Jacob Halfmann
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jacob Halfmann plays a role.
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2025 The diachronic typology of retroflex vowels Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden (eds.), pp. 50–61 | Chapter
This paper presents the results of a study on the possible diachronic pathways that lead to so-called rhotic or retroflex vowels. Based on a historical-comparative examination of several unrelated areal clusters and individual languages which contain retroflex vowels, in particular in the Hindu… read more