Rumsey, Alan. 2020. Language and mind. In In Stanlaw, James (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of linguistic anthropology. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786093.iela0197
Rumsey, Alan. 2020. Egophoricity, engagement and the centring of subjectivity. In Henrik Bergqvist & Seppo Kittilä (Eds.), Evidentiality, egophoricity, and engagement: Descriptive and typological perspectives. Berlin: Language Science Press. Pp. 61-93. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3975799
Rumsey, Alan; Reed, Lauren W.; & Merlan, Francesca. (2020). Ku Waru clause chaining and the acquisition of complex syntax. Frontiers in Communication 5, 19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00019
Rumsey, Alan. (2019). Response to Spronck and Nikitina “Reported speech forms a dedicated syntactic domain”. Linguistic Typology 23(1):237-244. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2019-0013
Rumsey, Alan. (2019). Intersubjectivity and engagement in Ku Waru. Open Linguistics 5(1):49-68. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0003
Merlan, Francesca & Rumsey, Alan. (2017). Flexibles and polyvalence in Ku Waru: A developmental perspective. In Valentina Vapnarsky and Edy Veneziano (Eds.) Lexical polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, pp. 307-341. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.182.11mer
Rumsey, Alan. (2017). Dependency and relative determination in children’s language acquisition: The case of Ku Waru. In Nick J. Enfield, (Ed.), Dependencies in language: On the causal ontology of linguistic systems, pp. 97-114. Berlin: Language Science Press. Available at https://langsci-press.org/catalog/view/96/781/666-1
Rumsey, Alan. (2015). Language, affect and the inculcation of social norms in the New Guinea Highlands and beyond. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 26(3):349-364. https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12157
Merlan, Francesca & Rumsey, Alan. (2015). Language ecology, language policy and pedagogical practice in a Papua New Guinea Highland Community. Language & Linguistics in Melanesia 33(1):82-96. Available at https://www.langlxmelanesia.com/Merlan%20&%20Rumsey%20LLM%2033_1%20FV.pdf
Rumsey, Alan. (2014). Language and human sociality. In Nick J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman & Jack Sidnell (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of linguistic anthropology, pp. 400-422. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139342872.019
Rumsey, Alan. (2014). Bilingual language learning and the translation of worlds in the New Guinea Highlands and beyond. HAU: Journal of ethnographic theory 4(2):119-140. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau4.2.006 (Reprinted in Carlo Severi and William F. Hanks [Eds.]. [2015]. Translating worlds: The epistemological space of translation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.)
Danziger, Eve & Rumsey, Alan. (2013). Introduction: From opacity to intersubjectivity across languages and cultures. Language and Communication 33(3):247-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2013.07.004
Danziger, Eve & Rumsey, Alan (Eds.). (2013). Intersubjectivity across Languages and Cultures. Special issue, Language and Communication 33(3):247-343.
Rumsey, Alan. (2013). Intersubjectivity, deception and the ‘opacity of other minds’: Perspectives from Highland New Guinea and beyond. Language and Communication 33(3):326-343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2013.06.003
Rumsey, Alan; San Roque, Lila; & Schieffelin, Bambi B. (2013). The acquisition of ergative marking in Kaluli, Ku Waru and Duna (Trans New Guinea). In Edith L. Bavin & Sabine Stoll (Eds.), The acquisition of ergativity, pp. 133-182. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.9.06rum
Rumsey, Alan. (2011). Empathy and anthropology: an afterword. In Douglas W. Hollan & C. Jason Throop (Eds.), The Anthropology of empathy: Experiencing the lives of others in Pacific societies, pp. 215-223. Oxford: Berghahn Books. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1885/50148
Rumsey, Alan. (2010). Ethics, language and human sociality. In Michael Lambek (Ed.), Ordinary ethics: Anthropology, language, and action, pp. 105-122. New York: Fordham University Press. Available at https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/156656953.pdf
Rumsey, Alan. (2003). Language, desire, and the ontogenesis of intersubjectivity. Language & Communication 23(2):169-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0271-5309(02)00042-3
Rumsey, Alan. (2002). Aspects of Ku Waru ethno-syntax and social life. In Nick Enfield (Ed.), Ethnosyntax: Perspectives on grammar and culture, pp. 259-286. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at https://www.academia.edu/27337020/Aspects_of_Ku_Waru_Ethnosyntax_and_Social_Life.pdf
Rumsey, Alan, Andrew Noma, Lauren Reed, Naomi Peck, Charlotte van Tongeren & Stephanie Yam. 2019. ACQDIV portion of the Ku Waru Child Language Socialization Study (KWCLSS)