SIL Electronic Working Papers
Subject Index
Acoustic analysis
Adult education
Affixes
AIDS (Disease)
Anthropology
- The speech act of promising in an intercultural perspective
- A bibliography of the Waorani of Ecuador
- The end of worldview in anthropology?
- Reminiscences by Pike on early American anthropological linguistics
- Hooked on the fish: the Christian sign of the fish (and co-option thereof) as symbolic capital
- A bibliography of the Agta Negritos of Eastern Luzon, Philippines
- Cassava: an annotated bibliography
- Seri kinship terminology
- Manobo Storytelling as Approximation to Drama
- Social Organization of the West Coast Bajau
- Parente et traduction: Généralités et langues bibliques
- Traces d'une culture commune à l'Afrique sub-saharienne dans les valeurs des Jô du Mali et du Burkina Faso
Archiving
- A bibliography of the Agta Negritos of Eastern Luzon, Philippines
- Ensuring that digital data last: the priority of archival form over working form and presentation form
Bibliography
- Cassava: an annotated bibliography
- A bibliography of the Agta Negritos of Eastern Luzon, Philippines
- A bibliography of the Waorani of Ecuador
Bilingual education
Bilingualism
- Cameroon Bilingualism Test Comparison Study Report
- The sentence repetition test (SRT) revisited: evaluation of the SRT against the Second Language Oral Proficiency Evaluation (SLOPE) as an assessment tool for community bilingual proficiency
Biography
Clauses
Cognitive studies
Cohesion
Community development
- The indigenous peoples’ rights act ’A triumph of political will’
- Eating aids: using indigenous cognitive illness schemata (cognitive metaphors) in HIV/AIDs prevention messages in Nepal
- In search of a place: analysis of a land conflict involving the Cotabato Manobo people
Comparative and historical studies
- The Dialects of Baraïn (East Chadic)
- Classification and description of the Chadic languages of the Guéra (East Chadic B)
- A Historical Comparative Look at Four Mondé Languages
- The morpheme KA- of Carapana (Tucanoan)
- The status of Coronal in the historical development of Lhasa Tibetan rhymes
Comparison
- Papuan colloquial Indonesian
- An Acoustic Description of Central Vowels in Three Austronesian Languages of New Ireland
Computational linguistics
- Using architectural processing to derive small, problem-specific XML applications from large, widely-used SGML applications
- PTEXT: a format for the interchange of parsed texts among natural language processing applications
- TonePars: A Computational Tool for Exploring Autosegmental Tonology
- In search of task-centered software: Building single-purpose tools from multipurpose components
- PC-PATR implementation of GB syntax
- TonePars: a computational tool for exploring autosegmental tonology
- Two theories of morphology, one implementation
Computer programs
- In search of task-centered software: Building single-purpose tools from multipurpose components
- Toward a model for language identification: defining an ontology of language-related categories
- An analysis of ISO 639: preparing the way for advancements in language identification standards
- Using architectural processing to derive small, problem-specific XML applications from large, widely-used SGML applications
- Ensuring that digital data last: the priority of archival form over working form and presentation form
- Language identification and IT: addressing problems of linguistic diversity on a global scale
Cross-cultural communication
Descriptive linguistics
Dialect intelligibility
Discourse analysis
Education
- Language, literacy and education in African development: a perspective from Cameroon
- Language development in Papua New Guinea
- Workplace literacy
Endangered languages
- Towards a categorization of endangerment of the world's languages
- From endangered to less endangered: case histories from Brazil and Papua New Guinea
Epenthesis
Ethnobotany
Ethnography
Focus
Government-Binding Theory
Grammatical descriptions
- A functional grammar sketch of Hill Madia
- A morphophonology of Komo: Non-tonal phenomena
- The Prosody of Affect in South Conchucos Quechua
- Inflection of Finite Verbs in Mongghul
- A first look at the language of Kundal Shahi in Azad Kashmir
- Some Tok Pisin idioms
Idioms
Intelligibility testing
- The sentence repetition test (SRT) revisited: evaluation of the SRT against the Second Language Oral Proficiency Evaluation (SLOPE) as an assessment tool for community bilingual proficiency
- RTT Retelling Method: An Alternative Approach to Intelligibility Testing
Kinship terms
Language classification
- An evaluation of Niger-Congo classification
- An analysis of ISO 639: preparing the way for advancements in language identification standards
- Toward a model for language identification: defining an ontology of language-related categories
- Mabire: a dying language of Chad
Language death
Language development
Language learning
Language policy
- Adult literacy and adult education in the socialist modernization of China: policy, performance, lessons
- Language development in Papua New Guinea
- Literacy in an emergent society: Papua New Guinea
- Four decades of language policy in Papua New Guinea: The move towards the vernacular
Language surveys
Language technology
- Using architectural processing to derive small, problem-specific XML applications from large, widely-used SGML applications
- Ensuring that digital data last: the priority of archival form over working form and presentation form
- Language identification and IT: addressing problems of linguistic diversity on a global scale
- Toward a model for language identification: defining an ontology of language-related categories
- An analysis of ISO 639: preparing the way for advancements in language identification standards
- In search of task-centered software: Building single-purpose tools from multipurpose components
Language texts
Language use
- Measuring Kʼicheʼ (Mayan) language maintenance: a comprehensive methodology
- From endangered to less endangered: case histories from Brazil and Papua New Guinea
- Language maintenance in seven Kʼicheʼ communities
Lexicography
Linguistic theory
Linguistics
- Transitivity and Galela pronominal reference
- The speech act of promising in an intercultural perspective
- In search of task-centered software: Building single-purpose tools from multipurpose components
- PC-PATR implementation of GB syntax
- Reanalyzing Thai glottal codas: probability, perception, and displaced contrast
- Epenthetic ‘-mi’ in Ndyuka: a transitive marker?
- Lika phonologie
- More Universals of Tone
- Two theories of morphology, one implementation
- A comparison of person markers in Sayula and Oluta Popoluca
- Number marking innovations in Zapotec
- A description of Teribe phonology
- Mongghul phonology sketch
- A functional grammar sketch of Hill Madia
- TonePars: a computational tool for exploring autosegmental tonology
- A bibliography of the Waorani of Ecuador
- Mamaindé pre-stopped nasals
- Los números en seri
- A rich model for presenting interlinear text
- A bibliography of the Agta Negritos of Eastern Luzon, Philippines
- TonePars: A Computational Tool for Exploring Autosegmental Tonology
- Participant referencing in Cashinahua
- Nabay verb morphology
- The Phonology of Wano
- Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or Berber or Songhay, this is the question
- PTEXT: a format for the interchange of parsed texts among natural language processing applications
- The status of Coronal in the historical development of Lhasa Tibetan rhymes
- Valence and affix ordering in Inupiatun
- The geographic and genetic distribution of the labial flap
- Disambiguating grammatical tone in Gwere orthography by using clarifying words
- Papuan colloquial Indonesian
- Explorations in discourse topicality
- Reminiscences by Pike on early American anthropological linguistics
- A description of the phonology of the Sandawe language
- The Moloko verb phrase
- An Acoustic Description of Central Vowels in Three Austronesian Languages of New Ireland
- Some Tok Pisin idioms
- A first look at the language of Kundal Shahi in Azad Kashmir
- Using architectural processing to derive small, problem-specific XML applications from large, widely-used SGML applications
- Morphophonemic orthographies in fusional languages: the cases of Dinka and Shilluk
- The phonology of Awngi
- Discontinuous nasal spread in Yaminahua
- I want to but I can’t: the frustrative in Amahuaca
- Exploring clause chaining
- Lexicography considerations for Tok Pisin
- Phonology of the Orma Language
- A Lexical and Phonological Comparison of the Central Taic Languages of Wenshan Prefecture, China: Getting More Out of Language Survey Wordlists Than Just Lexical Similarity Percentages
- A morphophonology of Komo: Non-tonal phenomena
- The Phonological Segments and Syllabic Structure of Ik
- Tonal Diversity in Languages of Papua New Guinea
- The morpheme KA- of Carapana (Tucanoan)
- Morphosyntactic correlates of reference in Auye
- La phonologie du Naténi
- Mamaindé tone: an OT account of plateauing, floating tones, and toneless morphemes in an Amazonian language
- Relative clauses in Tadaksahak
- Inflection of Finite Verbs in Mongghul
- Classification and description of the Chadic languages of the Guéra (East Chadic B)
- The Prosody of Affect in South Conchucos Quechua
- A Historical Comparative Look at Four Mondé Languages
- The Dialects of Baraïn (East Chadic)
- Yáo’ān Central Yi Phonology
- Laarim (loh) Tone
Literacy
- Morphophonemic orthographies in fusional languages: the cases of Dinka and Shilluk
- Group interaction patterns as observed in informal learning events among pre-literate/semi-literate Salako women
- Developing a successful community-supported literacy program: the Adivasi-Oriya-Telugu adult literacy and development project
- A first look at the language of Kundal Shahi in Azad Kashmir
- Language, literacy and education in African development: a perspective from Cameroon
- Policy issues in literacy
- Adult literacy and adult education in the socialist modernization of China: policy, performance, lessons
- Factors in designing effective orthographies for unwritten languages
- Language development in Papua New Guinea
- Workplace literacy
- Alternatives for literacy assessment
- Are there age-related psychophysiological barriers to the acquisition of literacy?
- A bibliography of the Waorani of Ecuador
- Women's issues in literacy
- Literacy and uprooted families: an educational agenda for the nineties
- Literacy in an emergent society: Papua New Guinea
- Workplace literacy in industrial settings
- Are the goals and objectives of Jamaica's Bilingual Education Project being met?
- Four decades of language policy in Papua New Guinea: The move towards the vernacular
Literacy methods
Literacy problems
- Are there age-related psychophysiological barriers to the acquisition of literacy?
- Workplace literacy in industrial settings
- Alternatives for literacy assessment
Literacy programs
- Alternatives for literacy assessment
- Workplace literacy
- Workplace literacy in industrial settings
- Four decades of language policy in Papua New Guinea: The move towards the vernacular
- Literacy and uprooted families: an educational agenda for the nineties
- Women's issues in literacy
- Literacy in an emergent society: Papua New Guinea
- Adult literacy and adult education in the socialist modernization of China: policy, performance, lessons
- Developing a successful community-supported literacy program: the Adivasi-Oriya-Telugu adult literacy and development project
Metaphors
Mood (grammatical)
Morphology
Morphophonemics
Nasalization
Nonformal education
Number
Numeral systems
Optimality theory
Orthography
- Factors in designing effective orthographies for unwritten languages
- Morphophonemic orthographies in fusional languages: the cases of Dinka and Shilluk
Person
Phonetics
Phonological change
Phonological descriptions
- The phonology of Awngi
- A description of the phonology of the Sandawe language
- Mamaindé tone: an OT account of plateauing, floating tones, and toneless morphemes in an Amazonian language
- La phonologie du Naténi
- Tonal Diversity in Languages of Papua New Guinea
- The Phonological Segments and Syllabic Structure of Ik
- A morphophonology of Komo: Non-tonal phenomena
- A Lexical and Phonological Comparison of the Central Taic Languages of Wenshan Prefecture, China: Getting More Out of Language Survey Wordlists Than Just Lexical Similarity Percentages
- Phonology of the Orma Language
- Laarim (loh) Tone
- Yáo’ān Central Yi Phonology
- The Prosody of Affect in South Conchucos Quechua
- Classification and description of the Chadic languages of the Guéra (East Chadic B)
- Mongghul phonology sketch
- A description of Teribe phonology
- Reanalyzing Thai glottal codas: probability, perception, and displaced contrast
Phonology
Relative clauses
Role and Reference Grammar
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
- From endangered to less endangered: case histories from Brazil and Papua New Guinea
- Towards a categorization of endangerment of the world's languages
- Adult literacy and adult education in the socialist modernization of China: policy, performance, lessons
- A first look at the language of Kundal Shahi in Azad Kashmir
- An evaluation of Niger-Congo classification
- Measuring Kʼicheʼ (Mayan) language maintenance: a comprehensive methodology
- The sentence repetition test (SRT) revisited: evaluation of the SRT against the Second Language Oral Proficiency Evaluation (SLOPE) as an assessment tool for community bilingual proficiency
- SIL comparative African wordlist (SILCAWL)
- RTT Retelling Method: An Alternative Approach to Intelligibility Testing
- The Phonology of Wano
- Toward a model for language identification: defining an ontology of language-related categories
- An analysis of ISO 639: preparing the way for advancements in language identification standards
- Language development in Papua New Guinea
- Mabire: a dying language of Chad
- Cameroon Bilingualism Test Comparison Study Report
- Papuan colloquial Indonesian
- Four decades of language policy in Papua New Guinea: The move towards the vernacular
- Language maintenance in seven Kʼicheʼ communities
- Literacy in an emergent society: Papua New Guinea
Speech acts
Subordination (grammatical)
Switch reference
Syllables
Textlinguistics
Theme
Tone
- Disambiguating grammatical tone in Gwere orthography by using clarifying words
- TonePars: A Computational Tool for Exploring Autosegmental Tonology
- More Universals of Tone
- TonePars: a computational tool for exploring autosegmental tonology
- Mamaindé tone: an OT account of plateauing, floating tones, and toneless morphemes in an Amazonian language
Topic
Transitivity
Translation
- Holistic textlinguistics
- Nabay verb morphology
- Some Kewa metaphors: body parts as automobile parts
- Parente et traduction: Généralités et langues bibliques
Valence
Verb morphology
Verbs
- Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or Berber or Songhay, this is the question
- The Moloko verb phrase
Vowel harmony
Vowels
Word lists
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