A thorough and fascinating exploration of the evolution of English'phonological structure,
this book traces the history of individual sounds and their representation through Old …

This condensed review of recent trends and developments in historical linguistics proceeds
from the empirical to the conceptual, from 'what'to 'how'to 'why'. I begin with new findings …

Syllable and Segment in Latin offers new and detailed analyses of five long-standing
problems in Latin historical phonology. In so doing, it clarifies the relative roles of synchronic …

Research on non-configurationality in the ancient IE languages has mostly focused on
discontinuous constituents, while litle atention has been paid to null anaphora. I believe …

Dieses Studienbuch bietet erstmals einen breiten Überblick über aktuelle Themen, Begriffe,
Methoden und Ergebnisse der historischen Graphematik. Auf die einleitenden Kapitel zum …

This dissertation addresses the phonology and orthography of the second column
(Secunda) of Origen's (185–254 ce) Hexapla, which constitutes a Greek transcription of …

Old English underwent diachronic change in its vowel inventory between its predecessor
West Germanic and Middle English. We provide an analysis of the addition and loss of …

An in-depth exploration of the sound systems of varieties of English around the world, written
by a renowned authority in the field In Sounds of English Worldwide, Raymond Hickey …

Originally published as the Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, this book brings
together a number of leading scholars who provide a combination of different approaches to …

In this article, we offer a historical account of the development of two phonemic
'interior'vowels,[ə] and [ɤ], and heterosyllabic vowel sequences in Ngwi, a virtually …