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Historical Linguistics 2022
Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022
This book offers a peer-reviewed selection of the best and most original contributions to the twenty-fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. They faithfully reflect the spirit of the Conference in that they all display a shared passion for the diachronic study of language but also an exciting diversity of research questions, theoretical approaches, linguistic phenomena, and languages explored. Data are drawn from Algonquian, Arandic, Bantu, Cushitic, Edoid, Indo-European, Manchu, Tangkic, Tungusic, and Uralic—among other languages and language-families. In addition to addressing, always with new insights, more traditional concerns of historical linguistics, such as reconstruction, classification, the effects of contact and borrowing, the determinants of morphological, syntactic, phonological, and semantic change, this book presents studies on less conventional topics, for example the diachrony of ideophones.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 369] 2025. vi, 310 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 20 March 2025
Published online on 20 March 2025
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- IntroductionHolly Kennard, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden | pp. 1–4
- Resurrecting rhymes, reasons and (no) rhotics: Reconstructing Keats’s pronunciationRanjan Sen | pp. 5–19
- Diachronic phonology with Contrastive Hierarchy TheoryB. Elan Dresher | pp. 20–34
- The life cycle of phonological patterns explains drift in sound changePavel Iosad | pp. 35–49
- The diachronic typology of retroflex vowelsJakob Halfmann | pp. 50–61
- Diachronic shifts among sound ideophonesRonald P. Schaefer and Francis O. Egbokhare | pp. 62–78
- The classification of the Plains Algonquian languagesJoseph Salmons | pp. 79–93
- Modelling combined linguistic and non-linguistic evidence in language reconstructionJadranka Gvozdanović | pp. 94–109
- Dissimilatory constraints discriminate between variants in analogical changeLouise Esher | pp. 110–127
- Patterns of suppletion in inflection revisited: What the Crossover Constraint constrainsFrans Plank | pp. 128–149
- Differential object marking in early Italo-Romance and old SardinianMichela Cennamo and Francesco Maria Ciconte | pp. 150–165
- Semantic factors in case loss: The Serbian-Bulgarian dialectal continuumMasha Kyuseva, Alexander Krasovitsky, Matthew Baerman and Greville G. Corbett | pp. 166–183
- Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties: ‘False cognates’ in SwahiliLutz Marten and Hannah Gibson | pp. 184–197
- Nominal privative suffixes as a diachronic source of verbal negative markers: Evidence from Australian languagesHarold Koch | pp. 198–214
- The emergence of oblique subjects: Identifiable processes in the history of IcelandicSigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir and Thórhallur Eythórsson | pp. 215–231
- Grammaticalization of sentence adverbs and modal particles revisitedKatrin Axel-Tober, Marco Coniglio, Kalle Müller and Katharina Paul | pp. 232–248
- A discourse analysis of left-dislocation in Old EnglishArtur Bartnik | pp. 249–262
- The semantics of word borrowing in late medieval English: A preliminary investigationLouise Sylvester, Megan Tiddeman, Richard Ingham and Kathryn Allan | pp. 263–278
- Approximative adverbs in modern and pre-modern languagesJack Hoeksema | pp. 279–293
- The history of numerals as a history of East African languagesMaarten Mous | pp. 294–305
- Language index | p. 307
- Subject index | pp. 309–310