Holly Kennard

List of John Benjamins publications in which Holly Kennard is involved.

Title

Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022

Edited by Holly Kennard, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden

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… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 369] 2025. vi, 310 pp.

Articles

Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden 2025 Introduction Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Chapter

Lahiri, Aditi and Holly Kennard 2019 Chapter 3. Pertinacity in loanwords: Same underlying systems, different outputs Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela and Claudia Fabrizio (eds.), pp. 57–74 | Chapter

Native speakers are often surprised by the way different languages adapt their words; the same phoneme may be borrowed into different languages in different ways. Even related languages need not adapt the same phoneme in an identical fashion. Evidence from a variety of languages suggests that… read more

Kennard, Holly 2014 The persistence of verb second in negative utterances in Breton Journal of Historical Linguistics 4:1, pp. 1–39 | Article

This article examines word order in negative clauses in Breton across two generations separated by a gap in language transmission. It might be expected that the V2 constraint in Breton matrix clauses would be subject to change in light of immense influence from French and this transmission gap. An… read more