Uta Reinöhl

List of John Benjamins publications in which Uta Reinöhl is involved.

Journal

Diachronica

International Journal for Historical Linguistics

Edited by Claire Bowern

ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714

Title

The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations

Edited by Sonja Riesberg, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig

The documentarist turn, i.e., the growing impact of documentary concepts and practices within general linguistics, has increased awareness of the empirical foundations of our discipline, accompanied by an appreciation of the value of observable linguistic behaviour. Today, there exist… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] 2026. xii, 906 pp. + index | open access

Hellwig, Birgit, Uta Reinöhl, Sonja Riesberg, Isabel Compes, Carmen Dawuda, Dagmar Jung, Felix Rau, Fritz Serzisko, Vera Szöllösi-Brenig, Katherine Walker, Helga Weyerts-Schweda and Lena Wolberg 2026 Chapter 1. Nikolaus Himmelmann and the documentarist turn The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Chapter

Reinöhl, Uta 2026 Chapter 12. More diachronic than you think: Historical depth within language documentation corpora and its potential to mitigate two major biases in linguistics The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 287–313 | Chapter

This paper surveys and spotlights historical layers within language documentation corpora, with a particular emphasis on the many languages for which we lack historical written attestation. I highlight the potentials of lesser-prestige and lesser-accessible, often more conservative varieties, as… read more

Bowern, Claire, Alan C.L. Yu, Salikoko S. Mufwene, Marlyse Baptista, Justin M. Power, Richard P. Meier, Bridget Drinka, Uta Reinöhl and Simon Greenhill 2025 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 42:2, pp. 137–160 | Editorial

Reinöhl, Uta and Antje Casaretto 2018 When grammaticalization does not occur: Prosody-syntax mismatches in Indo-Aryan Diachronica 35:2, pp. 238–276 | Article

Recent decades have seen a surge of interest in grammaticalization. In this paper, however, we are not concerned with reaching a better understanding of the nature of grammaticalization phenomena or their triggering factors, but we ask under what circumstances grammaticalization does not take… read more

Reinöhl, Uta 2016 A single origin of Indo-European primary adpositions? Unveiling the Indo-Aryan branch-off Diachronica 33:1, pp. 95–130 | Article

It has been widely assumed that the primary adpositions of modern Indo-European languages constitute a historically identical category, descending from the Proto-Indo-European ‘local particles’. I argue that this assumption needs to be revised, because a major branch of the language family,… read more