Niklas Johansson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Niklas Johansson plays a role.
Articles
2018 Areal pressure in grammatical evolution: An Indo-European case study Diachronica 35:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
This article investigates the evolutionary and spatial dynamics of typological characters in 117 Indo-European languages. We partition types of change (i.e., gain or loss) for each variant according to whether they bring about a simplification in morphosyntactic patterns that must be learned,… read more
2017 Tracking linguistic primitives: The phonosemantic realization of fundamental oppositional pairs Dimensions of Iconicity, Zirker, Angelika, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 39–62 | Chapter
This paper investigates how cross-linguistic phoneme distributions of 56 fundamental oppositional concepts can reveal semantic relationships by looking into the linguistic forms of 75 genetically and areally distributed languages. Based on proposals of semantic primes (Goddard & Wierzbicka 2002),… read more