Richard D. Janda

List of John Benjamins publications in which Richard D. Janda is involved.

Janda, Richard D. and Brian D. Joseph 2026 Another vista on 2nd-person singular -st in West Germanic: The role of supervescence Historical Linguistics 2023: Selected papers from the 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics,Heidelberg, 4-8 September 2023, Gvozdanović, Jadranka (ed.), pp. 121–139 | Chapter

To anchor socio-historical linguistics, we derive from ‘uniformitarianism’ (well known, and copiously discussed in Janda & Joseph 2003) the innovative concept of ‘supervescence’. The latter denotes a situation, first discussed in Joseph (2006), where seemingly parallel changes in later stages of… read more

Janda, Richard D. and Brian D. Joseph 2003 

Reconsidering the canons of sound-change

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Towards a ‘Big Bang’ theory

 Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13–17 August 2001, Blake, Barry J. and Kate Burridge (eds.), pp. 205–219 | Article

Janda, Richard D. 1996 Form & Content in a Functionalist Semiotic Model of Morphonology: Comments on Dressler Trubetzkoy's Orphan: Proceedings of the Montréal Roundtable on “Morphonology: contemporary responses” (Montréal, October 1994), Singh, Rajendra (ed.), pp. 84–96 | Article

Janda, Richard D. 1996 “Même après le débrouillement il peut rester de la brume”: Comments on Ford & Singh Trubetzkoy's Orphan: Proceedings of the Montréal Roundtable on “Morphonology: contemporary responses” (Montréal, October 1994), Singh, Rajendra (ed.), pp. 155–165 | Article

Janda, Richard D., Brian D. Joseph and Neil G. Jacobs 1994 Systematic Hyperforeignisms as Maximally External Evidence for Linguistic Rules The Reality of Linguistic Rules, Lima, Susan D., Roberta Corrigan and Gregory Iverson, pp. 67–92 | Article

Morgan, Terrell A. and Richard D. Janda 1989 Musically-conditioned stress shift in Spanish revisited: empirical verification and nonlinear analysis Studies in Romance Linguistics: Selected Proceedings from the XVII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Kirschner, Carl and Janet Ann DeCesaris (eds.), pp. 273–288 | Article

Janda, Richard D. 1982 Diachronic facts vs. synchronic fiction: historical linguistic evidence against assuming underlying grammatical uniformity for contemporary dialects of the same language Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 149–162 | Article

Janda, Richard D. 1980 On the decline of declensional systems: the overall loss of OE nominal case inflections and the ME reanalysis of — es as his Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26–30 1979, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, Rebecca Labrum and Susan C. Shepherd (eds.), pp. 243–252 | Article