Journal of Historical Linguistics

Online-first articles

The following articles have been published online-first, and have not yet been published in an issue.

23 March 2026

The interplay of structural ambiguity and reanalysis

Elena Smirnova | 38 pp.

10 March 2026

Interaction of scope and cliticization domain: The case of Hittite enclitic markers

Andrei V. Sideltsev | 75 pp.

2 March 2026

Morir morirás ‘for certain you will die’: Strategies for translating the Hebrew infinitive absolute in medieval and early modern Spanish Bibles

Andrés Enrique-Arias and Katharina Gerhalter | 39 pp.

On the distinction between ambiguity and vagueness in grammatical change

Yueh Hsin Kuo and Nadine Dietrich | 35 pp.

Modeling sound change in a dialectically heterogeneous community: The case of Rhotacism in central Borneo

Alexander D. Smith | 25 pp.

19 February 2026

Sound changes are selected by a bias against morphotactic ambiguity

Irene Böhm, Nikolaus Ritt and Theresa Matzinger | 36 pp.

9 February 2026

On the historical link between accent and aspiration in Basque

José Ignacio Hualde | 33 pp.

5 January 2026

Syntactic ambiguity and ambiguity avoidance in language comprehension and production

Claudia Felser | 27 pp.

16 December 2025

Diachronic change in Spanish ‘liking’ constructions: A case of analogical extension through a multiplicity of source constructions

Andrea Mojedano Batel | 65 pp.

26 August 2025

Joint innovation: An alternative to the initiation-diffusion and speaker-listener dichotomies in language change

Joan L. Bybee and Rena Torres Cacoullos | 35 pp.

2 May 2025

Passing is giving: The origin and historical development of the polyfunctional morpheme ti⁴² in Tunxi Hui Chinese

Wen Lu and Man Shan Hui | 42 pp.

10 February 2025

Position-dependent polarity in the Alor-Pantar languages and its origins

Bastian Persohn and Antoinette Schapper | 29 pp.

9 December 2024

Musk deer are inherited: The reconstruction of the onset *t.ɬj- in Proto-Gyalrongic

Yunfan Lai | 17 pp.

When never meant ever: The polarity item nunca in Old Portuguese

Clara Pinto | 30 pp.

2 December 2024

How fear developed from an object to a subject experiencer verb: Remarks on argument structure change

Richard Zimmermann | 44 pp.

11 November 2024

Auxiliaries in Old Dutch: A diachronic parallel corpus exploration

Evie Coussé, Gerlof Bouma and Nicoline van der Sijs | 43 pp.

8 November 2024

West Iranian in historical perspective: The grammaticalization of *rādī ‘because of’

Ludwig Paul | 43 pp.

26 August 2024

Ecuadorian Quechua and Quechuan classification

Simeon Floyd | 55 pp.

8 August 2024

The syntactic and semantic promenade of the Spanish absolute construction along the Communicative Continuum: A case of clause linkage in 15th—18th-century translations from Latin

Marie Molenaers | 50 pp.

18 June 2024

The Ossetic transitive preterite: Typology, evolution, contact

Ronald I. Kim | 35 pp.

3 June 2024

Variant patterns of sibilant debuccalization in Camuno: Phonetic implications of Eastern Lombard s > h for sound change typology

Juliette Blevins and Michela Cresci | 50 pp.

13 May 2024

Visual perception verbs in Old Anatolian Turkish

Zeynep Erk Emeksiz and Julian Rentzsch | 25 pp.