Johanna Nichols:  Publications


Forthcoming

Ingush Grammar.  University of California Publications in Linguistics.

The evolution of Slavic.  Matthias Fritz and Jared Klein, eds., Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

In press

Proof of Dene-Yeniseian linguistic relatedness.  Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 6 (2009), eds. James Kari and Ben A. Potter.

Language families, macroareas, and contact.  Raymond Hickey, ed., The Handbook of Language Contact.  London: Blackwell.

Balthasar Bickel, Johanna Nichols.  Oceania, the Pacific Rim, and the theory of linguistic areas. BLS 32S.

A case of rare fluid intransitivity in Europe: Russian.  BLS 32.

Linguistic complexity: A comprehensive definition and survey.  Geoffrey Sampson, ed., Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable, 109-124.  Oxford University Press.

Juncture-based split alignment and aspectuality in Ingush.  Studies in Role and Reference Grammar (Proceedings of the RRG Conference, Mexico City, August 2007), eds. Lilián Guerrero, Sergio Ibáñez, Valeria A. Belloro.  Mexico City:  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 


2009
Balthasar Bickel, Johanna Nichols.  The geography of case. Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Simpson, eds., The Handbook of Case, 479-493.  Oxford University Press.

Balthasar Bickel, Johanna Nichols.  Case marking and alignment. Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Simpson, eds., The Handbook of Case, 304-321.  Oxford University Press.

2008
Gabriela Caballero, Michael J. Houser, Nicole Marcus, Teresa McFarland, Anne Pycha, Maziar Toosarvandani, Suzanne Wilhite, Johanna Nichols.  Nonsyntactic ordering effects in noun incorporation.  Linguistic Typology 12:3.383-421.

Language spread rates as indicators of glacial-age peopling of the Americas.  Current Anthropology 49:6.1109-1117 plus supporting online material.

Case in Ingush syntax.  Greville Corbett and Michael Noonan, eds., Case and Grammatical Relations:  Studies in honor of Bernard Comrie, 57-74.  Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Tandy Warnow, Johanna Nichols.  Tutorial on computational linguistic phylogeny.  Language and Linguistics Compass 2/5:760-820.

Why are stative-active languages rare in Eurasia?  Typological perspective on split subject marking.  Mark Donohue and Søren Wichmann, eds., The Typology of Semantic Alignment Systems, 121-139.  Oxford University Press.

Universals and diachrony: Some observations. In Linguistic Universals and Language Change, ed. Jeff Good, 287-293. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2007
Balthasar Bickel, Johanna Nichols.  Inflectional morphology. Tim Shopen, ed., Language Typology and Syntactic Description, vol. 3, 169-240.  Cambridge University Press.

Chechen morphology (with notes on Ingush).  Alan S. Kaye, ed., Morphologies of Asia and Africa (including the Caucasus), 1173-1192.  Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

A typological geography for Proto-Indo-European. In Karlene Jones-Bley, Martin E. Huld, Angela Della Volpe, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds., Proceedings of the 18th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 191-211. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man.

Hyman, Larry M., Lynn Nichols, Johanna Nichols.  Typology in American Linguistics: An Appraisal of the Field.  Linguistic Typology 11.227-230.

What, if anything, is typology? Linguistic Typology 11:231-238.

Language dispersal from the Black Sea region. The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement, ed. Valentina Yanko-Holmbach, Allan S. Gilbert, Nicolae Panin, and Pavel M. Dolukhanov, 775-796.  Dordrecht: Springer.

2006
Quasi-cognates and lexical type shifts: Rigorous distance measures for long-range comparison.  In James Clackson, Peter Forster, and Colin Renfrew, eds., Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages, 57-66.  Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

The robust bell curve of morphological complexity.  (With Jonathan Barnes and David A. Peterson.)  Linguistic Typology 10:1.98-108.

Head/dependent marking.  Keith Brown, ed., The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., pp. 234-237.  Oxford: Elsevier.  (Actually published 2005.)

2005
Syntactic ergativity in light verb complements.  (With Balthasar Bickel.)  BLS 27(2001):39-52.  

Inclusive and exclusive as person and number categories worldwide.  (With Balthasar Bickel.)  Elena Filimonova, ed., Clusivity, 47-70.  Amsterdam-Philadelphia: Benjamins.

The origin of the Chechen and Ingush:  A study in alpine linguistic geography.  Anthropological Linguistics 46:2.129-155. (copyright date 2004)

Locus of marking in the clause. (With Balthasar Bickel). Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. David Gil, and Bernard Comrie, eds., World Atlas of Language Structures, 98-101.  Oxford University Press.
Locus of marking in possessive noun phrases. (With Balthasar Bickel.)  Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie, eds., World Atlas of Language Structures, 102-105.  Oxford University Press.
Locus of marking:  Whole-language typology. (With Balthasar Bickel.)  Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie, eds., World Atlas of Language Structures, 106-109.  Oxford University Press.
Obligatory possessive inflection.  (With Balthasar Bickel.) Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer,  David Gil, and Bernard Comrie, eds., World Atlas of Language Structures, 238-241.  Oxford University Press.
Possessive classification (alienable/inalienable possession). (With Balthasar Bickel.) Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie, eds., World Atlas of Language Structures, 242-245.  Oxford University Press.
Personal pronouns:  M-T and N-M patterns.  (With David A. Peterson.) Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie, eds., World Atlas of Language Structures, 544-551.  Oxford University Press.
Fusion of selected inflectional formatives.  (With Balthasar Bickel as first author.) Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie, eds., World Atlas of Language Structures, 86-89.  Oxford University Press.
Exponence of selected inflectional formatives.  (With Balthasar Bickel as first author.) Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie, eds., World Atlas of Language Structures, 90-93.  Oxford University Press.
Inflectional synthesis of the verb. (With Balthasar Bickel as first author.) Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie, eds., World Atlas of Language Structures, 94-97.  Oxford University Press.

2004
Transitivizing and detransitivizing languages.  (With David A. Peterson and Jonathan Barnes.)  Linguistic Typology 8:2.149-211.
A bipartite stem outlier in Eurasia: Nakh-Daghestanian.  Pawel M. Novak, Cory Yoquelet, and David Mortensen, eds., Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 321-34.  Berkeley: BLS.
Noxchiin-ingals dosham / Chechen-English and English-Chechen  Dictionary.  With Arbi Vagapov. London:  Curzon/Routledge. (5500 Chechen words, 7000+ English words; 692 pp.) 
Ghalghaai-ingalsii, ingalsa-ghalghaai lughat / Ingush-English and English-Ingush Dictionary.  London: Curzon/Routledge. (5500 Ingush words, 7000+ English words; 563 pp.)
Documenting lexicons: Chechen and Ingush.  (With Ronald L. Sprouse.)  Peter Austin, ed., Language Documentaton and Description, vol. 1., 99-121.  London: SOAS.

2003
The Nakh-Daghestanian consonant correspondences.  Kevin Tuite and Dee Ann Holisky, eds., Current trends in Caucasian, East European, and Inner Asian linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson, 207-251.  Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Diversity and stability in language.  Brian Joseph and Richard Janda, eds., The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 283-310.  London: Blackwell.
Geographical distribution of linguistic features.  William Frawley, ed., International Encyclopedia of Linguistics.  Oxford University Press.

2002
The first American languages.  Nina Jablonski, ed., The First Americans, 273-293.  (Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, no. 27.)  San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences. 

2001
Why "me" and "thee"?  Laurel Brinton, ed., Historical Linguistics 1999, 253-76.  Amsterdam-Philadelphia: J. Benjamins.
Long-distance reflexivization in Chechen and Ingush.  Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon, and C.-T. James Huang, eds., Long Distance Reflexives, 255-78.  (Syntax and Semantics 33.)  New York: Academic Press.

2000
Chi sono i ceceni?  Quaderni 1.'00, pp. 181-186.   (Translation into Italian of 1995 electronic publication.)
Estimating dates of early American colonization events. Colin Renfrew, April McMahon, and Larry Trask, eds.,  Time Depth in Historical Linguistics, vol. 2.643-64.  Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
The Chechen refugees. Berkeley Journal of International Law 18:2.241-59.

1999
The historical geography of pharyngeals and laterals in the Caucasus.  BLS 25 Parasession, 1-13.

1998
The Eurasian spread zone and the Indo-European dispersal.  R. M. Blench et al., eds., Archaeology and Language II: Correlating Archaeological and Linguistic Hypotheses, 220-66.  Routledge.
Amerind personal pronouns: A reply to Campbell.  (With David A. Peterson.)  Language 74:3.605-15.
The origin and dispersal of languages: Linguistic evidence.  Nina Jablonski and Leslie C. Aiello, eds.,The Origin and Diversification of Language,  pp. 127-70.  (Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, 24.)  San Francisco:  California Academy of Sciences.

1997
Modeling ancient population structures and population movement in linguistics and archeology.  Annual Review of Anthropology 26:359-84.
Sprung from two common sources: Sahul as a linguistic area.  Patrick McConvell et al., eds., Archeology and Linguistics: Global Perspectives on Ancient Australia.  Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
The epicenter of the Indo-European linguistic spread.  Roger Blench and Matthew Spriggs, eds., Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations, pp. 122-48.  London-New York: Routledge. 
Chechen phonology.  A. S. Kaye, ed., Phonologies of Asia and Africa (including the Caucasus), 941-71.  Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
The geography of language origins.  BLS 22.267-78

1996
The Amerind personal pronouns.  (With David A. Peterson.)  Language  72:2.336-71.
The comparative method as heuristic.  M. Durie and M. Ross, eds., The Comparative Method Reviewed:  Regularity and Irregularity in Language Change, 39-71.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1995
The spread of language around the Pacific Rim.  Evolutionary Anthropology  3:6.206-15.
Diachronically stable structural features.  In Henning Andersen, ed., Historical Linguistics 1993. Papers from the Eleventh International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 337-356. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Who are the Chechen?   (Informational article made available to all possible users in January 1995 at the beginning of the Russian-Chechen war.  Posted to several electronic mailing lists, cross-posted to others, placed on several gophers and other web sites.  Also published in Dhumbadji!, Journal for the History of Language 2:2 and Central Asia Review.  By now on several websites.  Listed above in Electronic Publications.)

1994
(Translator)  Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans.  Translation of T. V. Gamkrelidze and Vjach. Vs. Ivanov, Indoevropejskij jazyk i indoevropejcy.  (Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press and Georgian Academy of Sciences, 1984.)  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.  Vol. 1 appeared in 1994.
The structure of the Nakh-Daghestanian verb root and verb stem.  H. I. Aronson, ed., Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR: Papers from the Fourth Conference, 160-79.  Columbus: Slavica.
Ingush.  In Rieks Smeets, ed., The Indigenous Languages of the Caucasus, vol. 4: The Northeast Caucasian Languages, Part 2, 79-145.  Delmar, NY: Caravan Press.
Chechen.  Ibid, 1-77.
Ergativity and linguistic geography.  Australian Journal of Linguistics 13.39-89.
Chechen-Ingush.  Paul Friedrich and Norma Diamond, eds., Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. VI:  Russia and Eurasia / China, 71-76.  Boston: G. K. Hall & Co.

1993
Transitive and causative in the Slavic lexicon: Evidence from Russian.  B. Comrie, M. Haspelmath, L. Kulikov, and M. Polinsky, eds., Causatives and Transitivity, 69-86.  Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Stereotyping interethnic communication: The Siberian native in Soviet literature.  In G. Diment and Y. Slezkine, eds., Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture, pp.185-214.  New York: St. Martin's Press.
Heads in discourse: Functional and structural centricity.  In G. Corbett, N. Fraser, and S. McGlashan, eds., Heads in Grammatical Theory, 164-185.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
The linguistic geography of the Slavic expansion.  Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake, eds., American Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, 377-391.  Columbus: Slavica.

1992
Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time.  University of Chicago Press.
The Caucasus as a linguistic area, 1: Personal pronouns.  B. G. Hewitt, ed., Caucasian Perspectives.  London: Lincom Europa.  (Selected papers from the 1990 meeting of Societas Caucasica Europaea.)

1991
(with Alan Timberlake; he is first author)  Grammaticalization as retextualization.  E. C. Traugott and B. Heine, eds., Approaches to Grammaticalization, Vol. I, 129-46.  Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Northeast Caucasian.  In H. E. Wiegand, ed., International Encyclopedia of Lexicography: Dictionaries.  Berlin: De Gruyter.
(with Alan Timberlake)  Predicate nominals.  Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics.

1990
Linguistic diversity and the first settlement of the New World.  Language 66:3.475-521.
Comment on R. M. Bateman et al., 'Speaking of forked tongues', Current Anthropology 31:3.313-14.
The Nakh evidence for the history of gender in Nakh-Daghestanian.  H. I. Aronson, ed., The Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR: Linguistic Studies, 158-75.  Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society (University of Chicago).
Some preconditions and typical traits of the stative-active language type (with reference to Proto-Indo-European).  W. P. Lehmann, ed., Language Typology 1987: Systematic Balance in Language, 95-113.  Amsterdam: Benjamins.

1989
The origin of nominal classification.  BLS 15.409-20.
Nominalization and assertion in scientific Russian prose.  In J. Haiman and S. A. Thompson, eds., Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse, 599-628.  Philadelphia: J. Benjamins.
On alienable and inalienable possession.  In W. Shipley, eds., In Honor of Mary Haas: From the Haas Festival Conference on Native American Linguistics, 557-610.  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

1988
Some parallels in Slavic and Northeast Caucasian folklore.  In Jane G. Harris, ed., American Contributions to the Tenth International Congress of Slavists: Literature, pp. 283-304.  Columbus: Slavica.
Language study, international studies, and education.  Profession 88:10-19.

1987
(co-edited with Wallace L. Chafe)   Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology.  (Advances in Discourse Processes, 20.)  Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.
Russian vurdalak ‘werewolf’ and its cognates.  In M. S. Flier and S. Karlinsky, eds., Language, Literature, Linguistics: In Honor of Francis J. Whitfield, 165-77.  Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties.
On form and content in typology.  In W. P. Lehmann, ed., Language Typology 1985: Papers from the Soviet-American Linguistic Typology Symposium, Moscow, December 1985, pp. 141-62.  (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 47.)  Philadelphia: Benjamins.
The bottom line: Chinese pidgin Russian.  In W. L. Chafe and J. Nichols, eds., Evidentiality : The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology, pp. 239-57.  Ablex.

1986
Head-marking and dependent-marking grammar.  Language 62:1.56-119.
Aspect and inversion in Russian.  In M. S. Flier and A. Timberlake, eds., The Scope of Slavic Aspect, 94-117.  (UCLA Slavic Studies.)  Columbus: Slavica.

1985
(co-edited with Anthony C. Woodbury)  Grammar Inside and Outside the Clause: Some Approaches to Theory from the Field.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
The directionality of agreement.  BLS 11.273-86.
How conifers became oaks in the Caucasus.  IJAL 51:4.523-6.
Switch-reference causatives.  CLS 21, Part 2: Papers from the Parasession on Causatives and Agentivity, 193-203.
Transitivity and valence in Chechen-Ingush.  In H. I. Aronson and B. J. Darden, eds., Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR.  Columbus: Slavica.
Padezhnye varianty predikativnyx imen i ix otrazhenie v russkoj grammatike.  [The instrumental-agreement alternation and its implications for Russian grammar.]  In A. E. Kibrik, ed., Novoe v zarubezhnoj lingvistike 15: Sovremennaja zarubezhnaja rusistika, 342-87.  Moscow: Progress.
The grammatical marking of theme in literary Russian.  In R. D. Brecht and M. S. Flier, eds., Issues in Russian Morphosyntax, 170-86.  Columbus: Slavica.
Poetic equation in Chechen-Ingush.  Studia Caucasica 6.12-24.

1984
Functional theories of grammar.  Annual Review of Anthropology 13:97-117.
Another typology of relatives.  BLS 10.524-41.
Direct and oblique objects in Chechen-Ingush and Russian.  In F. Plank, ed., Objects, 183-209.  London: Academic Press.

1983
Switch reference in the Northeast Caucasus.  In J. Haiman and P. Munro, eds., Switch Reference, 245-66.  Amsterdam: Benjamins.
(same title)   In H. I. Aronson and B. J. Darden, eds., Proceedings of the Second Conference on Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR, 313-55.  (Folia Slavica 5.)  Columbus: Slavica.
(with Joseph Schallert)   The pragmatics of raising in Old Russian and Common Slavic.  In M. S. Flier, ed., American Contributions to the Ninth International Congress of Slavists, I: Linguistics, 221-46.  Columbus: Slavica.
On direct and oblique cases.  BLS 9.170-92.
The Chechen verb forms in -na and -c√a:  Switch reference and temporal deixis.  Studia Caucasica 5.17-44.
Predicate instrumentals and agreement in Lithuanian.   [Reprint of 1981 paper with same title.  Volume reprinted as Papers in Linguistics 16:3/4.2:1-21.]

1982
Prominence, cohesion, and control: Object-controlled predicate nominals in Russian.  In P. Hopper and S. A. Thompson, eds., Studies in Transitivity, 319-50.  (Syntax and Semantics, 15.)  New York: Academic Press.
Ingush transitivization and detransitivization.  BLS 8.445-62.

1981
Predicate Nominals: A Partial Surface Syntax of Russian.  (University of California Publications in Linguistics, 97.)  Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Transitivity and foregrounding in the North Caucasus.  BLS 7.202-21.
Predicate instrumentals and agreement in Lithuanian.  In Bernard Comrie, ed., Studies in the Languages of the USSR, 1-21.  (Series: Current Inquity into Language and Linguistics.)  Edmonton-Carbondale: Linguistic Research, Inc.

1980
Control and ergativity in Chechen.  CLS 16.259-68.
(with Alan Timberlake and Gilbert Rappaport)   Subject, topic, and control in Russian.  BLS 6.372-86.
The syntax of Old Russian m’něti (sja).  In K. Klar, M. Langdon, and S. Silver, eds., American Indian and Indo-European Studies: Papers in Honor of Madison S. Beeler, 421-407.  (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 14.)  Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Pidginization and foreigner talk:  Chinese pidgin Russian.  In E. C. Traugott, ed., Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 397-407.  (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 14.)  Amsterdam: Benjamins.

1979
Subjects and controllers in Russian.  CLS 15.256-66.
Syntax and pragmatics in Manchu-Tungus languages.  In P. Clyne et al., eds., The Elements: A Parasession on Linguistic Units and Levels, 420-28.  Chicago: CLS.
The meeting of East and West: Confrontation and convergence in contemporary linguistics.  BLS 5.261-76.

1978
Double dependency?  CLS 14.326-39.
Secondary predicates.  BLS 4.114-27.
mnis semant'ik'i da c'inadadebis k'onstruk'cia.  In:  tanamedrove enatmecnierebis zogierti akt'ualuri sak'itxi, 90-108.  Tbilisi: Mecniereba.  [Translation into Georgian of BLS 1 (1975) paper.]

1977
Imennoe skazuemoe v gruzinskom jazyke.  [The predicate nominal in Georgian.]  Macne, seria 2, 1977:3.97-110.  Tbilisi: Georgian Academy of Sciences.

1975
Verbal semantics and sentence construction.  BLS 1.343-53.
Pidgins and creoles: Synchronic and diachronic aspects of linguistic discontinuity.  (Review article.)  Romance Philology 28:4.564-78.

1973
Suffix ordering in Proto-Uralic.  Lingua 32.227-38.

1971
Diminutive consonant symbolism in western North America.  Language 47.826-48.