Monographs
  1. Nefdt, R. (2025). The Philosophy of Linguistics. Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Science Series. Cambridge University Press [link][review in Cognitive Semantics]
  2. Pelletier, J., & Nefdt, R. (2025). Linguistic Relativity: an essential guide to past debates and future prospects. Oxford University Press [Oxford online version][LinguistList review][Review of Metaphysics][History & Philosophy of Language Podcast]
  3. Nefdt, R. (2024). The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics: a contemporary outlook. Cambridge University Press. [Biolinguistics review][Journal of Linguistics review][podcast interview on New Books Network]​​
  4. Nefdt, R. (2023). Language, Science, and Structure: a journey into the philosophy of linguistics. Oxford University Press. [Oxford Online version][Phil Quarterly review][Folio Ling review][Phil of Science review][Analysis Review/response] [Argumentum review][BJPS review]​

Textbooks
  1. Nefdt, R. (2026). Language and Artificial Intelligence. Routledge Gateways to Language and Linguistics series. Routledge Press. (forthcoming)

Edited Volumes
  1. Nefdt, R., Dupre, G., & Stanton, K. (eds.) (2026) The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Linguistics. (Oxford University Press) [link] [online version]
  2. ​Nefdt, R., Klippi, C., & Karstens, B. (eds.) (2020). The Philosophy and Science of Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Palgrave Mcmillan. [link]​​
Special Issues
  1. Reynolds, B., Nefdt, R., Donaldson, J., & Potts, C. The English Language and Linguistic Theory: articles in honour of Geoffrey Pullum. Journal of Linguistics (accepted, forthcoming)

Entries
  1. Nefdt, R.M., & Potts, C. (2024). Compositionality. In M. C. Frank & A. Majid (Eds.), Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. MIT Press. [link]
  2. Scholz, B., Pelletier, J., Pullum, G., & Nefdt, R. (2023). Whorfianism. Supplement to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [link]
  3. ​Scholz, B., Pelletier, J., Pullum, G., & Nefdt, R (2022). The Philosophy of Linguistics. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [link]
Articles                                                                                                                           
  1. Pelletier, J., & Nefdt, R. (2027). The theoretical import of linguistic relativity and its future prospects. Theoretical Linguistics, forthcoming.
  2. Ladyman, J., & Nefdt, R. (2026). Are AI language models scientific models of language? European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 16(63): 1-27.[link]
  3. Nefdt, R., & Pelletier, J. (2026). The social foundations of linguistic relativity. Grazer Philosophische Studien [special issue on the social foundations of language][link]
  4. Nefdt, R. (2026). Chomsky, naturalism, and conceptual engineering. The Monist.[link]
  5. Nefdt, R., & Ladyman, J. (2026). The language of real patterns. Behavioral and Brain Sciences [link to commentary on target article]
  6. Nefdt, R., & Baggio, G. (2025). From naturalized to actualized thought experiments: cognitive neuroscience, the theory gap, and the method of cases. Philosophical Psychology [link][free eprint]
  7. Guerin, N., Nefdt, R., & Chemla, E. (2025). Qualifying knowledge and knowledge sharing in multilingual models. Transactions on Machine Learning Research [link]​
  8. Nefdt, R. (2024). Pullum's philosophy of linguistics: towards a unified framework. Journal of Linguistics [link].
  9. Nefdt, R. (2024). Theoretical linguistics and the philosophy of linguistics. Theoretical Linguistics, 50(1-2): 93-105. [link] (invited for the 50th anniversary of the journal)
  10. Nefdt, R. & Baggio, G. (2024). Notational variants and cognition: the case of dependency grammar. Erkenntnis, 89, 2867–2897 [link]
  11. Nefdt, R. (2024). Concepts and conceptual engineering: answering Cappelen's challenge. Inquiry, 67(1): 400-428. [link][free e-print]
  12. Nefdt, R. (2023). Motivating a scientific modelling continuum: the case of natural models in the Covid-19 pandemic. Philosophy of Science, 90(4): 880-900 [link]
  13. Nefdt, R. (2023). Biolinguistics and biological systems: a complex systems analysis of language. Biology & Philosophy, 38:12 [link]
  14. Nefdt, R. (2023). Are machines radically contextualist? Mind & Language, 38:3: 750-771 [link]
  15. Isaac, M., Koch, S., & Nefdt, R. (2022). Conceptual engineering: a road map to practice. Philosophy Compass, 17(10): e12879. [link]
  16. Nefdt, R. (2021). Structural realism and generative linguistics. Synthese,199: 3711-3737. [revised proofs][link] 
  17. Nefdt, R. (2021). Scientific models and political theory: the ideal theory debate revisited. Theoria, 87(6):1585-1608. ​[link]
  18. Nefdt, R. (2020). A puzzle concerning compositionality in machines. Minds & Machines, 30: 47-75. [link] [free e-print]
  19. Nefdt, R. (2020). Formal semantics and applied mathematics: an inferential account. Journal of Logic, Language & Information, 29(2): 221-253. [link]
  20. Nefdt, R. (2019). The philosophy of linguistics: scientific underpinnings and methodological disputes. Philosophy Compass, 14(12), e12636. [link]
  21. Nefdt, R. (2019). The ontology of words: a structural approach. Inquiry, 62(8): 877-911. [link]
  22. Nefdt, R. (2019). Infinity and the foundations of linguistics. Synthese [special issue on infinite idealizations in science],196(5): 1671-1711. [link] [preprint]    
  23. Nefdt, R. (2019). Why philosophers should do formal semantics (and a bit of syntax too): a reply to Cappelen. Review of Philosophy & Psychology, 10(1): 243-256. [link]
  24. Nefdt, R. (2018). Structuralism and inferentialism: a tale of two theories. Logique et analyse, 61(244): 489-512. [link] [preprint]
  25. Nefdt, R. (2016). Scientific modelling in generative grammar and the dynamic turn in syntax. Linguistics & Philosophy, 39(5): 357-394. [link]
  26. Nefdt, R. (2016). Linguistic modelling and the scientific enterprise. Language Sciences, 54: 43-57. [link]
  27. Nefdt, R. (2013). The plurality of times: disunified time and the A-series. South African Journal of Philosophy, 32(3): 249-260. [link]                                                                                                                     
Book Chapters​
  1. Nefdt, R., & Seakgwa, K. (2026). Formal semantics and artificial intelligence: metasemantic considerations. In Prakash Mondal (ed.) Handbook of Linguistic Semantics: Bridging Theory, Philosophy and Cognition. Springer, forthcoming.
  2. Nefdt, R., & Ladyman, J. (2026). Engineering concepts for NLP. In Manuel Gustavo Isaac, Lily Frank, & Jeroen Hopster (eds.) Conceptual Engineering for Emerging Technologies. Routledge, forthcoming.
  3. Kincaid, H., & Nefdt, R. (2026). Real patterns analysis and causality neutrality. In Millhouse, T., Peterson, S., & Ross, D., (eds) Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature. MIT Press. [link]
  4. Nefdt, R., & Kac, M. (2026). Some thoughts on formalization in linguistics. In Nefdt, R., Dupre, G., & Stanton, K. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Linguistics. Oxford University Press.
  5. Mesthrie, R., & Nefdt, R. (2026). Sociolinguistics as de-idealisation. In Nefdt, R., Dupre, G., & Stanton, K. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. 
  6. Nefdt, R. (2025). Formal language and philosophy. In Okeke, J., and Whitaker, M (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Language, Logic, and Metaphysics: African and Western Approaches. Bloomsbury Press, UK. [link]
  7. Nefdt, R., Klippi, C., & Karstens, B. (2020). Introduction. In Nefdt, R., Klippi, C., & Karstens, B. (eds) The Philosophy and Science of Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, pp 1-9. Palgrave Mcmillan. [link]
  8. Nefdt, R. (2020). The role of language in the cognitive sciences. In Nefdt, R., Klippi, C., & Karstens, B. (eds) The Philosophy and Science of Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, pp 215-238. Palgrave Mcmillan. [link]   
  9. Nefdt, R. (2019) Linguistics as a science of structure. In Form and Formalism in Linguistics, J. McElvenny (ed.), History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences, pp 175-196. Berlin: Language Science Press.      
  10. Nefdt, R. (2018) Languages and other abstract structures. In Essays on Linguistic Realism, Behme, C and Neef, M (eds.) pp 139-184. John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam. [link] ​
Book Reviews
  1. (2024) Review of The Human Mind Through the Lens of Language by Nirmalangshu Mukherji. Bloomsbury Press. Philosophical Quarterly [link]
  2. (2020) Review of Modality and Propositional Attitudes by Michael Hegarty. Cambridge University Press. The Linguist List [link]
  3. (2019) Review of Recursion: A Computational Investigation into the Representation and Processing of Language by David Lobina. Oxford University Press. The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 274: 206-209 [link]
  4. (2019) Review of Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness by Ori Simchen. Oxford University Press. The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 277: 871-874. [link]
  5. (2019) Review of The Social Evolution of Human Nature: From Biology to Language by Harry Smit. Cambridge University Press. The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 277: 874-877. [link]   

Under Review/In preparation/preprints
  • ​ Chemla, E., & Nefdt, R. (2024). No such thing as a general learner: language models and their dual  optimization. https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09544 [lingbuzz]
  • A paper on the metasemantics of language models
  • A paper on LLM cognition [philarchive]​
  • A paper on individuation of language models [philarchive]
  • A paper on possible language and real patterns 
  • ​A paper on virtual reality 

Scholarly Blog Publications
  1. Nefdt, R. 2024-07-11. A broad philosophical view of linguistic theory. https://cambridgeblog.org/2024/08/a-broad-philosophical-view-of-linguistic-theory/
  2. Nefdt, R. 2023-06-12. Real patterns and the structure of language. https://blog.oup.com/2023/06/real-patterns-and-the-structure-of-language/
  3. Nefdt, R. 2017-06-30. Decolonizing philosophy. https://africasacountry.com/2017/06/decolonizing-philosophy
  4. Nefdt, R. 2018-06-25. Translating non-Western philosophy: barriers to philosophical research in the Global South. http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/01/translating-non-western-philosophy/