| Derbyshire, Desmond C | Comparative survey of morphology and syntax in Brazilian Arawakan | 1986 | | Linguistics |
| Kakumasu, James Y | Urubu-Kaapor | 1986 | | Linguistics |
| Campbell, Barbara | Repetition in Jamamadí discourse | 1986 | SIL International Publications in Linguistics | Linguistics |
| Popjes, Jack and Josephine Popjes | Canela-Krahô | 1986 | | Linguistics |
| Weir, E. M. Helen | Footprints of yesterday’s syntax: Diachronic development of certain verb prefixes in an OSV language (Nadëb) | 1986 | Lingua | Linguistics, Sociolinguistics |
| Chapman, Shirley | Paumarí interrogatives | 1986 | SIL International Publications in Linguistics | Linguistics |
| Grimes, Joseph E., editor | Sentence initial devices | 1986 | SIL International Publications in Linguistics | Linguistics |
| Lowe, Margaret | Participants in Nambiquara myths and folktales | 1986 | SIL International Publications in Linguistics | Linguistics |
| Dooley, Robert A | Sentence-initial elements in Brazilian Guaraní | 1986 | SIL International Publications in Linguistics | Linguistics |
| Stute, Horst | Constituent order, cohesion, and staging in Gavião | 1986 | SIL International Publications in Linguistics | Linguistics |
| Lowe, Ivan | Topicalization in Nambiquara | 1986 | SIL International Publications in Linguistics | Linguistics |
| Derbyshire, Desmond C. and Geoffrey K. Pullum, editors | Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Vol. 1 | 1986 | | Linguistics |
| Everett, Daniel L. | Ternarity and obligatory branching in Pirahã | 1986 | Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session | Linguistics |
| Everett, Daniel L | Pirahã | 1986 | | Linguistics |
| Koehn, Edward H. and Sally S. Koehn | Apalai | 1986 | | Linguistics |
| Harrison, Carl H | Verb prominence, verb initialness, ergativity and typological disharmony in Guajajara | 1986 | | Linguistics |
| Everett, Daniel L | O diálogo e a seleção de dados para uma gramática | 1986 | Caderno de Estudos Lingüísticos | Linguistics |
