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 | University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Book Review Editor

Matthew L. Juge | Texas State University

Associate Editors

Sheila Embleton | York University

Elly van Gelderen | Arizona State University

Brian D. Joseph | The 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

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: 39:2, available as of March 2022

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Volume 39 (2022): 5 issues; ca. 725 pp.	EUR 356.00	EUR 412.00

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Complete backset (Vols. 1‒38; 1984‒2021)	101 issues; 16,565 pp.	EUR 8,766.00	EUR 9,279.00
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Volume 36 (2019)	4 issues; 580 pp.	EUR 310.00	EUR 359.00
Volume 35 (2018)	4 issues; 580 pp.	EUR 301.00	EUR 349.00
Volume 34 (2017)	4 issues; 580 pp.	EUR 292.00	EUR 339.00
Volume 33 (2016)	4 issues; 580 pp.	EUR 292.00	EUR 329.00
Volume 32 (2015)	4 issues; 580 pp.	EUR 292.00	EUR 319.00
Volume 31 (2014)	4 issues; 580 pp.	EUR 292.00	EUR 310.00
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Issues

Online-first articles

16 May 2022

Is Malayo-Polynesian a primary branch of Austronesian? A view from morphosyntax

Victoria Chen , Jonathan Kuo , Maria Kristina S. Gallego & Isaac Stead

26 April 2022

Copying form without content : Relexification in ordinary contact-induced change

Brigitte Pakendorf

8 April 2022

Drastic demographic events triggered the Uralic spread

Riho Grünthal , Volker Heyd , Sampsa Holopainen , Juha A. Janhunen , Olesya Khanina , Matti Miestamo , Johanna Nichols , Janne Saarikivi & Kaius Sinnemäki

25 March 2022

Preverbal a-marking in Palenquero Creole : Testing theories of grammaticalization, convergence, and inheritance

Hiram L. Smith

9 March 2022

The early history of clicks in Nguni

Hilde Gunnink

21 January 2022

Never just contact : The rise of final auxiliaries in Asia Minor Greek

Nicolaos Neocleous & Ioanna Sitaridou

Liquid polarity, positional contrast, and diachronic change : Clear and dark /r/ in Latin

Ranjan Sen & Nicholas Zair

19 January 2022

Environmental factors affect the evolution of linguistic subgroups in Borneo

Alexander D. Smith & Taraka Rama | DIA 39:2 (2022) pp. 193–225

The phonetic tone change *high > rising : Evidence from the Ngwi dialect laboratory

Cathryn Yang | DIA 39:2 (2022) pp. 226–267

17 November 2021

Claire’s corner

Claire Bowern | DIA 38:4 (2021) pp. 503–505

10 November 2021

Evidentiality in Selibu : A contact-induced emergence

Yang Zhou & Hiroyuki Suzuki | DIA 39:2 (2022) pp. 268–309

12 October 2021

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

Reviewed by Russell Barlow | DIA 38:4 (2021) pp. 628–637

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 | DIA 39:2 (2022) pp. 159–192

14 September 2021

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

Yueh Hsin Kuo | DIA 39:1 (2022) p. 88

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 | DIA 39:1 (2022) pp. 128–158

11 May 2021

Persistent innovations and historical conspiracies as reanalysis and extension

Roslyn Burns | DIA 39:1 (2022) pp. 39–87

6 May 2021

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

Juliette Blevins & Richard Sproat | DIA 38:4 (2021) pp. 506–564

23 April 2021

Reflex prediction : A case study of Western Kho-Bwa

Timotheus A. Bodt & Johann-Mattis List | DIA 39:1 (2022) pp. 1–38

15 March 2021

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

Ewa Geller & Michał Gajek | DIA 38:4 (2021) pp. 565–600

24 February 2021

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

Marwan Kilani | DIA 38:4 (2021) pp. 601–627

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

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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