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Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema (2009)
Book
Van Crevel, M., Tan, T. Y., & Hockx, M. (Eds.). (2009). Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004179066.i-468

Wilt Idema is one of the world's leading scholars and translators of Chinese literature, with research interests ranging from classical poetry to premodern fiction, performance literature and women's writing. His oeuvre is exceptional in its inclusiv... Read More about Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema.

Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi (2009)
Book Chapter
McCain, C. (2009). Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi. In T. Falola, & F. Ngom (Eds.), Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations (163-189). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203872659-19

In recent years, the focus on public morals versus private practice has been a major concern of Hausa artists in investigating exactly what the private/ public division means for Hausa modernity. After a background on the emergence of these new forms... Read More about Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi.

Stereotyping Communicative Styles In and Out of the Language and Culture classroom: Japanese Indirectness, Ambiguity and Vagueness (2009)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B. (2009). Stereotyping Communicative Styles In and Out of the Language and Culture classroom: Japanese Indirectness, Ambiguity and Vagueness. In R. Gomez Moron, M. Padilla Cruz, L. Fernandez Amaya, & M. De la O Hernandez Lopez (Eds.), Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The stereotype of reserved and evasive Japanese people, whose language naturally fosters ambiguity and an intuitive and indirect style, pervades popular as well as pedagogical discourse. Despite evidence that, depending on the situation, Japanese can... Read More about Stereotyping Communicative Styles In and Out of the Language and Culture classroom: Japanese Indirectness, Ambiguity and Vagueness.

Kang Hai houqi nanqu xiaoling chutan: jianlun Langtaosha qupai de jige wenti 康海後期南曲小令初探—兼論【浪淘沙】曲牌的幾個問題 (A Study of Kang Hai’s Composition of Southern Songs in His Later Years, Along with a Discussion on the Tune Title Langtaosha) (2009)
Book Chapter
Tan, T. Y. (2009). Kang Hai houqi nanqu xiaoling chutan: jianlun Langtaosha qupai de jige wenti 康海後期南曲小令初探—兼論【浪淘沙】曲牌的幾個問題 (A Study of Kang Hai’s Composition of Southern Songs in His Later Years, Along with a Discussion on the Tune Title Langtaosha). In Q. Chen (Ed.), Mingdai wenxue lunji (1065-1076). Haixia wenyi chubanshe

Japanese Modality: Exploring its Scope and Interpretation (2009)
Book
Pizziconi, B., & Kizu, M. (Eds.). (2009). Japanese Modality: Exploring its Scope and Interpretation. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245754

This book is the first collection of studies on Japanese modality written in English. It presents a review of Japanese modality studies as well as important new material that addresses the issues of its scope, its nature, and its conceptualization. T... Read More about Japanese Modality: Exploring its Scope and Interpretation.

The status of voicing and aspiration as cues to Korean laryngeal contrast (2009)
Book Chapter
Chang, C. B. (2009). The status of voicing and aspiration as cues to Korean laryngeal contrast. In M. Elliott, J. Kirby, O. Sawada, E. Staraki, & S. Yoon (Eds.), Proceedings from the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: The Main Session (31-45). Chicago Linguistic Society

This study reexamines the typologically unusual three-way laryngeal contrast in Korean among ‘lenis’, ‘fortis’, and ‘aspirated’ voiceless plosives in light of a recent proposal by Kim and Duanmu (2004) that the contrast is really among voiced, voicel... Read More about The status of voicing and aspiration as cues to Korean laryngeal contrast.

Jalonke (2009)
Book Chapter
Lüpke, F. (2009). Jalonke. In G. J. Dimmendaal (Ed.), Coding participant marking. Construction types in twelve African languages (173-214). John Benjamins

Siwa and its significance for Arabic dialectology (2009)
Journal Article
Souag, L. (2009). Siwa and its significance for Arabic dialectology. Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik, 51-75

Siwi is best known for being the easternmost Berber language, but includes a very substantial Arabic stratum. The q reflex of qāf and the final ʾimāla of -ā to -ī in loanwords alone suffice to establish that most of this influence derives neither fro... Read More about Siwa and its significance for Arabic dialectology.