Journal of Historical Linguistics

Volume 1, Issue 1 (2011)

2011. iii, 143 pp.

Publishing status: Available

Table of Contents

The Editors’ Corner	1–2
Articles
Asymmetries in overt marking and directionality in semantic change Matthias Urban	3–47
On predicting contact-induced grammatical change: Evidence from Slavic languages Motoki Nomachi and Bernd Heine	48–76
Frequency effects and lexical split in the use of [t] and [s] and [d] and [z] in the Syrian Arabic of Christian rural migrants Rania Habib	77–105
Valency changes in the history of English Elly van Gelderen	106–143

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