Journal of Historical Linguistics

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.

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ISSN 2210-2116 | E-ISSN 2210-2124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl

Sample issue: JHL 7:3

Board

General Editor

Silvia Luraghi | University of Pavia | silvia.luraghi

unipv.it

Review Editor

Thanasis Georgakopoulos | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | athanasphil

gmail.com

Associate Editors

Eleanor Coghill | Uppsala University

Eitan Grossman | Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Johann-Mattis List | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

Erich Round | The University of Queensland

Matthias Urban | University of Tübingen

Jean-Christophe Verstraete | KU Leuven

Consulting Editor

Joseph C. Salmons | University of Wisconsin

Founding Editors

Silvia Luraghi | University of Pavia

Jóhanna Barðdal | Ghent University

Eugenio R. Luján | University of Madrid Complutense

Advisory Board

Claire Bowern | Yale University

Concepción Company Company | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Wolfgang U. Dressler | Austrian Academy of Sciences

Thórhallur Eythórsson | University of Iceland

Jan Terje Faarlund | University of Oslo

Elly van Gelderen | Arizona State University

Dag T.T. Haug | University of Oslo

Bernd Heine | University of Cologne

Willem B. Hollmann | Lancaster University

Paul J. Hopper | Carnegie Mellon University

Ritsuko Kikusawa | National Museum of Ethnology, Japan

Harold Koch | Australian National University

Leonid Kulikov | Ghent University

Rosemarie Lühr | University of Jena

Marianne Mithun | University of California, Santa Barbara

Geoffrey S. Nathan | Wayne State University

Muriel Norde | Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

John Charles Smith | University of Oxford

Elizabeth Closs Traugott | Stanford University

Ans M.C. van Kemenade | Radboud University, Nijmegen

Margaret E. Winters | Wayne State University

Editorial Assistant

Honor Lundt | The Ohio State University

Subscription Info

Current issue: 12:2, available as of May 2022

Next issue: 12:3, expected December 2022

General information about our electronic journals.

Subscription rates

All prices for print + online include postage/handling.

	Online-only	Print + online
Volume 13 (2023): 3 issues; ca. 450 pp.	EUR 222.00	EUR 262.00
Volume 12 (2022): 3 issues; ca. 450 pp.	EUR 222.00	EUR 257.00

Individuals may apply for a special subscription rate of EUR 60.00 (online‑only: EUR 55.00)
Private subscriptions are for personal use only, and must be pre-paid and ordered directly from the publisher.

Available back-volumes

		Online-only	Print + online
Complete backset (Vols. 1‒11; 2011‒2021)	27 issues; 4,050 pp.	EUR 2,060.00	EUR 2,289.00
Volumes 10‒11 (2020‒2021)	3 issues; avg. 450 pp.	EUR 222.00 each	EUR 257.00 each
Volume 9 (2019)	3 issues; 450 pp.	EUR 218.00	EUR 252.00
Volume 8 (2018)	3 issues; 450 pp.	EUR 212.00	EUR 245.00
Volume 7 (2017)	3 issues; 450 pp.	EUR 206.00	EUR 238.00
Volume 6 (2016)	2 issues; 300 pp.	EUR 165.00	EUR 185.00
Volume 5 (2015)	2 issues; 300 pp.	EUR 165.00	EUR 180.00
Volume 4 (2014)	2 issues; 300 pp.	EUR 165.00	EUR 175.00
Volume 3 (2013)	2 issues; 300 pp.	EUR 165.00	EUR 170.00
Volumes 1‒2 (2011‒2012)	2 issues; avg. 300 pp.	EUR 160.00 each	EUR 165.00 each

Issues

22 November 2022

Relative construction in Hittite : A corpus-based case study in syntax-prosody interface

Ekaterina Lyutikova & Andrei Sideltsev

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

23 September 2022

Anticausatives in Classical Armenian

Petr Kocharov

21 September 2022

Regularity of semantic change in Romance anatomical terms

James Law

Children as agents of language change : Diachronic evidence from Latin American Spanish phonology

Israel Sanz-Sánchez & María Irene Moyna

16 August 2022

The historical dialectology of stative morphology in Zapotecan

Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona

19 July 2022

The negative cycle in Chinese : From synthetic to analytic and back to synthetic negation?

Barbara Meisterernst

15 July 2022

The emergence of conjunctions and phrasal coordination in Khanty

Lena Borise & Katalin É. Kiss

14 July 2022

On the reconstruction of contrastive secondary palatalization in Common Slavic

Florian Wandl & Darya Kavitskaya

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

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

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 Editor	Review Editor
Silvia Luraghi	Thanasis Georgakopoulos
silvia.luraghiunipv.it	athanasphilgmail.com

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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