New paper published! “Clitics and the left periphery in the Sanskrit of the Rigveda”, by Krishnan Ram-Prasad KRP. #linguistics #OpenAccess historicalsyntax.org/hs/index.php/h…

Don’t miss the introduction to our Special Collection on “A multifactorial approach to word order change”, by Pierre Larrivée and Cecilia Poletto. historicalsyntax.org/hs/index.php/h…

New paper published! "Intra- and inter-author variation in negation in the 17th century Dutch Letters as Loot", by Levi Remijnse & Marjo van Koppen, brings together syntactic theory and sociolinguistics to study microvariation in historical Dutch negation. historicalsyntax.org/hs/index.php/h…

New post (either associate professor or full professor) in syntax and semantics at Oxford. Come and join us! ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2023/12/1…

Season’s greetings from all of the JHS team! Thanks to all the reviewers who supported us this year (and before) - we’re a small specialized journal and don’t want to break anonymity by acknowledging you by name, but you have a special place in our hearts! 💕

Thanks to the kind and supportive people behind J Historical Syntax, I can say with joy, relief and trepidation that my first academic article is now published! Bate (2024) 'Deriving the Old Irish Clause' is an offshoot of my PhD work, and is publicly available. historicalsyntax.org/hs/index.php/h…

Welcome to our 84th currently accepted journal, J. Historical Syntax @jhistsyntax historicalsyntax.org ! Since 2011: "theoretically-informed papers dealing with ... historical syntax, whether diachronic change or the synchronic description of historical language states".

Very happy to be part of Free Journal Network!

New issue published! "Areal continuities and discontinuities emerge from parallel studies of inflection in diachrony", by Louise Esher. It's part of the Special Collection "Towards a comparative historical dialectology". historicalsyntax.org/hs/index.php/h…

Breaking news: the editors of Wiley's journal “Syntax”, Klaus Abels and Suzanne Flynn, are resigning. They intend to set up a new journal, provisionally named Syntactic Theory and Research, which will be diamond #OpenAccess.

New paper published! “The impact of text type, information structure, and discourse relations on the use of verb second in Middle English: A case study of Chaucer's prose works”, by Sophie Whittle. historicalsyntax.org/hs/index.php/h…

We organised a new online "Methods @ LingLabs Konstanz " workshop on automatic parsing of (historical) texts. Feel free to share this with your colleagues and students, all are welcome! More information and registration here: eventbrite.com/e/from-parser-… Please share widely!