All Stories

  1. A dynamic model of fluctuation and re‑stabilization

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, November 2025, John Benjamins

    Dr Liliana E. Sanchez, Professor Michael T Putnam

  2. Varieties of German in Contact Settings

    Article • November 2025, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  3. The importance of features and exponents

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, February 2024, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  4. Modeling multilingual grammars

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, February 2024, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  5. What linguistic innovation tells us

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, February 2023, John Benjamins

    Robert Klosinski, Professor Michael T Putnam

  6. Review of Mazzoli & Sippola (2021): New Perspectives on Mixed Languages: From Core to Fringe

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, November 2022, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  7. The Adaptive Bilingual Mind: Insights from Endangered Languages, written by Evangelia Adamou

    Article • Heritage Language Journal, December 2021, Brill

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  8. The Tale of Two Lexicons: Decomposing Complexity across a Distributed Lexicon

    Article • Heritage Language Journal, November 2021, Brill

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  9. Mental representations in receptive multilingual grammars

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, June 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  10. Mental representations in receptive multilingualism

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, June 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  11. Lexicalizing exponents in multilingual grammars

    Article • Second language Research, November 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  12. When Bilingualism is the Common Factor: Switch Reference at the Junction of Competence and Performance in Both Second Language and Heritage Language Performance

    Article • Journal of Language Contact, October 2018, Brill

    Dr Tiffany E Judy, Professor Michael T Putnam

  13. Derivational complexity vs. transfer effects

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, January 2018, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam, Nora Vosburg

  14. The good, the bad, and the gradient

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, June 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam, Robert Klosinski

  15. REVIEWS. Asymmetries Between Language Production and Comprehension By Petra Hendriks. (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 42.) Dordrecht: Springer, 2014 Pp. 234. Hardcover. $129.

    Article • Journal of Germanic Linguistics, May 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  16. Feature reassembly as constraint satisfaction

    Article • The Linguistic Review, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  17. How constrained is language mixing in bi- and uni-modal production?

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, December 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  18. Null arguments in transitional trilingual grammars: Field observations from Misionero German

    Article • Multilingua, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  19. Syntactic restructuring in heritage grammars

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, July 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  20. The emergence of middle voice structures with and without agents

    Article • The Linguistic Review, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  21. The vulnerability of the C-layer: introductory notes on German complementizers in contact

    Article • Language Typology and Universals, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  22. How interrogative pronouns can become relative pronouns: the case of was in Misionero German

    Article • Language Typology and Universals, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  23. On the need for formal features in the narrow syntax

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  24. What’s so incomplete about incomplete acquisition?

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, October 2013, John Benjamins

    Dr Liliana E. Sanchez, Professor Michael T Putnam

  25. Losing their (passive) voice

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, May 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Joseph Salmons, Professor Michael T Putnam

  26. REVIEWS - Derivations and Evaluations: Object Shift in the Germanic Languages.. By Hans Broekhuis. (Studies in Generative Grammar, 97). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2008. Pp. xiv, 382. Hardcover. €114.95.*

    Article • Journal of Germanic Linguistics, February 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  27. The Structural Design of Language

    Article • January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  28. Straight outta Marzahn: (Re)Constructing Communicative Memory in East Germany through Hip Hop

    Article • Popular Music & Society, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael T Putnam, Juliane Schicker

  29. REVIEWS - Extraction Asymmetries: Experimental Evidence from German. 2010. By Tanja Kiziak. (Linguistik Aktuell, 163). Pp. xvi–273. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. €105.00. $158.00

    Article • Journal of Germanic Linguistics, November 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  30. Catenae: Introducing a Novel Unit of Syntactic Analysis

    Article • Metascience, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  31. All there is to know about the alls-construction

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  32. REVIEWS - The Syntax of Icelandic. By Höskuldur Thráinsson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 567. Paperback. £30.99.

    Article • Journal of Germanic Linguistics, February 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  33. Studies on German-Language Islands

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  34. Provocative syntax (review)

    Article • Language, January 2011, Project Muse

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  35. Why study Sprachinseln from generative or structural perspectives?

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  36. Anaphors in contact

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  37. Bare phrase structure, label-less trees, and specifier-less syntax. Is Minimalism becoming a dependency grammar?

    Article • The Linguistic Review, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  38. Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars

    Article • September 2010, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  39. LITERATURE IN SECOND LANGUAGE EDUCATION: ENHANCING THE ROLE OF TEXTS IN LEARNING. Piera Carroli. New York: Continuum, 2008. Pp. viii + 217.

    Article • Studies in Second Language Acquisition, June 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  40. Rammstein andOstalgie: Longing for Yesteryear

    Article • Popular Music & Society, February 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  41. The emergence of order in syntax (review)

    Article • Language, January 2010, Project Muse

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  42. Exploring crash-proof grammars

    Article • January 2010, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  43. Syntactic relations in Survive-minimalism

    Article • January 2010, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  44. Towards a Derivational Syntax

    Article • July 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  45. Surviving reconstruction

    Article • March 2009, De Gruyter

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  46. Traveling without moving

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  47. When grammars collide

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  48. C-agreement or something close to it

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  49. Scrambling, Remnant Movement, and Restructuring in West Germanic. By Roland Hinterhölzl. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. ix, 254. Paperback. £68. doi:10.1017/S1470542708000160

    Article • Journal of Germanic Linguistics, December 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  50. THE GERMANIC LANGUAGES. Wayne Harbert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. ix + 510. $115.00 cloth.

    Article • Studies in Second Language Acquisition, October 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  51. Scrambling and the Survive Principle. By Michael T. Putnam. (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 115.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2007. Pp. ix, 216. Hardcover. €105. doi:10.1017/S1470542708000081

    Article • Journal of Germanic Linguistics, September 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Gema Chocano, Professor Michael T Putnam

  52. Teaching Controversal Topics in Contemporary German Culture through Hip-Hop

    Article • Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, May 2008, Wiley

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  53. Exploring the Focus-morphology interface: Morpho-syntactic aspects of nonprosodic Focus

    Article • Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, January 2008, The University of Kansas

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  54. Scrambling and the Survive Principle

    Article • October 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  55. National Socialism with Fler? German Hip Hop from the Right

    Article • Popular Music & Society, October 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  56. Norwegian Modals. By Kristin Melum Eide. (Studies in Generative Grammar, 74). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. Pp. xii, 457. Hardcover. €88; U.S. $118.80.

    Article • Journal of Germanic Linguistics, September 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  57. Those There Demonstratives

    Article • Leuvense Bijdragen - Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology, December 2006, Peeters Publishers

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  58. Focus on Germanic Typology. Edited by Werner Abraham. (Studia Typologica, 6). Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2005. Pp. xxviii, 336. Paperback. €69.80.

    Article • Journal of Germanic Linguistics, November 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  59. Preface

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  60. Notes

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  61. References

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  62. The biolinguistic turn

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  63. The structure of the Lexicon

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  64. Constructing the Numeration

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  65. Copy and the computational system

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  66. Some structural consequences for derivations

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  67. Observations on performance system interpretations

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam

  68. Conclusions and challenges

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael T Putnam