J Historical Syntax @JHistSyntax

The Journal of Historical Syntax is a scholar-led platinum Open Access journal, publishing theoretically-informed papers dealing with historical syntax. historicalsyntax.org Joined October 2011

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J Historical Syntax @JHistSyntax

a month ago

New paper out! "Latin and the comparative reconstruction of QU-exclamatives", by Michiel de Vaan. historicalsyntax.org/hs/index.php/h… The paper is part of the special collection "Latin and Sabellic relative clauses", guest-edited by Robin Meyer.

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J Historical Syntax @JHistSyntax

2 months ago

New paper out! "Basque V2 effects in diachrony", by Maia Duguine & Georg A. Kaiser. doi.org/10.18148/hs/20… This paper is part of the Special Collection "A multifactorial approach to word order change", edited by Larrivée & Poletto.

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George Wⓐlkden @gwalkden

2 months ago

#DiGS26 is coming to an end. #DiGS27 will be in Padua next year, 16th-19th June 2026. Maybe see some of you there!

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George Wⓐlkden @gwalkden

3 months ago

I'm going to tweet a bit about #DiGS26 in Oxford, mostly for tradition's sake. The conference takes place in the Taylor Institution Library, in front of this fine portrait of the legendary Max Müller.

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J Historical Syntax @JHistSyntax

3 months ago

New #OpenAccess paper published! "Moods in relative clauses in Plautus and Terence", by Wolfgang de Melo. historicalsyntax.org/hs/index.php/h… The paper is part of the Special Collection "#Latin and #Sabellic relative clauses", guest edited by Robin Meyer.

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J Historical Syntax @JHistSyntax

3 months ago

New article out! "The emergence of the hoi epêlthe ptareîn impersonal construction in Ancient Greek", by Diego Luinetti. doi.org/10.18148/hs/20…

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J Historical Syntax @JHistSyntax

6 months ago

New paper out! "Relative clauses in Oscan and Latin: the development of new syntactic structures through language contact", by James Clackson. historicalsyntax.org/hs/index.php/h… It's part of the Special Collection "Latin and Sabellic relative clauses", and fully #OpenAccess.

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J Historical Syntax @JHistSyntax

6 months ago

New paper out in the Journal of Historical Syntax: "Types of relativization and relative heads in the Sabellic languages", by Jasmim Drigo & Yexin Qu. This article is part of JHS's Special Collection on relative clauses in Latin and Sabellic. doi.org/10.18148/hs/20…

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J Historical Syntax @JHistSyntax

6 months ago

Sophia Oppermann is now being awarded the Wilhelm von Humboldt prize at the DGfS for her doctorate on coordination in the history of German! You can read some of her research on this topic in JHS, in glorious Open Access: doi.org/10.18148/hs/20…

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Tamisha L. Tan @tamishaltan

7 months ago

Ever wonder about the historical development of pronominal copulas like Arabic "ana huwwa il-mudarris", I'm the teacher, lit. I he the-teacher, or Russian "my èto Marija I Ivan", lit. we this Maria and Ivan? New paper out now! 👇