(Please note: I have published 17 books, 5 of which are textbooks, and 2 of which are translations of my textbooks into other languages. For a full list of publications, see my Full CV. For reviews of my textbooks, see Section 2.2 and links below.)

Cognitive Linguistics: The Quantitative Turn. The Essential Reader Laura A. Janda (ed.). 2013. De Gruyter Mouton. 321 pp.

Review by Emmerich Kelih at the University of Vienna published in SKY Journal of Linguistics 28 (2015), 415–419.

Review by Rachel Ramsey at Northumbria University published in Cognitive Linguistics 2017; 28(1): 193–202

Common and comparative Slavic: Phonology and inflection, with special attention to Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian, by Charles E. Townsend and Laura A. Janda. 1996. Slavica Publishers. 310 pp.

Review by Christina Y. Bethin at SUNY Stony Brook, published in The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 185-187

Review by Robert Orr at the University of Ottawa, published in Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes, Vol. 38, No. 3/4 (SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 1996), pp. 542-544

Common and comparative Slavic: Phonology and inflection, with special attention to Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian has been translated into German (published in 2002) and into Korean (published in 2011).

The Case Book for Russian, a coherent description of all the uses of all the cases with examples for linguists and learners, with a companion CD-ROM and website with audio and interactive exercises. Co-authored with Steven J. Clancy. Bloomington, IN: Slavica. 2002. 303pp. In 2005 this book won a nationwide award for pedagogy in the US.

“A Cognitive Grammar Approach to Teaching the Russian Case System” by Carlee Arnett and Diana Lysinger, published in Russian Language Journal / Русский язык Vol. 63 (2013), pp. 135-168 reports on an experiment conducted using The Case Book for Russian.

The Case Book for Czech, a coherent description of all the uses of all the cases with examples for linguists and learners, with a companion CD-ROM and website with audio and interactive exercises. Co-authored with Steven J. Clancy. Bloomington, IN: Slavica. 2006. 375pp.

Review by David Danaher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, published in The Slavic and East European Journal 53: 3 (2009)

Czech (= Languages of the World/Materials 125), coauthored with Charles E. Townsend. Munich/Newcastle: LINCOM EUROPA. 2000. 106 pp. This book has been republished as an interactive website.