Published since January 1, 1967

Folia Linguistica

Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae

ISSN: 1614-7308

Editors-in-chief: Olga C. M. Fischer, Maria Napoli

About this journal

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)

Your Benefits

Your benefits:

Folia Linguistica: broad focus covering general linguistics
Folia Linguistica Historica: specific focus on diachronic linguistics
Timely publication of high-quality peer-reviewed articles

History

Folia Linguistica was founded in 1967 as the journal of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, with Ronald Crossland as its first editor. Initially, its focus was on language structure as well as language history. From 1980 onwards, Folia Linguistica Historica was established as a separate journal devoted to diachronic linguistics.

Other publications in the field

Abstracting and Indexing

Folia Linguistica is covered by the following services:

Baidu Scholar
BDSL Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
BLL Bibliographie Linguistischer Literatur
CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
CNPIEC - cnpLINKer
Dimensions
EBSCO (relevant databases)
EBSCO Discovery Service
ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
Genamics JournalSeek
Germanistik
Google Scholar
IBR (International Bibliography of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
J-Gate
Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
JournalGuide
JournalTOCs
KESLI-NDSL (Korean National Discovery for Science Leaders)
Linguistic Bibliography
Linguistics Abstracts Online
MLA International Bibliography
MyScienceWork
Naver Academic
Naviga (Softweco)
Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
OLC Linguistik
Primo Central (ExLibris)
ProQuest (relevant databases)
PsycINFO
PSYNDEX
Publons
QOAM (Quality Open Access Market)
ReadCube
Scilit
SCImago (SJR)
SCOPUS
Semantic Scholar
Sherpa/RoMEO
Summon (ProQuest)
TDNet
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb
WanFang Data
Web of Science - Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Web of Science - Current Contents/Arts & Humanities
Web of Science - Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences
Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index
WorldCat (OCLC)
X-MOL
Yewno Discover

Supplementary Materials

Topics

External Links

Volume 57 Issue 1

April 2023

Publicly Available March 14, 2023

Frontmatter

Page range: i-vii

Download PDF

Articles

February 6, 2023

Ideophonic patterns in Kiranti languages and beyond

Aimée Lahaussois

Page range: 1-36

Abstract

This article looks at descriptions of ideophones in Kiranti (Sino-Tibetan, Eastern Nepal) languages. It will do so by first providing a description of the ideophones of Thulung, for which four distinct ideophone types are identified, on the basis of a 10 h narrative corpus. Next, the results of this analysis will be compared to descriptions of ideophonic lexemes in sources on other Kiranti languages. In order to place these topics within an areal perspective, descriptions of the same phenomena in Nepali, the contact language for the linguistic area in question, will also be looked at. The goal of the article is to present data on the ideophonic patterns found in the Kiranti linguistic area and to consider the question of borrowing for ideophones in the Himalayas.

December 2, 2022

‘Without V-ing’ clauses: clausal negative concomitance in typological perspective

Jesús Olguín Martínez, Manuel Peregrina Llanes

Page range: 37-80

Abstract

This investigation offers an analysis of crosslinguistic variation in the expression of clausal negative concomitance (e.g. ‘he slept without using a pillow’) in a sample of 65 languages, showing that most languages in the sample tend to use conjunctions and converbs for indicating clausal negative concomitance. The discussion of clause-linkage patterns reveals that most languages have monofunctional devices for signaling clausal negative concomitance. Intriguingly, even when languages employ a clause-linking device for conveying clausal negative concomitance, negative markers may play an important role in that they may be obligatory, optional, or disallowed in the ‘without V-ing’ clause. It is proposed that whether the clause-linking device is semantically monofunctional or polyfunctional is the key to this puzzle. The paper also shows that most languages in the sample tend to signal clausal negative concomitance and nominal negative concomitance (e.g. ‘you took a basket without holes’) in the same way. This indicates a diachronic connection between these constructions.

December 21, 2022

Tune-text accommodation in Optimality Theory: an account of Southern Valencian Catalan yes-no questions

Paolo Roseano, Francesco Rodriquez

Page range: 81-134

Abstract

This paper aims at contributing to ascertain the principles of intonational grammar that lie behind the realization of nuclear contours and at presenting them in terms of Optimality Theory constraints. In order to do so, we analyse the prosody of the nuclear configuration of Southern Valencian Catalan yes-no questions, with special emphasis on situations where text-tune accommodation phenomena take place. The empirical data, which are analysed according to the principles of the autosegmental-metrical model, show a complex interplay of different phenomena at the text-tune interface, like vowel lengthening, tonal spreading, tonal retraction and intonation-driven schwa epenthesis. We argue that the variation detected in the data can be accounted for by the interaction of nine constraints (i.e., Max -IO(µ p ), Dep -IO(µ s ), Anchor (T%,Rt,IP,Rt), Anchor (L*,Rt,ˈσ,Rt), *Anchor (T,C), *Anchor (T,-voice), Share (T*,NC), Dep -IO (Associate), Max -IO (Associate) ), whose ranking is established by means of a Stochastic Optimality Theory analysis.

Open Access January 11, 2023

Unbounded repetition, habituality, and aspect from a comparative perspective

Egbert Fortuin

Page range: 135-175

More Download PDF

Abstract

This paper addresses the relationship between habituals, including expressions of unbounded repetition, and verbal aspect. It is often assumed that past events that are conceptualized as habitually occurring or repeated in an unbounded way are inherently expressed by imperfective verb forms in languages with verbal aspect. A crosslinguistic analysis is provided of the relationship between habituals and the perfective and imperfective aspect, based on analysis of 36 languages from different language families. It is shown that there is a strong but certainly not absolute association between the imperfective and habitual constructions/expressions of unbounded repetition with past reference. With respect to perfective habituals, some crosslinguistic patterns can be found. It is further argued that any account of the specific aspectual behavior in habituals must take heed of language-specific properties of the aspectual-verbal structure, and that using general, abstract comparative concepts, such as ‘perfective’, ‘imperfective’, or ‘habitual’, is insufficient to explain aspectual usage.

Open Access December 19, 2022

Returning a maverick creole to the fold: the Berbice Dutch enigma revisited

Mikael Parkvall, Bart Jacobs

Page range: 177-203

More Download PDF

Abstract

Berbice Dutch was a creole language spoken in the Republic of Guyana in South America, a country first under Dutch, and later under British colonial rule. Owing mainly to Silvia Kouwenberg ( A grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole , De Gruyter Mouton, 1994), we were blessed with a detailed synchronic documentation of Berbice Dutch before its demise. However, the formation of the language remains clouded in mystery: its grammar and (basic) lexicon display a seemingly unique mixture of Dutch (Creole) and Eastern Ijo, as a result of which the language is often portrayed as a challenge to existing contact-linguistic theory. In this paper, a scenario is proposed that, rather than challenging the said theory, is fully grounded in it: it will be argued that the language was a case of serial glottogenesis: a first stage of creolisation was later followed by language mixing. The paper furthermore presents hitherto unknown historical data pertaining to the arrival of Ijo speakers in Berbice.

Discussion

Open Access March 14, 2023

Exceptionalizing genetic creolistics: a rejoinder to Mikael Parkvall and Bart Jacobs on the emergence of Berbice Dutch

Salikoko S. Mufwene

Page range: 205-215

Download PDF

Open Access March 8, 2023

Why Haitian is a creole, Michif an intertwiner, and Irish English neither: a reply to Mufwene

Mikael Parkvall, Bart Jacobs

Page range: 217-226

Download PDF

Book Reviews

February 10, 2023

Virginia Hill and Alexandru Mardale: The diachrony of Differential Object Marking in Romanian

Edgar Onea

Page range: 227-241

February 7, 2023

John M. Anderson: A grammar of English: The consequences of a substance-based view of language

József Andor

Page range: 243-254

February 7, 2023

R. M. W. Dixon: The essence of linguistic analysis: An integrated approach

Yifan Liu, Sihong Zhang

Page range: 255-260

February 21, 2023

Martin Hilpert: Ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar

Huangyang Xiao, Qiao Zhou, Ruyi Sun

Page range: 261-266

February 7, 2023

Kevin McManus: Crosslinguistic influence and second language learning

Yan Sheng

Page range: 267-270

Ahead of Print / Just Accepted

Ahead of Print / Just Accepted

Volume 57 (2023)

Issue 1

Volume 56 (2022)

Volume 55 (2021)

Volume 54 (2020)

Volume 53 (2019)

Volume 52 (2018)

Volume 51 (2017)

Volume 50 (2016)

Volume 49 (2015)

Volume 48 (2014)

Volume 47 (2013)

Volume 46 (2012)

Volume 45 (2011)

Volume 44 (2010)

Volume 43 (2009)

Volume 42 (2008)

Volume 41 (2007)

Volume 40 (2006)

Volume 39 (2006)

Volume 38 (2004)

Volume 37 (2003)

Volume 36 (2002)

Volume 35 (2001)

Volume 34 (2000)

Volume 33 (1999)

Volume 32 (1998)

Volume 31 (1997)

Volume 30 (1996)

Volume 29 (1995)

Volume 28 (1994)

Volume 27 (1993)

Volume 26 (1992)

Volume 25 (1991)

Volume 24 (1990)

Volume 23 (1989)

Volume 22 (1989)

Volume 21 (1989)

Volume 20 (1986)

Volume 19 (1985)

Volume 18 (1984)

Volume 17 (1983)

Volume 16 (1982)

Volume 15 (1981)

Volume 14 (1980)

Volume 13 (1979)

Volume 12 (1978)

Volume 10 (1977)

Volume 11 (1977)

Volume 9 (1976)

Issue 1-4

Volume 8 (1975)

Issue 1-4

Volume 7 (1975)

Volume 6 (1973)

Volume 5 (1971)

Volume 4 (1970)

Volume 3 (1969)

Volume 2 (1968)

Volume 1 (1967)

5-year Journal Impact Factor	0.685
CiteScore	1.3
European Reference Index for the Humanities
Journal Impact Factor	0.613
Journal Citation Indicator	0.58
SCImago Journal Rank	0.330
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.935

Submit

Submission
The submissions for Folia Linguistica should be sent to the Editor and Editorial Assistant:

Prof. Dr Olga Fischer
University of Amsterdam
E-mail: O.C.M.Fischer@uva.nl

Sune Gregersen
E-mail: s.gregersen@isfas.uni-kiel.de

The submissions for Folia Linguistica Historica should be sent to the Editor:

Professor Dr. Maria Napoli
Università del Piemonte Orientale
E-mail: maria.napoli_folh@uniupo.it

Your benefits of publishing with us

Rapid publication with short turnaround times
High quality manuscript processing
Optional open access publication
Every article easily discoverable because of SEO and comprehensive abstracting and indexing services
Secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico
Professional sales and marketing activities

Submission process

Submission of your paper
Peer review process (you will be guided through every step)
Decision on your paper (10-12 weeks for submission to first decision)
If accepted: you have the option to publish it open access
Publication online and in print

Please note

Style: Please make sure that your manuscript follows the De Gruyter Mouton journal style sheet, see also the Information for Authors, available on this website on the 'Overview' tab under the heading 'Supplementary Files'.
Please submit your MS in PDF and Word format, both as e-mail attachments. Other formats (.odt, LaTeX, etc.) cannot be accepted.
Manuscripts must be written in clear and concise English
Before submitting your article please have a look at our copyright agreement and Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
Our repository policy allows you to distribute 30 PDF copies of your published article to colleagues (the PDF has to include the information that it is an author's copy). Please also feel free to distribute the link to the online abstract. Detailed information can be found at Public Repositories tab
If you have any general questions please visit our FAQ-Page for authors

We look forward to receiving your manuscript!

Hybrid Open Access

Authors have the option to publish their article under an open access license. The standard article processing charge for a hybrid open access article is 2,000 Euro (plus VAT if applicable). Please note that corresponding authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement, can publish open access without paying the fee. More information on the eligible institutions and articles can be found here.

Editorial

Folia Linguistica

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr Olga Fischer
English Linguistics
University of Amsterdam
Spuistraat 134
1012 VB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
E-mail: O.C.M.Fischer@uva.nl

Editorial Assistant
Sune Gregersen
E-mail: s.gregersen@isfas.uni-kiel.de

Review Editor
Prof. Dr. Javier Pérez-Guerra
Department of English, French and German
Universidad de Vigo
Campus Universitario
36310 Vigo
Spain
E-mail: jperez@uvigo.es

Editorial Board
Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
John Ole Askedal (University of Oslo, Norway)
Kasper Boye (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Sonia Cristofaro (University of Pavia, Italy)
María Josep Cuenca (University of Valencia, Spain)
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (University of Poznań, Poland)
Teresa Fanego (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Jeffrey Heath (University of Michigan, USA)
Gunther Kaltenböck (University of Vienna, Austria)
Belén Méndez-Naya (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Amina Mettouchi (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France)
Heiko Narrog (Tohoku University, Japan)
Martine Robbeets (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena)
Jean-Christophe Verstraete (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Letizia Vezzosi (University of Perugia, Italy)

Folia Linguistica Historica

Editor-in-Chief
Professor Dr. Maria Napoli
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Department of Humanities
Via Galileo Ferraris 116
13100 Vercelli
Italy
E-mail: maria.napoli_folh@uniupo.it

Editorial Assistant
Irene De Felice (Università di Genova, Italy)
E-mail: irene.defelice@edu.unige.it

Associate Editors
Delia Bentley (University of Manchester, UK)
Eitan Grossman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Review Editor
Lars Erik Zeige (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Email: lars.zeige@rz.hu-berlin.de

Editorial Team
Paola Balzaretti (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)
Christian Geddo (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland)
Giulia Fontana (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)

Editorial Board
Bert Cornillie (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Bridget Drinka (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Patience Epps (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Piotr Gąsiorowski (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Poland)
Hans Henrich Hock (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Dmitry Idiatov (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
Guillaume Jacques (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
Johanna Laakso (University of Vienna, Austria)
Roger Lass (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Piera Molinelli (Università di Bergamo, Italy)
Muriel Norde (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna, Austria)
John Charles Smith (University of Oxford, UK)
Freek Van de Velde (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Annemarie Verkerk (Saarland University, Germany)
Ferdinand von Mengden (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

(Deutsch)

Online ISSN: 1614-7308
Print ISSN: 0165-4004
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
First published: January 1, 1967
Publication Frequency: 4 Issues per Year
Audience: researchers in the fields of linguistics and social sciences