In:Historical Linguistics 2023: Selected papers from the 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics,Heidelberg, 4-8 September 2023
Edited by Jadranka Gvozdanović
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 371] 2026
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Editor’s introduction: Historical linguistics at ICHL
Jadranka Gvozdanović
The Comparative Method does not need decolonization
Koen Bostoen
Outliers in language variation and change: Atypical users of the variants
of negation in Old and Early Middle Hungarian
of negation in Old and Early Middle Hungarian
Katalin Gugán
A revolution in the history of affix formation
Camiel Hamans
Ambiguity avoidance vs. expectation sensitivity as functional factors
in grammatical change
in grammatical change
Martin Haspelmath
The emergence of word-initial voiced plosives in Proto-Hungarian
Sampsa Holopainen
Another vista on 2nd-person singular -st in West
Germanic: The role of supervescence
Richard D. Janda
Brian D. Joseph
The dominant-recessive hypothesis does not account
for overlapping suppletion
for overlapping suppletion
Matthew L. Juge
The diachrony of V2/V3 alternations in English: Interaction between syntax and pragmatics
Ans van Kemenade
Syntactic change: The word-order cycle
Paul Kiparsky
On the Bactrian influence on local languages of the Hindukush
Julian Kreidl
Pertinacity in diachrony and synchrony
Aditi Lahiri
Joshua Booth
Isabella Fritz
Emily Lindsay-Smith
Johanneke Sytsema
Hilary Wynne
Voice morphology and valency orientation in Indo-European: Μorphosyntactic isoglosses and contact-induced changes
Nikolaos Lavidas
Leonid Kulikov
Historical linguistics and Ubuntu Translanguaging: Towards a model
of multilingualism, language change and linguistic convergence
in the Bantu linguistic area
of multilingualism, language change and linguistic convergence
in the Bantu linguistic area
Lutz Marten
The diachrony of anticausative strategies in Icelandic
Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir
Thórhallur Eythórsson
Resolution and anacrusis in Ancient Nordic:
A re-evaluation of runic metrics
A re-evaluation of runic metrics
Michael Schulte
Historical language contact in private texts: A case study
of multilingual practices in Alsace
of multilingual practices in Alsace
Lena Sowada
Retrospect: Fifty years of ICHL: 1973–2023
John Charles Smith
