Diachronica will be at the LSA in New Orleans! Probably won't have "official" office hours but do come and find any of the editorial team if you have questions about submitting to us!

42.3-4 print double issue is currently being printed and should be on its way to libraries shortly. I signed off on the proofs for 42.5 today, and the content of 43.1 is lined up and will be printed in early January

Introduction benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... The introduction to our tone special (double) issue is now online!

The diachronic evolution of syllable-onset /Cl/ clusters in Romance revisited benjamins.com/catalog/dia....

Kra-Dai tonogenesis in Austro-Tai perspective benjamins.com/catalog/dia....

I am so grateful to the editors of Diachronica for letting me write this piece in memoriam of Bill Labov. And so grateful that they let me write what I most wanted to - a piece about Bill's *goodness*, his love for humanity, and how those things *resulted in* what we think of as his genius 🐦

New publication on Dinka by NILOMORPH member Mirella Blum - "Dialectal tone description enhances historical tonology", in @diachronica.bsky.social www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Falling in love with humanity benjamins.com/catalog/dia....

Multiple source explanation in language change benjamins.com/catalog/dia....

The history of the [ɨm] causatives in Mapudungun benjamins.com/catalog/dia....

The history of the [ɨm] causatives in Mapudungun benjamins.com/catalog/dia....

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... is now out, @betsysneller.bsky.social 's beautiful tribute to Bill Labov

Diachronica benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... Benjamins now has a "share on bluesky" button (along with Facebook and LinkedIn)

Método comparativo para la determinación de préstamos de lenguas indígenas no habladas en el español benjamins.com/catalog/dia....

A long farewell benjamins.com/catalog/dia....

Emergence and evolution of free variation in Central Pame prefixes benjamins.com/catalog/dia....

Towards reconstructing grammatical tone in the northwestern Bantu verb phrase benjamins.com/catalog/dia....

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

We will be at ichl next week! Happy to talk about potential submissions

Entirely selfishly, I'm also pleased by echoes of work I've done: "Convergence in the formation of IE subgroups: Phylogeny and chronology" (2006); "Descent and diffusion in language diversification: A study of Western Numic dialectology" (with Babel, Houser & Toosarvandani, 2013).

New article in the tone special issue #linguistics benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... Accent and tone The double origin of the Paicî prosodic system Florian Lionnet | Princeton University

New article in our tone special issue #linguistics benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... Tonogenesis A diachronic typology Lilja Maria Sæbø | Oxford University Eitan Grossman | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Steven Moran | University of Neuchâtel | University of Zurich

Another reason humans are infinitely better than "AI": it can't keep up with language change. Urban Dictionary bests Gemini every time! Gemini's definition of wireback: The term "wireback" is not a recognized or established slang term. It's likely a misspelling or a misunderstanding of other terms

Are you working on topics related to the history of linguistics?🫵 Consider submitting an article to ✨Language & History✨, the journal of the Henry Sweet Society! It is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published 3 times per year both online and in print. www.henrysweet.org/language-and...

So glad this is out! Still wish we had the data processed in time for @jmhenner.bsky.social to use but pleased to have his contribution in more ways than 1. See below for a brief commentary re Jon, deaf linguists & participating in SiL research and doing it in a way that disrupts or crips it all

New #linguistics article! Late Malayo-Polynesian A new model of Austronesian linguistic relations Alexander D. Smith | Fudan University benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... Keywords: Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian, subgrouping, linkages, language contact

Huge week for Sumerian culture:

New paper! #linguistics benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... Learning to be (un)hip in panel data Exploring quotative be like across the adult life‑span Anne-Marie Moelders, Isabelle Buchstaller | Sociolinguistics Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen

New paper! #linguistics Tonogenesis in the Naduhup family of northwest Amazonia Mark Simmons | University of California San Diego Patience Epps | University of Texas at Austin

This week on #linguistics journal etiquette: responding to reviewers' comments. I'm seeing more revised papers that don't fully engage with the reviewers' comments. This is a problem.

Here's a couple of tips for submitting files to journals (especially Diachronica but applicable elsewhere). Especially for smaller journals where you have correspondence with the editor, it's easy to think that the process is flexible. But there's a lot going on behind the scenes with each paper!

"Writing. Is. Thinking." and "writing is an iterative process" -- Probably the most important lessons I had to learn in grad school. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On the offchance that you are interested in reviewing for Diachronica, please let us know! We are always happy to learn of people who are interested in reviewing for us forms.gle/Gm65PUtXqSvJ...

New paper! benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... Tracing the development of the perfect alternation in Early Modern English Marianne Hundt | University of Zürich Yoko Iyeiri | Kyoto University

New paper! benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... Paradigmatic complexity metrics as signals of phylogenetic relatedness A proof of concept in Romance and Pamean diachrony Borja Herce | University of Zurich Balthasar Bickel | University of Zurich

Diachronica has been publishing summaries of our articles in French and German. We are ceasing that practice. There are a couple of reasons. First, doing so adds about a month to our production pipeline (adding to an already long pipeline between accepting articles and publishing them);

42.1 has gone to press (all the articles were previously available open access though)

🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely. 🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25 shorturl.at/vSTZx

The Tape Restorator: www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2025/01... I'm incredibly fond of this lil tape robot built for PARADISEC. Something wonderfully 1970s technofuture about it. So much language documentation still languishing on tape, we're entering a critical period for preserving these materials.

this is also about *relationships*: just like teaching is about relationships, so is peer review. part of the task is engaging with the work of a peer (a person!) who spent a lot of time and effort on their research. opting out of that is not just bad for scientific integrity, it's also anti-social.

Social media is getting fragmented, so if you've newly joined somewhere or are thinking about switching and want more linguistics in your feeds, we've put together this list of tons of linguisticsy options both online and off!

New Open Access Paper is out! #linguistics #histling #creoles Consonant stability in Portuguese-based creoles Author(s): Carlos Silva1 and Steven Moran2,3,4ORCID icon DOI: doi.org/10.1075/dia.... Keywords Portuguese-based creoles, language contact, consonant stability

41.5 has gone to press and the first issue of 2025 will follow shortly

The latest set of Diachrony & Diachronica : 40@40 is now up! 10.1075/dia.24081.bow has more contributions about historical and sociolinguistics, language endangerment, and much more

"A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans that could total trillions of dollars." apnews.com/article/dona...

This is the account of the historical #linguistics journal Diachronica. We publish papers on all aspects of language change. Recent articles and submission information available at benjamins.com/catalog/dia

Lots of Diachronica submissions! and with them, a fair number of questions about the Editorial Manager (EM) platform. Two things coming up a lot: 1) authors who upload submissions but don't approve them. When you upload your paper, EM builds the pdf; you have to OK it for the paper to be submitted

Thank you to the 100+ reviewers who evaluated submissions this year, without whom we would not function. Thank you also to our editorial board and the associate editors, our production editor, editorial assistant and the staff at John Benjamins!

Some problems involving Proto-Mǐn onsets and new Old Chinese Jonathan Smith | Christopher Newport University benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... #linguistics #langsky

A diachronic account of Present Day Standard Danish stop gradation: Phonological reorganization through prosodically conditioned chain shifts & mergers Rasmus Puggaard-Rode (LMU Munich) Henrik Jørgensen (Aarhus) Camilla Søballe Horslund (Aalborg) benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... #linguistics #langsky