Objective
Folia Linguistica and Folia Linguistica Historica are the peer-reviewed journals of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). Each volume consists of two issues of Folia Linguistica, one issue of Folia Linguistica Historica, and one Special Issue. 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

non-historical areas in general linguistics
grammaticalization
language typology
language variation
language varieties
sociological, discoursal, computational and psychological aspects of language and linguistic theory

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

Article formats
Research articles, Review articles, Book reviews, Miscellanea (reports and discussion notes)

Volume 41 Issue Historica-vol-28-1-2

Issue of Folia Linguistica

Titelei

Le passé antérieur: un ‘tiroir’ sans mystère?

Old English -fæst: A case of grammaticalisation

À propos de la matere esmeue dans les Problèmes d’Évrart de Conty: étude distributionnelle et variationnelle des verbes mouvoir et esmouvoir en moyen français

Nominal gerunds in 16^th-century English. The function of the definite article

Passives, middles, and reflexives in Irish

The lexicalization of causative verbs in the Yi group

A phonetic account of Anglian smoothing

The (socio-)linguistic cycle of Definite Article Reduction

The pronominal clitic complex in Walmajarri

BOOK REVIEWS

Don Ringe. 2006. A Linguistic History of English. Volume I. From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic

Patrick Sims-Williams. 2006. Ancient Celtic place-names in Europe and Asia Minor

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