Academic Publications:
Thornton, L. (2026). Women and Kaaps. Language Matters (Pretoria, South Africa), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2025.2590607
Gasparini, L., Shaw, D., Kathiresan, T., Borysiewicz, D., Stuart, GW., Cross-linguistic POS
Consortium *, Vogel, AP. (2025) Automated Parts-of-Speech Tagging in 52 Languages: Benchmarking to Establish Suitability for Multilingual Clinical Language Analysis. [Preprint] http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5886229
[*Lizanne Jill Thornton is a member of the Cross-linguistic POS Consortium and contributed to formal analysis (parts-of-speech tagging for Afrikaans), and writing (review and editing) of the manuscript]
Yu, M., & Thornton, L. J. (2025). Motivation of heritage language learning: Is heritage attachment enough? Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 48, 285-296. https://doi.org/10.32038/ltrq.2025.48.17
Thornton, L. (2024). Harnessing multilingualism at universities to increase learner
comprehension. OASIS Summary of Batyi, T. (2022) in Language Culture and Curriculum. https://oasisdatabase.org/concern/summaries/02870x13k?locale=en
Newspaper articles:
“Women, the first ‘kombuistaalers’, ensuring the vitality of Kaaps empowering tool of agency.”
Daily Maverick, 12 April 2026.