| 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 |
| Landin, Rachel M | Higher-level conjunctions in Karitiâna | 1986 | SIL International Publications in Linguistics | Linguistics |
| Popjes, Jack and Josephine Popjes | Canela-Krahô | 1986 | | Linguistics |
| Chapman, Shirley | Paumarí interrogatives | 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 |
| Wiesemann, Ursula | The pronoun systems of some Jê and Macro-Jê languages | 1986 | | Linguistics |
| Derbyshire, Desmond C | Topic Continuity and OVS Order in Hixkaryana | 1986 | | Anthropology, 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 |
| Popovich, A. Harold | The nominal reference system of Maxakalí | 1986 | | Linguistics |
