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: 38:1, available as of February 2021

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	Online-only	Print + online
Volume 38 (2021): 4 issues; ca. 580 pp.	EUR 316.00	EUR 366.00

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Available back-volumes

		Online-only	Print + online
Complete backset (Vols. 1‒37; 1984‒2020)	97 issues; 15,985 pp.	EUR 8,450.00	EUR 8,913.00
Volume 37 (2020)	4 issues; 580 pp.	EUR 316.00	EUR 366.00
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
Volume 30 (2013)	4 issues; 580 pp.	EUR 292.00	EUR 301.00
Volumes 28‒29 (2011‒2012)	4 issues; avg. 560 pp.	EUR 275.00 each	EUR 283.00 each
Volume 27 (2010)	3 issues; 495 pp.	EUR 253.00	EUR 261.00
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Issues

Online-first articles

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

1 February 2021

The Tupí-Guaraní language family : A phylogenetic classification

Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi & Stanislav Reichert

An information structure scenario for V2 loss in Medieval French

Pierre Larrivée

The word order of negation in the history of Basque : A linguistic and sociolinguistic approach

Iker Salaberri

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

10 April 2020

Anti-scope prefix order and zero-marked obliques : Unusual outcomes of a grammaticalization pathway

Brett Baker & Mark Harvey | DIA 37:2 (2020) pp. 133–177

7 April 2020

Grammaticalization without Feature Economy : Evidence from the Voice Cycle in Hungarian

Tamás Halm | DIA 37:1 (2020) pp. 1–42

A study of the development of the Chinese correlative comparative construction from the perspective of constructionalization

Fangqiong Zhan & Elizabeth Closs Traugott | DIA 37:1 (2020) p. 83

19 March 2020

Perfective marking conditioned by transitivity status in Western Mande : Constructional competition, specialization and merger

Dmitry Idiatov | DIA 37:1 (2020) pp. 43–82

10 February 2020

Walter Bisang & Andrej Malchukov . 2019. Unity and diversity in grammaticalization scenarios

Reviewed by Martin Hilpert | DIA 37:1 (2020) pp. 127–132

18 December 2019

Argument structure, conceptual metaphor and semantic change : How to succeed in Indo-European without really trying

Cynthia A. Johnson , Peter Alexander Kerkhof , Leonid Kulikov , Esther Le Mair & Jóhanna Barðdal | DIA 36:4 (2019) pp. 463–508

Rebracketing (Gliederungsverschiebung) and the Early Merge Principle

Helmut Weiß | DIA 36:4 (2019) pp. 509–545

The role of frequency of use in lexical change : Evidence from Latin and Greek

Fiona M. Wilson , Panayiotis A. Pappas & Arne O. Mooers | DIA 36:4 (2019) pp. 584–612

The role of negation in the grammaticalization of ability verbs : The case of Iquito

Brianna Wilson & Cynthia Hansen | DIA 36:4 (2019) pp. 546–583

Editorial : Claire’s Corner

DIA 36:4 (2019) pp. 461–462

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 simply 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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Available back-volumes

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Volume 31 (2014)

Volume 30 (2013)

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Volume 28 (2011)

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