Tones:
—“Vietnamese and tonogenesis: revising the model and the analysis” 2002. Vietnamese and tonogenesis. Diachronica 19.2:333-363.
—"Tonogenesis revisited: revising the model and the analysis" 2007. [An updating of my Diachronica tonogenesis paper]. Studies in Tai and Southeast Asian Linguistics, edited by Jimmy G. Harris, Somsonge Burusphat, and James E. Harris. Bangkok: Ek Phim Thai Co. Pp. 263-291. [I very much appreciate Jeff Stebbins helping get this online]
[same paper; different format] This is the same paper as above, but graphically a little clearer type and without the pages numbers of the printed version.
—“Voice quality differences and the origins of diphthongs” (Berkeley Linguistics Society 25.295-303 (2000))
—“Language contact and the directionality
of internal drift:
the development of tones and
registers in Chamic.” (Language 71.1:1-31)
—“Lisu and Proto-Lolo-Burmese.” 1977. (Acta Orientalia 38:147-207)
Other:
—2007. Acehnese: genetic affiliations, diversity, and absorption. ms. Conference in Banda Aceh.
—2010. Hainan Cham classifiers: synchrony and diachrony. SEALS 2010 (Zurich) ms.
—2010. Hainan Cham, Anong, and Eastern Cham: Three languages, three social contexts, three patterns of change. Journal of Language Contact 3:39-65.
—2008. The Sino-Tibetan languages: genetic inheritance, external contact, and change. [in Mandarin] Minzu Yuwen 2008.2:3-15.
—2007. (with Fengxiang "Frank" Li). From Malayic to Sinitic: The Restructuring of Tsat [Hainan Cham] Under Intense Contact. SEALS XII: Papers from the 12th meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2002). Edited by Ratree Wayland, John Hartman, and Paul Sidwell. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 2007. Pp. 133-140.
2003. (with Fengxiang Li). Contact induced variation and syntactic change in the Tsat of Hainan [Hainan Cham]. In Language variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinophere and the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff. Edited by David Bradley, Randy LaPolla, Boyd Michailovsky, and Graham Thurgood. Pacific Linguistics. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies., Pp. 185-200.
—2002. A comment on Gedney's proposal for another series of voiced initials in proto-Tai. Studies in Southeast Asian Languages, edited by Robert Bauer. Pacific Linguistics. Pp. 169-183. (updated 2006)
—2007. The grammaticalization paths of Proto-Chamic *hu ‘receive’. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society 39.1:205-214.
Trung: internal reconstruction problem
(1991). The aberrancy of the Jiamao dialect of Hlai: speculation on its origins and history. Southeast Asian Linguistics Society I, Edited by Martha Ratliff and Eric Schiller. Tempe: Arizona State University Southeast Asian Studies Publication Program. Pp. 417-433.
(1991). "Proto-Hlai (Li): A look at initials, tones, and finals. Kadai and SE Asian Linguistics III. Edited by Jerold Edmondson. Pp. 1-49.
2005. Phan Rang Cham. In The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. Edited by Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. Routledge Language Family Series. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 489-512.
Cham: The koineization of Cham
2000. Learnability and direction of convergence in Cham: the effects of long-term contact on linguistic structures. Proceedings of the Western Conference On Linguistics. WECOL 2000. California State University, Fresno. Pp. 507-527.
Cham: Crawfurd's Malay of Champa (in a volume honouring P.J. Mistry)
Tsat (Hainan Cham): BLS paper 2002 The restructuring of Tsat grammar under contact with Chinese.
2005. Variation as a reflection of contact: Notes from Southeast Asia. In Variation and reconstruction. Edited by Thomas D. Cravens. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp. 213-220.
Anong: 2007. Contact and attrition in Sun Hongkai's Anong: Complementary sources of change . With Fengxiang Li. SEALS XIII: Papers from the 13th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, edited by Iwasaki Shoichi, Andrew Simpson, Karen Adams, and Paul Sidwell. Pacific Linguistics. The Australian National University, Pp. 279-295.
Anong: The causatives in Sun Hongkai's Anong: Language death and restructuring. Berekely Linguistics Society 29, 2003, pp. 463-471.
Anong: Preliminary draft of Chapter 5 of Sun Hongkai and Liu Guangkun's Anong Grammar. (no longer posted as the translation of the whole work has appeared. See:
Sun Hongkai and Liu Guangkun. 2009. A grammar of Anong: Language Death under Intense Contact. [edited translation and annotation, with the translation, editing, annotation and expansion by Graham Thurgood, Fengxiang Li, and Ela Thurgood] In the series: Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, ISSN 1568-6183, ISBN 978 90 04 17686 7.
1982. Lolo-Burmese (Ngwi-Burmese): Subgrouping on the basis of shared phonological innovations: a Lolo-Burmese case study. BLS (=Berkeley Linguistics Society), pp.251-260.
1994. "Tai-Kadai and Austronesian: The nature of the Historical Relationship." Oceanic Linguistics 33.2:346-368.
1989. The subgrouping of Jino. Prosodic analysis and Asian linguistics: to honour R. K. Sprigg. Edited by David Bradley, Eugénie J.A. Henderson, and Martine Mazaudon. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-104:251-258.
1988. K.-prefixes in Kam-Sui and Kadai: some notes. Languages and History in East Asia: Festschrift for Tatsuo Nishida on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Edited by Paul K. Eguchi, Yukio Fujimoto, Nobuyoshi Fukuhara, Masura Hashimoto, Koichi Miyamoto, Atsuchi Iwamoto, Tatsuo Kondo, Masaoki Miyamoto, Osamu Sakiyama, Akihiro Sato, David Sell, Norio Shibata, Ken-ichiro Shirai, Mashiro Shogaito, Shiro Yabu and Kazuhiko Yoshida. Kyoto: Shokado. Pp. 229-235.
1986. Lolo-Burmese subordinators from case postpositions: several partial etymologies. Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference. Edited by Scott DeLancey and Russell S. Tomlin. University of Oregon. Pp. 449-53.
1986. The nature and origins of the Akha evidentials system. In Evidentiality: the linguistic coding of epistemology. Edited by Wallace Chafe and Johanna Nichols. Ablex. Pp. 214-22.
1985. "Pronouns, verb agreement systems, and the subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman." In Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area: The state of the art. Edited by Graham Thurgood, James A. Matisoff, and David Bradley. Pacific Linguistics Series C - No. 87. Pp. 376-400.
1977. "Burmese historical morphology." Berkeley Linguistics Society 3:685-691.