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  1. Ethnolinguistic contact across the Indo-Myanmar-Southwestern China mountains

    Article • Asian Languages and Linguistics, December 2023, John Benjamins

    Alexander Coupe, Professor Randy J LaPolla

  2. Manifestations of Jinghpaw influence among Rawang speakers

    Article • Asian Languages and Linguistics, December 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  3. Ethnolinguistic contact across the Indo-Myanmar-Southwestern China mountains

    Article • Asian Languages and Linguistics, December 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla, Alexander Coupe

  4. The Romanticist tradition in Linguistics and its relevance today to modernizing typology

    Article • Asian Languages and Linguistics, March 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  5. The early use of the term "pronomenaisation" (pronominalization)

    Article • Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, June 2019, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  6. Looking for why language patterns are the way they are

    Article • Linguistic Typology, December 2017, De Gruyter

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  7. Noun-modifying clause constructions in Sino-Tibetan languages

    Article • February 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  8. Once again on methodology and argumentation in linguistics

    Article • Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, December 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  9. The Sino-Tibetan Languages

    Article • December 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  10. Review of the book The Language Myth, by Vyvyan Evans

    Article • Studies in Language, April 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  11. On categorization: Stick to the facts of the languages

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  12. On Scholarship in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics

    Article • Journal of the American Oriental Society, January 2016, American Oriental Society

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  13. Language Structure and Environment

    Article • June 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla, Dr Rik De Busser

  14. Sino-Tibetan Syntax

    Article • April 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  15. Chapter 2. On the logical necessity of a cultural and cognitive connection for the origin of all aspects of linguistic structure

    Article • January 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  16. Towards a new approach to evidentiality

    Article • Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, December 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  17. Constituent Structure in a Tagalog Text

    Article • Language and Linguistics 語言暨語言學, October 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  18. 25 Eastern Asia: Sino-Tibetan linguistic history

    Article • February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  19. Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  20. Studies in Transitivity

    Article • Studies in Language, November 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla, Alexander Coupe

  21. On Transitivity

    Article • Studies in Language, November 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla, Alexander Coupe

  22. On transitivity in two Tibeto-Burman languages

    Article • Studies in Language, November 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  23. The Georg von der Gabelentz Award 2009

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  24. Language Contact and Language Change in the History of the Sinitic Languages

    Article • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  25. The Copula and Existential Verbs in Qiang

    Article • Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, January 2007, Brill

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  26. The Sino-Tibetan Languages

    Article • May 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  27. Qiang Randy J. LaPolla

    Article • May 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  28. Dulong Randy J. LaPolla

    Article • May 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  29. Overview of Sino-Tibetan morphosyntax Randy J. LaPolla

    Article • May 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  30. On grammatical relations as constraints on referent identification

    Article • January 2006, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  31. Li Fang-Kuei (1902–1989)

    Article • January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  32. Chao Yuen Ren (1892–1982)

    Article • January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  33. Sino-Tibetan Languages

    Article • January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  34. Wang Li (1900–1986)

    Article • January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  35. The inclusive-exclusive distinction in Tibeto-Burman languages

    Article • January 2005, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  36. The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Edited by Thurgood Graham and Randy J. LaPolla. Routledge Language Family Series, no. 3. London: Routledge, 2003. xxii, 727 pp. $295.00 (cloth).

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, November 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  37. A Grammar of Qiang

    Article • December 2003

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  38. 3. Evidentiality in Qiang

    Article • January 2003, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  39. A grammar of Meithei

    Article • Lingua, April 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  40. Valency-changing derivations in Dulong/Rawang

    Article • February 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  41. Syntax

    Article • December 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  42. References

    Article • December 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  43. Notes

    Article • December 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  44. Notes for instructors

    Article • December 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  45. Information structure

    Article • December 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  46. The goals of linguistic theory

    Article • December 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  47. Grammatical relations

    Article • December 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  48. Syntactic structure, I: simple clauses and noun phrases

    Article • December 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  49. Semantic representation, I: verbs and arguments

    Article • December 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  50. Semantic representation, II: macroroles, the lexicon and noun phrases

    Article • December 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  51. Linking syntax and semantics in simple sentences

    Article • December 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  52. Syntactic structure, II: complex sentences and noun phrases

    Article • December 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  53. Linking syntax and semantics in complex sentences

    Article • December 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  54. Epilog: the goals of linguistic theory revisited

    Article • December 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  55. Book Review (2)

    Article • International Review of Chinese Linguistics, January 1996, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  56. Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics

    Article • Language, March 1995, JSTOR

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  57. An experimental investigation into phonetic symbolism as it relates to Mandarin Chinese

    Article • January 1995, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  58. Pragmatic relations and word order in Chinese

    Article • January 1995, John Benjamins

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  59. The Classical Tibetan Language

    Article • Language, March 1994, JSTOR

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  60. On the dating and nature of verb agreement in Tibeto-Burman

    Article • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, June 1992, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Randy J LaPolla

  61. Verb Agreement, Head-Marking vs. Dependent-Marking, and the ‘Deconstruction’ of Tibeto-Burman Morpho-Syntax

    Article • Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, November 1989, Semantics and Pragmatics

    Professor Randy J LaPolla