 2008-005 Vogel, Alan. 2008. "Thoughts on example sentences."
- 2008-004 van Ginkel, Agatha. 2008. "Educational values and material development."
- 2008-003 van den Berg, René. 2008. "Direct and indirect speech: a preliminary questionnaire."
- 2008-002 Unseth, Peter. 2008. "Collecting, using, and enjoying proverbs."
- 2008-001 Mbuagbaw, Tanyi Eyong. 2008. "The standardisation and modernisation of Kenyang."
July 2008
- SIL e-Books 6 Anderbeck, Karl Ronald. 2008. Malay dialects of the Batanghari river basin (Jambi, Sumatra).
June 2008
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports
- 2008-014 Une enquete sociolinguistique des parlers Kibet,
Rounga, Daggal et Mourro du Tchad rapport technique Katharina
Wolf and Calvain Mbernodji
- 2008-013 Jaunsari: a sociolinguistic survey Matthews John
- 2008-011 Language vitality and development among the
Wakhi People of Tajikistan Katja Muller, Elisabeth Abbess,
Calvin Tiessen and Gabriela Tiessen
- 2008-009 Un profil du bilinguisme en dioula au sud-ouest
du Burkina Faso Stuart D. Showalter
- 2008-008 Rapid appraisal sociolinguistic language survey of
Ngamambo of Cameroon Lilian Lem and Edward Brye
- 2008-007 A bilingualism and language vitality survey
of the Gan Yi in the Yi Mei Duo Village of
the Shilin County of the Yunnan Provice of
China Kenneth Chan
- 2008-006 Assessment of Regional Language
Varieties in Indian Sign Language Jane
E. Johnson and Russell J. Johnson
- SIL Electronic Working Papers
- 2008-003 The Moloko verb phrase Dianne Friesen and Megan Mamalis
- 2008-002 Number marking innovations in Zapotec Cheryl A. Black
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2008-006 Anthropology of color: Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling, edited by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei, and Don Dedrick.
Reviewed by Kenneth A. McElhanon
May 2008
April 2008
- SIL Electronic Survey Reports
- 2008-005 Le bilala, le kouka et le medogo : trois langues ou une? Antje Maass
- 2008-004 Rapport d'enquete sociolinguistique : premiere
evaluation parmi les Barain du Guera Antje Maass,
Caroline A. Grant, Paul Huey and Padeu Dakouli
- 2008-003 Bishnupriya (Manipuri) speakers in Bangladesh:
a sociolinguistic survey Amy Kim and Seung Kim
- 2008-002 Meitei (Manipuri) speakers in Bangladesh: a
sociolinguistic survey Amy Kim and Seung Kim
- 2008-001 A survey of sign language in Taiwan Hope M. Hurlbut
- SIL Electronic Working Papers
- 2008-001 Factors in designing effective orthographies for unwritten languages Michael Cahill and Elke Karan
March 2008
- SIL Electronic Book Review: 2008-003 Real Conditionals, by William G. Lycan and Mental spaces in grammar: Conditional constructions, by Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser.
Reviewed by Steve Nicolle
February 2008
January 2008
- Journal of Translation Volume 3 (2007), Number 2
- SIL Electronic Book Reviews
- 2008-001 Reduplication: Doubling in morphology, by Sharon Inkelas and Cheryl Zoll.
Reviewed by Mike Cahill
- 2007-011 Globalized e-learning cultural challenges, by Andrea Edmundson (ed.)
Reviewed by Tim Hatcher
- 2007-010 Understanding phonology,by Carlos Gussenhoven,
and Haike Jacobs
Reviewed by Helen Eaton
- 2007-009 The Cambridge handbook of phonology, by Paul de Lacy (ed.)
Reviewed by Mike Cahill