Anatoly Liberman

List of John Benjamins publications in which Anatoly Liberman is involved.

Book series

Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics

General Editor: Bob de Jonge

ISSN 1385-7916

Journal

NOWELE

North-Western European Language Evolution

Managing Editor: Stephen Laker

ISSN 0108-8416 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9715

Liberman, Anatoly 2025 The uses of historical phonology Germanic Interrelations: Studies in memory of Hans Frede Nielsen, Laker, Stephen, Carla Falluomini, Steffen Krogh, Robert Nedoma and Michael Schulte (eds.), pp. 202–216 | Chapter

Historical phonology was inaugurated by Roman Jakobson about a hundred years ago. Its main thrust was not only to represent sounds of speech as phonemes and variants (allophones) but to prove that sound change is goal-oriented. The “goal” consisted allegedly in striving by the system for… read more

Liberman, Anatoly 2016 William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the “Interim Period” in the history of English etymology Grammarians, Skalds and Rune Carvers I, Nedoma, Robert and Michael Schulte (eds.), pp. 95–112 | Article

Henry Fox Talbot, the father of photography, was a polymath, and among his many publications we find works on mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, archeology, ancient history, mythology, and Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions. He was also at home in botany. In 1847 he brought out a thick book… read more

Liberman, Anatoly 2015 Some Unsolved (and Probably Insoluble) Aspects of Initial Fricative Voicing in Early English: Voicing in Early English Viewed as Part of the Great Germanic Lenition Early Germanic Languages in Contact, Askedal, John Ole and Hans Frede Nielsen † (eds.), pp. 245–259 | Chapter

Liberman, Anatoly 2011 The origin of the word yeoman Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie, Timofeeva, Olga and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 153–168 | Article

Numerous attempts to discover the origin of yeoman failed to produce definitive results. The element -man poses no difficulties. The problem is yeo-, a relic of some prefix or of an independent word. Among the putative etymons of yeoman two have enjoyed special popularity: *gāman ‘villager’ and… read more

Liberman, Anatoly 2011 A Short History of the God Óðinn NOWELE Volume 62/63 (October 2011): Language and literacy in early Scandinavia and beyond, Schulte, Michael and Robert Nedoma (eds.), pp. 351–430 | Article

Liberman, Anatoly 2011 Review of Versloot (2008): Mechanisms of Language Change: Vowel Reduction in 15th Century West Frisian. Proefschrift Rijksuniversiteit Groningen NOWELE Volume 60/61 (January 2011), pp. 211–219 | Review article

Liberman, Anatoly 2011 'A Rich Harvest of Professor Viktor Levitsky'. NOWELE Volume 60/61 (January 2011), pp. 221–229 | Review article

Liberman, Anatoly 2010 Iconicity and etymology Signergy, Conradie, C. Jac, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 243–258 | Article

Liberman, Anatoly 2010 Verner's Law NOWELE Volume 58/59 (June 2010): The Gothic Language, Nielsen, Hans Frede † and Flemming Talbo Stubkjær (eds.), pp. 381–425 | Article

Liberman, Anatoly 2007 An Additional Note on Tautological Compounds NOWELE Volume 52 (October 2007), pp. 67–73 | Article

Liberman, Anatoly 2007 Review of Basbøll (2005): The Phonology of Danish NOWELE Volume 52 (October 2007), pp. 101–111 | Review article

Liberman, Anatoly 2005 The Relation of English Slowworm, Swedish and Older Danish ormslå, Norwegian Dialectal sleva, and German Blindschleiche to *Slahan 'Strike', with a Note on Tautological Compounds NOWELE Volume 46/47 (June 2005): Papers on Scandinavian and Germanic Language and Culture, pp. 119–132 | Article

Liberman, Anatoly 2004 Review of Munske, Århammer, Faltings, Hoekstra, Vries, Walker & Wilts (2001): Handbuch des Friesischen / Handbook of Frisian Studies NOWELE Volume 45 (October 2004), pp. 101–108 | Review

Liberman, Anatoly 2003 The Etymology of the Word slang NOWELE Volume 42 (March 2003), pp. 99–113 | Article

Liberman, Anatoly 1996 2. Phonological Markedness and a Plea for useful Linguistics Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis, Andrews, Edna and Yishai Tobin (eds.), pp. 55–70 | Article

Liberman, Anatoly 1992 A Bird'S-Eye View of Open Syllable Lengthening in English and in the Other Germanic Languages NOWELE Volume 20 (September 1992), pp. 67–87 | Article

Liberman, Anatoly 1991 Phonologization in Germanic: Umlauts and Vowel Shifts STAEFCRAEFT: Studies in Germanic Linguistics, Antonsen, Elmer H. and Hans Henrich Hock (eds.), pp. 125–138 | Article

Liberman, Anatoly 1988 Distinctive features in synchronic and diachronic phonology The Prague School and Its Legacy, Tobin, Yishai (ed.), pp. 21–36 | Article

Liberman, Anatoly 1987 Review of Lehmann (1981): A Gothic Etymological Dictionary Diachronica 4:1/2, pp. 253–256 | Review

Liberman, Anatoly 1986 Beowulf — Grettir Germanic Dialects: Linguistic and Philological Investigations, Brogyanyi, Bela and Thomas Krömmelbein (eds.), pp. 353–401 | Article

Liberman, Anatoly 1979 On the history of quantity in germanic Current Issues in the Phonetic Sciences: Proceedings of the IPS-77 Congress, Miami Beach, Florida, 17–19 December 1977, Hollien, Harry and Patricia Hollien (eds.), pp. 1085–1090 | Article

Liberman, Anatoly 1979 Prephonological views on the history of english syllable accents Current Issues in the Phonetic Sciences: Proceedings of the IPS-77 Congress, Miami Beach, Florida, 17–19 December 1977, Hollien, Harry and Patricia Hollien (eds.), pp. 321–329 | Article