| Watters, John R | Review of: Les classes nominales dans se bantou des Grassfields. L’expansion bantoue, vol. 1 (Numéro special 9), Larry M. Hyman and Jan Voorhoeve, editors | 1982 | Journal of African Languages and Linguistics | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | Review of: Functional grammar, by Simon C. Dik | 1980 | Lingua | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | Colloquium on functional grammar, Amsterdam, June 4-8, 1984 | 1986 | Notes on Linguistics | Linguistics |
| Hyman, Larry M. and John R. Watters | Auxiliary focus | 1984 | Studies in African Linguistics | Linguistics, Translation |
| Watters, John R | The inclusive/exclusive distinction in Ejagham | 1985 | Journal of West African Languages | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | Conference on comparative Bantu linguistics, Butare, Rwanda, August 15-23, 1984 | 1986 | Notes on Linguistics | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | Grassfields Bantu | 2003 | Routledge language family series | Linguistics, Sociolinguistics |
| Watters, John R | A phonology and morphology of Ejagham, with notes on dialect variation | 1981 | | Linguistics |
| 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. | Review of: A pedagogic grammar of Babanki - a Grassfields language of Northwest Cameroon, Akumby, Pius W. & Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka, editors | 2016 | Afrika und Ubersee | Linguistics |
| Haller, Beat and John R. Watters | Topic in Zulgo | 1985 | Studies in African Linguistics | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | The expression of the locative semantic function in (Western) Ejagham | 1983 | Journal of West African Languages | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | Reduplication and the origin of high tone on noun prefixes in Ejagham | 1990 | Journal of West African Languages | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R. | Proto-Bantu Tense from a Benue-Congo Perspective (Bantoid, Cross River, Jukunoid) | 2018 | | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R. | Towards the reconstruction of the tense-aspect-mood (TAM) system in early Bantoid, with particular attention to the category “tense” | 2012 | | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R. | Proto Bantu Tense from a Benue Congo Perspective (Bantoid, Cross River, Jukunoid, Plateau, Kainji) | 2019 | | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R. | East Benue-Congo | 2018 | Niger-Congo Comparative Studies | Linguistics |
| Watters, John R | The place of morphology in functional grammar: the case of the Ejagham verb system | 1985 | Functional grammar series | Linguistics |
