University of Miami

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Miami*

O’Brien, Colleen Alena 2026 “Peace cannot cost us our lives”: Narratives of security and discourse surrounding violence

Keywords: security narratives | FARC | Colombia | discursive ambiguity | collective identity

Journal of Language and Politics | Online First Publication, 23 pp. | article

Silva, Carlos & Steven Moran 2025 Consonant stability in Portuguese-based creoles

Keywords: Portuguese-based creoles | language contact | consonant stability

Diachronica 42:1 p. 82 | article | open access

Cunha, Jennifer M., Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Rèbecca Kleinberger, Susan Clubb & Lynn K. Perry 2023 Grapheme–phoneme correspondence learning in parrots: A seventeen-month case study with an umbrella cockatoo

Keywords: symbolic representation | grapheme–phoneme correspondence | phonics | cockatoo | avian | parrot

Interaction Studies 24:1 p. 87 | article

Gondra, Ager 2022 Syntactic outcomes of socially (un)restricted bilingualism in Spain: Word order with unergative and unaccusative verbs across two generations of Basque speakers

Keywords: word order | intransitive verbs | societal bilingualism | language contact and change | syntax–discourse interface

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:3 pp. 340–369 | article

O’Boyle, Jane & Sana Haq 2022 Twitter images across boundaries: Comparing the use of images in political posts from six nations

The Agenda Setting Journal 5:2 pp. 219–242 | article

Winter, Bodo, Marcus Perlman, Lynn K. Perry & Gary Lupyan 2017 Which words are most iconic?: Iconicity in English sensory words

Keywords: sound symbolism | onomatopoeia | perception | sound | touch

Interaction Studies 18:3 pp. 443–464 | article

Clachar, Arlene 2016 Codeswitching among African-American English, Spanish and Standard English in computer-mediated discourse: The negotiation of identities by Puerto Rican students

Keywords: African-American English | computer discourse | Hip Hop | Puerto Ricans | Spanish

In: Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US, Guzzardo Tamargo, Rosa E., Catherine M. Mazak & M. Carmen Parafita Couto (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 11] pp. 61–80

Everett, Caleb 2009 A reconsideration of the motivations for preferred argument structure

Studies in Language 33:1 pp. 1–24 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.