Diachronica | International Journal for Historical Linguistics

Diachronica provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of information concerning all aspects of language change in any and all languages of the globe. Contributions which combine theoretical interest and philological acumen are especially welcome.

Diachronica appears four times per year, publishing articles, review articles, book reviews, and a miscellanea section including notes, reports and discussions.

Diachronica publishes its articles Online First.

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ISSN 0176-4225 | E-ISSN 1569-9714
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/dia

Sample issue: DIA 34:1

Board

Executive Editor

Claire Bowern | Yale University

Production Editor

Angela Terrill | Punctilious Editing Sweden

Book Review Editor

Matthew L. Juge | Texas State University

Associate Editors

Sheila Embleton | York University

Elly van Gelderen | Arizona State University

Brian D. Joseph | Ohio State University

Danny Law | University of Texas

Joseph C. Salmons | University of Wisconsin – Madison

Founding Editor

E.F.K. Koerner

Editorial Board

Enoch O. Aboh | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Quentin D. Atkinson | Auckland, New Zealand

Katrin Axel-Tober | Tübingen, Germany

Marlyse Baptista | Ann Arbor, Michigan

Lyle Campbell | Honolulu, Hawai'i

Ulrike Demske | Potsdam, Germany

Hendrik De Smet | Leuven, Belgium

Patience Epps | Austin, Texas

David Fertig | Buffalo, N.Y.

David Goldstein | UCLA

Alice C. Harris | Amherst, Massachusetts

Frans L. Hinskens | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Guillaume Jacques | Paris, France

Merja Kytö | Uppsala, Sweden

Michele Loporcaro | Zurich, Switzerland

Donka Minkova | Los Angeles, Calif.

Pittayawat Pittayaporn | Bangkok, Thailand

Martha Ratliff | Ann Arbor, Michigan

Sali A. Tagliamonte | Toronto, Canada

Freek Van de Velde | Leuven, Belgium

Foong Ha Yap | Hong Kong

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Current issue: 38:3, available as of September 2021

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Issues

Online-first articles

12 October 2021

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

Reviewed by Russell Barlow

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

14 September 2021

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

Yueh Hsin Kuo

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

11 May 2021

Persistent innovations and historical conspiracies as reanalysis and extension

Roslyn Burns

6 May 2021

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

Juliette Blevins & Richard Sproat

23 April 2021

Reflex prediction : A case study of Western Kho-Bwa

Timotheus A. Bodt & Johann-Mattis List

15 March 2021

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

Ewa Geller & Michał Gajek

24 February 2021

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

Marwan Kilani

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

Submission

Submitting to Diachronica

Diachronica welcomes submissions on all aspects of language change and reconstruction, including genetic relationships and classification. We especially seek work that combines new insights of theoretical interest with rigorous analysis of data. Papers should have a clearly diachronic orientation, as opposed to treating data from older languages synchronically.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative

Diachronica | International Journal for Historical Linguistics

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