Journal of Historical Linguistics

Volume 2, Issue 1 (2012)

2012. iii, 151 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.2.1

Table of Contents

Editors’ Corner	1
Readers’ Corner Pierluigi Cuzzolin	3–6
Articles
Nyikina paradigms and refunctionalization: A cautionary tale in morphological reconstruction Claire Bowern	7–24
Third-person possessive suffixes as definite articles in Semitic John Huehnergard and Na'ama Pat-El	25–51
Embedding Papiamentu in the mixed language debate Bart Jacobs	52–82
Mechanisms of language change in a functional system: The recent semantic evolution of English future time expressions Nadja Nesselhauf	83–132
Reviews
Review of Sapp (2011): The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German Reviewed by Evie Coussé	133–139
Review of Dufresne, Dupuis & Vocaj (2009): Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected Papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6-11 August 2007 Reviewed by Dag T.T. Haug	140–146
Review of Irwin (2011): Loanwords in Japanese Reviewed by David J. Iannucci	147–151

Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics