Folia Linguistica Historica

Aims & Scope

Folia Linguistica is devoted to empirically based linguistic topics and covers all non-historical areas in the traditional disciplines of general linguistics.

The journal welcomes work from various theoretical perspectives, but contributions should be directed towards a general linguistic audience, in other words the argument should be understandable to linguists with other theoretical backgrounds.

The domain of interest of Folia Linguistica includes sociological, discoursal, computational and psychological aspects of language and linguistic theory.

Other areas of central concern are grammaticalization, language typology, and variation within and across languages.

Folia Linguistica Historica is exclusively devoted to empirically based diachronic linguistics of all language families (including both historical and comparative linguistics).

Topics Folia Linguistica Historica diachronic linguistics (including both historical and comparative linguistics) linguistic reconstruction (both internal and external) and language phylogeny computational approaches to linguistic variation and change.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NUMERAL ‘ONE’ AS AN INDEFINITE MARKER

  Citation: 65

  Authors: T.

• FROM PURPOSIVE TO INFINITIVE ― A UNIVERSAL PATH OF GRAMMATICIZATION

  Citation: 43

  Authors: MARTIN

• THE ENVIRONMENT FOR OPEN SYLLABLE LENGTHENING IN MIDDLE ENGLISH

  Citation: 23

  Authors: DONKA

• SOME QUESTIONS FOR THE DEFINITION OF "STYLE" IN SOCIO-HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

  Citation: 19

  Authors: ELIZABETH CLOSS, SUZANNE

• Attribution in Romance: Reconstructing the oral and written tradition

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Martin

• A FORMAL ACCOUNT OF GRAMMATICALISATION IN THE HISTORY OF ROMANCE FUTURES

  Citation: 15

  Authors: IAN

• Adjunct, modifier, discourse marker: On the various functions<i>of right</i>in the history of English

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Belén

• THE ORIGIN AND SPREAD OF THE ACCUSATIVE AND INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH

  Citation: 14

  Authors: OLGA

• EXPLORING EXAPTATION IN LANGUAGE CHANCE

  Citation: 13

  Authors: LUDOVIC

• Language vs. grammatical tradition in Ancient India: How real was Pāṇinian Sanskrit?

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Leonid