Language Anthology Vol. III

For each volume of the Language Anthology, we are seeking input on those articles which represent the best scholarship published in Language during that particular period. By “best,” we mean the most influential and those considered a must-read for students and scholars of the discipline. For the proposed third volume, covering the years 1986-2012, we have provided a list of the most frequently downloaded and cited articles from Project MUSE, JSTOR and Google Scholar. This information is provided as a starting point for your consideration. There are additional slots available for you to include your own choices. Note: You may wish to consult the Language Indices online before completing the survey (member log-in required).

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* 1. Please assign each article listed below to the top tier, middle tier or the bottom tier, limiting yourself to five articles in each tier. Top= five best; middle = five next best; bottom tier = five next best. Those that articles in excess of 15 that you do not assign to one of the three tiers should be left blank. 

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Birdsong, David (1992). "Ultimate Attainment in Second Language Acquisition."
Bybee, Joan (2006). "From Usage to Grammar: The Mind's Response to Repetition."
Chambers, J.K. (1992). "Dialect Acquisition."
Dowty, David (1991). "Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection."
Dryer, Matthew (1992). "The Greenbergian Word Order Correlations."
Fillmore, Charles, Paul Kay, and Mary O'Connor (1988). "Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: the Case of Let Alone."
Foulkes, Paul, Gerard Docherty, and Dominic Watt (2005). "Phonological Variation in child-Directed Speech."
Goldberg, Adele and Ray Jackendoff (2004). "The English Resultative as a Family of constructions."
Gundel, Jeanette, Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski (1993). "Cognitive Status and the Form of referring Expressions in Discourse."
Hale, Ken, Michael Krauss, Lucille Watahomigie, Akira Yamamoto, Colette Craig, LaVerne Masayesva (1992). "Endangered Languages."
Harley, Heidi and Elizabeth Ritter (2002). "Person and Numbers in Pronouns: A Feature-Geometric Analysis."
Hazen, Kirk (2002). "Identity and Language Variation in a Rural Community."
Jackendoff, Ray (2011). "What is the Human Language Faculty?: Two Views."
Kennedy, Christopher and Louise McNally (2005). "Scale Structure, Degree Modification, and the Semantics of Gradable Predicates."
Kiss, Katalin (1998). "Identificational Focus Versus Information Focus."
Labov, William (2007). "Transmission and Diffusion."
Newmeyer, Frederick (2003). "Grammar is Grammar and Usage is Usage."
Nichols, Johanna (1986). "Head-Marking and Dependent-Marking Grammar."
Nunberg, Geoffrey, Ivan a. sag, and Thomas Wasow (1994). "Idioms."
Otheguy, Ricardo, Ana Zentella, and David Livert (2007). "Language and Dialect Contact in Spanish in New York: Toward the Formation of a Speech Community."
Rappaport Hovav, Malka and Beth Levin (2001). "An Event Structure Account of English Resultatives."
Schneider, Edgar (2003). "The Dynamics of New Englishes: From Identity Construction to Dialect Birth."
Stromswold, Karin (2001), "The Heritability of Language: A Review and Metaanalysis of Twin, Adoption, and Linkage Studies."
Traugott, Elizabeth (1989). "On the Rise of Epistemic Meaning in English: An Example of Subjectification in Semantic Change."
Wolfram, Walt (2003). "Reexamining the Development of African American English: Evidence from Isolated Communities."

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* 2. Please nominate articles, not listed above, which you feel should be included in Vol. III of the Anthology (articles published in Language 1986-2015). You may not self-nominate.

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