Historical Linguistics 2023
Selected papers from the 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics,Heidelberg, 4-8 September 2023
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This collection of selected papers from the 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL26, held in Heidelberg on September 4-8, 2023) marks a milestone of 50 years since the inaugural conference of the International Society for Historical Linguistics (ISHL) in Edinburgh in 1973. It presents a wide range of contemporary trends in this vibrant and expanding area of linguistics. The topics include discussion of linguistic method, theory, principles of language change, explanation of pertinacity in change, historical sociolinguistics, language and cognition, and language contact, applied to empirical data from the different language levels, but also revealing interaction of levels such as between syntax and pragmatics. The contents include a discussion of reconstruction methods, of different kinds of expectancy, and of ideological backgrounds of language evaluation and acceptance. This volume also demonstrates the typological diversity of contemporary historical linguistics and some of the employed quantitative methods. The concluding chapter presents a overview of facts, figures and topics of fifty years of conferences on historical linguistics.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 371] Expected December 2026. vi, 428 pp. + index
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Table of Contents
- Editor’s introduction: Historical linguistics at ICHLJadranka Gvozdanović | pp. 1–12
- The Comparative Method does not need decolonizationKoen Bostoen | pp. 13–29
- Outliers in language variation and change: Atypical users of the variants of negation in Old and Early Middle HungarianKatalin Gugán | pp. 30–54
- A revolution in the history of affix formationCamiel Hamans | pp. 55–81
- Ambiguity avoidance vs. expectation sensitivity as functional factors in grammatical changeMartin Haspelmath | pp. 82–101
- The emergence of word-initial voiced plosives in Proto-HungarianSampsa Holopainen | pp. 102–120
- Another vista on 2nd-person singular -st in West Germanic: The role of supervescenceRichard D. Janda and Brian D. Joseph | pp. 121–139
- The dominant-recessive hypothesis does not account for overlapping suppletionMatthew L. Juge | pp. 140–157
- The diachrony of V2/V3 alternations in English: Interaction between syntax and pragmaticsAns van Kemenade | pp. 158–179
- Syntactic change: The word-order cyclePaul Kiparsky | pp. 180–241
- On the Bactrian influence on local languages of the HindukushJulian Kreidl | pp. 242–256
- Pertinacity in diachrony and synchronyAditi Lahiri, Joshua Booth, Isabella Fritz, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Johanneke Sytsema and Hilary Wynne | pp. 257–283
- Voice morphology and valency orientation in Indo-European: Μorphosyntactic isoglosses and contact-induced changesNikolaos Lavidas and Leonid Kulikov | pp. 284–311
- Historical linguistics and Ubuntu Translanguaging: Towards a model of multilingualism, language change and linguistic convergence in the Bantu linguistic areaLutz Marten | pp. 312–337
- The diachrony of anticausative strategies in IcelandicSigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir and Thórhallur Eythórsson | pp. 338–365
- Resolution and anacrusis in Ancient Nordic: A re-evaluation of runic metricsMichael Schulte | pp. 366–385
- Historical language contact in private texts: A case study of multilingual practices in AlsaceLena Sowada | pp. 386–410
- Retrospect: Fifty years of ICHL: 1973–2023John Charles Smith | pp. 411–428