Diachronica

Volume 23, Issue 1 (2006)

2006. iv, 230 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23.1

Table of Contents

Editorial	1–2
Articles / Aufsätze
[ATR] reversal in Jumjum Torben Andersen	3–28
Stuck in the forest: Trees, networks and Chinese dialects Mahé Ben Hamed and Feng Wang	29–60
The diachrony and synchrony of vowel quantity in English and Dutch B. Richard Page	61–104
Syntactic variation in the history of Norwegian and the decline of XV word order John D. Sundquist	105–141
Review article / Rapport critique / Forschungsberichte
What the creolist learns from Cantonese and Kabardian John H. McWhorter	143–184
Reviews / Comptes rendus / Besprechungen
Review of Bellwood & Renfrew (2002): Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis Reviewed by Robert L. Rankin	185–193
Review of Erdal (2004): A Grammar of Old Turkic Reviewed by Peter A. Michalove	193–195
Review of Lipski (2005): A History of Afro-Hispanic Language: Five centuries, five continents Reviewed by Nicholas Faraclas and Luis A. Ortiz López	196–200
Review of Lodge (2004): A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French Reviewed by Margaret E. Winters	200–206
Review of Matisoff (2003): Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and philosophy of Sino-Tibeto-Burman reconstruction Reviewed by Laurent Sagart	206–223
Review of Trudgill (2004): New Dialect Formation: The inevitability of colonial Englishes Reviewed by Donald N. Tuten	223–230

Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General