Hiram L. Smith

List of John Benjamins publications in which Hiram L. Smith is involved.

Journal

Diachronica

International Journal for Historical Linguistics

Edited by Claire Bowern

ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714

Articles

Bowern, Claire, Hiram L. Smith, Ailis Cournane, Joan L. Bybee, Ted Supalla and Brian D. Joseph 2024 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 41:5, pp. 719–731 | Editorial

Smith, Hiram L. 2022 Preverbal a -marking in Palenquero Creole: Testing theories of grammaticalization, convergence, and inheritance Diachronica 39:4, pp. 565–607 | Article

Formally similar grammatical features in a creole and its genetic or areal relatives may indicate substrate transfer, lexifier influence, or grammaticalization. Against this backdrop, the present study investigates the origin(s) of the preverbal past marker a in Palenquero Creole (Colombia).… read more