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Book

• Christopher R. Green. 2021. Somali grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [ISBN 978-1-5015-1165-3] doi:10.1515/9781501503610

Edited volumes

• Christopher R. Green & Samson Lotven (eds.). 2024. The Ghanaian linguistics nexus. Contemporary African Linguistics. Berlin: Language Science Press.

• Samuel G. Obeng & Christopher R. Green (eds.). 2017. African linguistics in the 21st century: Essays in honor of Paul Newman. Grammatical analyses of African languages, Volume 55. Cologne: Rudiger Koppe.

Language documentation materials

• Christopher R. Green.  Mbat cultural history. Language Archive Cologne (LAC), University of Cologne, Germany. 17 bundles, as of 5/22/24, available at: https://lac.uni-koeln.de/collection/11341/0000-0000-0000-43AA.

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

• Christopher R. Green & *Aline Cunia. accepted pending minor revisions. Mora augmentation in Lowland East Cushitic: implications for typology and studies of metrification. Linguistics.

• Christopher R. Green, Rui Zhang, Raymond F. Stainback, Sofia Ye, Daniel E. Forsha, Enrique Garcia-Sayan, Jeffrey C. Hill, Carol Mitchell, Vera H. Rigolin, Vandana Sachdev, Partho P. Sengupta, Vincent L. Sorrell, Jordan B. Strom, Alexander M. Ye, & Cynthia C. Taub. forthcoming (2025). Analyzing the construction and use of abbreviations in cardiology and cardiac imaging society guidelines. JACC: Advances.

• Christopher R. Green & Nicola Lampitelli. 2024. Exploring acoustic overlaps in Djibouti Somali: implications for contrast and vowel harmony. Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 16, 5-34. doi:10.1163/18776930-01601001. [invited submission]

• Christopher R. Green. 2022. Jarawan numerals: implications for history and internal classification.  Anthropological Linguistics 64 (1-2), 136-164. doi:10.1353/anl.2022.a942069 

• Christopher R. Green & Maria Konoshenko. 2022. Tonal head marking in Mande compounds: endpoint neutralization and outliers. Mandenkan 67, 3-44.

• Christopher R. Green & Nicola Lampitelli. 2022. Conditions on complex exponence: a case study of the Somali subject marker. Phonological Data & Analysis. 4(4), 1-31. doi.org/10.3765/pda.v4art4.63

• Christopher R. Green. 2022. Moraic mismatches in Somali phonology: coda consonants reconsidered. Afrika und Übersee 95, 49-75. 10.15460/auue.2022.95.1.240Christopher R. Green. 2021. On the link between onset clusters and codas in Mbat (Jarawan Bantu). Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 39(1), 97-122. doi:10.1007/s11049-020-09469-9.

• Christopher R. Green. 2020. Harmony and disharmony in Mbat (Jarawan Bantu) verbs. Linguistique et langues africaines. 6, 43-72.

• Christopher R. Green & Abbie E. Hantgan-Sonko. 2019. A feature geometric approach to Bondu-so vowel harmony. Glossa 4(1), 35. doi:10.5334/gjgl.793.

• Jonathan C. Anderson, Christopher R. Green & Samuel G. Obeng. 2018. On the expression of diminutivity in Susu. Journal of West African Languages 45(1), 59-77.

• Christopher R. Green 2018. A survey of word-level replacive tonal patterns in Western Mande. Mandenkan 59, 67-108.

• Christopher R. Green & Michelle E. Morrison. 2018. On the morphophonology of domains in Somali verbs and nouns. Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 10(2), 200-237. doi: 10.1163/18776930-01002002.Christopher R. Green & Michelle E. Morrison. 2016. Somali wordhood and its relationship to prosodic structure. Morphology 26(1), 3-32. doi: 10.1007/s11525-015-9268-x.

• Christopher R. Green & Jennifer Hill Boutz. 2016. A prosodic perspective on the assignment of tonal melodies to Arabic loanwords in Bambara. Mandenkan 56, 29-76.Christopher R. Green. 2015. The foot domain in Bambara. 2015. Language 91(1), e1-e26.

• Christopher R. Green, Michelle E. Morrison, Nikki B. Adams, Erin Smith Crabb, Evan Jones & Valerie L. Novak. 2014. An annotated bibliography of reference and pedagogical resources for standard Somali. Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography 15, 1-33.

• Christopher R. Green, Stuart Davis, Boubacar Diakite & Karen Baertsch. 2014. On the role of margin phonotactics in Colloquial Bamana complex syllables. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 32(2), 499-536. doi: 10.1007/s11049-013-9208-6.

• Kristopher Ebarb, Christopher R. Green & Michael R. Marlo. 2014. Luyia tonal melodies. Africana Linguistica 20, 121-143.Daniel A. Dinnsen, Michael C. Dow, Judith A. Gierut, Michele L. Morrisette & Christopher R. Green. 2013. The coronal fricative problem. Lingua 131, 151-178.

• Christopher R. Green. 2013. Formalizing the prosodic word domain in Bambara tonology. Journal of West African Languages 40(1), 3-20.

• Christopher R. Green, Jonathan C. Anderson & Samuel G. Obeng. 2013. Interacting tonal processes in Susu. Mandenkan 50, 61-84.Tristan M. Purvis, Christopher R. Green & Gregory K. Iverson. 2012. Prioritizing African languages: Challenges to macro-level planning for resourcing and capacity building. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages 11, 1-30.

• Daniel A. Dinnsen, Judith A. Gierut, Michele L. Morrisette, Christopher R. Green & Ashley W. Farris-Trimble. 2011. On the interaction of Deaffrication and Consonant Harmony. Journal of Child Language 38, 380-403.

• Daniel A. Dinnsen, Christopher R. Green, Michele L. Morrisette & Judith A. Gierut. 2011. On the interaction of velar fronting and labial harmony. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 25(3), 231-251.

• Daniel A. Dinnsen, Christopher R. Green, Judith A. Gierut & Michele L. Morrisette. 2011. On the anatomy of a chain shift. Journal of Linguistics 47, 275-299.Christopher R. Green & Ashley W. Farris-Trimble. 2010. Voice contrast and cumulative faithfulness in Luwanga nouns. Studies in African Linguistics 39(2), 183-233.

• Christopher R. Green. 2009. Prosody and intonation in Non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages: An annotated bibliography. Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography 11, 1-45.

• Christopher R. Green & Boubacar Diakite. 2008. Emergent syllable complexity in Colloquial Bamana. Journal of West African Languages 35(1-2), 45-56.

• Christopher R. Green. 2008. Discursive strategies in political speech: The words of Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika. Issues in Political Discourse Analysis 2(1), 59-74.

Other publications

• Christopher R. Green 2018. Moving ahead with replacive tone in Mande: A brief response to Konoshenko. Mandenkan 59, 121-129.

Edited conference proceedings and working papers

• Jonathan C. Anderson, Christopher R. Green & Samuel G. Obeng (eds.). 2009. IULC Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 8: African Linguistics Across the Discipline. Bloomington, IN: IULC Publications.

• Michael R. Marlo, Nikki B. Adams, Christopher R. Green, Michelle Morrison & Tristan M. Purvis (eds.). 2011. Selected Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Papers in edited volumes (peer-reviewed)

• Christopher R. Green, Michael R. Marlo & Michael Diercks. to appear (2025). Wanga (JE32a). In Lutz Marten, Nancy C. Kula, Jochen Zeller & Ellen Hurst (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Bantu languages. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. [invited submission]

• Christopher R. Green & Katrina Smith. 2024. Poised to pivot: Kenyan Maay's restricted tone system. In Christopher R. Green & Samson Lotven (eds.), The Ghanaian linguistics nexus. Berlin: Language Science Press.

• Abbie Hantgan, Christopher R. Green & Leonardo Contreras Roa. 2024. Coerced weight and its consequences in Bondu So verb stems. In Christopher R. Green & Samson Lotven (eds.), The Ghanaian linguistics nexus. Berlin: Language Science Press. Christopher R. Green & Evan Jones. 2018. Notes on the morphology of Marka (Af-Ashraaf). In Emily Clem, Peter Jenks & Hannah Sande (eds.), Theory and description in African linguistics: Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 117-132. Berlin: Language Science Press.

• Wendell Kimper, William Bennett, Christopher Green & Kristine Yu. 2018. Acoustic correlates of harmony classes in Somali. In Emily Clem, Peter Jenks & Hannah Sande (eds.), Theory and description in African linguistics: Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 195-210. Berlin: Language Science Press.Christopher R. Green & Michael C. Dow. 2017. The morphophonology of animate and inanimate nouns in Najamba (Dogon). In Samuel G. Obeng & Christopher R. Green (eds.), African linguistics in the 21st century: Essays in honor of Paul Newman, 57-69. Cologne: Rudiger Koppe.

• Christopher R. Green & Stuart Davis. 2014. Superadditivity and limitations on syllable complexity in Bambara words. In Ashley W. Farris-Trimble & Jessica Barlow (eds.), Perspectives on Phonology, Theory, and Acquisition: Papers in honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen, 223-247. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Christopher R. Green. 2013. On the role of prosodic structure in French loanword incorporation into Bambara. In Olanike Ola Orie & Karen W. Sanders (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Linguistic Interfaces in African Languages, 90-105. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

• Christopher R. Green, Stuart Davis, Boubacar Diakite & Karen Baertsch. 2012. Domain-restricted reduction: A proposal for segmental feet in Bamana. In Bruce Connell and Nicholas Rolle (Eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages in Contact, 1-9. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

• Christopher R. Green. 2012. Paradigm uniformity in Luwanga derived nouns. In Matthias Brenzinger & Anne-Maria Fehn (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne 2009, 407-417. Cologne: Rudiger Koppe.Christopher R. Green. 2011. Compacite tonale and the Bamana prosodic word domain. In Indiana University Linguistics Club Online Working Papers: Volume 11. Bloomington, IN: IULC Publications.

• Christopher R. Green, Stuart Davis, Boubacar Diakite & Karen Baertsch. 2009. Syncope and the drive towards minimization in Colloquial Bamana. In Jonathan C. Anderson, Christopher R. Green & Samuel G. Obeng (Eds.), Indiana University Linguistics Club Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 8: African Linguistics Across the Discipline, 109-131. Bloomington, IN: IULC Publications.