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2006

Ansaldo, U. & L. Lim. 2006. Globalisation, empowerment and the periphery: The Malays of Sri Lanka. In R. Elangaiyan, R. McKenna Brown, N.D.M. Ostler & M.K. Verma (eds). Vital voices: Endangered languages and multilingualism. Proceedings of the FEL X Conference. Bath: Foundation for Endangered Languages; & Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages. 39-46.

Lim, L. & U. Ansaldo. 2006. Keeping Kirinda vital: The endangerment-empowerment dilemma in the documentation of Sri Lanka Malay. In E. Aboh & M. van Staden (eds). Amsterdam Center for Language & Communication Working Papers 1. 51-66.

Lim, L. & U. Ansaldo. 2006. Preliminary findings of a sociolinguistic survey of the Sri Lanka Malays. ms. University van Amsterdam.

 

2005

Ansaldo, U. 2005. Typological admixture in Sri Lanka Malay. The case of Kirinda Java. ms. University of Amsterdam. http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/u.ansaldo/page2.html

Ansaldo, U. 2005. Serial verb constructions. Grammatical semantics. In K. Brown (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed. Elsevier Publishers.

Ansaldo, U. 2005. Countries and Languages – Asia. Sri Lanka. In K. Brown (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed. Elsevier Publishers.

Ansaldo, U. 2005. Countries and Languages – Asia. Cocos Islands (Keeling) – Language situation. In K. Brown (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed. Elsevier Publishers.

Ansaldo, U. 2005. Review of Crowley, Terry, 2004, Bislama reference grammar. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication 31. Honolulu: Univeristy of Hawai’i Press. Anthropological Linguistics 47:2. 257-258.

Ansaldo, U. & H. Cardoso. 2005. Challenges to normative practices from fieldwork in high-contact varieties. ms. University of Amsterdam.

Ansaldo, U. & L. Lim. 2005. The KirJa collection: A corpus of Kirinda Java, a vital variety of Sri Lanka Malay. ms.  University of Amsterdam.

Lim, L. & U. Ansaldo. 2005. Countries and Languages – Asia. Singapore. In K. Brown (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed. Elsevier Publishers.

 

2004

Ansaldo, U. 2004. The evolution of Singapore English: Finding the matrix. In L. Lim (ed.). Singapore English: A grammatical description. Varieties of English Around the World G33. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 127-149.

Ansaldo, U. 2004. The correlation between Exceed comparatives and verby languages. Proceedings of the 11th conference of the South East Asian Linguistic Society. Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University.

Ansaldo, U. 2004. Contact, typology and the speaker: The essentials of language. Review article of Enfield, N.J., 2003, Linguistic epidemiology. Semantics and grammar of language contact in mainland Southeast Asia, Routledge. Language Sciences 26:5. 485-494.

Ansaldo, U. & L. Lim. 2004. Phonetic absence as syntactic prominence. Grammaticalization in isolating tonal languages. In O. Fischer, M. Norde & H. Perridon (eds). Up and down the cline – The nature of grammaticalization. Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 345-362. (Book flyer)

Ansaldo, U. & S. Matthews. 2004. The origins of Macanese reduplication. In G. Escure & A. Schwegler (eds). Creoles, contact and language change: Linguistic and social implications. Creole Language Library 27. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1-19.

Wee, L. & U. Ansaldo. 2004. Nouns and noun phrases. In L. Lim (ed.) Singapore English: A grammatical description. Varieties of English Around the World G33. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 57-74. (Book flyer)

 

2003

Ansaldo, U.  2003. Review of Croft, W., 2001, Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach, Longman. Functions of Language 10:1. 122-128.

Lim, L. & U. Ansaldo. 2003. Sounds Cocos. In M.J. Solé, D. Recasens & J. Romero (eds) Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2003). Barcelona: The 15th ICPhS Organizing Committee. 803-806.

 

2002-2000

Ansaldo, U.  2002. Review of H. Chappell (ed.), 2001, Sinitic grammar, Oxford University Press. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 31:2. 273-277.

Lim, L. & U. Ansaldo. 2002. Prosodic erosion as a diagnostic of grammaticalization in isolating languages: Tone and stress in Sinitic. In B. Bel & I. Marlien (eds) Speech Prosody 2002: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on speech prosody. Aix-en-Provence, France. 456-462.

Ansaldo, U. & S.J. Matthews. 2001. Typical creoles and simple languages. The case of Sinitic. Linguistic Typology 5:2/3. 311-326.

Ansaldo, U. 2000. Review of Heine, B., 1997, Cognitive foundations of grammar. Linguistic Typology 4:2. 168-175.

Ansaldo, U. & S.J. Matthews. 2000. Head and dependent-marking in isolating languages: The case of Sinitic. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Language and Linguistics- Panasiatic Linguistics, National University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.

 

1999-1996

Ansaldo, U. 1999. Comparative constructions in Sinitic: Areal typology and patterns of grammaticalization. Stockholm: Allduplo Tryckeri AB/ Stockholm University.

Ansaldo, U. & S.J. Matthews. 1999. The Minnan substrate and creolization in Baba Malay. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 27:1. 38-68.

Ansaldo, U. 1998. Relative clauses and word-order variation in Sinitic. Proceedings of the ninth North American conference on Chinese Linguistics, Vol I. Los Angeles: University of Southern California. 1-16.

Ansaldo, U. 1998. Review of Escure, G., 1997, Creole and dialect continua: Standard acquisition processes in Belize and China, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. The West Indian Guide 27:3/4. 360-362.

Ansaldo, U. 1996. Language diversity at sunset? Present and future of multilingualism in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Linguist 15. 20-29.