Diachronica

Volume 24, Issue 2 (2007)

2007. 248 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.24.2

Table of Contents

Articles / Aufsätze
On the life and death of a collocation: A corpus-based diachronic study of dar miedo/hacer miedo-type structures in Spanish Josep Alba-Salas	207–252
Bergin’s Rule: Syntactic diachrony and discourse strategy Joseph F. Eska	253–278
Gullah in the diaspora: Historical and linguistic evidence from the Bahamas Stephanie Hackert and Magnus Huber	279–325
On the development and use of appearance/attribute adverbs in English Kristin Killie	327–371
How to use typological databases in historical linguistic research Søren Wichmann and Arpiar Saunders	373–404
Reviews / Comptes rendus / Besprechungen
Review of Evans (2003): The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia: Comparative studies of the continent’s most linguistically complex region Reviewed by Harold Koch	405–413
Review of Klein (2006): The Collected Writings of Warren Cowgill Reviewed by Miles C. Beckwith	414–423
Review of Owens (2006): A Linguistic History of Arabic Reviewed by Sam Meier	423–427
Review of Veselinova (2006): Suppletion in Verb Paradigms: Bits and pieces of the puzzle Reviewed by Andrea D. Sims	427–433
Miscellanea:  Notes/Notizen – Discussion/Diskussion
Response to Laurent Sagart’s review of Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and philosophy of Sino-Tibetan reconstruction James A. Matisoff	435–444
Joe’s Jottings	445–447

Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General