Published work - Sri Lanka Malay

Adelaar, K. A. (1991). Some notes on the origin of Sri Lankan Malay. In Steinhauer, H. (Ed.) Papers in Austronesian linguistics, Pacific Linguistics. 1. (23–37). The Australian National University.

Ansaldo, U. (2008). Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classification. In A. Dwyer, D. Harrison & D. Rood (Eds.), A world of many voices: Lessons from documented endangered languages (pp.13–42). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Ansaldo, U. (2014). SLM is dead, Long Live Sri Lanka Malay: A review article of Nordhoff 2013. Journal of Language Contact, 7(2), 381-391.

Ansaldo, U. & Lim, L. (2006). Globalisation, empowerment and the periphery – The Malays of Sri Lanka. In R. Elangayiyan, R. McKenna Brown, N. Ostler & M. K. Verma (Eds.), Vital Voices: Endangered Languages and Multilingualism (39–46). Proceedings of the FEL X Conference. Mysore: Foundation for Endangered Languages, CIIL.

Bakker, P. (2006). The Sri Lanka Sprachbund: The newcomers Portuguese and Malay. In Y. Matras, A. McMahon & N. Vincent (Eds.), Linguistic Areas – Convergence in Historical and Typological Perspective (pp.135–159). Houndmill, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Abstract.

De Silva Jayasuriya, S. (2002). A Unique Malay: Sri Lankan Malay Creole. NUSA. 50, 43–57.

De Silva Jayasuriya, S. (2009). Cross-Cultural Influences on the Language of the Sri Lankan Malays. African and Asian Studies, 8, 222-238.

Hoogervorst, T. G. (2015). Tracing the linguistic crossroads between Malay and Tamil. Wacana, 16(2), 249-283.

Kekulawala, S. L. (1982). Kinship terminology in Sri Lankan Malay: A contribution to the study of language universals. Kelaniya Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Kelaniya, 1(2), 207–224. Abstract.

Lim, L. & Ansaldo, U. (2006). Keeping Kirinda vital: The endangerment-empowerment dilemma in the documentation of Sri Lanka Malay. Amsterdam Centre for Language & Cognition Working Papers. 1, 51–66.

Lim, L. & Ansaldo, U. (2007). Identity alignment in the multilingual space: The Malays of Sri Lanka. In E. Anchimbe (Ed.), Linguistic identity in multilingual postcolonial spaces (pp.218–243). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Mahroof, M. M. M. (1992). Malay language in Sri Lanka: Socio-Mechanics of a Minority Language in its Historical Setting. Islamic Studies, 31, 463-448.

Nordhoff, S. (2009). A grammar of Upcountry Sri Lanka Malay. Utrecht: LOT. Summary.

Nordhoff, S. (2011). Transparency in Sri Lanka Malay. Linguistics in Amsterdam, 4(2), 96-110.

Nordhoff, S. (2011). Having come to be a copula in Sri Lanka Malay: An unusual grammaticalization path. Folia Linguistica, 45(1), 103-126. Abstract.

Nordhoff, S. (2012). Multi-verb constructions in Sri Lanka Malay. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 27(2), 303-343. Abstract.

Nordhoff, S. (2012). Establishing and Dating Sinhala Influence in Sri Lanka Malay. Journal of Language Contact, 5(1), 23-57.

Nordhoff, S. (Ed) (2013). The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay: A Case of Extreme Language Contact. Leiden: Koninkklijke Brill NV.

Nordhoff, S. (2015). 24 Case frames in Sri Lanka Malay. Case Studies from Austronesia, the Pacific, the Americas, and Theoretical Outlook, 1, 987. Preview.

Ricci, R. 2012. The discovery of Javanese writing in a Sri Lankan Malay manuscript. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 168 (4): 511–18.

Ricci, R. 2013. Remembering Java’s Islamization: a view from Sri Lanka.In Nile Green and James L. Gelvin (eds), Global Muslims in the age of steam and print. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 185–203.

Ricci, R. 2014. Asian and Islamic crossings: Malay writing in nineteenth-centry Sri Lanka. South Asian History and Culture 5 (2): 179–94. Abstract.

Ricci, R. (2016). Jawa, Melayu, Malay or otherwise? The shifting nomenclature of the Sri Lankan Malays. Indonesia and the Malay World, 44(130), 409-423. Abstract.

Saldin, B. D. K. (2011). Converting Sri Lankan Malay into a Written Language. The Island.

Slomanson, P. (2006). Sri Lankan Malay morphosyntax: Lankan or Malay? In A. Deumert & S. Durleman (Eds.), Structure and Variation in Language Contact (pp.135–158). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Slomanson, P. (2008). The perfect construction and complexity drift in Sri Lankan Malay Lingua, 118(10), 1640–1655.

Slomanson, P. (2011). Dravidian Features in the Sri Lankan Malay Verb. In C. Lefebvre (Ed.), Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Slomanson, P. (2016). Pragmatic accommodation as a catalyst for the development of (non-)finiteness. The Linguistic Review, 33(3), 365-396. Abstract.

Smith, I. R. (2012). Adstrate Influence in Sri Lanka Malay: Definiteness, Animacy and Number in Accusative Case Marking. Journal of Language Contact, 5(1), 5-22. Abstract.

Smith, I. R. & Paauw, S. (2006). Sri Lanka Malay: Creole or convert. In A. Deumert & S. Durrleman-Tame (Eds.), Structure and Variation in Language Contact (pp.159–182). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Smith, I. R., Paauw, S & Hussainmiya, B. A. (2004). Sri Lanka Malay: The state of the art. Yearbook of South Asian Languages, 2004:197–215. Preview.