Ronald I. Kim

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ronald I. Kim is involved.

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Languages in Contact: French, German and Romansh in twentieth-century Switzerland

Uriel Weinreich

The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and language contact. Yet until now, few linguists have been aware that its main themes were first laid out in Weinreich’s Columbia University doctoral… read more

[Not in series, 166] 2011. xxxiv, 401 pp.

Kim, Ronald I. 2024 The Ossetic transitive preterite: Typology, evolution, contact Journal of Historical Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article

In contrast to most Middle and Modern Iranian languages, which have developed a preterite based on an ergative construction with the Old Iranian past passive participle, Ossetic has distinct formations for the intransitive and transitive preterite, and the latter has no close correlate in any… read more

Kim, Ronald I. 2022 Crimean Gothic sada ‘hundred’, hazer ‘thousand’ NOWELE 75:1, pp. 81–94 | Article

The Crimean Gothic numerals sada ‘hundred’ and hazer ‘thousand’ are not of Persian origin, as long assumed in reference works, but loanwords from Alanic or another of the closely related Iranian languages spoken to the north of the Black Sea from the mid-1st millennium BC onwards. With its final… read more

Kim, Ronald I. 2008 California Chinese Pidgin English and its historical connections: Preliminary remarks Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 23:2, pp. 329–344 | Article

Kim, Ronald I. 2005 Review of Jasanoff (2003): Hittite and the Indo-European Verb Diachronica 22:1, pp. 191–200 | Review