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| Journal of Historical Linguistics | |
|---|---|
| Title | Journal of Historical Linguistics |
| Discipline | Historical linguistics |
| Language | English |
| Abbreviation | J. Hist. Linguist. |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Country | Germany |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 2011–present |
| Issn | 2194-5692 |
Journal of Historical Linguistics The Journal of Historical Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing research on the history of languages, language change, and comparative reconstruction. It serves researchers working on Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Uralic, Turkic, Austronesian, and other language families, while engaging with methods from phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics. The journal connects debates across institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the University of Oxford, Harvard University, and Leiden University.
The journal concentrates on empirical studies and theoretical discussions relevant to historical inquiry in linguistics and comparative philology, addressing problems associated with the Neogrammarian tradition, the Comparative Method, the Wave Model, and internal reconstruction. Contributors have included scholars affiliated with the University of Cambridge, Yale University, the University of Chicago, Stanford University, Columbia University, the University of Tokyo, the University of Helsinki, the University of Vienna, the University of Zurich, and the University of Toronto. It attracts submissions that intersect with archaeology at institutions like the British Museum and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, and with genetics research from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute.
The journal aims to publish work on phonetic and phonological change, morphological reanalysis, syntactic evolution, lexical replacement, dialectology, and language contact, with attention to case studies from the Indo-European family, Afro-Asiatic family, Sino-Tibetan family, Dravidian family, Austroasiatic family, Altaic hypotheses, Nilo-Saharan proposals, Niger–Congo research, Kartvelian studies, and Australian Aboriginal languages. It invites contributions that engage with frameworks from generative grammar associated with Noam Chomsky and Joan Bresnan, usage-based approaches linked to Michael Tomasello and William Croft, evolutionary perspectives influenced by Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins, and computational methods developed at institutions like INRIA, the Alan Turing Institute, and Google Research. The journal supports work relevant to comparative projects such as the Indo-European Lexical Cognacy Database, the World Atlas of Language Structures, and the Glottolog initiative at the Max Planck Digital Library.
Established in 2011, the journal is published by De Gruyter and distributed in print and online, with archives accessible to subscribers and participating libraries including the Library of Congress, the National Library of France, the British Library, and the Bodleian Library. It has appeared alongside other periodicals such as Diachronica, Language, and Historical Linguistics, and complements the output of academic presses like Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge. The journal has featured special issues honoring milestones at the Sorbonne, Humboldt University, the University of Leiden, and the University of Göttingen, and has organized panels at conferences such as the International Congress of Linguists, the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, the European Association for Language Typology, and the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics.
The editorial board has included editors and associate editors with affiliations to Harvard University, the University of California Press, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Warsaw, and the University of Oslo. The journal employs double-blind peer review drawing referees from committees and societies including the Linguistic Society of America, the Philological Society, the European Society for Historical Linguistics, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the British Academy. Editorial policy reflects standards comparable to those adopted by journals like the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, and engages external reviewers affiliated with the Max Planck Institutes, CNRS, and the Australian National University.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in major databases and services such as Scopus, Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, WorldCat, CrossRef, and the Directory of Open Access Journals when applicable. It is discoverable through platforms used by university libraries including JSTOR-linked catalogs, OCLC, and institutional repositories at the University of California, Columbia University, and the University of Michigan.
Notable contributions have addressed topics like Proto-Indo-European phonology in the tradition of August Schleicher and Ferdinand de Saussure, Anatolian studies building on work by Hittitologists, the reconstruction of Proto-Afroasiatic consonant systems, proposals for Macro-Pama-Nyungan relationships, and debates over Nostratic and Altaic macrofamily hypotheses associated with scholars such as Holger Pedersen and Joseph Greenberg. The journal has published influential papers on sound change mechanisms drawing on notions from Johannes Schmidt and Karl Brugmann, morphological reanalysis reflecting work by Roman Jakobson, and computational phylogenetics inspired by treatments from Russell Gray and Quentin Atkinson. Case studies have examined Ancient Greek inscriptions, Old Church Slavonic texts, Akkadian tablets, Classical Chinese corpora, Old Norse sagas, Mayan epigraphy, and Austronesian comparative lexicons.
The journal has been recognized by research communities at institutions including the European Research Council, the Max Planck Society, and national academies such as the National Academy of Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for its role in advancing comparative and diachronic methodology. Its articles are cited alongside works published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and MIT Press, and have informed projects at museums and archives such as the British Museum, the Louvre, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Israel Antiquities Authority. The journal contributes to ongoing debates involving scholars connected to the University of Leiden, the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago, and continues to shape the research agenda of historical linguistics across global centers including Moscow State University, Peking University, and the University of São Paulo.
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