Diachronica | International Journal for Historical Linguistics

20 January 2025

Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40

Claire Bowern, Hiram L. Smith, Ailis Cournane, Joan Bybee, Ted Supalla & Brian D. Joseph | DIA 41:5 (2024)

6 January 2025

Claire’s Corner

Claire Bowern | DIA 41:5 (2024)

20 December 2024

Evaluation between grammar and context: The case of blessings and curses

Nina Dobrushina | DIA 41:5 (2024)

Mutual predictiveness of sound correspondences for reconstruction and language subgrouping: The case of Gyalrongic preinitials

Yunfan Lai | DIA 41:5 (2024)

A diachronic account of Present Day Standard Danish stop gradation: Phonological reorganization through prosodically conditioned chain shifts and mergers

Rasmus Puggaard-Rode, Henrik Jørgensen & Camilla Søballe Horslund | DIA 41:5 (2024)

Some problems involving Proto-Mǐn onsets and new Old Chinese

Jonathan Smith

5 November 2024

The cycle of applicative in Tibetic: Lexicalization, grammaticalization and pragmaticization

Joanna Bialek & Camille Simon | DIA 41:4 (2024) pp. 437–481

Word order change in German infinitival complementation: The role of processing factors

Ilaria De Cesare, Sina Bosch, Claudia Felser & Ulrike Demske | DIA 41:5 (2024)

19 September 2024

Using acoustic-phonetic simulations to model historical sound change

Toby Hudson, Jonathan Wei & John Coleman | DIA 41:3 (2024) pp. 355–378

9 September 2024

Diachrony and Diachronica : 40@40

Claire Bowern, Margaret Thomas, Andrew Garrett, James Kirby, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Tamisha L. Tan, Terttu Nevalainen, Patience Epps & Don Daniels | DIA 41:4 (2024) pp. 556–574

The historical linguistics of signed languages

Claire Bowern | DIA 41:2 (2024) pp. 141–148

5 August 2024

Disappearing iconicity in the evolution of Polish Sign Language: The case of słodki ‘sweet’

Wiktor Eźlakowski | DIA 41:2 (2024) pp. 149–170

Ancient languages and algorithms: Demystifying new methods in historical linguistics

Erich R. Round | DIA 41:3 (2024) pp. 299–306

19 July 2024

Insubordination and what happens after it: Evidence from Hittite

Andrei V. Sideltsev | DIA 41:4 (2024) pp. 482–524

2 July 2024

The dialect chain tree

Erik Elgh & Harald Hammarström | DIA 41:3 (2024) pp. 307–329

An agent-based modelling approach to wave-like diversification of language families

Frederik Hartmann | DIA 41:3 (2024) pp. 330–354

Natural Language Processing for Ancient Greek: Design, advantages and challenges of language models

Silvia Stopponi, Nilo Pedrazzini, Saskia Peels-Matthey, Barbara McGillivray & Malvina Nissim | DIA 41:3 (2024) pp. 414–435

25 June 2024

A typological approach to language change in contact situations

Kaius Sinnemäki, Francesca Di Garbo, Ricardo Napoleão de Souza & T. Mark Ellison | DIA 41:3 (2024) pp. 379–413

13 June 2024

Mother left, Father right: Artificial signs and diachronic change in sign language dialects in Belgium and the Netherlands

Victoria Nyst & Anique Schüller | DIA 41:2 (2024) pp. 251–298

11 June 2024

An approach to path movement in the diachronic study of sign languages: Biomechanics and nonarbitrariness

Donna Jo Napoli & Nathan Sanders | DIA 41:2 (2024) pp. 203–250

Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40

Claire Bowern, John Charles Smith, Betsy Sneller, Meredith Tamminga, Jadranka Gvozdanović, John Goldsmith, Götz Keydana & Juliette Blevins | DIA 41:1 (2024) pp. 127–140

30 May 2024

On the dating of sound changes and its implications for language relationship: The case of Proto-Yeniseian *p- > Ket h-, Yugh f-

Simon Fries & Natalie Korobzow | DIA 41:4 (2024) pp. 525–555

25 April 2024

Reconstructing the decoupling of case and agreement in Old Hungarian: Evidence from epithets and names as syntactic fossils

Tamás Halm | DIA 41:1 (2024) p. 99

16 April 2024

Divergence-time estimation in Indo-European: The case of Latin

David Goldstein | DIA 41:1 (2024) pp. 1–45

7 March 2024

Disentangling Ancestral State Reconstruction in historical linguistics: Comparing classic approaches and new methods using Oceanic grammar

Hedvig Skirgård | DIA 41:1 (2024) pp. 46–98

Diachrony and Diachronica : 40@40

Claire Bowern, David Goldstein, George Walkden, Anne Breitbarth, Chelsea Sanker, Freek Van de Velde, Ranjan Sen & Aditi Lahiri | DIA 40:5 (2023) pp. 666–682

Claire’s corner

Claire Bowern | DIA 40:5 (2023) pp. 569–570

8 February 2024

Obituary: Terry Kaufman

Lyle Campbell & Sarah Grey Thomason | DIA 40:5 (2023) pp. 571–577

9 January 2024

Lost in translation: A historical-comparative reconstruction of Proto-Khoe-Kwadi based on archival data

Anne-Maria Fehn & Jorge Rocha | DIA 40:5 (2023) pp. 609–665

14 December 2023

Gender reduction in contact: The case of Romani in nineteenth-century Hungary

Márton A. Baló & Zuzana Bodnárová | DIA 40:5 (2023) pp. 578–608

11 December 2023

Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40

Claire Bowern, William Labov, Sali A. Tagliamonte, Nigel Vincent, Donald Ringe & Joseph Salmons | DIA 40:4 (2023) pp. 557–568

7 December 2023

Abrupt grammatical reorganization of an emergent sign language: The expression of motion in Zinacantec Family Homesign

Austin German | DIA 41:2 (2024) pp. 171–202

27 November 2023

Linguistic mechanisms of colour term evolution: A diachronic investigation of “Russian browns” buryj and koričnevyj

Vladimir V. Bochkarev, Anna V. Shevlyakova, Valery D. Solovyev, Ekaterina V. Rakhilina & Galina V. Paramei | DIA 40:4 (2023) pp. 492–531

26 September 2023

Realis morphology and Chatino’s role in the diversification of Zapotec languages

Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona | DIA 40:4 (2023) pp. 439–491

17 August 2023

Word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses: Corpus-based evidence from Indo-European

Yingqi Jing, Paul Widmer & Balthasar Bickel | DIA 40:4 (2023) pp. 532–556

19 July 2023

Papuan-Austronesian contact and the spread of numeral systems in Melanesia

Russell Barlow | DIA 40:3 (2023) pp. 287–340

5 May 2023

A terminological problem: Humboldt’s Universal

Laurie Bauer | DIA 40:3 (2023) pp. 433–437

24 March 2023

Lenition alternation in West Gyalrongic and its implications for Southeast Asian panchronic phonology

Yunfan Lai | DIA 40:3 (2023) pp. 341–383

6 February 2023

A multifaceted approach to understanding unexpected sound change: The bilabial trills of Vanuatu’s Malekula Island

Tihomir Rangelov, Mary Walworth & Julie Barbour | DIA 40:3 (2023) pp. 384–432

19 January 2023

The rise of middle voice systems: A study in diachronic typology

Guglielmo Inglese | DIA 40:2 (2023) pp. 195–237

28 November 2022

Large-scale computerized forward reconstruction yields new perspectives in French diachronic phonology

Clayton Marr & David Mortensen | DIA 40:2 (2023) pp. 238–285

18 November 2022

Claire’s Corner

Claire Bowern | DIA 39:5 (2022) pp. 609–612

Ernst Frideryk Konrad Koerner: In memoriam

Brian D. Joseph & Joseph Salmons | DIA 39:5 (2022) pp. 613–615

8 November 2022

Tracing semantic change with distributional methods: The contexts of algo

Patrícia Amaral, Hai Hu & Sandra Kübler | DIA 40:2 (2023) pp. 153–194

On the origins of multiple exponence in Crow

Edwin Ko | DIA 40:1 (2023) p. 73

16 September 2022

Agreement in Kadu: Inflectional merger as morphosyntactic abstraction

Matthew Baerman | DIA 40:1 (2023) pp. 1–29

23 August 2022

A history of the Basque prosodic systems

Ander Egurtzegi & Gorka Elordieta | DIA 40:1 (2023) pp. 30–72

19 August 2022

Reconstructing non-contrastive stress in Austronesian and the role of the mora in stress shift, gemination and vowel shift

Alexander D. Smith | DIA 40:1 (2023) pp. 111–152

13 June 2022

Continuity and change in the evolution of French yes-no questions: A cross-variety perspective

Philip Comeau, Ruth King & Carmen L. LeBlanc | DIA 39:5 (2022) pp. 616–657

1 June 2022

Correlated grammaticalization: The rise of articles in Indo-European

David Goldstein | DIA 39:5 (2022) pp. 658–706

Origins of Dogon NP tonosyntax

Jeffrey Heath | DIA 39:5 (2022) pp. 707–741

16 May 2022

Is Malayo-Polynesian a primary branch of Austronesian? A view from morphosyntax

Victoria Chen, Jonathan Kuo, Maria Kristina S. Gallego & Isaac Stead | DIA 39:4 (2022) pp. 449–489

26 April 2022

Copying form without content: Relexification in ordinary contact-induced change

Brigitte Pakendorf | DIA 39:4 (2022) pp. 525–564

8 April 2022

Drastic demographic events triggered the Uralic spread

Riho Grünthal, Volker Heyd, Sampsa Holopainen, Juha A. Janhunen, Olesya Khanina, Matti Miestamo, Johanna Nichols, Janne Saarikivi & Kaius Sinnemäki | DIA 39:4 (2022) pp. 490–524

25 March 2022

Preverbal a-marking in Palenquero Creole: Testing theories of grammaticalization, convergence, and inheritance

Hiram L. Smith | DIA 39:4 (2022) pp. 565–607

9 March 2022

The early history of clicks in Nguni

Hilde Gunnink | DIA 39:3 (2022) pp. 311–368

21 January 2022

Never just contact: The rise of final auxiliaries in Asia Minor Greek

Nicolaos Neocleous & Ioanna Sitaridou | DIA 39:3 (2022) pp. 369–408

Liquid polarity, positional contrast, and diachronic change: Clear and dark /r/ in Latin

Ranjan Sen & Nicholas Zair | DIA 39:3 (2022) pp. 409–448

19 January 2022

Environmental factors affect the evolution of linguistic subgroups in Borneo

Alexander D. Smith & Taraka Rama | DIA 39:2 (2022) pp. 193–225

The phonetic tone change *high > rising: Evidence from the Ngwi dialect laboratory

Cathryn Yang | DIA 39:2 (2022) pp. 226–267

17 November 2021

Claire’s corner

Claire Bowern | DIA 38:4 (2021) pp. 503–505

10 November 2021

Evidentiality in Selibu: A contact-induced emergence

Yang Zhou & Hiroyuki Suzuki | DIA 39:2 (2022) pp. 268–309

12 October 2021

Don Daniels. 2020. Grammatical reconstruction: The Sogeram languages of New Guinea

Reviewed by Russell Barlow | DIA 38:4 (2021) pp. 628–637

24 September 2021

Introduction: Aspects of Alignment Change

Eystein Dahl | DIA 38:3 (2021) pp. 303–313

23 September 2021

Weaving together the diverse threads of category change: Intersubjective ἀμέλει ‘of course’ and imperative particles in Ancient Greek

Ezra la Roi | DIA 39:2 (2022) pp. 159–192

14 September 2021

Bidirectionality between modal and conditional constructions in Mandarin Chinese: A constructionalization account

Yueh Hsin Kuo | DIA 39:1 (2022) p. 88

11 August 2021

Pathways to split ergativity: The rise of ergative alignment in Anatolian and Indo-Aryan

Eystein Dahl | DIA 38:3 (2021) pp. 413–456

10 August 2021

Typology and diachrony of converbs in Indo-Aryan

Krzysztof Stroński & Leonid Kulikov | DIA 38:3 (2021) pp. 457–501

23 July 2021

Two types of alignment change in nominalizations: Austronesian and Japanese

Edith Aldridge & Yuko Yanagida | DIA 38:3 (2021) pp. 314–357

Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-European alignment patterns

Gerd Carling & Chundra Cathcart | DIA 38:3 (2021) pp. 358–412

25 May 2021

A Bayesian approach to the classification of Tungusic languages

Sofia Oskolskaya, Ezequiel Koile & Martine Robbeets | DIA 39:1 (2022) pp. 128–158

11 May 2021

Persistent innovations and historical conspiracies as reanalysis and extension

Roslyn Burns | DIA 39:1 (2022) pp. 39–87

6 May 2021

Statistical evidence for the Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian hypothesis: A word-list approach integrating phonotactics

Juliette Blevins & Richard Sproat | DIA 38:4 (2021) pp. 506–564

23 April 2021

Reflex prediction: A case study of Western Kho-Bwa

Timotheus A. Bodt & Johann-Mattis List | DIA 39:1 (2022) pp. 1–38

15 March 2021

Loanwords vs relics: A new method in lexical borrowing studies exemplified by Yiddish-Slavic language contact

Ewa Geller & Michał Gajek | DIA 38:4 (2021) pp. 565–600

24 February 2021

Phonological change and interdialectal differences between Egyptian and Coptic: ḏ, ṯ → c = ϫ versus ḏ, ṯ → t = ⲧ

Marwan Kilani | DIA 38:4 (2021) pp. 601–627

2 February 2021

Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics

Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes, Claire Bowern & Erich R. Round | DIA 38:2 (2021) pp. 210–258

1 February 2021

The Tupí-Guaraní language family: A phylogenetic classification

Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi & Stanislav Reichert | DIA 38:2 (2021) pp. 151–188

An information structure scenario for V2 loss in Medieval French

Pierre Larrivée | DIA 38:2 (2021) pp. 189–209

The word order of negation in the history of Basque: A linguistic and sociolinguistic approach

Iker Salaberri | DIA 38:2 (2021) pp. 259–301

5 January 2021

The evolution of consonant mutation and noun class marking in Wolof

John T. M. Merrill | DIA 38:1 (2021) p. 64

21 December 2020

Phylogenies based on lexical innovations refute the Rung hypothesis

Guillaume Jacques & Thomas Pellard | DIA 38:1 (2021) pp. 1–24

10 December 2020

Claire’s Corner

Claire Bowern | DIA 37:4 (2020) pp. 447–450

4 December 2020

On the nature of inverse systems: The rise of inverse marking via antipassive constructions

Linda Konnerth | DIA 38:1 (2021) pp. 25–63

The loss of inflection as grammar complication: Evidence from Mainland Scandinavian

Helen Sims-Williams & Hans-Olav Enger | DIA 38:1 (2021) pp. 111–150

27 October 2020

Interrogatives as relativization markers in Indo-European

Sandra Auderset | DIA 37:4 (2020) pp. 474–513

7 September 2020

Verbal borrowability and turnover rates

Timofey Arkhangelskiy | DIA 37:4 (2020) pp. 451–473

5 August 2020

On the polymorphemic genesis of some Proto-Quechuan roots: Establishing and interpreting non-random form/meaning correspondences on the basis of a cross-linguistic polysemy network

Nicholas Q. Emlen & Johannes Dellert | DIA 37:3 (2020) pp. 318–367

3 August 2020

A long birth: The development of gender-specific paucal constructions in Russian

Tore Nesset | DIA 37:4 (2020) pp. 514–539

The distribution, reconstruction and varied fates of topographical deixis in Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan): Implications for the reconstruction of an early Trans-Himalayan environment

Mark W. Post | DIA 37:3 (2020) pp. 368–409

15 July 2020

Language sources and the reconstruction of early languages: Sociolinguistic discrepancies and evolution in Old French grammar

Brigitte L. M. Bauer | DIA 37:3 (2020) pp. 273–317

Palenquero origins: A tale of more than two languages

Mikael Parkvall & Bart Jacobs | DIA 37:4 (2020) pp. 540–576

Phylogenetic linguistic evidence and the Dene-Yeniseian homeland

Igor Yanovich | DIA 37:3 (2020) pp. 410–446

3 July 2020

r-Epenthesis and the bigrade alternation: The role of phonological distance in the regularization of Japanese verbal inflection

Brent de Chene | DIA 37:2 (2020) pp. 178–214

25 May 2020

The diachrony of participles in the (pre)history of Greek and Hittite: Losing and gaining functional structure

Laura Grestenberger | DIA 37:2 (2020) pp. 215–263

Agnete Nesse (ed). 2018. Norsk Språkhistorie IV: Tidslinjer

Reviewed by John D. Sundquist | DIA 37:2 (2020) pp. 264–271

10 April 2020

Anti-scope prefix order and zero-marked obliques: Unusual outcomes of a grammaticalization pathway

Brett Baker & Mark Harvey | DIA 37:2 (2020) pp. 133–177

7 April 2020

Grammaticalization without Feature Economy: Evidence from the Voice Cycle in Hungarian

Tamás Halm | DIA 37:1 (2020) pp. 1–42

A study of the development of the Chinese correlative comparative construction from the perspective of constructionalization

Fangqiong Zhan & Elizabeth Closs Traugott | DIA 37:1 (2020) p. 83

19 March 2020

Perfective marking conditioned by transitivity status in Western Mande: Constructional competition, specialization and merger

Dmitry Idiatov | DIA 37:1 (2020) pp. 43–82

10 February 2020

Walter Bisang & Andrej Malchukov. 2019. Unity and diversity in grammaticalization scenarios

Reviewed by Martin Hilpert | DIA 37:1 (2020) pp. 127–132

18 December 2019

Argument structure, conceptual metaphor and semantic change: How to succeed in Indo-European without really trying

Cynthia A. Johnson, Peter Alexander Kerkhof, Leonid Kulikov, Esther Le Mair & Jóhanna Barðdal | DIA 36:4 (2019) pp. 463–508

Rebracketing (Gliederungsverschiebung) and the Early Merge Principle

Helmut Weiß | DIA 36:4 (2019) pp. 509–545

The role of negation in the grammaticalization of ability verbs: The case of Iquito

Brianna Wilson & Cynthia Hansen | DIA 36:4 (2019) pp. 546–583

The role of frequency of use in lexical change: Evidence from Latin and Greek

Fiona M. Wilson, Panayiotis A. Pappas & Arne O. Mooers | DIA 36:4 (2019) pp. 584–612

Editorial: Claire’s Corner

DIA 36:4 (2019) pp. 461–462

17 September 2019

Significance testing of the Altaic family

Andrea Ceolin | DIA 36:3 (2019) pp. 299–336

Borrowing from an unrelated language in support of intragenetic tendencies: The case of the conditional clitic =sa in Udi

Timur Maisak | DIA 36:3 (2019) pp. 337–383

The role of atypical constellations in the grammaticalization of German and English passives

Elena Smirnova, Robert Mailhammer & Susanne Flach | DIA 36:3 (2019) pp. 384–416

Crosslinguistic trends in tone change: A review of tone change studies in East and Southeast Asia

Cathryn Yang & Yi Xu | DIA 36:3 (2019) pp. 417–459

22 July 2019

Reassessing the evolution of West Germanic preterite inflection

Isabeau De Smet & Freek Van de Velde | DIA 36:2 (2019) pp. 139–180

Loss of grammatical gender and language contact

Iván Igartua | DIA 36:2 (2019) pp. 181–221

Alignment change in Chukotkan: Further exploration of the pathways to ergativity

Jessica Kantarovich | DIA 36:2 (2019) pp. 222–261

Differential grammaticalization of copulas in Tsúùt’ínà and Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì

Nicholas Welch | DIA 36:2 (2019) pp. 262–293

Clifton Pye. 2017. The comparative method of language acquisition research

Reviewed by Danny Law | DIA 36:2 (2019) pp. 294–297

5 April 2019

Using phonotactics to reconstruct degrammaticalization: The origin of the Sirva pronoun be

Don Daniels | DIA 36:1 (2019) pp. 1–36

/h/ insertion as a ‘camouflage archaism’? Dialect contact, colonial lag and the feature pool in South Atlantic English

Daniel Schreier | DIA 36:1 (2019) pp. 37–65

The semantic development of borrowed derivational morphology: Change and stability in French-English language contact

Marion Schulte | DIA 36:1 (2019) pp. 66–99

Scouring the world for transgenetic interrelationships

James A. Matisoff | DIA 36:1 (2019) pp. 121–137

Sampling error in lexicostatistical measurements: A Slavic case study

Jan Feld & Alexander Maxwell | DIA 36:1 (2019) pp. 100–120

17 January 2019

Pragmatic differentiation of negative markers in the early stages of Jespersen’s cycle in North Germanic

Tam Blaxter & David Willis | DIA 35:4 (2018) pp. 451–486

Competing motivations in the diachronic nominalization of English gerunds

Lauren Fonteyn & Charlotte Maekelberghe | DIA 35:4 (2018) pp. 487–524

The evolution of word prosody in the Papuan languages of Eastern Timor

Tyler M. Heston | DIA 35:4 (2018) pp. 525–551

Language contact and prosodic change in Slavic and Baltic

Tijmen Pronk | DIA 35:4 (2018) pp. 552–580

Jottings

DIA 35:4 (2018) pp. 581–582

5 November 2018

A corpus approach to the history of Russian po delimitatives

Hanne Martine Eckhoff | DIA 35:3 (2018) pp. 338–366

Spoken Latin behind written texts: Formulaicity and salience in medieval documentary texts

Timo Korkiakangas | DIA 35:3 (2018) pp. 429–449

Non-configurationality in diachrony: Correlations in local and global networks of Ancient Greek and Latin

Edoardo Maria Ponti & Silvia Luraghi | DIA 35:3 (2018) pp. 367–392

Text form and grammatical changes in Medieval French: A treebank-based diachronic study

Alexandra Simonenko, Benoît Crabbé & Sophie Prévost | DIA 35:3 (2018) pp. 393–428

Split coordination in English: Why we need parsed corpora

Ann Taylor & Susan Pintzuk | DIA 35:3 (2018) pp. 310–337

The added value of diachronic treebanks for historical linguistics

Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi & Marco Passarotti | DIA 35:3 (2018) pp. 297–309

12 July 2018

A native origin for Present-Day English they, their, them

Marcelle Cole | DIA 35:2 (2018) pp. 165–209

Changing frequencies in a constructional landscape: The case of two epistemic constructions in Spanish

Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen | DIA 35:2 (2018) pp. 210–237

When grammaticalization does not occur: Prosody-syntax mismatches in Indo-Aryan

Uta Reinöhl & Antje Casaretto | DIA 35:2 (2018) pp. 238–276

Dene-Yeniseian: Progress and unanswered questions

Edward Vajda | DIA 35:2 (2018) pp. 277–295

16 April 2018

Areal pressure in grammatical evolution: An Indo-European case study

Chundra Cathcart, Gerd Carling, Filip Larsson, Niklas Johansson & Erich Round | DIA 35:1 (2018) pp. 1–34

On morphological internalization: The origin of the Old Irish oblique relative conjunct particle -(s)a^N-

Carlos García-Castillero | DIA 35:1 (2018) pp. 35–70

Have-progressive in Persian: A case of pattern replication?

Narges Nematollahi | DIA 35:1 (2018) pp. 144–156

The decade construction rivalry in Russian: Using a corpus to study historical linguistics

Tore Nesset & Anastasia Makarova | DIA 35:1 (2018) p. 71

Near done; awful stable; really changing: The suffixless adverb in dialects of the UK

Sali A. Tagliamonte | DIA 35:1 (2018) pp. 107–143

C. Elizabeth Goodin-Mayeda. 2016. Nasals and nasalization in Spanish and Portuguese: Perception, phonetics and phonology

Reviewed by Kenneth Wireback | DIA 35:1 (2018) pp. 157–164

9 February 2018

From middle to passive: A diachronic analysis of Korean -eci constructions

Mikyung Ahn & Foong Ha Yap | DIA 34:4 (2017) pp. 437–469

Reconstructing remote relationships: Proto-Australian noun class prefixation

Mark Harvey & Robert Mailhammer | DIA 34:4 (2017) pp. 470–515

The road to auxiliariness revisited: The grammaticalization of finish anteriors in Spanish

Malte Rosemeyer & Eitan Grossman | DIA 34:4 (2017) pp. 516–558

Don Chapman, Colette Moore & Miranda Wilcox. 2016. Studies in the History of the English Language VIII: Generalizing vs. particularizing methodologies in historical linguistic analysis

Reviewed by Felicia Jean Steele | DIA 34:4 (2017) pp. 577–584

Jottings

DIA 34:4 (2017) pp. 585–587

Old Chinese reconstruction: A response to Schuessler

William H. Baxter & Laurent Sagart | DIA 34:4 (2017) pp. 559–576

19 October 2017

Possessive inflection in Proto-Zamucoan: A reconstruction

Luca Ciucci & Pier Marco Bertinetto | DIA 34:3 (2017) pp. 283–330

Phonetically conditioned sound change: Contact induced /u/-fronting in Zuberoan Basque

Ander Egurtzegi | DIA 34:3 (2017) pp. 331–367

Semantic and cognitive factors of argument marking in ancient Indo-European languages

Carlotta Viti | DIA 34:3 (2017) pp. 368–419

The Indo-European controversy and Bayesian phylogenetic methods

Claire Bowern | DIA 34:3 (2017) pp. 421–436

20 July 2017

The development and typology of number suppletion in adjectives

Silva Nurmio | DIA 34:2 (2017) pp. 127–174

Where do antipassive constructions come from? A study in diachronic typology

Andrea Sansò | DIA 34:2 (2017) pp. 175–218

Chocó Spanish double negation and the genesis of the Afro-Hispanic dialects of the Americas

Sandro Sessarego | DIA 34:2 (2017) pp. 219–252

Areal features of Hittite conditionals: Consequences for the reconstruction of Indo-European

Marina Zorman | DIA 34:2 (2017) pp. 253–277

Peter K. Norquest. 2016. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Hlai

Reviewed by Graham Thurgood | DIA 34:2 (2017) pp. 278–281

25 April 2017

Competing modal periphrases in Spanish between the 16th and the 18th centuries: A diachronic variationist approach

José Luis Blas Arroyo & Kim Schulte | DIA 34:1 (2017) pp. 1–39

Language mixing and genetic similarity: The case of Tojol-ab’al

Danny Law | DIA 34:1 (2017) pp. 40–78

Modeling language family expansions

Søren Wichmann | DIA 34:1 (2017) p. 79

Virginia Hill & Gabriela Alboiu. 2015. Verb movement and clause structure in Old Romanian

Reviewed by Giuliana Giusti | DIA 34:1 (2017) pp. 103–109

Thomas Olander. 2015. Proto-Slavic Inflectional Morphology: A Comparative Handbook

Reviewed by Iván Igartua | DIA 34:1 (2017) pp. 110–116

Muriel Norde & Freek Van de Velde (eds.). 2016. Exaptation and Language Change

Reviewed by Roger Lass | DIA 34:1 (2017) pp. 117–126

31 December 2016

Mechanisms of paradigm leveling and the role of universal preferences in morphophonological change

David Fertig | DIA 33:4 (2016) pp. 423–460

A comparative perspective on the evolution of Romance clausal structure

Sam Wolfe | DIA 33:4 (2016) pp. 461–502

Sibilant sound change in the history of Portuguese: An information-theoretic approach

Andre Zampaulo | DIA 33:4 (2016) pp. 503–529

Martine Robbeets. 2015. Diachrony of verb morphology: Japanese and the Transeurasian languages

Reviewed by José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente | DIA 33:4 (2016) pp. 530–537

George E. Dunkel. 2014. Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und PronominalstämmeEinleitung, Terminologie, Lautgesetze, Adverbialendungen, Nominalsuffixe, Anhänge und IndicesLexikon

Reviewed by Brian D. Joseph | DIA 33:4 (2016) pp. 538–542

Michele Loporcaro. 2015. Vowel length from Latin to Romance

Reviewed by John M. Ryan | DIA 33:4 (2016) pp. 543–546

Joe’s jotting

Joseph C. Salmons | DIA 33:4 (2016) pp. 547–550

15 November 2016

From possession to obligation via shifting distributions and particular constructions

Joseph Bauman | DIA 33:3 (2016) pp. 297–329

The ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami: A case study in reduction of morphological complexity

Laura A. Janda & Lene Antonsen | DIA 33:3 (2016) pp. 330–366

Word order patterns in the Old High German right periphery and their Indo-European origins

Christopher Sapp | DIA 33:3 (2016) pp. 367–411

Zuzana Krinková. 2015. From Iberian Romani to Iberian Para-Romani varieties

Reviewed by Iván Igartua | DIA 33:3 (2016) pp. 412–416

Markus Schiegg. 2015. Frühmittelalterliche Glossen: Ein Beitrag zur Funktionalität und Kontextualität mittelalterlicher Schriftlichkeit

Reviewed by Joseph C. Salmons | DIA 33:3 (2016) pp. 417–422

23 August 2016

When something becomes a bit

Patrícia Amaral | DIA 33:2 (2016) pp. 151–186

Chindamani and reconstruction of Thai tones in the 17th century

Pittayawat Pittayaporn | DIA 33:2 (2016) pp. 187–219

The wider connections of Austronesian: A response to Blust (2009)

Laurent Sagart | DIA 33:2 (2016) pp. 255–281

Tone and registrogenesis in Quiaviní Zapotec

Hiroto Uchihara | DIA 33:2 (2016) pp. 220–254

Eva Skafte Jensen. 2011. Nominativ i gammelskånsk – Afvikling og udviklinger med udgangspunkt i Skånske Lov i Stockholm B 69 [Nominative in Middle Scanian: Dismantling and developments in the Scanian Law in Stockholm B 69]

Reviewed by Lars Heltoft | DIA 33:2 (2016) pp. 282–290

Annette Gerstenberg & Anja Voeste. 2015. Language development: The lifespan perspective

Reviewed by Markus Schiegg | DIA 33:2 (2016) pp. 291–296

12 May 2016

From ergative to comparee marker: Multiple reanalyses and polyfunctionality

Guillaume Jacques | DIA 33:1 (2016) pp. 1–30

Convergence in word structure: Revisiting agglutinative noun inflection in Cappadocian Greek

Petros Karatsareas | DIA 33:1 (2016) pp. 31–66

Whither Realis marking: Loss and specialization in an Oceanic language

Elizabeth Pearce | DIA 33:1 (2016) pp. 67–94

A single origin of Indo-European primary adpositions? Unveiling the Indo-Aryan branch-off

Uta Reinöhl | DIA 33:1 (2016) p. 95

Kristin Bech & Kristine Gunn Eide. 2014. Information structure and syntactic change in Germanic and Romance languages

Reviewed by Richard P. Ingham | DIA 33:1 (2016) pp. 131–137

George Walkden. 2014. Syntactic reconstruction and Proto-Germanic

Reviewed by Cynthia A. Johnson | DIA 33:1 (2016) pp. 138–143

Guus Kroonen. 2013. Etymological dictionary of Proto-Germanic

Reviewed by Marc Pierce | DIA 33:1 (2016) pp. 144–149

10 March 2016

Joe's Jottings

DIA 32:4 (2015) pp. 599–601

Venir de (+ infinitive): An immediate anteriority marker in French

Jacques Bres & Emmanuelle Labeau | DIA 32:4 (2015) pp. 530–570

Stability, stasis and change: The longue durée of intensification

Alexandra D'Arcy | DIA 32:4 (2015) pp. 449–493

Morphomes and predictability in the history of Romance perfects

Louise Esher | DIA 32:4 (2015) pp. 494–529

New Old Chinese

Axel Schuessler | DIA 32:4 (2015) pp. 571–598

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