Don Ringe

List of John Benjamins publications in which Don Ringe is involved.

Journal

NOWELE

North-Western European Language Evolution

Managing Editor: Stephen Laker

ISSN 0108-8416 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9715

Articles (7) | Order by:

Ringe, Don and Charles Yang 2022 Chapter 4. The threshold of productivity and the ‘irregularization’ of verbs in Early Modern English English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning, Los, Bettelou, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 91–112 | Chapter

This paper tests whether Yang’s Tolerance Principle (TP) is useful in explaining one type of morphological change in the history of English. We suggest that some, but not all, innovative non-default past tenses that appear in the written record between 1500 and 1700 can be explained by the TP… read more

Barbançon, François, Steven N. Evans, Luay Nakhleh, Don Ringe and Tandy Warnow 2013 An experimental study comparing linguistic phylogenetic reconstruction methods Diachronica 30:2, pp. 143–170 | Article

This paper reports a simulation study comparing and evaluating the performance of different linguistic phylogeny reconstruction methods on model datasets for which the true trees are known. UPGMA performed least well, then (in ascending order) neighbor joining, the method of Gray & Atkinson and… read more

Ringe, Don 2013 What is Old English? Unity and Diversity in West Germanic, II, Nielsen, Hans Frede † and Patrick V. Stiles (eds.), pp. 127–140 | Article

Though Old English (OE) was never completely uniform, it was demonstrably the language of a single speech community (in a broad sense) until about the 8th century CE. It therefore makes sense to treat OE as a single language for philological purposes.

Ringe, Don 2001 Review of Rix (1998): Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben Diachronica 18:1, pp. 184–187 | Review

Kroch, Anthony S., Ann Taylor and Don Ringe 2000 The Middle English Verb-Second Constraint: A case study in language contact and language change Textual Parameters in Older Languages, Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 353–392 | Article

Taylor, Ann, Tandy Warnow and Don Ringe 2000 Character-Based Reconstruction of a Linguistic Cladogram Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages., Smith, John Charles and Delia Bentley (eds.), pp. 393–408 | Article

Ringe, Don 1998 A Probabilistic Evaluation of Indo-Uralic Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence, Salmons, Joseph C. and Brian D. Joseph (eds.), pp. 153–198 | Article