Jessica DeLisi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jessica DeLisi is involved.
Articles
2025 Linguistics is for everyone: Cross-curricular approaches to historical linguistics in secondary education Historical Linguistics at School, Markopoulos, Theodore and Brian D. Joseph (eds.), pp. 113–133 | Article
Introducing students to linguistics before they embark on their undergraduate studies can increase awareness and interest in the field. After documenting my ultimately unsuccessful attempts at creating a standalone course in linguistics at an independent school in Los Angeles, CA, I discuss how… read more
2013 Feature metathesis and the change of PIE *du̯ to Classical Armenian -rk-* Diachronica 30:4, pp. 469–491 | Article
This paper reexamines the correspondence of Classical Armenian -rk- with Proto-Indo-European *du̯ and attempts to explain the change in a phonologically plausible way without recourse to illicit clusters or ad hoc rules not otherwise operational in the language. Instead, the change of *du̯ to -rk-… read more