Refereed journal publications, scholarly chapters, reviews, and refereed conference proceedings.
Author offprints available on request.
Forthcoming
Planer, Ronald J. and N. J. Enfield. The enchronic foundation of symbols. Under review.
Enfield, N. J. and Planer, Ronald J. The First Psychological Evolutionary Transition. Under Review.
Enfield, N. J. Environments for language evolution. In Life of Words. Pacific Linguistics. In Press.
Enfield, N. J. Interstitial contact varieties in Zomia. In The Routledge handbook of second language acquisition and language contact, edited by Liliana Sanchez and Elisabeth Mayer. Routledge. Forthcoming.
2026
Enfield, N. J. (2026). How to evolve an iron cage: Consequences of coordination by code. This View of Life.https://www.prosocial.world/posts/how-to-evolve-an-iron-cage-consequences-of-coordination-by-code
Zuckerman, Charles H. P. and N. J. Enfield. (2026). Language in Laos. In The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Laos, edited by Simon Creak, Holly High, and Oliver Tappe. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003093633-9
2025
Enfield, N. J. 2025. Multimodality’s role in nano-scale niche construction. Gesture. https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.25029.enf
Enfield, N. J. 2025. Legibility and agency. American Anthropologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.70041
Enfield, N. J. 2025. Legibility in culture. Anthropological Theory. https://doi.org/10.1177/14634996251338486
Enfield, N. J. 2025. The Enchronic Envelope. Psychological Review. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000553
Loss, Daniel, Nattanun Chanchaochai, N. J. Enfield and Pittayawat Pittayaporn. 2025. Information structure and changes in Moklen word-form. Asia-Pacific Language Variation. https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.23008.los
2024
Enfield, N. J. 2024. Gérard Diffloth: fieldworker, thinker, dreamer. In Austroasiatic Linguistics in honour of Gérard Diffloth (1939-2023). Edited by Paul Sidwell. 8-10.
Enfield, N. J., and Charles H. P. Zuckerman. 2024. Moorings: Linguistic Practices and the Tethering of Action, Status, and Experience. Current Anthropology 65, no. 3: 554–76. https://doi.org/10.1086/730187.
2023
Dingemanse, Mark, and N. J. Enfield. 2023. Interactive Repair and the Foundations of Language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi/org/10.1016/j.tics.2023.09.003
Enfield, N. J. 2023. Language entails linguistic relativity. Topics in Cognitive Science. 15.4, 683-687. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12658
Enfield, N. J. 2023. Scale in language. Cognitive Science. 47.10: e13341. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13341
Enfield, N. J. 2023. Flow piracy and percolation in a hydropower watershed: Interceptions of Indigenous languages in upland Laos. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24694452.2023.2265957
Zuckerman, Charles H. P. and N. J. Enfield. 2023. The limits of thematization. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12399
Dingemanse, Mark, N. J. Enfield. et al. 2023. Beyond Single‐Mindedness: A Figure‐Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences. Cognitive Science 47.1. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13230.
Rossi, Giovanni, Mark Dingemanse, Simeon Floyd, Julija Baranova, Joe Blythe, Kobin H. Kendrick, Jörg Zinken, and N. J. Enfield. 2023. Shared Cross-Cultural Principles Underlie Human Prosocial Behavior at the Smallest Scale. Scientific Reports 13.1: 6057. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30580-5.
Enfield, N. J. and Jack Sidnell. 2023. Consequences of Reflexivity in Language. In Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Biocultural Implications. Edited by Gerhard Jäger, Anna-Miri Mertner & Alexandros Karakostis. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag. 203-214.
2022
Enfield, N. J. 2022. Linguistic concepts are self-generating choice architectures. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0352
Enfield, N. J. 2022. Enchrony. Wiley Reviews Cognitive Science. 13, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1597
Zuckerman, Charles H. P. and N. J. Enfield. 2022. The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Kri: House Construction and Ethnolinguistic Transformation in Upland Laos. Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute. 28.1, 178-203. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.13657
Enfield, N. J. 2022. Asymmetries in the system of person reference in Kri, a language of upland Laos. In Djenar, Dwi Noverini and Sidnell, Jack (Eds.). Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self-Other Relations across Southeast Asian Speech Communities. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press. 27-43.
Enfield, N. J. 2022. Language and culture in Laos. In From Tribalism to Nationalism. The Anthropological Turn in Laos – a Tribute to Grant Evans, edited by Yves Goudineau and Vanina Bouté, Copenhagen: NIAS Press. 25-29.
Enfield, N. J. and Jack Sidnell 2022. Language and culture in mainland Southeast Asia. In Approaches to Language and Culture, edited by Svenja Völkel and Nico Nassenstein. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 471-496. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110726626-017
Enfield, N. J. 2022. Utilitarian versus intellectualist explanations of lexical content: A false dichotomy. In The Art of Language, edited by Anne Storch and R. M. W. Dixon. Leiden: Brill.
2021
Kim, Joshua Y., Rafael A. Calvo, N. J. Enfield, and Kalina Yacef. 2021. A Systematic Review on Dyadic Conversation Visualizations. In Companion Publication of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 137–47. Montreal QC Canada: ACM, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3461615.3485396.
Parker, Lisa, Jennifer A Byrne, Micah Goldwater, and N. J. Enfield. 2021. Misinformation: An Empirical Study with Scientists and Communicators during the COVID-19 Pandemic. BMJ Open Science 5, no. 1 (November 2021): e100188. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjos-2021-100188.
2020
Zuckerman, Charles H. P. and N. J. Enfield. 2020. Heavy sound light sound: a Nam Noi metalinguistic trope. In Enfield, N. J., Sidnell, Jack, Zuckerman, Charles H. P. (Eds.) 2020. Studies in the Anthropology of Language in Mainland Southeast Asia. Special issue of theJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. (Published 8 May 2020: http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52466) Pages 85-92.
Enfield, N. J. 2020. Word in Lao. In Aikhenvald, AY and Dixon RMW (eds) Phonological Word and Grammatical Word. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pp176-212)
2019
Enfield, N. J., Tanya Stivers, Penelope Brown, Christina Englert, Katariina Harjunpää, Makoto Hayashi, Trine Heinemann, Gertie Hoymann, Tiina Keisanen, Mirka Rauniomaa, Chase Wesley Raymond, Federico Rossano, Kyun-Eun Yoon, Inge Zwitserlood, and Stephen C. Levinson. 2019. Polar Responses. Journal of Linguistics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226718000336
Enfield, N. J. and Jack Sidnell 2019. Norms and language use. In Roughley and Bayertz eds. The Normative Animal. New York: Oxford University Press.
2018
Majid, Asifa, Seán G. Roberts, Ludy Cilissen, Karen Emmorey, Brenda Nicodemus, Lucinda O’Grady, Bencie Woll, Barbara LeLan, Hilário de Sousa, Brian L. Cansler, Shakila Shayan, Connie de Vos, Gunter Senft, N. J. Enfield, Rogayah A. Razak, Sebastian Fedden, Sylvia Tufvesson, Mark Dingemanse, Ozge Ozturk, Penelope Brown, Clair Hill, Olivier Le Guen, Vincent Hirtzel, Rik van Gijn, Mark A. Sicoli, and Stephen C. Levinson. 2018. Differential Coding of Perception in the World’s Languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Nov 6 2018, 115.45, 11369-11376. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720419115
Floyd, Simeon, Giovanni Rossi, Julija Baranova, Joe Blythe, Mark Dingemanse, Kobin H. Kendrick, Jörg Zinken, and N. J. Enfield. 2018. Universals and cultural diversity in the expression of gratitude. Royal Society Open Science. 5: 180391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180391 Altmetric=https://www.altmetric.com/details/42404961
Enfield, N. J. 2018. Mind, Language, and Rational Discourse. Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Volume 151, Issue 467-468, 82-90.
Enfield, N. J. 2018. Social Change in the Nam Theun 2 Catchment: The Kri Experience. In Dead in the Water: Global Lessons from the World Bank’s Model Hydropower Project in Laos, edited by Bruce Shoemaker and William Robichaud. University of Wisconsin Press. (pp141–55)
Enfield, N. J. 2018. Lao demonstrative determiners nii4 and nan4– An intensionally discrete distinction for extensionally analogue space. In Levinson, S. C., Cutfield, S., Dunn, M., Enfield, N. J., & Meira, S. (Eds.). Demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2017
Enfield, N. J. and Sidnell, Jack. 2017. On the Concept of Action in Interaction. Discourse Studies. 19.5, 515-535. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445617730235
Sidnell, Jack, and N. J. Enfield. 2017. How to distinguish a wink from a twitch. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2).
Enfield, N. J. and Jack Sidnell. 2017. Action: from flexibility to accountability, across agents and scales, through contexts and time. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2).
Enfield, N. J. 2017. Language in the mainland Southeast Asia area. In Dixon and Aikhenvald (Eds.). Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp601-623.
Enfield, N. J. 2017. Opening Commentary: Language in Cognition and Culture. In The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, edited by Barbara Dancygier, 13–18. Cambridge University Press.
Enfield, N. J. 2017. Language in the mainland Southeast Asia area. In R. Hickey (ed.). The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (pp677-702)
Enfield, N. J. and Paul Kockelman. 2017. Distributed agency: introduction. In Enfield, N. J. and Paul Kockelman. (Eds.). Distributed Agency. New York: Oxford University Press.
Majid, A., and N. J. Enfield. 017. Mereology and the body. In H. Burkhardt, J. Seibt, & G. Imaguire (Eds.), Handbook of mereology. Munich: Philosophia.
Enfield, N. J. 2017. Elements of agency. In Enfield, N. J. and Paul Kockelman. (Eds.) 2017. Distributed Agency. New York: Oxford University Press. (pp3-8)
Enfield, N. J. 2017. Distribution of agency. In Enfield, N. J. and Paul Kockelman. (Eds.) 2017. Distributed Agency. New York: Oxford University Press. (pp9-14)
Enfield, N. J. 2017. Linguistic expression of commands in Lao. In Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, and R. M. W. Dixon (eds), Commands: A Cross-Linguistic Typology, Explorations in Linguistic Typology (Oxford, 2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 Aug. 2017).
Enfield, N. J. 2017. Emerging from The Moral Wilds [Review of the book Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals by John P. Gluck]. The Times Literary Supplement, October 12, 2017, 34-5. PDF here.
2016
Sidnell, J., and N. J. Enfield. 2016. Deixis and the interactional foundations of reference. In Y. Huang (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics.
Dingemanse, M., K. H. Kendrick, and N. J. Enfield. 2016. A coding scheme for other-initiated repair. Open Linguistics. 2, 35–46. doi: 10.1515/opli-2016-0002
2015
Dingemanse, M., S.G. Roberts, J. Baranova, J. Blythe, P. Drew, S. Floyd, R. S. Gisladottir, K. H. Kendrick, S. C. Levinson, E. Manrique, G. Rossi, and N. J. Enfield. 2015. Universal Principles in the Repair of Communication Problems. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0136100. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0136100
Manrique, Elizabeth, and N. J. Enfield. 2015. Suspending the next turn as a form of repair initiation: evidence from Argentine Sign Language. Frontiers in Psychology, Volume 6, Number 01326.
San Roque, L., K.H. Kendrick, E. Norcliffe, P. Brown, R. Defina, M. Dingemanse, T. Dirksmeyer, N. J. Enfield, S. Floyd, J. Hammond, Rossi, G., Tufvesson, S., Van Putten, S., & Majid, A. 2015. Vision verbs dominate in conversation across cultures, but the ranking of non-visual verbs varies. Cognitive Linguistics, 26, 31-60. doi:10.1515/cog-2014-0089.
Sidnell, J. and N. J. Enfield. 2015. Language Structure and Social Agency: Confirming Polar Questions in Conversation. Linguistics Vanguard. Linguistics Vanguard. ISSN (Online) 2199-174X, DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2014-1008, January 2015.
Dingemanse, Mark, and N. J. Enfield. 2015. Other-initiated repair across languages: Towards a typology of conversational structures. Open Linguistics, 1, 98-118.
Sicoli, Mark, Tanya Stivers, N. J. Enfield, Stephen C. Levinson. 2015. Marked Initial Pitch in Questions Signals Marked Communicative Function. Language and Speech, 58.2, 204-223.
De Sousa, H., F. Langella and N. J. Enfield. 2015. Temperature terms in Lao, Southern Zhuang, Southern Pinghua and Cantonese. In M. Koptjevskaja-Tamm (Ed.), The linguistics of temperature (pp. 594-638). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Enfield, N. J. 2015. Linguistic Relativity from Reference to Agency. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 44, 207-244.
Enfield, N. J. 2015. Other-initiated repair in Lao. Open Linguistics, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.2478/opli-2014-0006
2014
Enfield, N. J. 2014. Human Agency and the Infrastructure for Requests. In Paul Drew and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (Eds.), Requesting in Social Interaction, (pp. 35-50). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Enfield, N. J., P. Kockelman, and J. Sidnell. 2014. Introduction: Directions in the Anthropology of Language. In N. J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman and Jack Sidnell (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology, (pp. 1-23). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Enfield, N. J. 2014. Causal dynamics of language. In Enfield, N. J., Paul Kockelman, and Jack Sidnell (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 325-342.
Enfield, N. J. 2014. The Item/System Problem. In Enfield, N. J., Paul Kockelman, and Jack Sidnell (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 48-77.
Sidnell, Jack, and Enfield, N. J. 2014. The ontology of action, in interaction. In Enfield, N. J., Paul Kockelman, and Jack Sidnell (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 423-446.
Enfield, N. J., P. Kockelman, and J. Sidnell. 2014. Interdisciplinary perspectives. In The Cambridge handbook of linguistic anthropology (pp. 599-602). Cambridge University Press.
Enfield, N. J., J. Sidnell, and P. Kockelman. 2014. System and function. In N. J. Enfield, P. Kockelman, & J. Sidnell (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of linguistic anthropology (pp. 25-28). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kockelman, P., Enfield, N. J., and J. Sidnell. 2014. Process and formation. In N. J. Enfield, P. Kockelman, & J. Sidnell (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of linguistic anthropology (pp. 183-186). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sidnell, J., N. J. Enfield, and P. Kockelman. (2014). Interaction and intersubjectivity. In N. J. Enfield, P. Kockelman, & J. Sidnell (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of linguistic anthropology (pp. 343-345). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sidnell, J., P. Kockelman, and N. J. Enfield. 2014. Community and social life. In N. J. Enfield, P. Kockelman, & J. Sidnell (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of linguistic anthropology (pp. 481-483). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Enfield, N. J. 2014. Transmission biases in the cultural evolution of language: Towards an explanatory framework. In D. Dor, C. Knight, & J. Lewis (Eds.), The social origins of language: Studies in the evolution of language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 325-335.
Enfield, N. J., & Sidnell, J. 2014. Language presupposes an enchronic infrastructure for social interaction. In D. Dor, C. Knight, & J. Lewis (Eds.), The social origins of language: Studies in the evolution of language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp92-104.
Dingemanse, M., F. Torreira, and Enfield, N. J. 2014. Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items. In E. A. Cartmill, S. G. Roberts, H. Lyn, & H. Cornish (Eds.), The Evolution of Language (pp. 425-426). Singapore: World Scientific.
2013
Dingemanse, M., F. Torreira, and N. J. Enfield. 2013. Is “Huh?” a universal word? Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items. PLoS One, 8(11): e78273.
Enfield, N. J. 2013. Language, culture, and mind: Trends and standards in the latest pendulum swing. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19, 155-169.
Enfield, N. J. 2013. Hippie, interrupted. In E. Harms, J. Lindquist, & J. Barker (Eds.), Figures of Southeast Asian modernity. pp101-103. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Enfield, N. J. 2013. A ‘Composite Utterances’ approach to meaning. In C. Müller, E. Fricke, S. Ladewig, A. Cienki, D. McNeill, & S. Teßendorf (Eds.), Handbook Body – Language – Communication. Volume 1. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Enfield, N. J. 2013. Doing fieldwork on the body, language, and communication. In C. Müller, E. Fricke, S. Ladewig, A. Cienki, D. McNeill, & S. Teßendorf (Eds.), Handbook Body – Language – Communication. Volume 1. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Enfield, N. J. 2013. Reference in conversation. In J. Sidnell, & T. Stivers (Eds.), The handbook of conversation analysis (pp. 433-454). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781118325001.ch21.
Enfield, N. J., Mark Dingemanse, Julija Baranova, Joe Blythe, Penelope Brown, Tyko Dirksmeyer, Paul Drew, Simeon Floyd, Sonja Gipper, Rósa Gísladóttir, Gertie Hoymann, Kobin H. Kendrick, Stephen C. Levinson, Lilla Magyari, Elizabeth Manrique, Lila San Roque, Giovanni Rossi, and Francisco Torreira. 2013. Huh? What? – A first survey in 20 languages. In Repair, edited by M. Hayashi, G. Raymond and J. Sidnell, pp343-380. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2012
Sidnell, J., and N. J. Enfield. 2012. Language diversity and social action: A third locus of linguistic relativity. Current Anthropology, 53.3, pp. 302-333.
Enfield, N. J., P. Brown, and J. De Ruiter. 2012. Epistemic dimensions of polar questions: Declarative questions and tag questions in comparative perspective. In J. P. De Ruiter (Ed.), Questions: Formal, functional and interactional perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Enfield, N. J. 2012. The slow explosion of speech [Review of the book The origins of Grammar by James R. Hurford]. The Times Literary Supplement, March 30, 2012(5687), 11-12. PDF here.
2011
Enfield, N. J. 2011. Taste in two tongues: A Southeast Asian study of semantic convergence. The Senses & Society, 6(1), 30-37.
Bohnemeyer, J., N. J. Enfield, J. Essegbey, and S. Kita. 2011. The macro-event property: The segmentation of causal chains. In J. Bohnemeyer, & E. Pederson (Eds.), Event representation in language and cognition (pp. 43-67). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Bohnemeyer, J., N. J. Enfield, J. Essegbey, A. Majid, and M. van Staden. 2011. Atypical thematic configurations and the use of complex predicates in typological perspective. In A. L. Munguía (Ed.), Collection Linguistic Studies. Vol 1: Phonology, morphology, and semantico-syntactic typology (pp. 173-194). Hermosillo, Mexico: Universidad de Sonora.
Enfield, N. J. 2011. Dynamics of human diversity in mainland Southeast Asia: Introduction. In N. J. Enfield (Ed.), Dynamics of human diversity: The case of mainland Southeast Asia (pp. 1-8). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Enfield, N. J. 2011. Linguistic diversity in mainland Southeast Asia. In N. J. Enfield (Ed.), Dynamics of human diversity: The case of mainland Southeast Asia (pp. 63-80). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Enfield, N. J. 2011. Description of reciprocal situations in Lao. In N. Evans, A. Gaby, S. C. Levinson, & A. Majid (Eds.), Reciprocals and semantic typology (pp. 129-149). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Enfield, N. J. 2011. Elements of formulation. In J. Streeck, C. Goodwin, & C. LeBaron (Eds.), Embodied interaction: Language and body in the material world (pp. 59-66). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Enfield, N. J. 2011. Sources of asymmetry in human interaction: Enchrony, status, knowledge and agency. In T. Stivers, L. Mondada, & J. Steensig (Eds.), The morality of knowledge in conversation (pp. 285-312). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Enfield, N. J. 2011. Books that live and die [Book review]. Current Anthropology, 52(1), 129-131. PDF here.
Enfield, N. J. 2011. Credit tests [Review of the book You are not a gadget by Jaron Lanier]. The Times Literary Supplement, February 18, 2011, 12.
Enfield, N. J. 2011. Hidden delights [Review of the book How pleasure works by Paul Bloom]. The Times Literary Supplement, January 21, 2011, 30-30. PDF here.
2010
Enfield, N. J. 2010. Language and culture in Laos: An agenda for research. Journal of Lao Studies, 1(1), 48-54.
Enfield, N. J. 2010. Questions and responses in Lao. Journal of Pragmatics, 42, 2649-2665.
Enfield, N. J., T. Stivers, & S. C. Levinson. 2010. Question-response sequences in conversation across ten languages: An introduction. Journal of Pragmatics, 42, 2615-2619.
Stivers, T., and N. J. Enfield. 2010. A coding scheme for question-response sequences in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics, 42, 2620-2626.
Enfield, N. J. 2010. Review of Gesturecraft: The manu-facture of meaning by Jürgen Streeck. Pragmatics & Cognition, 18(2), 465-467.
Enfield, N. J. 2010. Burnt banknotes [Review of the books Making the social world by John R. Searle and The theory of social and cultural selection by W.G. Runciman]. The Times Literary Supplement, September 3, 2010, 3-4. PDF here.
2009
Enfield, N. J. 2009. Relationship thinking and human pragmatics. Journal of Pragmatics, 41, 60-78.
Enfield, N. J., and G. Diffloth. 2009. Phonology and sketch grammar of Kri, a Vietic language of Laos. Cahiers de Linguistique – Asie Orientale (CLAO), 38(1), 3-69.
Enfield, N. J. 2009. Everyday ritual in the residential world. In G. Senft, & E. B. Basso (Eds.), Ritual communication (pp. 51-80). Oxford: Berg.
Enfield, N. J. 2009. Language and culture. In Handbook of Contemporary Applied Linguistics, edited by Li Wei and Vivian Cook. London: Continuum.
Enfield, N. J. 2009. Case relations in Lao, a radically isolating language. In The Oxford Handbook of Case, edited by Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp808-819.
Stivers, T., N. J. Enfield, P. Brown, C. Englert, M. Hayashi, T. Heinemann, G. Hoymann, F. Rossano, J. P. de Ruiter, K.-E. Yoon, and S. C. Levinson. 2009. Universals and Cultural Variation in Turn-Taking in Conversation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, June 30, 2009, vol. 106, no. 26, pp. 10587–10592.
Enfield, N. J. 2009. Review of Serial Verb Constructions, edited by Aikhenvald and Dixon. Language 85.2, 445-451.
2008
Enfield, N. J. 2008. Transmission biases in linguistic epidemiology. Journal of Language Contact, 2, 295-306.
Enfield, N. J. 2008. Linguistic categories and their utilities: the case of Lao landscape terms. Language Sciences, 30.2/3, 227-255.
Enfield, N. J. 2008. Common Ground as a Resource for Social Affiliation. In Intention, Common Ground and the Egocentric Speaker-Hearer, edited by Istvan Kecskes and Jacob L. Mey. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 223-254.
Enfield, N. J. 2008. Verbs and Multi-verb sequences in Lao. In The Tai-Kadai Languages, edited by Anthony V. N. Diller, Jerold Edmondson, and Luo Yongxian. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 83-183.
Enfield, N. J. 2008. Lao linguistics in the 20th century and since. In Recherches nouvelles sur le Laos, Y. Goudineau et M. Lorrillard, (éditeurs scientifiques), Etudes thématiques n°18, EFEO: Paris/Vientiane, 435-452.
Enfield, N. J. 2008. Review of Constructions at work, by Adele Goldberg. Linguistic Typology, 12.1, 155-159.
2007
Enfield, N. J. 2007. Lao separation verbs and the logic of linguistic event categorization. Cognitive Linguistics 18.2, 287-296.
Jürgen Bohnemeyer, N. J. Enfield, James Essegbey, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Sotaro Kita, Friederike Lüpke, and Felix K. Ameka. 2007. Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events. Language, 83.3, 495-532.
Enfield, N. J., Sotaro Kita, and J. P. de Ruiter. 2007 Primary and secondary pragmatic functions of pointing gestures. Journal of Pragmatics 39, 1722-1741.
Enfield, N. J. 2007. Encoding three-participant events in the Lao clause. Linguistics 45.3, 509-538
Tanya Stivers, N. J. Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson, 2007. Person reference in interaction. In Person reference in interaction: linguistic, cultural, and social perspectives, edited by N. J. Enfield and Tanya Stivers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Enfield, N. J. 2007. Meanings of the unmarked: how default person reference does more than just refer. In Person reference in interaction: linguistic, cultural, and social perspectives, edited by N. J. Enfield and Tanya Stivers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
de Ruiter, J.P., and N. J. Enfield. 2007. The BIC Model: A Blueprint for the Communicator. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services. UAHCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4556. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Enfield, N. J. 2007. Review of Grammars in Contact, edited by Aikhenvald and Dixon (CUP, 2007). Studies in Language.
Enfield, N. J. 2007 Review of Ethnopragmatics, edited by Cliff Goddard. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Intercultural Pragmatics 4.3, 419-426.
2006
De Ruiter, J. P., H. Mitterer, and N. J. Enfield. 2006. Projecting the end of a speaker’s turn: a cognitive cornerstone of conversation. Language, 82.3, 504-524.
Enfield, N. J., Asifa Majid, and Miriam van Staden. 2006. Cross-linguistic categorisation of the body: introduction. Language Sciences, 28.2/3, 137-147
Enfield, N. J. 2006. Lao body part terms. Language Sciences, 28.2/3, 181-200.
Enfield, N. J. 2006. Elicitation guide on parts of the body.Language Sciences, 28.2/3, 148-157.
Enfield, N. J. 2006. Languages as historical documents: the endangered archive in Laos. South East Asia Research, 14.3, 471-488.
Enfield, N. J. and Stephen C. Levinson. 2006. Human sociality as a new interdisciplinary field. In Roots of human sociality: culture, cognition, and interaction, edited by N. J. Enfield and Stephen C. Levinson. Oxford: Berg, 1-38.
Enfield, N. J. 2006. Social consequences of common ground. In Roots of human sociality: culture, cognition, and interaction, edited by N. J. Enfield and Stephen C. Levinson. Oxford: Berg, 399-430.
Enfield, N. J. 2006. Heterosemy and the grammar-lexicon trade-off. In Catching Language: the standing challenge of grammar-writing, edited by Felix Ameka, Alan Dench, and Nicholas Evans. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 297-320.
Enfield, N. J. 2006. Laos – Language situation. In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, edited by Keith Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Volume 6, 698-700.
Enfield, N. J. 2006. Review of Laughter in interaction, by Philip Glenn, 2003. Linguistics, 43.6, 1195-1197.
Enfield, N. J. 2006. Review of Nicole Kruspe, A grammar of Semelai. Linguistic Typology 10.3, 452-455.
2005
Enfield, N. J. 2005. Areal linguistics and mainland Southeast Asia. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 34, 181-206.
Enfield, N. J. 2005. The body as a cognitive artifact in kinship representations: hand gesture diagrams by speakers of Lao. Current Anthropology, 46.1, 51-81.
Enfield, N. J. 2005. Micro and macro dimensions in linguistic systems. In Reviewing Linguistic Thought: Converging Trends for the 21st Century, edited by Sophia Marmaridou, Kiki Nikiforidou, Eleni Antonopoulou. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 313-326.
Enfield, N. J. 2005. Depictive and other secondary predication in Lao. In Secondary predication and adverbial modification: The typology of depictives, edited by Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Eva Schultze-Berndt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 379-391.
2004
Enfield, N. J. 2004. On linear segmentation and combinatorics in co-speech gesture: a symmetry-dominance construction in Lao fish trap descriptions. Semiotica 149.1/4, 57-123.
Enfield, N. J. 2004. Nominal classification in Lao: a sketch. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (Special Issue on Nominal Classification, edited by A. K. Aikhenvald), 57.2/3, 117-143.
Enfield, N. J. 2004. Adjectives in Lao. In Adjective classes: a cross-linguistic typology, edited by R. M. W. Dixon and A. Y. Aikhenvald. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 323-347.
Enfield, N. J. 2004. Areal grammaticalisation of postverbal ‘acquire’ in mainland Southeast Asia. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Southeast Asia Linguistics Society Meeting, edited by Somsonge Burusphat. Tempe: Arizona State University, pp 275-296.
Majid, Asifa, Miriam van Staden, and N. J. Enfield. 2004. The human body in cognition, brain, and typology. In Forum Handbook, Fourth International Forum on Language, Brain, and Cognition – Cognition, Brain, and Typology: Toward a Synthesis (Sendai, Japan, 12-13 September), 31-35.
2003
Enfield, N. J. 2003. Demonstratives in space and interaction: data from Lao speakers and implications for semantic analysis. Language 79.1, 82-117.
Enfield, N. J. 2003. Producing and editing diagrams using co-speech gesture: spatializing non-spatial relations in explanations of kinship in Laos. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 13.1, 7-50.
Enfield, N. J. 2003. The definition of WHAT-d’you-call-it: semantics and pragmatics of ‘recognitional deixis’. Journal of Pragmatics, 35, 101-117.
2002
Enfield, N. J. 2002. How to define ‘Lao’, ‘Thai’, and ‘Isan’ language? A view from linguistic science. Tai Culture, 7.1, 62-67.
Enfield, N. J. 2002. Semantic analysis of body parts in emotion terminology: avoiding the exoticisms of ‘obstinate monosemy’ and ‘online extension’. Pragmatics and Cognition, 10.1-2, 81-102.
Enfield, N. J. and Anna Wierzbicka. 2002. Introduction: The body in description of emotion. In Pragmatics and Cognition. 10.1-2, 2002, 1-24.
Enfield, N. J. 2002. Functions of ‘give’ and ‘take’ in Lao complex predicates. In Collected papers on Southeast Asian and Pacific languages, edited by Robert S. Bauer. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 13-36.
Enfield, N. J. 2002. Semantics and combinatorics of ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ in Lao. In The linguistics of sitting, standing, and lying, edited by John Newman. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 25-41.
Enfield, N. J. 2002. Combinatoric properties of natural semantic metalanguage expressions in Lao. In Meaning and universal grammar, edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 87-199.
Enfield, N. J. 2002. Ethnosyntax: Introduction. In Ethnosyntax: explorations in culture and grammar, edited by N. J. Enfield. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-30.
Enfield, N. J. 2002. Cultural logic and syntactic productivity: associated posture constructions in Lao. In Ethnosyntax: explorations in culture and grammar, edited by N. J. Enfield. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 231-258.
Enfield, N. J. 2002. Parallel innovation and ‘coincidence’ in linguistic areas: on a bi-clausal extent/result constructions of mainland Southeast Asia. In Proceedings of the 28th meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2002, Special Session on Tibeto-Burman and Southeast Asian Linguistics, edited by Patrick Chew. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 121-128.
2001
Enfield, N. J. 2001. ‘Lip-pointing’: a discussion of form and function with reference to data from Laos. Gesture, 1.2, 185-212.
Enfield, N. J. 2001. Remarks on John Haiman, 1999. ‘Auxiliation in Khmer: the case of baan’, Studies in Language 23:1. 149-172. Studies in Language, 25:1, 115-124.
Enfield, N. J. 2001. On genetic and areal linguistics in Mainland Southeast Asia: parallel polyfunctionality of ‘acquire’. In Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance, edited by Alexandra Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 255-290.
Enfield, N. J. 2001. Linguistic evidence for a Lao perspective on facial expression of emotion. In Cross-cultural semantics of emotion, edited by Jean Harkins and Anna Wierzbicka, Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 153-170.
2000
Enfield, N. J. 2000. The theory of cultural logic: how individuals combine social intelligence with semiotics to create and maintain cultural meaning. Cultural Dynamics (12)1, 35-64.
Enfield, N. J. 2000. On linguocentrism. In Explorations in linguistic relativity. Edited by Martin Pütz and Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 125-157.
Enfield, N. J. and Grant Evans. 2000. Transcription as standardisation: the problem of Tai languages. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Tai Studies, July 29-31, 1998, Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University. Bangkok, Thailand, 201-212.
1999
Enfield, N. J. 1999. On the indispensability of semantics: defining the ‘vacuous’. Rask 9/10, 285-304.
Enfield, N. J. 1999. Lao as a national language. In Laos: Culture and Society. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, edited by Grant Evans, 258-290.
1997
Enfield, N. J. and Christopher Manning. 1997. Exploring a formal grammar for Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, University of New England, September 1997.
Enfield, N. J. 1997. The state-achievement-accomplishment class of verbs in Lao. University of Melbourne.
Enfield, N. J. 1997. Review of Give: a cognitive linguistic study, by John Newman. Australian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 17, No. 1, 89-92.
Enfield, N. J. 1997. Review of Plastic glasses and church fathers: semantic extension from the ethnoscience tradition, by David Kronenfeld. Anthropological linguistics, 39.3, 459-464.
1996
Enfield, N. J. 1996. ‘Can’ and ‘get’ in Khmer, Lao, and Vietnamese: A Conceptual Analysis. Melbourne University Working Papers in Linguistics, 16, 75-90.