{"title":"Review of Bar-Asher Siegal (2020): The NP-strategy for Expressing Reciprocity: Typology, History, Syntax and Semantics","authors":"György Rákosi","doi":"10.1075/jhl.22017.rak","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.22017.rak","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42282004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relative construction in Hittite","authors":"E. Lyutikova, A. Sideltsev","doi":"10.1075/jhl.22014.lyu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.22014.lyu","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The paper proposes a novel structural analysis of Hittite determinate relative clauses on the basis of a corpus\u0000 study considering a wider and fuller array of Hittite data than ever before. In Hittite, relative wh-phrases\u0000 attest a wide range of linear positions: first/initial, clause-second, immediately preverbal or even postverbal. We build upon the\u0000 current assumption that wh-pronouns are clitics and thus their placement is determined by the syntax-prosody\u0000 interface. As for the syntactic component, we argue against the in situ construal of\u0000 wh-elements. Instead, we propose that what linearly appears to be clause-second, preverbal or postverbal position\u0000 of the wh-pronoun is structurally associated with Spec, FinP. The prosodic component is provided by the\u0000 standardly acknowledged prosodic inversion, but the prosodic domain for the placement of wh-clitics is not\u0000 clausal (CP), it is rather to be identified with a smaller domain within CP, namely, FinP. We also provide the first ever\u0000 systematic treatment of split wh-phrases which are highly problematic for existing approaches but are fully\u0000 accounted for by our analysis.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49551078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Crellin & Jügel (2020): Perfects in IE Languages and Beyond","authors":"T. Giannaris","doi":"10.1075/jhl.21007.gia","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.21007.gia","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49144773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Heine, Kaltenböck, Kuteva & Long (2021): The Rise of Discourse Markers","authors":"Angeliki Alvanoudi","doi":"10.1075/jhl.22016.alv","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.22016.alv","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46164254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phonological features of Caijia that are notable from a diachronic perspective","authors":"Man Hei Lee","doi":"10.1075/jhl.21025.lee","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.21025.lee","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study sets out several phonological features in Caijia that are notable from a diachronic point of view. The Caijia language is an endangered language spoken in northwestern Guìzhōu, China. It was first formally documented in the early 1980s and is generally viewed as a Sinitic language. Some aspects of Caijia phonology are noteworthy from the perspective of historical phonology. There exist features which cannot be accounted for in terms of Middle Chinese (MC), such as the retention of the contrast between Old Chinese (OC) T-type and L-type onsets in words with d- or dr- in Middle Chinese. Moreover, Caijia also demonstrates features which are observed or preserved in Middle Chinese, but absent in mainstream modern Sinitic varieties, including the retention of bilabial stops in words with initials Fēi/Fū/Fèng. This study will also explore the implications certain phonological features have for the classification of Caijia in the Sinitic clade and examine the relationship between Caijia and Bai.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43545625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anticausatives in Classical Armenian","authors":"P. Kocharov","doi":"10.1075/jhl.22001.koc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.22001.koc","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The present study contributes to the description of the coding of anticausatives and causative-anticausative\u0000 alternation in Classical Armenian based on conventional typologically-oriented questionnaires and a dataset of verbs attested in\u0000 the Armenian translation of the Bible. The synchronic evidence is then analyzed from a diachronic perspective with an outlook on\u0000 modern varieties of Armenian and the Proto-Indo-European reconstruction.\u0000 It is argued that discriminating between the derivational and inflectional tiers allows for a better explanation\u0000 of the morphological links between the patterns used to code causative-anticausative alternation in verbs of different semantic\u0000 types. According to preliminary quantitative estimations, the overall valency orientation of Classical Armenian is dominated by a\u0000 nondirected equipollent coding strategy. Altogether, when coded by transitivizing pairs, causative-anticausative alternation shows\u0000 preference for noncausal verbs of the a-conjugation, the paradigm of which typically combines equipollent\u0000 perfective forms with labile imperfective ones.\u0000 An improved descriptive model enables a better cross-linguistic alignment of coding patterns as illustrated by\u0000 comparing Classical Armenian to other cognate languages. Classical Armenian provides additional evidence on the typologically\u0000 common split in the coding of causative-anticausative pairs. Whereas the transitivizing and equipollent (and marginally\u0000 suppletive) patterns are diachronically stable within the prehistory of Armenian, the labile strategy constitutes a major\u0000 innovation typical for the imperfective part of the verbal paradigm.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44247371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children as agents of language change","authors":"Israel Sanz-Sánchez, M. I. Moyna","doi":"10.1075/jhl.21033.san","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.21033.san","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper explores the operation of child language acquisition as a critical factor in some forms of language change. It proposes a sociohistorical model that incorporates the potential for young children to function as linguistic agents in certain environments, characterized by unpredictable variation in the input, lack of normative mechanisms, and the possibility for the emergence of peer networks among children. The model is then applied to explain a well-documented but poorly understood phonological change in the history of Latin American Spanish: the simplification of the system of sibilants in 16th-century Colonial Spanish. This change was nestled in ecological environments characterized by intense contact among L1 and L2 speakers of several varieties of Iberian and non-Iberian languages, as well as the rapid breakdown and reshaping of social networks. We argue that, in the absence of strong normative pressures, the advantages of certain options for early acquisition were crucial in the eventual creation and generalization of a new sociolinguistic norm. This study is methodologically innovative in that it combines not just archival evidence and sociohistorical information, but also present-day acquisitional data. The latter offers a piece often missing in sociohistorical accounts of language change.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47164648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regularity of semantic change in Romance anatomical terms","authors":"James Law","doi":"10.1075/jhl.21046.law","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.21046.law","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 While semantic change is notoriously idiosyncratic, cross-linguistic evidence suggests some general trends in the\u0000 directions and mechanisms of semantic shifts. Notable among these are trends applying to the target domain of the human body, a\u0000 domain that has received considerable attention due to its universality. However, broad surveys of many languages risk missing\u0000 significant details. Data from the Dictionnaire étymologique et cognitif des langues romanes (DECOLAR) on the\u0000 etymologies of terms for 97 body parts in 14 Romance languages calls some proposed trends into question. In particular,\u0000 counterexamples are found to a supposed unidirectional shift from visible parts to the wholes that include them. Analysis of\u0000 individual changes reveals contextual factors that can cause a lexical trend to not apply. The findings contribute to a more\u0000 complex model of metaphorization and metonymization, the primary processes involved in lexical semantic change.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44777598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The historical dialectology of stative morphology in Zapotecan","authors":"Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona","doi":"10.1075/jhl.21008.bea","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.21008.bea","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper updates the reconstruction of the stative aspect prefix in Proto-Zapotecan as *n- and tracks\u0000 innovations in stative marking. An early change is proposed to have deleted preconsonantal nasals, rendering segmentally unmarked\u0000 stative forms of consonant-initial verbs in varieties of Zapotec then spoken in and around the city of Monte Albán. Contact with\u0000 Chatino may be a factor in the retention of preconsonantal *n in Zapotec varieties spoken to the south. A fuller stative prefix,\u0000 usually *na-, arose later from a grammaticalized form of the stative-marked copula (Munro\u0000 2007; Uchihara 2021). *na- is more productive than *n- and\u0000 provides the basis for a new proposed “Eastern Zapotec” genetic grouping. However, the isogloss for *na- crosscuts the earlier\u0000 isogloss for preconsonantal nasal deletion, showing that any model of Zapotecan linguistic history needs to address not only\u0000 divergence but also convergence. Ethnohistorical and archaeological evidence provide a social context to the linguistic changes\u0000 discussed.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46896696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The negative cycle in Chinese","authors":"Barbara Meisterernst","doi":"10.1075/jhl.21026.mei","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.21026.mei","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The present discussion proposes that renewal processes in the domain of negation manifest themselves predominantly\u0000 in the change from bi-morphemic, synthetic negation to analytic negation neg+aux by introducing a new auxiliary verb as\u0000 verbal head. Some of these new verbs may subsequently be merged with the negator resulting into new bi-morphemic negation. The\u0000 proposed analyticization process accounts for different kinds of complex negation, including aspectual and modal negation, the\u0000 copula and negative focus markers. I propose a unified mechanism for the morpho-syntactic processes, which change the system of\u0000 negation in Chinese. Two morpho-syntactic factors contribute to this particular grammaticalization process of Chinese: (1) the\u0000 diachronically consistent head initial word order within the functional and the lexical (CP/vP) domains (with the\u0000 exception of sentence-final particles); and (2) the morpho-phonological rule that negation has to attach directly to aux,\u0000 i.e., to a weak verbal head. Based on particularly the second constraint, I propose that only the combination\u0000 neg+aux\u0000 mod leads to the emergence of new fused negators constituting the head of a Negative/Modal phrase,\u0000 i.e., a negative phrase (NegP) with modal features. The renewal process of the verbal heads of bi-morphemic negation is caused by\u0000 semantic bleaching and an increasing intransparency of the negator which triggers the grammaticalization of new (often defective)\u0000 lexical verbs via upward movement from the lexical to the functional domain. It accounts for the grammaticalization of the\u0000 aspectual negator wèi 未, of the\u0000 (negative) copula of Early Archaic Chinese into focus marker and complementizer, and for the replacement of synthetic by analytic\u0000 modal negation neg\u0000 mod > neg+aux\u0000 mod.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43715544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}