Diachronica

Volume 26, Issue 1 (2009)

2009. iv, 142 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.26.1

Table of Contents

Articles / Aufsätze
When ‘Speech Islands’ Aren’t Islands: Parallel independent development, drift, and minimal levels of contact for diffusion Steven Hartman Keiser	1–35
On the Emergence of Personal Infinitives in the History of Spanish Ioanna Sitaridou	36–64
Word Order in Old and Middle English: The role of information structure and first language acquisition Marit Westergaard	65–102
Review article / Rapport critique / Forschungsbericht
Histories of English Eric Haeberli	103–116
Reviews / Comptes rendus / Besprechungen
Review of Donhauser, Fischer & Mecklenburg (2007): The Mouton Interactive Introduction to Historical Linguistics of German Reviewed by Ulrike Demske	117–124
Review of McMahon & McMahon (2005): Language Classification by Numbers Reviewed by Quentin D. Atkinson	125–133
Review of Szczepaniak (2007): Der phonologisch-typologische Wandel des Deutschen von einer Silbenzu einer Wortsprache Reviewed by B. Richard Page	134–139
Editorial	141–142

Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics