| Watters, John R | Grassfields Bantu | 2003 | Routledge language family series | Linguistics, Sociolinguistics |
| Watters, John R | Tone in Western Ejagham (Etung): the case of lexical and postlexical tone on nouns | 2000 | | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | Some phonological characteristics of Ejagham (Etung), an Ekoid Bantu language of Cameroon and Nigeria | 2001 | Grammatische analysen Afrikanischer Sprachen | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R. | Focus and the Ejagham verb system: from syntactic to semantic sub-categorization. | 2010 | | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | L’alphabétisation en langues nationales: mythe ou réalité: Étude de cas | 1989 | | Literacy and Education |
| Watters, John R. | East Benue-Congo | 2018 | Niger-Congo Comparative Studies | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | Bantoid overview | 1989 | | Sociolinguistics |
| Watters, John R | The place of morphology in functional grammar: the case of the Ejagham verb system | 1985 | Functional grammar series | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | Focus in Aghem: a study of its formal correlates and typology, part III | 1979 | Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics | Translation |
| Watters, John R. and Jacqueline Leroy | Southern Bantoid | 1989 | | Sociolinguistics |
