Journal of Historical Linguistics

General Editors
ORCID logoSilvia Luraghi | University of Pavia | silvia.luraghi at unipv.it
ORCID logoEitan Grossman | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | eitan.grossman at mail.huji.ac.il
Review Editor
ORCID logoThanasis Georgakopoulos | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | athanasphil at gmail.com
Associate Editors
Eleanor Coghill | Uppsala University
Bethwyn Evans | Australian National University
Johann-Mattis List | University of Passau
ORCID logoErich Round | The University of Queensland
Matthias Urban | University of Tübingen
Founding Editors
ORCID logoSilvia Luraghi | University of Pavia
ORCID logoJóhanna Barðdal | Ghent University
Eugenio R. Luján | University of Madrid Complutense
The Journal of Historical Linguistics aims to publish, after peer-review, papers that make a significant contribution to the theory and/or methodology of historical linguistics. Papers dealing with any language or language family are welcome. Papers should have a diachronic orientation and should offer new perspectives, refine existing methodologies, or challenge received wisdom, on the basis of careful analysis of extant historical data. We are especially keen to publish work which links historical linguistics to corpus-based research, linguistic typology, language variation, language contact, or the study of language and cognition, all of which constitute a major source of methodological renewal for the discipline and shed light on aspects of language change. Contributions in areas such as diachronic corpus linguistics or diachronic typology are therefore particularly welcome.

The Journal of Historical Linguistics publishes its articles Online First.

ISSN: 2210-2116 | E-ISSN: 2210-2124
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl
Latest articles

12 March 2024

  • Diachronic pathways to case marking alignment and what they mean for the explanation of synchronic cross-linguistic patterns
    Sonia Cristofaro | JHL 14:1 (2024) pp. 142–177
  • 6 February 2024

  • The diachronic emergence of alignment cross‑linguistically : Theoretical and empirical perspectives
    Sonia Cristofaro Guglielmo Inglese | JHL 14:1 (2024) pp. 58–65
  • 18 December 2023

  • Calibrated weighted permutation test detects ancient language connections in the Circumpolar area (Chukotian-Nivkh and Yukaghir-Samoyedic)
    Alexei S. Kassian , George Starostin , Mikhail Zhivlov Sergey A. Spirin
  • 13 November 2023

  • Lexico-semantic stability in the anatomical domain in the Mayan language family
    David F. Mora-Marín , Megan Fletcher Elizabeth Gorman
  • Yael Reshef . 2020. Historical Continuity in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew
    Reviewed by Einat Gonen
  • 30 October 2023

  • Nina Tahmasebi , Lars Borin , Adam Jatowt , Yang Xu Simon Hengchen (eds.). 2021. Computational Approaches to Semantic Change
    Reviewed by Christin Beck
  • 18 September 2023

  • Balancing social determinism vs. sound change : The case of Fang
    Roslyn Burns
  • 28 August 2023

  • On the traces of “apples”, “plums”, and “pears” : Investigating a wanderword in ancient and modern Near Eastern languages
    Marwan Kilani
  • 21 August 2023

  • Old English perspectives on the complement shift : Toward the desententialisation of self-manipulative verbs
    Ana Elvira Ojanguren López
  • 17 August 2023

  • Individual variation and frequency change in Early Modern Spanish : Alignment and intra-speaker (in)stability in a corpus of 18th century ego-documents
    José Luis Blas Arroyo
  • Development of the word order of the reflexive enclitic sě/se dependent on a finite verb in Czech translations of the Gospel of Matthew from the 14th to the 21st century
    Radek Čech , Pavel Kosek , Olga Navrátilová Ján Mačutek
  • 15 August 2023

  • Alignment variations in the diachrony of Basque : The case of periphrastic constructions
    Céline Mounole | JHL 14:1 (2024) pp. 108–141
  • 27 June 2023

  • The spread of participial clauses in Biblical Greek : Semitic interference and multilingualism
    Edoardo Nardi
  • 30 May 2023

  • The tonal morphology of the potential in Coatec Zapotec (Di′zhke′) : Implications for early Zapotecan tone, *ʔ, and verb classes through internal and comparative reconstruction
    Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona
  • 23 May 2023

  • Vowel shifts in Middle Wichi (Mataguayan family, South America)
    Verónica Nercesian Nicolás Arellano
  • 16 May 2023

  • From oblique to core case in the Southern Min languages : The role of topic in the emergence of optional object marking in Sinitic
    Hilary Chappell | JHL 14:1 (2024) p. 66
  • 25 April 2023

  • Construct types in language change
    Stefan Schneider
  • 30 March 2023

  • Polarity reversal constructions and counterfactuals in Ancient Greek : Between implicature and conventionalization
    Ezra la Roi
  • 21 February 2023

  • ‘Common nighthawk’ (Chordeiles minor) in Algonquian and Siouan languages
    Vincent Collette | JHL 13:3 (2023) pp. 488–517
  • The ups and downs of relative particles in German diachrony : On loss, grammaticalization, and standardization
    Ann-Marie Moser | JHL 13:3 (2023) pp. 461–487
  • Different functions of ‘rā’ in New Persian : A semantic map analysis
    Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand Mehdi Parizadeh | JHL 14:1 (2024) pp. 31–57
  • A diachronic analysis of Spanish alg- series and n- series items in negated clauses
    Aaron Yamada | JHL 14:1 (2024) pp. 1–30
  • 6 February 2023

  • Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal . 2020. The NP-strategy for Expressing Reciprocity: Typology, History, Syntax and Semantics
    Reviewed by György Rákosi | JHL 13:3 (2023) pp. 518–526
  • 1 December 2022

  • Editor’s Corner
    JHL 12:3 (2022) pp. 335–336
  • 22 November 2022

  • Relative construction in Hittite : A corpus-based case study in syntax-prosody interface
    Ekaterina Lyutikova Andrei Sideltsev | JHL 13:3 (2023) pp. 375–460
  • 7 November 2022

  • Robert Crellin Thomas Jügel (eds.). 2020. Perfects in IE Languages and Beyond
    Reviewed by Thanasis Giannaris | JHL 12:3 (2022) pp. 511–519
  • 4 November 2022

  • Bernd Heine , Gunther Kaltenböck , Tania Kuteva Haiping Long . 2021. The Rise of Discourse Markers
    Reviewed by Angeliki Alvanoudi | JHL 12:3 (2022) pp. 504–510
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    Submission

    The Journal of Historical Linguistics offers online submission. Please consult the Short Guide to EM for Authors before you submit your paper. Regular mail submissions are also considered, in which case two hard copies should be sent. See below for contact information.

    At the initial stage in the process, it is not yet necessary that submissions adhere to the journal's style sheet. Texts should be double-spaced, printed on one side of the page only, with all pages numbered consecutively. Figures, charts and tables can be left in the appropriate place in the manuscript. In order to permit double-blind refereeing, submissions should not carry author information. Contributors who are not native speakers of English should have their manuscript carefully checked by a native speaker.

    Please note that any material submitted to JHL must be original work, not published or under review elsewhere, and contributors may not submit this work elsewhere while it is under review for this journal. If related material has been published or is under consideration or in press elsewhere, that must be disclosed to the editors. Similarly, if part of a contribution has appeared or will appear elsewhere, contributors must specify the details in a cover letter accompanying the submission.

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    General Editors Review Editor
    Silvia Luraghi Thanasis Georgakopoulos
    silvia.luraghi at unipv.it athanasphil at gmail.com
    Eitan Grossman  
    eitan.grossman at mail.huji.ac.il  

     

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    Subjects

    Main BIC Subject

    CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics

    Main BISAC Subject

    LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative