LINGUIST List 23.3464

Fri Aug 17 2012

TOC: Journal of Historical Linguistics 2/1 (2012)

Editor for this issue: Justin Petro <justinlinguistlist.org>



Date: 17-Aug-2012
From: Karin Plijnaar <karinbenjamins.nl>
Subject: Journal of Historical Linguistics Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012)
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Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Journal of Historical LinguisticsVolume Number: 2Issue Number: 1Issue Date: 2012

Main Text:

2012. iii, 151 pp.

Table of Content

Editors' Corner1

Readers' CornerPierluigi Cuzzolin3-6

Articles

Nyikina paradigms and refunctionalization: A cautionary tale in morphological reconstructionClaire Bowern7-24

Third-person possessive suffixes as definite articles in SemiticJohn Huehnergard and Na'ama Pat-El25-51

Embedding Papiamentu in the mixed language debateBart Jacobs52-82

Mechanisms of language change in a functional system: The recent semantic evolution of English future time expressionsNadja Nesselhauf83-132

Reviews

The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German by Christopher D. SappReviewed by Evie Coussé133-139

Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected Papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6-11 August 2007 ed. by Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis & Etleva VocajReviewed by Dag T.T. Haug140-146

Loanwords in Japanese by Mark IrwinReviewed by David J. Iannucci147-151



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics Morphology Semantics Sociolinguistics Typology

Subject Language(s): Crioulo, Upper Guinea (pov) English (eng) German (deu) German, Middle High (gmh) German, Old High (goh) Japanese (jpn) Nyigina (nyh) Papiamento (pap)

Language Family(ies): Semitic

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