Latest articles
7 May 2026
A corpus-based network analysis of onomastic references in 16th- and 17th century British grammar
writing
Nina Dumrukcic, Beatrix Busse & Sophie Du Bois
A tale of two languages: Macrobius on Greek and Latin
Kees Versteegh
2 April 2026
The two senses of etymology
: A concise history
Michele Loporcaro
16 February 2026
Pierre-Yves Testenoire. 2025. Les Cours de Roman Jakobson à l’École libre des hautes études: New York, 1942–1946.
Reviewed by John E. Joseph
10 February 2026
Désiré Érasme de Rotterdam. 2024. De recta Latini Græcique sermonis pronuntiatione dialogus. Édition, traduction et commentaire
Reviewed by Raf Van Rooy
23 January 2026
Editors’ notes
HL 52:2 (2025) pp. 149–150
7 November 2025
Christopher M. Hutton. 2025. The People That Never Were: Linguistic Scholarship and the Invention of the Aryans
Reviewed by Vuk Vukotić | HL 52:2 (2025) pp. 353–359
23 October 2025
The prehistory of generative grammar and Chomsky’s debt to Emil
Post
Geoffrey K. Pullum | HL 52:2 (2025) pp. 269–303
29 September 2025
Linguistic description between Kleinstaaterei and the Word of God: A case study of the 1838 Lutheran mission to South Australia
James McElvenny & Gerhard Rüdiger
23 September 2025
Wilhelm von Humboldt, linguist
Jürgen Trabant | HL 52:2 (2025) pp. 304–321
19 September 2025
Continu et Discontinu
: Antoine Meillet’s sociolinguistic theory of change between philosophy and physics
Lin Chalozin-Dovrat | HL 52:2 (2025) pp. 242–268
16 September 2025
The conjunction between coordination and subordination in missionary grammars of Aymara
and Quechua
Annamaria Bartolotta | HL 52:2 (2025) pp. 151–179
18 August 2025
The many lives of a dictionary: An analysis of how Dutch lexicography was received and repurposed in Early Modern Japan
Lorenzo Nespoli | HL 52:2 (2025) pp. 180–209
11 July 2025
Germanic affixoids in Jacob Grimm
Douglas Lightfoot | HL 52:2 (2025) pp. 210–241
16 May 2025
The metalinguistic development of the term ‘periphrasis’ in the western grammatical tradition from Antiquity
to the Enlightenment
Beatrice Grieco & Edoardo Nardi | HL 52:1 (2025) p. 63
2 May 2025
The connection between the Thesaurus rarissimus (Marsh 111) and the Dictionnaire Chinois
& François (1670), the first printed Chinese dictionary in Europe
Rui Li | HL 51:1-3 (2024) pp. 273–298
28 April 2025
“Este diccionario es su uso para leer libros”: The Vocabolarium Sinense–Hispanicum at the Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova
Daniele Quaggiotto | HL 51:1-3 (2024) pp. 37–89
22 April 2025
Exploring Chinese compound words in the anonymous Breve compendio del vocabulario de compuestos en lengua
mandarina and other Western missionary dictionaries
Zuo Lu & Otto Zwartjes | HL 51:1-3 (2024) p. 90
The history of Chinese linguistics in East and West
Otto Zwartjes | HL 51:1-3 (2024) pp. 1–15
21 April 2025
Gabriel Bergounioux. 2024. Les origines de la sémantique de Franz Bopp à Michel Bréal
Reviewed by Nicolas Gignac | HL 52:2 (2025) pp. 347–352
8 April 2025
The Arte Sangley in the archives of the University of Santo Tomás in Manila
Daniele Quaggiotto | HL 51:1-3 (2024) pp. 252–272
20 March 2025
The Bocabulario de la Lengua Sangleya por las Letraz de el A.B.C. (Manila, ca. 1617): Structure, contents, function
Hans-Jörg Döhla | HL 51:1-3 (2024) pp. 206–251
17 March 2025
The case of rén
仁 in
early Chinese-European dictionaries: Implications for the comparative study of a specific entry
Mattia Marconi & Emanuele Raini | HL 51:1-3 (2024) pp. 151–176
14 March 2025
The Dictionary of American Regional English and the idea of dialect
Michael Adams | HL 52:1 (2025) pp. 41–62
4 March 2025
José Monteiro's Vera, et unica praxis: A seventeenth-century Jesuit primer for the learning
of Mandarin Chinese and a later version
Cristina Costa Gomes & Isabel Murta Pina | HL 51:1-3 (2024) pp. 177–205
14 January 2025
Mapping the world through lexicography: A preliminary study on toponyms in Brollo’s Dictionarium sinico-latinum
Erica Cecchetti & Gabriele Tola | HL 51:1-3 (2024) pp. 130–150