Published work - Sinhala

Abesooriya, L., & Perera, K. (2019). Directives in Sinhala: Children’s Speech and Adult Child-Directed Speech. OUSL Journal, 14(1), 121-138.

Abeyawardana, H. A. P. (1999). The language of the boundary books. Boundary divisions of mediaeval Sri Lanka (Based on a study of boundary books) (pp.54-67). Polgasovita: Academy of Sri Lankan Culture.

Beavers, J. & Zubair, C. (2010). The Interaction of Transitivity Features in the Sinhala Volitive. In P. Brandt & M.G. Garcia (Eds.), Transitivity: Form, meaning, acquisition and processing (pp.69-94). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Beavers, J. & Zubair, C. (2013). Anticausatives in Sinhala: Involitivity and Causer Suppression. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 31(1), 1-46.

Cairns, C.E. & Feinstein, M.H. (Spring 1982). Markedness and the Theory of Syllable Structure. Linguistic Inquiry, 13(2), 193-225. Abstract.

Ch. Premawardhena, N. (2002). Reference devices in Sinhala. In H.J. Simon & H. Wiese (Eds.), Pronouns - grammar and representation (pp.63-83). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ch. Premawardhena, N. (2007). The unwritten rules in a language: An analysis of spoken Sinhala. In M. Grein & E. Weigand (Eds.) Dialogue and culture, (pp.213-225). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Chandralal, D. (2005). Language and space: Cognitive semantics of Sinhala grammatical categories. Colombo: Sarvodaya.

Chandralal, D. (2006). The argument structure of inactive clauses in Sinhala: A semantic analysis. Journal of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences(9): 1-17.

Chandralal, D. (2007). Demonstratives and deixis in Sinhala. Kobe Papers in Linguistics, 5, 1-20.

Chandralal, D. (2010). Sinhala. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Chou, C. T. T., & Hettiarachchi, S. (2016). On Sinhala subject case marking and A-movement. Lingua, 177, 17-40.

Coates, W. A. and da Silva, M. W. S. (1960). The segmental phonemes of Sinhalese. University of Ceylon Review, 18, 163-175.

Coperahewa, S. (2009).The language planning situation in Sri Lanka. Current Issues in Language Planning. 10(1), 69 – 150. Abstract.

Coperahewa, S. (2012). Purifying the Sinhala Language: The Hela Movement of Munidasa Cumaratunga (1930s-1940s). Modern Asian Studies, 46(4), 857-891. Abstract.

Davis, S. (2002). The controversy over geminates and syllable weight. In C. Féry & R. van de Vijver (Eds.) The Syllable in Optimality Theory, (pp.77-98). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

De Silva, M.W.S. (1970). Sinhalese. In T. A. Sebeok (Ed.), Current Trends in Linguistics. Vol 5 (pp.235-248). The Hague: Mouton & Co.

De Silva, M.W.S. (1970). Some affinities between Sinhalese and Maldivian. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Ceylon Branch). n.s. 14, 20-27.

De Silva, M.W.S. (1970). Typology of diglossia and its implications for literacy. In B. Krishnamurti, C. P. Masica & A. K. Sinha (Eds.), South Asian Languages: Structure, Convergence and Diglossia (304-311). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

De Silva, M.W.S. (1979). Sinhalese and Other Island Languages in South Asia. (Ars Linguistica). 3. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.

Dharmadasa, K.N.O. (2008). Give me a Sinhala sword: Imagining Sinhala in the 12th century. In R.M.W. Rajapaksha, K.Kulasekara, J. Paolillo & T.R.G. Dela Bandara (Eds.), Dakkhina: Papers on Buddhist thought, linguistics and Sri Lankan culture. A felicitation volume presented to James Wells Gair on his 80th birthday. (pp.301-314). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Godage International Publishers (Pvt) Ltd.

Dissanayake,J.B. (2012). Encyclopaedia of Sinhala language and culture. Colombo: Sumitha Publishers.

Dissanayake, J.B. (2008). Pre-nasalized stops and their correlations. In R.M.W. Rajapaksha, K.Kulasekara, J. Paolillo & T.R.G. Dela Bandara (Eds.), Dakkhina: Papers on Buddhist thought, linguistics and Sri Lankan culture. A felicitation volume presented to James Wells Gair on his 80th birthday. (pp.281-286). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Godage International Publishers (Pvt) Ltd.

Dissanayake, J.B. (1986). Maldivian and Sinhala: some phonological observations. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Sri Lanka). 30, 81-100. Abstract.

Fernando, P. E. E. (1950). The development of the Sinhalese script from 8th century A.D. to 15th century A.D. University of Ceylon Review, VIII(3), 222–243.

Fernando, C. (1977). English and Sinhala bilingualism in Sri Lanka. Language in Society. 6, 341-360. Abstract.

Gair, J. W. (1967). Colloquial Sinhala Inflectional Categories and Parts of Speech. Indian Linguistics, 27, 32–45. (Reprinted in Gair, 1998, pp.13–25).

Gair, J. W. (1968). Sinhalese Diglossia. Anthropological Linguistics. 10(8), 1–15. (Reprinted in Gair, 1998, pp.213–223).

Gair, J. W. (1970). Colloquial Sinhalese Clause Structures. The Hague: Mouton.

Gair, J. W. (1971). Action Involvement Categories in Colloquial Sinhala. In M. Zamorra, J. M. Mahar & H. Orenstein (Eds.), Themes in Culture: Essays in Honor of Morris E. Opler (pp.238–256). Manila: Kayumanggi Publishers. (Reprinted in Gair, 1998, pp.25–46).

Gair, J. W. (1976). The Verb in Sinhala, with some Preliminary remarks on Dravidianization. International Journal on Dravidian Linguistics.10(8), 259–273.

Gair, J. W. (1976). Is Sinhala a Subject Language? In M. Verma (Ed.), The Subject in South Asian Languages (pp.39–63). Madison: University of Wisconsin South Asia Program.

Gair, J. W. (1980). Adaptation and naturalization in a linguistic area:Sinhala focused sentences. In Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 6, 28-43.

Gair, J. W. (1982). Sinhala: an Indo-Aryan isolate. South Asian Literary Association Journal, 5(3), 51–64. (Reprinted in Gair, 1998, pp.1–12). Abstract.

Gair, J. W. (1985). Sinhalese Diglossia Revisited, or, Diglossia Dies Hard. In B. Krishnamurti, C. P. Masica & A. K. Sinha (Eds.), South Asian Languages: Structure, Convergence and Diglossia (322–336). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. (Reprinted in Gair, 1998, pp. 224–136).

Gair, J. W. (1985). Sinhala Focused Sentences: Naturalization of a Calque. In B. Krishnamurti, C. P. Masica & A. K. Sinha (Eds.), South Asian Languages: Structure, Convergence and Diglossia (pp.147–164). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. (Reprinted in Gair, 1998, pp.153–169).

Gair, J. W. (1991). Subjects, Case and INFL in Sinhala. In M. Verma & K. P. Mohanan (Eds.), Experiencer Subjects in South Asian Languages (pp.13-41), Palo Alto: Center for the Study of Language and Information. (Reprinted in Gair, 1998, pp.65–86).

Gair, J. W. (1991). Discourse Deixis and Situational Deixis in Sinhala. In L. B. Balachandran & B. R. Reddy (Eds.), Studies in Dravidian and General Linguistics: A Festschrift for Bh. Krishnamurti (pp.448–467), Hyderabad: Osmania University. (Reprinted in Gair, 1998, pp.111–126).

Gair, J. W. (1992). Sinhala. In International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (Vol. 3, pp.439-445). Oxford: OUP.

Gair, J. W. (1996). Sinhala writing. In Daniels, P.T. & Bright, W. (Eds). The world’s writing systems, (pp.408-412). Oxford University Press.

Gair, J. W. (1998 [1983]). Nonconfigurationality, Movement and Sinhala Focus. In J. W. Gair (1998). Sinhala and Other South East Asian Languages (pp.50–64). New York, Oxford: OUP. Revised version of a paper presented at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Newcastle, September 1983.

Gair, J. W. (1998). Sinhala and Other South East Asian Languages. New York, Oxford: OUP.

Gair, J. W. (2003). Sinhala. In G. Cardona & D. Jain (Eds.), The Indo-Aryan Languages (pp.766–818). London: Routledge.

Gair, J. W. & Karunatillake, W. S. (1974). Literary Sinhala. Ithaca: Cornell University South Asia Program.

Gair, J. W. & Karunatillake, W. S. (1999). Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Sinhala. In B. Lust, K. Wali, J. W. Gair & K.V. Subbarao (Eds.), Lexical anaphors and pronouns in selected South Asian Languages: A Principled Typology, (pp. 715-776). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Gair, J. W. & Lust, B. (1998). Studies in South Asian Linguistics: Sinhala and other South Asian languages. Oxford: OUP.

Gair, J. W., Lust, B., Sumangala, L. & Rodrigo, M. (1989). Acquisition of Null Subjects and Control in Some Sinhala Adverbial Clauses. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 28, 97–106. (Reprinted in Gair, 1998, pp.87–110). Abstract.

Gair, J. W. & Paolillo, J.C. (1988). Sinhala non-verbal sentences and argument structure. Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics. 8, 39–78. (Reprinted in Gair, 1998, pp.87–110).

Gair, J. W. & Paolillo, J. C. (1997). Sinhala. München: LINCOM Europa.

Geiger, W. (1938). A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language. Colombo: Royal Asiatic Society, Ceylon Branch.

Gunesekera, M. (2008). The role of Sinhala in Sri Lankan English: Karadharaless. In R.M.W. Rajapaksha, K.Kulasekara, J. Paolillo & T.R.G. Dela Bandara (Eds.), Dakkhina: Papers on Buddhist thought, linguistics and Sri Lankan culture. A felicitation volume presented to James Wells Gair on his 80th birthday. (pp.315-332). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Godage International Publishers (Pvt) Ltd.

Hagstrom, P. (2004). Particle movement in Sinhala and Japanese. In V. Dayal & A. Mahajan (Eds.), Clause structure in South Asian Languages (pp.227-252). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Herat, M. (2010). A study of child-directed speech in a Sinhala-English bilingual household. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 15, 74-91.

Herring, S.C. & Paolillo, J.C. (1995). Focus position in SOV languages. In P. Downing & M. Noonan (Eds.), Word order discourse (pp.163-198). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Hettiaratchi, D.E. (1970). Linguistics in Ceylon (I). In T. A. Sebeok (Ed.), Current Trends in Linguistics. Vol 5 (pp.736-751). The Hague: Mouton & Co.

Hettiarachchi, S. (2021). A Syntactic Analysis of Sinhala Relative Clauses. Linguistics International Journal [LIJ], 15(1), 20-40.

Hilpert, M. (2006). Auxiliaries in spoken Sinhala. Functions of Language, 13(2), 259-283..

Jayawardana, T. (2008). The existential sentences in Sinhala. In R.M.W. Rajapaksha, K.Kulasekara, J. Paolillo & T.R.G. Dela Bandara (Eds.), Dakkhina: Papers on Buddhist thought, linguistics and Sri Lankan culture. A felicitation volume presented to James Wells Gair on his 80th birthday. (pp.105-114). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Godage International Publishers (Pvt) Ltd

Kahandhagamage, S. (2011). Govi basa (2nd ed.). Nugegoda: Sarasavi.

Kailainathan, R. (2008). Contrastive study of Tamil and Sinhala modal auxiliaries. In R.M.W. Rajapaksha, K.Kulasekara, J. Paolillo & T.R.G. Dela Bandara (Eds.), Dakkhina: Papers on Buddhist thought, linguistics and Sri Lankan culture. A felicitation volume presented to James Wells Gair on his 80th birthday. (pp.87-104). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Godage International Publishers (Pvt) Ltd.

Kanduboda, A. B. P. (2011). Issues in Sinhala syntax: word processing and word order. The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, 37(1 & 2), pp.157-167.

Kanduboda A., Prabath, B. (2013). On the usage of Sinhalese differential object markersobject marker/wa/vs. object marker/ta. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 3(7), 1081-1092.

Kanduboda, A. B. P. (2011). The role of animacy in determining noun phrase cases in the Sinhalese and Japanese languages. Studia Linguistica, 24, 5-20.

Kano, M. (1996). Mental domains and cataphora: The case of Sinhala demonstrative expressions. In Gengo tankyuu no ryouiki, (pp.127-138). Tokyo: Daigaku Shorin.

Kano, M. (2000). On the usage of the medial demonstrative 0-series in Colloquial Sinhala. Bulletin of Language Science and Humanities, 14, 57-74.

Kariyakarawana, S. M. (1998). The syntax of focus and wh-questions in Sinhala. Colombo: Karunaratne & Sons Ltd.

Karunatillake, W. S. (2004). An Introduction to Spoken Sinhala. Colombo: Gunasena.

Karunatillake, W.S. (2008). Retroflexion in Sinhala - A historical statement. In R.M.W. Rajapaksha, K.Kulasekara, J. Paolillo & T.R.G. Dela Bandara (Eds.), Dakkhina: Papers on Buddhist thought, linguistics and Sri Lankan culture. A felicitation volume presented to James Wells Gair on his 80th birthday. (pp.287-300). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Godage International Publishers (Pvt) Ltd.

Karunatillake, W. S. & Suseendirarajah, S. (1975). Pronouns of address in Tamil and Sinhalese: A sociolinguistics study. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 4(1), 83-96.

Kishimoto, H. (2005). In-situ and movement in Sinhala questions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 23(1), 1-51. Abstract.

Kishimoto, H. (2018). Sinhala focus concord constructions from a discourse-syntactic perspective. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 3(1).

Maliyagoda, C. (2010). Wh- phenomenon in Sinhala. In R. Singh (Ed.), Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2010 (pp.49-74). Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton.

Meegaskumbura, P.B. (1980). Toňdol: Sinhala baby talk. Word, 31(3), 287-309.

Paolillo,J. C. (1994). The co-development of finiteness and focus in Sinhala. In W. Pagliuca (Ed.) Perspective on Grammaticalization (pp.151-170). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Paolillo, J. C. (1997). Sinhala diglossia: Discrete or continuous variation? Language in Society, 26(2), 269–296. Abstract.

Paolillo, J. C. (2000). Formalizing formality: An analysis of register variation in Sinhala. Journal of Linguistics, 36(2), 215-259. Abstract.

Paolillo, J.C. (2008). Sinhala script vector programs and movable type. In R.M.W. Rajapaksha, K.Kulasekara, J. Paolillo & T.R.G. Dela Bandara (Eds.), Dakkhina: Papers on Buddhist thought, linguistics and Sri Lankan culture. A felicitation volume presented to James Wells Gair on his 80th birthday. (pp.163-182). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Godage International Publishers (Pvt) Ltd.

Perera, K. & Strauss, S. (2015). High-focus and time-immediate indexicals: A study of Sinhala discourse markers me: ‘this’ and dæn ‘now’. Journal of Pragmatics, 85. 32-46.

Pyatt, E. J. (1993). Gemination and the Sinhala Prenasalized Stop. Harvard University Working Papers in Linguistics, 2, 173-190

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Sannasgala, P.B. (1976). A study of Sinhala vocables of Dutch origin: with appendices of Portuguese and Malay/Javanese borrowings. Colombo: Netherlands-Alumni Association of Sri Lanka.

Senaratne, C. D. (2009). Sinhala-English code-mixing in Sri Lanka: A sociolinguistic study. Utrecht: LOT.

Slade, B. (2013). Question-particles and relative clauses in the history ofSinhala, with comparison to early and modern Dravidian. In S-F. Chen & B. Slade (Eds), Grammatica et verba / Glamour and verve — Studies in South Asian, Historical, and Indo-European Linguistics: A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Hans Henrich Hock on the Occasion of His 75^th Birthday, (pp. 245-268). Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press.

Slade, B. 2015. Sinhala indefinites with a certain je ne sais quoi. In L. Alonso-Ovalle & P. Menéndez-Benito (Eds), Epistemic indefinites, (pp. 82-99). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Stonham, J. (1995). Holistic linguistics: A case from Sinhala. Cahiers Linguistiques d'Ottawa, 23, 23-43.

Stonham, J. (1997). What morphology can tell us about syntax: An integrated approach to Sinhala verb formation. Language Sciences, 19(2), 139-151. Abstract.

Sundaresan, S., & McFadden, T. (2009). ʻSubject Distribution in Tamil and Other Languages: selection vs. Caseʼ. Journal of South Asian Linguistics, 2, 5-34.

Tamaoka, K., Kanduboda, P. B. A., & Sakai, H. (2011). Effects of word orderalternation on the sentence processing of Sinhalese written and spoken forms. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 1(02), 24-32.

Wasala, A., Weerasinghe, R. and Gamage, K. (2006). Sinhala Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Rules for Schwa Epenthesis. Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, Association for Computational Linguistics, 500-507.

Weerasinghe, R., Wasala, A. and Gamage, K. (2005). A rule based syllabification algorithm for Sinhala, Lecture Notes in Computer Science/ IJCNLP: International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 3651, 485-492.

Weerasinghe, A.R., Herath, D.L. and Gamage, K. N. (2005). The Sinhala collation and its representation in Unicode. Localisation Focus: The InternationalJournal for Localisation, 5, 13-19. Abstract.

Weerasinghe, R., Wasala, A., Welgama, V. and Gamage, K. (2007). Festival-si: A Sinhala Text-to-Speech System. Lecture Notes in Computer Science/ IJCNLP: International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 4629/2007, 472-479.

Weerasinghe, R., Herath, D. & Welgama, V. (2009). Corpus-based Sinhala Lexicon. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, ACL-IJCNLP 2009, (pp.17–23), Singapore, 6-7 August 2009. Abstract.

Wijaythilake, M. A., Parrila, R., Inoue, T., & Nag, S. (2018). Instruction matters to the development of phoneme awareness and its relationship to akshara knowledge and word reading: Evidence from Sinhala. Scientific Studies of Reading, 22(5), 420-433.

Wijaythilake, M. A. D. K., Parrila, R., Inoue, T., & Nag, S. (2019). Cognitive predictors of word reading. in Sinhala. Reading and Writing, 32(7), 1881-1907.

Wijaythilake, M. A., & Parrila, R. (2019). Reading and writing Sinhala. In Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography (pp. 195-216). Springer, Cham. Abstract.

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Wijemanne, P. (2008). Morphosyntactic features of the Early Sinhala verb. In R.M.W. Rajapaksha, K.Kulasekara, J. Paolillo & T.R.G. Dela Bandara (Eds.), Dakkhina: Papers on Buddhist thought, linguistics and Sri Lankan culture. A felicitation volume presented to James Wells Gair on his 80th birthday. (pp.257-272). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Godage International Publishers (Pvt) Ltd.

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Wijeratne, W.M. (2008). Verbal nouns in Spoken Sinhala. In R.M.W. Rajapaksha, K.Kulasekara, J. Paolillo & T.R.G. Dela Bandara (Eds.), Dakkhina: Papers on Buddhist thought, linguistics and Sri Lankan culture. A felicitation volume presented to James Wells Gair on his 80th birthday. (pp.115-132). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Godage International Publishers (Pvt) Ltd.

Wijetunge, R. (2008). The use of Sinhala pronouns and imperatives: A socio-linguistic study. In R.M.W. Rajapaksha, K.Kulasekara, J. Paolillo & T.R.G. Dela Bandara (Eds.), Dakkhina: Papers on Buddhist thought, linguistics and Sri Lankan culture. A felicitation volume presented to James Wells Gair on his 80th birthday. (pp.247-256). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Godage International Publishers (Pvt) Ltd.

Zubair, C. (2008). Doxastic modality as a means of stance taking in colloquial Sinhala. In A. Brown & J. Iorio Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Symposium about Language and Society April 11-13, 2008. Texas Linguistic Forum, 52: 174-190. Austin, TX: University of Texas, Austin.

Zubair, C. (2011). Ideologies of purity and corruption: The local impacts of Sinhalese nationalist discourse. In G. Kirk, Q. Lopez, J.R. Sullivant & M. Wartel. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium about Language and Society April 15-17, 2011. Texas Linguistic Forum, 54: 40-49. Austin, TX: University of Texas, Austin.

Zubair, C. A. (2015). Sexual violence and the creation of an empowered female voice. Gender and Language, 9 (2), 279-317. Abstract.