John Charles Smith

List of John Benjamins publications in which John Charles Smith is involved.

Journal

Journal of Historical Linguistics

General Editor: Silvia Luraghi and Guglielmo Inglese

ISSN 2210-2116 | E‑ISSN 2210‑2124

Titles

Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages.. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995

Edited by John Charles Smith and Delia Bentley

This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, contains papers on Germanic.
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[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 161] 2000. xii, 438 pp.

Linguistic Theory and the Romance Languages

Edited by John Charles Smith and Martin Maiden

This volume contains revised versions of papers given at a conference at the Manoir de Brion, in Normandy. They deal with phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, and cover a wide range of Romance languages, including many lesser-known varieties. The contributors to the volume are committed to… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 122] 1995. xiii, 240 pp.

Articles (18) | Order by:

Bowern, Claire, John Charles Smith, Betsy Sneller, Meredith Tamminga, Jadranka Gvozdanović, John A. Goldsmith, Götz Keydana and Juliette Blevins 2024 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 41:1, pp. 127–140 | Editorial

Smith, John Charles 2008 24. The refunctionalisation of first person plural inflection in Tiwi Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli (eds.), pp. 341–348 | Article

Ashdowne, Richard and John Charles Smith 2007 Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of case-loss in Old French Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005, Salmons, Joseph C. and Shannon Dubenion-Smith (eds.), pp. 191–205 | Article

Smith, John Charles 2006 How To Do Things Without Junk: The Refunctionalization of a Pronominal Subsystem between Latin and Romance New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology, Montreuil, Jean-Pierre Y. (ed.), pp. 183–205 | Article

This paper examines the evolution of the accusative and dative forms of the Latin first- and second-person singular pronouns in the light of Lass’s claim that an opposition which has lost its original value and become vacuous ‘junk’ may assume a new linguistic function. In some Romance languages,… read more