Publications

Forthcoming

  • Bisnath, Felicia, Hannah Lutzenberger, Marah Jaraisy, Rehana Omardeen & Adam Schembri. To appear. Deconstructing notions of morphological “complexity”. Journal of Linguistics.
    [psyarxiv preprint]
  • Bisnath, Felicia & Savithry Namboodiripad. Accepted. Language Contact. In Alice Gaby, Howard Manns & Anna Margetts (eds), Routledge Handbook of Linguistics.
    [psyarxiv preprint]

2025

  • Blasi, Damian, Felicia Bisnath, Szeto Pui Yui. 2025. The study of creole languages in Limor Raviv & Cedric Boeckx (eds.), The Oxford handbook of approaches to language evolution. Oxford University Press. 195-208.

  • Bisnath, Felicia. 2025. Attitudes to ASL-English language contact among deaf and hard-of-hearing users of ASL in the United States (Dissertation Abstract). Sign Language & Linguistics 28(1). 140-148.

2024

  • Bisnath, Felicia. 2024. Mouthing constructions in 37 signed languages: typology, ecology and ideology. Journal of Language Contact 16(4). 565-614. https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00091.bis   [paper]

  • Burgess, Danielle, Joy PG Peltier, Sophia Eakins, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Alicia Stevers, Ariana Bancu, Felicia Bisnath, Moira Saltzman, & Marlyse Baptista. 2024. The MULTI Project: Resources for Enhancing Multifaceted Creole Language Expertise in the Linguistics Classroom. American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage 99(2). 221-238.

  • Bancu, Ariana, Joy PG Peltier, Felicia Bisnath, Danielle Burgess, Sophia Eakins, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Moira Saltzman, Yourdanis Sedarous, Alicia Stevers, and Marlyse Baptista. 2024. Revitalizing attitudes toward Creole languages In Anne Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson and Mary Bucholtz (eds), Decolonizing Linguistics. Oxford University Press. 293-316.

2022

  • Savithry Namboodiripad, Nicole Cuneo, Mathew A. Kramer, Yourdanis Sedarous, Yushi Sugimoto, Felicia Bisnath & Adele E. Goldberg. 2022. Backgroundness predicts island status of non-finite adjuncts in English. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 44.
    [paper]

  • Bisnath, Felicia. 2022. Wh-questions in the Trinidad and Tobago Signing Community. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society 56 (CLS56).
    [paper]

2018

  • Bisnath, Felicia & Silvia De Grandis. 2018. A Diachronic Study of Transparency in Sranan. Linguistics in Amsterdam 11(2). 179-210.
    [pdf]