Journal of Historical Linguistics

Online-first articles

The following articles have been published online-first, and have not yet been published in an issue.

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 and Sergey A. Spirin | 19 pp.

13 November 2023

Review of Reshef (2020): Historical Continuity in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew
Einat Gonen | 7 pp.
Lexico-semantic stability in the anatomical domain in the Mayan language family
David Mora Marín, Megan Fletcher and Elizabeth Gorman | 61 pp.

30 October 2023

Review of Tahmasebi, Borin, Jatowt, Xu & Hengchen (2021): Computational Approaches to Semantic Change
Christin Beck | 9 pp.

18 September 2023

Balancing social determinism vs. sound change: The case of Fang
Roslyn Burns | 41 pp.

28 August 2023

On the traces of “apples”, “plums”, and “pears” Investigating a wanderword in ancient and modern Near Eastern languages
Marwan Kilani | 54 pp.

21 August 2023

Old English perspectives on the complement shift: Toward the desententialisation of self-manipulative verbs
Ana Elvira Ojanguren López | 34 pp.

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 | 43 pp.
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 Dontcheva-Navrátilová and Jan Mačutek | 42 pp.

27 June 2023

The spread of participial clauses in Biblical Greek: Semitic interference and multilingualism
Edoardo Nardi | 45 pp.

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 | 63 pp.

23 May 2023

Vowel shifts in Middle Wichi (Mataguayan family, South America)
Verónica Nercesian and Nicolás Arellano | 62 pp.

25 April 2023

Construct types in language change
Stefan Schneider | 31 pp.

30 March 2023

Polarity reversal constructions and counterfactuals in Ancient Greek: Between implicature and conventionalization
Ezra la Roi | 41 pp.