Born: 18 February 1934 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Citizenship: Canadian. Civil status: married.
———. “Naturalness and Markedness”. To appear in Logos and Language.
———. Review of Östen Dahl, The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity. (Studies in Language Companion Series, 71.) Amsterdam–Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 333+x pp. To appear in Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift.
———. “Grammaticalization in a speaker-oriented theory of change”. Historical Linguistics and the Theory of Grammar. The Rosendal Papers, ed. by Thórhallur Eythórsson. (Studies in Language Companion) Amsterdam–Philadelphia: John Benjamins. To appear .
———. “Some thoughts on the history of Russian numeral syntax”. Festschrift for NN. To appear.
———. “Leveling in paradigms. Possibility, impossibility, and contingency”. Festschrift for NN. To appear.
———. Review of Examining the farming/language dispersal hypothesis, ed. by Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew (McDonald Institute Monographs). Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (Distributed by Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK). 2002. To appear in Folia Linguistica Historica.
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2006h. Review of Heike Wiese, Numbers, Language, and the Human Mind. Cambridge: University Press, 2003. Languages in Contrast 6.335–339.
2006g. “On Juliette Blevins, ‘A theoretical synopsis of evolutionary phonology’”. Theoretical Linguistics 32.167–174.
2006f. “Periphrastic futures in Slavic. Divergence and convergence”. Change in verbal systems. Issues in explanation, ed. by Kerstin Eksell and Thora Vinther, 9–45. Bern: Peter Lang.
2006e. “Grammation, regrammation, and degrammation: tense loss in Russian”. Diachronica 23.231–258.
2006d. “The last days of the Russian Future Perfect”. La linguistique au coeur. Valence verbale, grammaticalisation et corpus. Mélanges offerts à Lene Schøsler à l’occasion de son 60e anniversaire, ed. by Hanne Leth Andersen, Merete Birkelund, and Mai-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, 149–160. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark.
2006c. “Synchrony, diachrony, and evolution”. Competing models of Linguistic Change. Evolution and Beyond, ed. by Ole Nedergaard Thomsen, 59–90. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 279.) Amsterdam–Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2006b. “Future and Future Perfect in the Old Novgorod Dialect”. Russian Linguistics 30.1–18.
2006a. “On the Late Common Slavic dialect correspondences Kl—Tl—l”. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, 44/45.37–48, 2002–03.
2005c. “The plasticity of universal grammar”. Convergence. Interdisciplinary Communications 2004/2005, ed. by Willy Østreng, 21–26. Oslo: Centre for Advanced Studies at the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters.
2005b. “On turbulence and historical linguistics”. Convergence. Interdisciplinary Communications 2004/2005, ed. by Willy Østreng, 172–178. Oslo: Centre for Advanced Studies at the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters.
2005a. Review of The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, ed. by Brian D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda. Malden, Mass.–London–Melbourne–Berlin: Blackwell Publishing. 2003. Diachronica 22.155–175.
2004. “Morphological change: towards a typology”. Reprinting of 1980a. In Morphology. Critical Concepts in Linguistics, 1–6 ed. by Francis Katamba. Volume 6: Morphology: Its place in the wider context, 397–443
2003d. “On bifurcations and the Germanic consonant shifts”. Language in Time and Space. A Festschrift for Werner Winter on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 144) ed. by Brigitte L. M. Bauer and Georges-Jean Pinault. Berlin–New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2003c . Language Contacts in Prehistory. Studies in Stratigraphy (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 239) ed. by Henning Andersen. Amsterdam–Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2003b . “Introduction” . Language Contacts in Prehistory. Studies in Stratigraphy (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 239) ed. by Henning Andersen, 1–10. Amsterdam– Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2003a. “Slavic and the Indo-European migrations”. Language Contacts in Prehistory. Studies in Stratigraphy (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 239) ed. by Henning Andersen, 45–76. Amsterdam–Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2002b. “Preglottalization in English and a North Germanic bifurcation”. Sounds and Systems. Studies in Structure and Change. A Festschrift for Theo Vennemann ed. by David Restle and Dietmar Zaefferer, 15–34. Berlin–New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2002a . Review of Brit Mæhlum, Mellom Skylla og Kharybdis. Forklaringsbegrepet i historisk spraakvitenskap. Oslo: Novus, 1999. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 20.225 –227.
2001e. Actualization (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 219) ed. by Henning Andersen. Amsterdam–Philadelphia: Benjamins. vi + 250 pp.
2001d. “Introduction”, Actualization (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 219), ed. by Henning Andersen, 1–18. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
2001c. “Actualization and the (uni)directionality of change”, Actualization (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 219), ed. by Henning Andersen, 225–248. Amsterdam–Philadelphia: Benjamins.
2001b. “Markedness and the theory of linguistic change”, Actualization (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 219), ed. by Henning Andersen, 19–57. Amsterdam–Philadelphia: Benjamins.
2001a. Review of The Peirce Seminar Papers. Essays in Semiotic Analysis, vol.4. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Language and Peircean Sign Theory, Duke University, 19–21 June 1997 ed. by Michael Shapiro. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. Language 77.
2000. “Nedertysk og slavisk. Fra sprogberigelse til sprogdød”, Spraakkontakt. Innverknaden fraa nedertysk paa andre nordeuropeiske spraak (Spraakhistoriske prinsipp for laanord i nordiske spraak 2) ed. by Ernst Haakon Jahr, 111–130. Copenhagen: Nordisk Raad.
1999. “The Western South Slavic contrast Sn. sah-ni-ti // SC sah-nu-ti”, Slovenski jezik. Slovene Linguistic Studies 2.47–62.
1998e. “The Common Slavic vowel shifts”, American Contributions to the Twelfth International Congress of Slavists, Cracow, Aug.– Sept. 1998. Literature. Linguistics. Poetics ed. by Robert A. Maguire and Alan H. Timberlake, 239–249. Bloomington, Ind.: Slavica Publishers.
1998d. “Dialektnaja differenciacija obshcheslavjanskogo jazyka. Paradoks obshchix tendencij razvitija s razlichnymi lokal’nymi rezul’tatami”, American Contributions to the Twelfth International Congress of Slavists, Cracow, Aug.– Sept. 1998. Literature. Linguistics. Poetics, ed. by Robert A. Maguire and Alan H. Timberlake, 565–600. Bloomington, Ind.: Slavica Publishers.
1998c. “ Does the past have a future. Reflections on the Jakobson Heritage”, The Roman Jakobson Centenary Symposium, Copenhagen 10–12 October 1996 ed. by Per Aage Brandt et al., Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 29.149–177.
1998b. "14. Slavic", The Indo-European Languages, ed. by Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paolo Ramat, 415–453. London--New York: Routledge. [English version of 1993.]
1998a. “A glimpse of the homeland of the Slavs: ecological and cultural change in prehistory”, Proceedings of the Seventh UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, 1995 (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series, 27) ed. by Angela della Volpe, 1–67. Washington D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man. [English version of following item.]
1996d. “Vzgljad na slavjanskuju prarodinu: doistoricheskie izmenenija v ekologii i kul’ture”, Voprosy jazykoznanija 1996;5.65–106, 1996;6.31–40.
1996c. Reconstructing prehistorical dialects: Initial vowels in Slavic and Baltic (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 91). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. xviii + 238 pp.
1996b. “The Ukrainian fourth declension”. Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 18.154–166. (Special Issue: Ukrainian Philology and Linguistics ed. by Michael S. Flier.)
1996a. “Consonant reduction in Russian”, The Language and Verse of Russia. Festschrift for Dean S. Worth ed. by Henrik Birnbaum and Michael S. Flier, 19–30.
1995. Historical Linguistics 1993. Papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, ed. by Henning Andersen. Amsterdam: Benjamins. ix + 460 pp.
1994b. “Vilhelm Thomsen”, The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics ed. by R. E. Asher and J. M. Y. Simpson, 9.4608–4609. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
1994a. “Karl Verner”, The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics ed. by R. E. Asher and J. M. Y. Simpson, 9.4929–4930. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
1994c. “Jakob Hornemann Bredsdorff”, The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics ed. by R. E. Asher and J. M. Y. Simpson, 1.401–402. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
1994b. “Holger Pedersen”, The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics ed. by R. E. Asher and J. M. Y. Simpson, 6.2997–2998. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
1994a. “Herman Møller”, The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics ed. by R. E. Asher and J. M. Y. Simpson, 5.2521–2522. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
1993. “Le lingue slave”. In Le lingue indoeuropee ed. by Paolo Ramat and Anna Giacalone-Ramat, 441–480. Bologna: Il Mulino.
1991. “On the projection of equivalence relations into syntagms". New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation ed. by Stephen Rudy and Linda R. Waugh, 287–311. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
1990b. Historical Linguistics 1987. Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics ed. by Henning Andersen and Konrad Koerner. Amsterdam: Benjamins. x + 577 pp.
1990a. “The structure of drift”. Historical Linguistics 1987. Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics ed. by Henning Andersen and Konrad Koerner, 1–20. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
1989b. “Understanding linguistic innovations”. Language Change: Contributions to the Study of its Causes ed. by Leiv Egil Breivik and Ernst Haakon Jahr, 5–28. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
1989a. “Markedness theory: the first 150 years”. Markedness in synchrony and diachrony ed. by Olga Miseska Tomic, 11–46. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
1988. “Center and periphery: adoption, diffusion, and spread”, Historical Dialectology, Regional and Social ed. by Jacek Fisiak, 39–83. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
1987b. “Roman Jakobson and the semiotic foundations of phonology”. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1–6 ed. by U. E. Viks, 4.357–361. Tallinn: Academy of Sciences of the Estonian S.S.R.
1987a. “From auxiliary to desinence”. Historical Development of Auxiliaries ed. by Martin Harris and Paolo Ramat, 21–52. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
1986d. Sandhi Phenomena in the Languages of Europe ed. by Henning Andersen. The Hague–Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. xii + 616 pp.
1986c. “Sandhi and prosody: reconstruction and typology”. Sandhi Phenomena in the Languages of Europe ed. by Henning Andersen, 231–248. The Hague–Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
1986b. “Introduction: Sandhi”, Sandhi Phenomena in the Languages of Europe, ed. by Henning Andersen, 1–8. The Hague--Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
1986a. “Protoslavic and Common Slavic: questions of periodization and terminology”, Slavic Linguistics, Poetics, Cultural History. In Honor of Henrik Birnbaum on his Sixtieth Birthday, 13 December 1985 (= International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 31/32) ed. by Michael S. Flier and Dean S. Worth, 67–82. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers.
1985. “On projective iconicity”. Arbejdspapirer fra Institut for Lingvistik ved Københavns Universitet 5.60–70.
1984. “Language structure and semiotic processes”. Arbejdspapirer fra Institut for Lingvistik ved Københavns Universitet 3.33–54.
1982. “Jakob Hornemann Bredsdorff, ‘On the Causes of Linguistic Change’. English translation with commentary and an essay on J. H. Bredsdorff”, Historiographia Linguistica 9.1–41.
1980c. “Summarizing discussion: Introduction”. In Typology and Genetics of Language. Proceedings of the Rask-Hjelmslev Symposium, held at the University of Copenhagen, 3–5 Sepetember 1979 (= Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague, 20) ed. by Torben Thrane et al., 197–210. Copenhagen: Reitzel.
1980b. “Russian conjugation: acquisition and evolutive change”. Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics ed. by Elizabeth C. Traugott et al., 285–301. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
1980a. “Morphological change: towards a typology”. Recent Developments in Historical Morphology ed. by Jacek Fisiak, 1–50. The Hague: Mouton.
1979. “Phonology as semiotic”. A Semiotic Landscape. Proceedings of the First Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies ed. by Seymour Chatman, 377–381. The Hague: Mouton.
1978c. “Abductive and deductive change”. Reprinting of 1973. In Readings in Historical Phonology. Chapters in the Theory of Sound Change ed. by Philip Baldi and Ronald N. Werth, 313–347. University Park--London: Pennsylvania University Press, 1978.
1978b. “Vocalic and consonantal languages”. Studia Linguistica A. V. Issatschenko a Collegis et Amicis oblata ed. by Lubomir Durovic et al., 1–12. Lisse: De Ridder Press.
1978a. “Perceptual and conceptual factors in abductive innovations”. Recent Developments in Historical Phonology ed. by Jacek Fisiak, 1–22. The Hague: Mouton.
1977c. Review of Erik Bach Nielsen, Russisk grundgrammatik. Svantevit 2.113–116.
1977b. “On some central innovations in the Common Slavic period”. Slovansko jeziko-slovje. Nahtigalov zbornik ob stoletnici rojstva ed. by Franc Jakupin, 1–13. Ljubljana: Univerza.
1977a. “Diachronic and synchronic typology”. Studies in Linguistic Typology (= Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Philologica, 3) ed. by Milan Romportl et al., 57–66. Prague: Univerzita Karlova.
1975b. (with Victoria Koff) "Razvitie navykov russkoj rechi”. Working Papers of the Russian School, Norwich University 3.1–10.
1975a. “Variance and invariance in phonological typology”. Phonologica 1972. Akten der 2. Internationalen Phonologie-Tagung in Wien ed. by Wolfgang U. Dressler and Frantisek V. Mares, 67–78. Munich: Fink.
1974b. “Towards a typology of change: bifurcating changes and binary relations”. Historical Linguistics. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 1–2 ed. by John M. Anderson and Charles Jones, vol. 2, 17–60. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
1974a. “Markedness in vowel systems”. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress of Linguists ed. by Luigi Heilmann, 1136–1141. Bologna: Il Mulino.
1973b. Review of M. A. Zhovtobrjux (ed.), Suchasna ukrajins'ka literaturna mova. Vstup. Fonetyka. Recenzija 3.19–26.
1973a. “Abductive and deductive change”. Language 49.567–595.
1972. “Diphthongization". Language 48.11–50.
1971. Review of V. Georgiev, Osnovni problemi na slavjanskata diaxronna morfologija. Language 47.949–954.
1970d. Review of Charles E. Bidwell, Outline of Ukrainian morphology and Outline of Bielorussian morphology. Lingua 24.404–406.
1970c. “The dative of subordination in Baltic and Slavic”. Baltic Linguistics ed. by Thomas F. Magner and William R. Schmalstieg, 1–9. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press.
1970b. “On some old Balto-Slavic isoglosses”. Donum Balticum ed. by Velta Ruke-Dravina, 1–7. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell.
1970a. “Kashubian dobetk ‘dobytek’ and its kind”. Welt der Slaven 15.61–76.
1969f. “The phonological status of the Russian ‘labial fricatives’”. Journal of Linguistics 5.121–127.
1969e. “The peripheral plural desinences in East Slavic”. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 12.19–32.
1969d. “The change of *ot to *od — a central Slavic innovation”. Welt der Slaven 14.315–330.
1969c. “Lenition in Common Slavic”. Language 45.553–574.
1969b. “Indo-European voicing sandhi in Ukrainian”. Scando-Slavica 15.157–169.
1969a. “A study in diachronic morphophonemics: the Ukrainian prefixes”. Language 45.807–830.
1968. “IE *s after i, u, r, k in Baltic and Slavic”. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 11.171–190.