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The Journal of Historical Linguistics aims to publish, after peer-review, papers that make a significant contribution to the theory and/or methodology of historical linguistics. Papers dealing with any language or language family are welcome. Papers should have a diachronic orientation and should offer new perspectives, refine existing methodologies, or challenge received wisdom, on the basis of careful analysis of extant historical data. We are especially keen to publish work which links historical linguistics to corpus-based research, linguistic typology, language variation, language contact, or the study of language and cognition, all of which constitute a major source of methodological renewal for the discipline and shed light on aspects of language change. Contributions in areas such as diachronic corpus linguistics or diachronic typology are therefore particularly welcome.
The Journal of Historical Linguistics publishes its articles Online First.
Latest articles
6 January 2025
Crosslinguistic perspectives on the source of first/second person pronouns: With special reference to demonstratives
Osamu Ishiyama
9 December 2024
Musk deer are inherited: The reconstruction of the onset *t.ɬj- in Proto-Gyalrongic
Yunfan Lai
When never meant ever
: The polarity item nunca in Old Portuguese
Clara Pinto
2 December 2024
How fear developed from an object to a subject experiencer verb: Remarks on argument structure change
Richard Zimmermann
29 November 2024
Reply to Kassian et al. (2023). Calibrated weighted permutation test detects ancient language connections in the
Circumpolar area (Chukotian-Nivkh and Yukaghir-Samoyedic)
Andrea Ceolin
11 November 2024
Auxiliaries in Old Dutch: A diachronic parallel corpus exploration
Evie Coussé, Gerlof Bouma & Nicoline van der Sijs
8 November 2024
West Iranian in historical perspective: The grammaticalization of *rādī ‘because of’
Ludwig Paul
26 August 2024
Ecuadorian Quechua and Quechuan classification
Simeon Floyd
8 August 2024
The syntactic and semantic promenade of the Spanish absolute construction along the Communicative
Continuum: A case of clause linkage in 15th—18th-century translations from Latin
Marie Molenaers
18 June 2024
The Ossetic transitive preterite: Typology, evolution, contact
Ronald I. Kim
3 June 2024
Variant patterns of sibilant debuccalization in Camuno: Phonetic implications of Eastern Lombard s > h for sound change typology
Juliette Blevins & Michela Cresci
21 May 2024
Gorani substrate within Kurdish: Evidence from southern dialects of Central Kurdish
Masoud Mohammadirad
13 May 2024
Visual perception verbs in Old Anatolian Turkish
Zeynep Erk Emeksiz & Julian Rentzsch
12 March 2024
Diachronic pathways to case marking alignment and what they mean for the explanation of synchronic cross-linguistic
patterns
Sonia Cristofaro | JHL 14:1 (2024) pp. 142–177
6 February 2024
The diachronic emergence of alignment cross‑linguistically: Theoretical and empirical perspectives
Sonia Cristofaro & Guglielmo Inglese | JHL 14:1 (2024) pp. 58–65
18 December 2023
Calibrated weighted permutation test detects ancient language connections in the Circumpolar area
(Chukotian-Nivkh and Yukaghir-Samoyedic)
Alexei S. Kassian, George Starostin, Mikhail Zhivlov & Sergey A. Spirin
13 November 2023
Lexico-semantic stability in the anatomical domain in the Mayan language family
David F. Mora-Marín, Megan Fletcher & Elizabeth Gorman
Yael Reshef. 2020. Historical Continuity in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew
Reviewed by Einat Gonen | JHL 14:3 (2024) pp. 472–478
30 October 2023
Nina Tahmasebi, Lars Borin, Adam Jatowt, Yang Xu & Simon Hengchen (eds.). 2021. Computational Approaches to Semantic Change
Reviewed by Christin Beck | JHL 14:2 (2024) pp. 376–384
18 September 2023
Balancing social determinism vs. sound change: The case of Fang
Roslyn Burns | JHL 15:1 (2025) pp. 132–172
28 August 2023
On the traces of “apples”, “plums”, and “pears”: Investigating a wanderword in ancient and modern Near Eastern languages
Marwan Kilani | JHL 15:1 (2025) p. 78
21 August 2023
Old English perspectives on the complement shift: Toward the desententialisation of self-manipulative verbs
Ana Elvira Ojanguren López | JHL 15:1 (2025) pp. 44–77
17 August 2023
Individual variation and frequency change in Early Modern Spanish: Alignment and intra-speaker (in)stability in a corpus of 18th century ego-documents
José Luis Blas Arroyo | JHL 15:1 (2025) pp. 1–43
Development of the word order of the reflexive enclitic sě/se dependent on a finite verb in Czech
translations of the Gospel of Matthew from the 14th to the 21st century
Radek Čech, Pavel Kosek, Olga Navrátilová & Ján Mačutek | JHL 14:3 (2024) pp. 385–426
15 August 2023
Alignment variations in the diachrony of Basque: The case of periphrastic constructions
Céline Mounole | JHL 14:1 (2024) pp. 108–141
27 June 2023
The spread of participial clauses in Biblical Greek: Semitic interference and multilingualism
Edoardo Nardi | JHL 14:3 (2024) pp. 427–471
30 May 2023
The tonal morphology of the potential in Coatec Zapotec (Di′zhke′): Implications for early Zapotecan tone, *ʔ, and verb classes through internal and comparative reconstruction
Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona | JHL 14:2 (2024) pp. 179–241
23 May 2023
Vowel shifts in Middle Wichi (Mataguayan family, South America)
Verónica Nercesian & Nicolás Arellano | JHL 14:2 (2024) pp. 242–303
16 May 2023
From oblique to core case in the Southern Min languages: The role of topic in the emergence of optional object marking in Sinitic
Hilary Chappell | JHL 14:1 (2024) p. 66
25 April 2023
Construct types in language change
Stefan Schneider | JHL 14:2 (2024) pp. 304–334
30 March 2023
Polarity reversal constructions and counterfactuals in Ancient Greek: Between implicature and conventionalization
Ezra la Roi | JHL 14:2 (2024) pp. 335–375
21 February 2023
‘Common nighthawk’ (Chordeiles minor) in Algonquian and Siouan languages
Vincent Collette | JHL 13:3 (2023) pp. 488–517
The ups and downs of relative particles in German diachrony: On loss, grammaticalization, and standardization
Ann-Marie Moser | JHL 13:3 (2023) pp. 461–487
Different functions of ‘rā’ in New Persian: A semantic map analysis
Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand & Mehdi Parizadeh | JHL 14:1 (2024) pp. 31–57
A diachronic analysis of Spanish alg- series and n- series items in negated clauses
Aaron Yamada | JHL 14:1 (2024) pp. 1–30
6 February 2023
Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal. 2020. The NP-strategy for Expressing Reciprocity: Typology, History, Syntax and Semantics
Reviewed by György Rákosi | JHL 13:3 (2023) pp. 518–526
1 December 2022
Editor’s Corner
JHL 12:3 (2022) pp. 335–336
22 November 2022
Relative construction in Hittite: A corpus-based case study in syntax-prosody interface
Ekaterina Lyutikova & Andrei Sideltsev | JHL 13:3 (2023) pp. 375–460
7 November 2022
Robert Crellin & Thomas Jügel (eds.). 2020. Perfects in IE Languages and Beyond
Reviewed by Thanasis Giannaris | JHL 12:3 (2022) pp. 511–519
4 November 2022
Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva & Haiping Long. 2021. The Rise of Discourse Markers
Reviewed by Angeliki Alvanoudi | JHL 12:3 (2022) pp. 504–510
26 September 2022
Phonological features of Caijia that are notable from a diachronic perspective
Man Hei Lee | JHL 13:1 (2023) p. 82
23 September 2022
Anticausatives in Classical Armenian
Petr Kocharov | JHL 13:2 (2023) pp. 255–294
21 September 2022
Regularity of semantic change in Romance anatomical terms
James Law | JHL 13:2 (2023) pp. 295–325
Children as agents of language change: Diachronic evidence from Latin American Spanish phonology
Israel Sanz-Sánchez & María Irene Moyna | JHL 13:3 (2023) pp. 327–374
16 August 2022
The historical dialectology of stative morphology in Zapotecan
Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona | JHL 13:1 (2023) pp. 115–172
19 July 2022
The negative cycle in Chinese: From synthetic to analytic and back to synthetic negation?
Barbara Meisterernst | JHL 13:1 (2023) pp. 35–81
15 July 2022
The emergence of conjunctions and phrasal coordination in Khanty
Lena Borise & Katalin É. Kiss | JHL 13:2 (2023) pp. 173–219
14 July 2022
On the reconstruction of contrastive secondary palatalization in Common Slavic
Florian Wandl & Darya Kavitskaya | JHL 13:2 (2023) pp. 220–254
21 June 2022
Diachronic developments in fricative + nasal sequences: A Tibeto-Burman case study
Katia Chirkova & Zev Handel | JHL 12:3 (2022) pp. 476–503
Erratic velars in West-Coastal Bantu: Explaining irregular sound change in Central Africa
Sara Pacchiarotti & Koen Bostoen | JHL 12:3 (2022) pp. 381–445
31 May 2022
There sentences in extreme southern Italy: On the rise of a “Greek-style” pattern
Alessandro De Angelis & Giulia Bucci | JHL 12:3 (2022) pp. 337–380
25 April 2022
Tracing semantic change in Portuguese: A distributional approach to adversative connectives
Patrícia Amaral, Zuoyu Tian, Dylan Jarrett & Juan Escalona Torres | JHL 13:1 (2023) pp. 1–34
21 April 2022
The origin of dative subjects and psych predicate constructions in Japanese
Yuko Yanagida | JHL 12:2 (2022) pp. 282–316
8 April 2022
The change in the grammatical category of the copula in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
Geoffrey Khan | JHL 12:3 (2022) pp. 446–475
14 March 2022
The marking of spatial relations on animate nouns in Basque: A diachronic quantitative corpus study
Dorota Krajewska | JHL 12:2 (2022) pp. 241–281
3 March 2022
Lotte Sommerer & Elena Smirnova (eds.). 2020. Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar
Reviewed by Tobias Ungerer | JHL 12:2 (2022) pp. 317–326
8 February 2022
Asyndetic complementation and referential integration in Spanish: A diachronic probabilistic grammar account
Giulia Mazzola, Bert Cornillie & Malte Rosemeyer | JHL 12:2 (2022) pp. 194–240
3 February 2022
The Neogrammarian hypothesis and pandemic irregularity
: Take two
Robert Blust | JHL 12:2 (2022) pp. 167–193
31 January 2022
Reichenbach meets underspecification: A novel approach to the perfect-past-cycle in German (and elsewhere)
Guido Seiler & Thilo Weber | JHL 12:1 (2022) pp. 108–166
11 January 2022
Margaret E. Winters. 2020. Historical Linguistics: A Cognitive Grammar Introduction
Reviewed by Isabeau De Smet | JHL 12:2 (2022) pp. 327–333
21 September 2021
Reviewing the history and development of aspiration in Eastern Balochi
Ali H. Birahimani | JHL 11:3 (2021) pp. 457–498
14 September 2021
Old Basque had */χ/, not /h/: Medieval data, implications for reconstruction and Basque-Romance contact effects
Julen Manterola & José Ignacio Hualde | JHL 11:3 (2021) pp. 421–456
8 September 2021
Lexical diachronic semantic maps: Mapping the evolution of time-related lexemes
Thanasis Georgakopoulos & Stéphane Polis | JHL 11:3 (2021) pp. 367–420
3 September 2021
Pathways of initial consonant loss: A Middle Paman case study
Jean-Christophe Verstraete | JHL 12:1 (2022) pp. 1–30
2 September 2021
Old English intensifiers: The beginnings of the English intensifier system
James M. Stratton | JHL 12:1 (2022) pp. 31–69
31 August 2021
Indexicality, semanticity and contact along the now < this time pathway
Thomas Leddy-Cecere | JHL 12:1 (2022) p. 70
2 August 2021
Pre- and postnominal onymic genitives in (Early) New High German: A multifactorial analysis
Tanja Ackermann | JHL 11:3 (2021) pp. 499–533
23 July 2021
Syntactic conditions on accusative to ergative alignment change in Austronesian languages
Edith Aldridge | JHL 11:2 (2021) pp. 214–247
Alignment shift as functional markedness reversal
Katarzyna Janic & Charlotte Hemmings | JHL 11:2 (2021) pp. 299–341
Source constructions as a key to alignment change: The case of Aramaic
Paul M. Noorlander | JHL 11:2 (2021) pp. 248–298
“Non-coordinating UND” in Middle and Early New High German
Sophia Jana Oppermann | JHL 11:2 (2021) pp. 159–208
Luca Alfieri, Maria Carmela Benvenuto, Claudia Angela Ciancaglini, Paolo Milizia & Flavia Pompeo (Eds.). 2018. Linguistica, filologia e storia culturale. In ricordo di Palmira Cipriano
Reviewed by Chiara Fedriani | JHL 11:2 (2021) pp. 348–356
Robert Mailhammer & Theo Vennemann. 2019. The Carthaginian North: Semitic Influence on Early Germanic: A Linguistic and Cultural Study
Reviewed by Nelson Goering | JHL 11:2 (2021) pp. 357–366
Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef & Moshe Taube (eds.). 2019. Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew
Reviewed by Yaron Matras | JHL 11:2 (2021) pp. 342–347
Introduction to the special thematic section: Perspectives on alignment change
Eystein Dahl | JHL 11:2 (2021) pp. 209–213
16 April 2021
The Duhumbi perspective on Proto-Western Kho-Bwa onsets
Timotheus Adrianus Bodt | JHL 11:1 (2021) pp. 1–59
Modeling gradient processes in Polabian vowel chain shifting and blocking
Roslyn Burns | JHL 11:1 (2021) pp. 102–142
Clitic pronouns in Archaic Chinese
Redouane Djamouri & Waltraud Paul | JHL 11:1 (2021) p. 60
Nathan W. Hill. 2019. The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese
Reviewed by Guillaume Jacques | JHL 11:1 (2021) pp. 143–158
8 December 2020
Clitic position in Old Occitan affirmative verb-first declaratives coordinated by e
: A variationist analysis
Bryan Donaldson | JHL 10:3 (2020) pp. 389–426
Stress in real time: The noun–verb stress contrast and the rhythmic context hypothesis in the history of English
Klaus Hofmann | JHL 10:3 (2020) pp. 452–486
The empirical reality of bridging contexts: Strong polarity contexts as the transition between NPIs and n-words
Pierre Larrivée & Amel Kallel | JHL 10:3 (2020) pp. 427–451
Productivity, richness, and diversity of light verb constructions in the history of American English
John D. Sundquist | JHL 10:3 (2020) pp. 349–388
Editor’s Corner
JHL 10:3 (2020) pp. 347–348
21 August 2020
Continuity and change in the aspect systems of Vedic and Latin
Eystein Dahl | JHL 10:2 (2020) pp. 325–345
The history of tense and aspect in the Sogeram family
Don Daniels | JHL 10:2 (2020) pp. 167–208
Kisikongo (Bantu, H16a) present-future isomorphism: A diachronic conspiracy between semantics and phonology
Sebastian Dom, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver & Koen Bostoen | JHL 10:2 (2020) pp. 251–288
Development of aspect markers in Arandic languages, with notes on associated motion
Harold Koch | JHL 10:2 (2020) pp. 209–250
Historical change in the Japanese tense-aspect system
Heiko Narrog | JHL 10:2 (2020) pp. 289–324
Introduction: Development of tense and aspect systems
Jadranka Gvozdanović | JHL 10:2 (2020) pp. 153–166
25 May 2020
A probabilistic assessment of the Indo-Aryan Inner–Outer Hypothesis
Chundra A. Cathcart | JHL 10:1 (2020) pp. 42–86
Homorganic Cluster Lengthening, Pre-Cluster Shortening and Preference-based change in Early English
William W. Kruger | JHL 10:1 (2020) p. 87
From locative existential construction fi(ih) to a TMA/progressive marker: Grammaticalization of fi(ih) in Gulf Arabic Pidgin
Yahya Abdu A. Mobarki | JHL 10:1 (2020) pp. 111–135
Grammaticalization of reflexivity in Basque: A corpus-based diachronic and typological analysis
Iker Salaberri | JHL 10:1 (2020) pp. 1–41
Adam Ledgeway & Ian Roberts (eds.). 2017. The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax
Reviewed by Cristina Sánchez López | JHL 10:1 (2020) pp. 143–152
Elly van Gelderen (ed.). 2016. Cyclical Change Continued
Reviewed by Keith Tse | JHL 10:1 (2020) pp. 136–142
2 March 2020
Diachrony of code switching stages in medieval business accounts: The Mercers’ livery company of London
José Miguel Alcolado Carnicero | JHL 9:3 (2019) pp. 378–416
Morphological exceptionality and pathways of change
Parker L. Brody | JHL 9:3 (2019) pp. 315–339
A privative derivational source for standard negation in Lokono (Arawakan)
Konrad Rybka & Lev Michael | JHL 9:3 (2019) pp. 340–377
Carlotta Viti. 2015. Variation und Wandel in der Syntax der alten indogermanischen Sprachen
Reviewed by Guglielmo Inglese | JHL 9:3 (2019) pp. 417–422
Editor’s corner
JHL 9:3 (2019) pp. 313–314
29 October 2019
Isoglosses and subdivisions of Iranian
Agnes Korn | JHL 9:2 (2019) pp. 239–281
Negation in Kulina: A double polarity swap
Olga Krasnoukhova & Johan van der Auwera | JHL 9:2 (2019) pp. 208–238
The radically isolating languages of Flores: A challenge to diachronic theory
John M. McWhorter | JHL 9:2 (2019) pp. 177–207
The origin of purpose clause markers in Proto-Omagua-Kukama
Zachary O’Hagan | JHL 9:2 (2019) pp. 282–312
2 July 2019
When the waves meet the trees: A response to Jacques and List
Siva Kalyan & Alexandre François | JHL 9:1 (2019) pp. 168–177
Subgrouping the Sogeram languages: A critical appraisal of Historical Glottometry
Don Daniels, Danielle Barth & Wolfgang Barth | JHL 9:1 (2019) p. 92
Visualizing the Boni dialects with Historical Glottometry
Alexander Elias | JHL 9:1 (2019) pp. 70–91
Save the trees: Why we need tree models in linguistic reconstruction (and when we should apply them)
Guillaume Jacques & Johann-Mattis List | JHL 9:1 (2019) pp. 128–167
Detecting non-tree-like signal using multiple tree topologies
Annemarie Verkerk | JHL 9:1 (2019) p. 9
Problems with, and alternatives to, the tree model in historical linguistics
Siva Kalyan, Alexandre François & Harald Hammarström | JHL 9:1 (2019) pp. 1–8
13 March 2019
The origin of English clause-initial quotative inversion
Anna Cichosz | JHL 8:3 (2018) pp. 318–355
Four directionalities for grammaticalization: Evidence for new diachronic paths
Concepción Company Company | JHL 8:3 (2018) pp. 356–387
Swimming against the typological tide or paddling along with language change? Dispreferred structures and diachronic biases in affix ordering
Eitan Grossman & Stéphane Polis | JHL 8:3 (2018) pp. 388–443
Editors’ corner
JHL 8:3 (2018) p. 317
27 December 2018
Re-evaluating the reconstruction of Proto-Eskimo-Aleut
Anna Berge | JHL 8:2 (2018) pp. 230–272
An analysis of morphosyntactic variation in the Old Spanish future and conditional
Lamar A. Graham | JHL 8:2 (2018) pp. 192–229
The replacement of diminutive suffixes in the New High German period: A time series analysis in word formation
Alfred Lameli | JHL 8:2 (2018) pp. 273–316
Imperfect language learning vs. dynamic sound change: The shift [i]>[e] in the verbal template hifʕil in Modern Hebrew
Yael Reshef & Einat Gonen | JHL 8:2 (2018) pp. 169–191
20 July 2018
Historical change in reported speech constructions in the Chapacuran family
Joshua Birchall | JHL 8:1 (2018) p. 7
The development of the portmanteau verbal morphology in Ecuadorian Siona: A story of the formal merger of linguistic categories
Martine Bruil | JHL 8:1 (2018) pp. 128–167
The evolution of subject-verb agreement in Eastern Tukanoan
Thiago Costa Chacon & Lev Michael | JHL 8:1 (2018) pp. 59–94
From object nominalization to object focus: The innovative A-alignment in the Tuparian languages (Tupian family)
Ana Vilacy Galucio & Antônia Fernanda de Souza Nogueira | JHL 8:1 (2018) p. 95
The Piaroa subject marking system and its diachrony
Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada | JHL 8:1 (2018) pp. 31–58
The evolution of argument coding patterns in South American languages
Spike Gildea & Antoine Guillaume | JHL 8:1 (2018) pp. 1–6
26 January 2018
Odd conditions: Context-sensitive sound change in unexpected contexts
Robert Blust | JHL 7:3 (2017) pp. 322–371
The diachrony of Spanish haber/hacer + time: A quantitative corpus-based approach to grammaticalization
Borja Herce | JHL 7:3 (2017) pp. 276–321
Patterns of affix borrowing in a sample of 100 languages
Frank Seifart | JHL 7:3 (2017) pp. 389–431
A corpus-based investigation of language change in Italian: The case of grazie/ringraziare di and grazie/ringraziare per
Lorella Viola | JHL 7:3 (2017) pp. 372–388
Editors’ Corner
JHL 7:3 (2017) p. 275
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Jacqueline Visconti (eds.). 2014. The Diachrony of Negation
Reviewed by Juan Eugenio Briceño | JHL 7:3 (2017) pp. 432–444
23 November 2017
Evidential adverbs in German: Diachronic development and present-day meaning
Katrin Axel-Tober & Kalle Müller | JHL 7:1-2 (2017) p. 9
The rise and development of parenthetical needless to say
: An assumed evidential strategy
Zeltia Blanco-Suárez & Mario Serrano-Losada | JHL 7:1-2 (2017) pp. 134–159
The grammaticalization of epistemicity in Ibero-Romance: Alike processes, unlike outcomes
Alice Corr | JHL 7:1-2 (2017) pp. 48–76
From verum to epistemic modality and evidentiality: On the emergence of the Spanish Adv+C construction
Anna Kocher | JHL 7:1-2 (2017) p. 77
The grammaticalization of Dutch klinken
Marjolein Poortvliet | JHL 7:1-2 (2017) pp. 190–212
From visual perception to inference in the French evidential markers il m’est avis que, apparemment, and il paraît que
Amalia Rodríguez-Somolinos | JHL 7:1-2 (2017) pp. 111–133
On English turn out and Spanish resultar mirative constructions: A case of ongoing grammaticalization?
Mario Serrano-Losada | JHL 7:1-2 (2017) pp. 160–189
Miratives in Japanese: The rise of mirative markers via grammaticalization
Masaharu Shimada & Akiko Nagano | JHL 7:1-2 (2017) pp. 213–244
The evolution of egophoricity and evidentiality in the Himalayas: The case of Bunan
Manuel Widmer | JHL 7:1-2 (2017) pp. 245–274
The rise and development of evidential and epistemic markers
Silvio Cruschina & Eva-Maria Remberger | JHL 7:1-2 (2017) pp. 1–8
2 March 2017
The rise and fall of a minor category: The case of the Welsh numerative
Silva Nurmio & David Willis | JHL 6:2 (2016) pp. 297–339
A prosody-controlled semi-vowel alternation in Yukaghir
Peter Sauli Piispanen | JHL 6:2 (2016) pp. 247–296
Stressed vowel assimilation to palatal consonants in early Romance
Daniel Recasens | JHL 6:2 (2016) pp. 201–246
Accounting for variability in Malayo-Polynesian pronouns: Paradigmatic instability or drift?
Lawrence A. Reid | JHL 6:2 (2016) pp. 130–164
Tracking semantic change in fl- monomorphemes in the Oxford English Dictionary
Chris A. Smith | JHL 6:2 (2016) pp. 165–200
John Lowe. 2016. Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit. The syntax and semantics of adjectival verb forms
Reviewed by Eystein Dahl | JHL 6:2 (2016) pp. 340–346
Editors’ Corner
JHL 6:2 (2016) p. 129
29 September 2016
The rise and fall of a change from below in Early Modern Spanish: The periphrasis deber de + infinitive in texts of linguistic immediacy
José Luis Blas Arroyo | JHL 6:1 (2016) pp. 1–31
How the accusative became the relative: A Samoyedic key to the Eskimo-Uralic relationship?
Michael Fortescue | JHL 6:1 (2016) pp. 72–92
Nesset, Tore. 2015. How Russian Came To Be the Way It Is: A Student’s Guide to the History of the Russian Language
Iván Igartua | JHL 6:1 (2016) pp. 114–123
Gothic evidence for the pronunciation of Greek in the fourth century AD: Transcription comparison method
Ville Leppänen | JHL 6:1 (2016) p. 93
Operstein, Natalie & Aaron Huey Sonnenschein, eds. 2015. Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, Diachrony, Typology
Enrique L. Palancar | JHL 6:1 (2016) pp. 124–127
The problem of the Old Finnish passive
Merlijn de Smit | JHL 6:1 (2016) pp. 32–71
11 February 2016
Editors’ corner
JHL 5:2 (2015) pp. 175–176
On the mechanisms of the grammaticalization of comitative and instrumental categories in Slavic
Andrii Danylenko | JHL 5:2 (2015) pp. 267–296
Clause-final negative markers in Bobo and Samogo: Parallel evolution and contact
Dmitry Idiatov | JHL 5:2 (2015) pp. 235–266
The history of the quasi-auxiliary use(d) to
: A usage-based account
Jakob Neels | JHL 5:2 (2015) pp. 177–234
Renato Oniga. 2014. Latin: A Linguistic Introduction
Reviewed by Juan Mendózar Cruz | JHL 5:2 (2015) pp. 307–310
Christopher Ehret. 2011. History and the Testimony of Language
Reviewed by Natalie Operstein & Amber Clontz | JHL 5:2 (2015) pp. 303–306
Tore Janson. 2012. The History of Language: An Introduction
Reviewed by Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa | JHL 5:2 (2015) pp. 297–302
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| Volume 7 (2017) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR |
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| Volume 6 (2016) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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| Volume 5 (2015) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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| Volume 4 (2014) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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| Volume 3 (2013) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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Submission
The Journal of Historical Linguistics offers online submission. Please consult the Short Guide to EM for Authors before you submit your paper. Regular mail submissions are also considered, in which case two hard copies should be sent. See below for contact information.
At the initial stage in the process, it is not yet necessary that submissions adhere to the journal's style sheet. Texts should be double-spaced, printed on one side of the page only, with all pages numbered consecutively. Figures, charts and tables can be left in the appropriate place in the manuscript. In order to permit double-blind refereeing, submissions should not carry author information. Contributors who are not native speakers of English should have their manuscript carefully checked by a native speaker.
Please note that any material submitted to JHL must be original work, not published or under review elsewhere, and contributors may not submit this work elsewhere while it is under review for this journal. If related material has been published or is under consideration or in press elsewhere, that must be disclosed to the editors. Similarly, if part of a contribution has appeared or will appear elsewhere, contributors must specify the details in a cover letter accompanying the submission.
If your paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to submit a final version prepared according to the JHL Stylesheet (PDF).
Contact information:
| General Editors | Review Editor |
| Silvia Luraghi | Thanasis Georgakopoulos |
silvia.luraghi unipv.it |
athanasphilgmail.com |
| Eitan Grossman | |
| eitan.grossmanmail.huji.ac.il |
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Subjects
Linguistics
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative