Transactions of the Philological Society

Published on behalf of the Philological Society

Edited by:
Paul Rowlett

Transactions of the Philological Society continues the earlier Proceedings (1852-53), and is the oldest scholarly periodical devoted to the general study of language and languages that has an unbroken tradition. Transactions reflects a wide range of linguistic interest and contains articles on a diversity of topics: among those published in recent years have been papers on phonology, Romance linguistics, generative grammar, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, Indo-European philology and the history of English.

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Online content now available back to Volume 1 (1854)
All back issues of this journal are available online. Click here to browse contents and abstracts. For further information on how to access these articles please visit our Librarian Site.

8 May 2009 Fifth RH Robins Prize of the Philological Society: winner announced
At the PhilSoc AGM on 8 May 2009, the Society was pleased to announce Petros Karatsareas of the University of Cambridge as the winner of the Society's Fifth RH Robins Prize. The prize-wining essay 'The loss of grammatical gender in Cappadocian Greek' is due to appear in issue 107.2 of Transactions of the Philological Society. The winner was greeted with applause and received warm congratulations from the President as well as a prize cheque for £500.

Recent and forthcoming thematic issues include:
2010: The prosody--syntax connection, eds. N. Vincent and L Mycock
2009: Structure and history in the English noun phrase, eds. S. Adamson and V. Gonzalez-Diaz

TopHighlights

Recent Articles

• Evidential, raised possessor, and the historical source of the ergative construction in Indo-Iranian
  Theodora Bynon
  
• Compulsory Corsican language classes in school as a method for reversing the language shift to French
  Robert J. Blackwood
  
• Definiteness effects: Evidence from Sardinian
  Delia Bentley
  
• The Function of Post-Nominal Element ki-k'un in Lakota
  Bruce Ingham

Recent and Forthcoming Special Issues

• 2008 Impersonal constructions, ed. A. Siewierska
• 2007 Cyclic spec--head relations, ed. P. Rowlett
• 2006 Germanic philology, ed. M. Durrell
• 2005 Quantitative methods in language comparison, ed. A. McMahon

Publications of the Philological Society

• Colonialm and Grammatical Representation
  Richard Steadman-Jones (2007)
  
• Focus in Hausa
  Melanie Green (2007)
  
• Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor
  Patrick Sims-Williams (2006)
  

• Johan Storm: dhi grétest pràktikal liNgwist in dhi werld
  Andrew Linn (2004)
  

• The Uralic Language Family: Facts, Myths & Statistics
  Angela Marcent (2002)
  

• The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology c.400-1200
  Patrick Sims Williams (2002)
  

• Linguistics in Britain: Personal Histories
  Keith Brown, Vivien Law (2002)
  

• Jersey Norman French: A Linguistic Study on an Obsolescent Dialect
  Mari Jones (2001)
  

• A Comparative Syntax of the Dialects of Southern Italy: A Minimalist Approach
  Adam Ledgeway (2000)