Eugen Hill

List of John Benjamins publications in which Eugen Hill is involved.

Journal

NOWELE

North-Western European Language Evolution

Managing Editor: Stephen Laker

ISSN 0108-8416 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9715

Gipper, Sonja, Eugen Hill and Pascal Coenen 2026 Chapter 27. Language change in real time: Investigating conversational priming in repetitional responses The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 756–785 | Chapter

Co-present conversation is the primary habitat of human language and thus most probably constitutes an important locus of language change. However, language change is observable only at much larger timescales. How, then, is it possible to study the real-time conversational dimension of language… read more

Hill, Eugen 2017 West Germanic monosyllabic lengthening and Gothic breaking as partially Proto-Germanic developments: The evidence of pronominal place adverbs ‘here’, ‘where’ and ‘there’ NOWELE 70:2, pp. 135–170 | Article

The paper deals with two Germanic sound changes which are traditionally believed to postdate the disintegration of the Proto-Germanic parent language. The lengthening in several monosyllables, attested in West Germanic languages, is usually believed to be an innovation of this branch. The… read more

Hill, Eugen 2012 Die Entwicklung von *u vor unsilbischem *i in den indogermanischen Sprachen Nord- und Mitteleuropas: Die Stammsuppletion bei u-Adjektiven und das Präsens von"sein" NOWELE Volume 64/65 (April 2012), pp. 5–36 | Article

Hill, Eugen 2010 A case study in grammaticalized inflectional morphology: Origin and development of the Germanic weak preterite Diachronica 27:3, pp. 411–458 | Article

This paper deals with one of the oldest and most controversial problems in the historical morphology of the Germanic branch of Indo-European: the origin and historical development of the so-called ‘weak preterite’. In Germanic, the weak preterite is the only means of forming the preterite tense of… read more

Hill, Eugen 2007 Proportionale Analogie, paradigmatischer Ausgleich und Formerweiterung: Ein Beitrag zur Typologie des morphologischen Wandels Diachronica 24:1, pp. 81–118 | Article

Traditionally three independent types of analogical change in inflectional paradigms are distinguished: proportional analogy, paradigmatic leveling and analogical extension. However, the investigation of the data reveals that out of these types only that of proportional analogy can be empirically… read more