A recent quantitative study claims language structure, whether quantified as morphological
or information-theoretic complexity, to be unaffected by the proportion of those speaking the …

Computational language models (LMs), most notably exemplified by the widespread
success of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, show impressive performance on a wide range of …

Circumstantial ('central') adverbials canonically occupy the topological prefield in German,
causing inversion of subject and finite verb. V3 order, with such an adverbial preceding a full …

Natural language syntax yields an unbounded array of hierarchically structured expressions.
We claim that these are used in the service of active inference in accord with the free-energy …

This paper makes the case for using historical corpora to assess questions of sociolinguistic
typology. A full account of any contact‐induced change will need to establish what the …

This thesis deals with the diachronic renewal of standard negation, a phenomenon
commonly known as Jespersen's cycle (also JC in this thesis). We adopt the notion of …

This is the fourth set of contributions to Diachronica's series of vignettes on the past, present
and future of historical linguistics. In this issue, eight authors reflect on research priorities …

The present paper revisits proposal concerning the geographic distribution and diachronic
genesis of different functions of the particle en, a remnant of Jespersen's Cycle in the …

This study examines the L2 German verb placement preferences in 58 Korean immigrant
workers in Germany. The verb placement preferences are compared to predictions of …

One proposed mechanism of language change concerns the role played by second-
language (L2) learners in situations of language contact. If sufficiently many L2 speakers are …