Diachronica

Volume 36, Issue 1 (2019)

2019. iii, 137 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.36.1

Table of Contents

Articles / Aufsätze

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

Don Daniels | pp. 1–36
/h/ insertion as a ‘camouflage archaism’? Dialect contact, colonial lag and the feature pool in South Atlantic English

Daniel Schreier | pp. 37–65
The semantic development of borrowed derivational morphology: Change and stability in French-English language contact

Marion Schulte | pp. 66–99

Notes / Notizen — Discussion / Diskussion

Sampling error in lexicostatistical measurements: A Slavic case study

Jan Feld and Alexander Maxwell | pp. 100–120

Review article / Rapport critique / Forschungsbericht

Scouring the world for transgenetic interrelationships

James A. Matisoff | pp. 121–137

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Subjects & Metadata

BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009010 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative