--- title: "Historical linguistics & language change — papers, page 2" description: "Historical linguistics & language change: 73 papers of the Elamur Research library · page 2 of 2 · 26–73, the most cited first." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/page/2/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/page/2/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [topics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/) / [Historical linguistics & language change](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/) / page 2 # ⏳ Historical linguistics & language change 73 papers · page 2 of 2 · 26–73 · the most cited first · [all topics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/) How languages change over time: semantic change, sound change, etymology and the history of words. [← prev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/) [1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/) **2** 26. [**Syntactic Language Change in English and German: Metrics, Parsers, and Convergences**Yanran Chen, Wei Zhao, Anne Breitbarth, et al.*2024 · 5 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2024-syntactic-language-change-english-german/) 27. [**Diachronic Analysis of Multi-word Expression Functional Categories in Scientific English**Diego Alves, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Elena Schmidt, et al.*2024 · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alves-2024-diachronic-analysis-multi-word-expression/) 28. [**Towards the Construction of a WordNet for Old English**Anas Fahad Khan, Francisco J. Minaya Gómez, Rafael Cruz González, et al.*2022 · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khan-2022-construction-wordnet-old-english/) 29. [**The Reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic Genitive Ending and a Suggestion on its Origin**Benjamin Suchard*2021 · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/suchard-2021-reconstruction-proto-semitic-genitive-ending/) 30. [**Detecting Syntactic Change Using a Neural Part-of-Speech Tagger**William Merrill, Gigi Stark, Robert Frank*2019 · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/merrill-2019-detecting-syntactic-change-neural-part/) 31. [**Semantic Change Characterization with LLMs using Rhetorics**Jáder Martins Camboim de Sá, Jooyoung Lee, Marcos Da Silveira, et al.*2026 · 3 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sa-2026-semantic-change-characterization-llms-rhetorics/) 32. [**Modeling the Evolution of English Noun Compounds with Feature-Rich Diachronic Compositionality Prediction**Filip Miletić, Sabine Schulte im Walde*2025 · 3 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miletic-2025-modeling-evolution-english-noun-compounds/) 33. [**Familiar vs. unique in a diachronic perspective. Case study of the rise of the definite article in North Germanic**Alicja Piotrowska, Dominika Skrzypek*2021 · 3 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/piotrowska-2021-familiar-vs-unique-diachronic-perspective/) 34. [**Lemmatising Verbs in Middle English Corpora: The Benefit of Enriching the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English 2 (PPCME2), the Parsed Corpus of Middle English Poetry (PCMEP), and A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (PLAEME)**Carola Trips, Michael Percillier*2020 · 3 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/trips-2020-lemmatising-verbs-middle-english-corpora/) 35. [**Should a conditional marker arise … The diachronic development of conditional sollte in German**Anne Breitbarth*2019 · 3 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/breitbarth-2019-i-should-conditional-marker-arise/) 36. [**Cross-Genre Learning for Old English Poetry POS Tagging**Irene Miani, Sara Stymne, Gregory R. Darwin*2025 · 2 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miani-2025-cross-genre-learning-old-english/) 37. [**Roadblocks in Gender Bias Measurement for Diachronic Corpora**Saied Alshahrani, Esma Wali, Abdullah R Alshamsan, et al.*2022 · 2 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alshahrani-2022-roadblocks-gender-bias-measurement-diachronic/) 38. [**Prepositions and the Grammaticalization of Ancient Hebrew Bipartite Reciprocal Markers**Camil Staps*2019 · 2 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/staps-2019-prepositions-grammaticalization-ancient-hebrew-bipartite/) 39. [**Surprisal and Satisfaction: Towards an Information-theoretic Characterization of Presuppositions with a Diachronic Application**Remus Gergel, Martin Kopf-Giammanco, Julia Masloh*2017 · 2 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gergel-2017-surprisal-satisfaction-information-theoretic-characterization/) 40. [**Transparent Semantic Change Detection with Dependency-Based Profiles**Bach Phan Tat, Kris Heylen, Dirk Geeraerts, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tat-2026-transparent-semantic-change-detection-dependency/) 41. [**Building UD Cairo for Old English in the Classroom**Lauren Levine, Junghyun Min, Amir Zeldes*2025 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/levine-2025-building-ud-cairo-old-english/) 42. [**EtymoLink: A Structured English Etymology Dataset**Yuan Gao, Weiwei Sun*2024 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gao-2024-etymolink-english/) 43. [**From YCOE to UD: Rule-based Root Identification in Old English**Luca Brigada Villa, Martina Giarda*2024 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/villa-2024-ycoe-ud-rule-based-root/) 44. [**The church and the manor: Assessing and comparing the effects of language contact on two Middle English lexical domains**Gloria Mambelli, Johanna Vogelsanger*2024 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mambelli-2024-church-manor-assessing-comparing-effects/) 45. [**The Biblical Hebrew Feminine Singular Qal Participle: A Historical Reconstruction**J.H. Price*2014 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/price-2014-biblical-hebrew-feminine-singular-qal/) 46. [**A Computational Diachronic Analysis of Gen Z Mental Health Discourse: A Large-scale Reddit Corpus Study from Pre- to Post-COVID**Felix Mao*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mao-2026-computational-diachronic-analysis-gen-z/) 47. [**AmDi - Ambiguous Words Diachronic Dataset**Felix Thielen, Kai Kugler*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thielen-2026-amdi-ambiguous-words-diachronic-dataset/) 48. [**Cross-lingual Lexical Semantic Change in Romance Languages**Ana Sabina Uban, Liviu P Dinu, Anca Daniela Dinu, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uban-2026-cross-lingual-lexical-semantic-change/) 49. [**Old English (Wikibooks, fetched 2026-10-17)**Wikibooks contributors*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/contributors-2026-old-english/) 50. [**Scripting History: A Diachronic Urdu Text and Image Corpus from the 18Th to 19Th Centuries**Sana Shams, Sahar Rauf, Asad Mustafa, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shams-2026-scripting-history-diachronic-urdu-text/) 51. [**Using BERT to Explore Lexical Semantic Change of Prepositions**Liudmila Radchankava, Vasily Konovalov*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/radchankava-2026-bert-explore-lexical-semantic-change/) 52. [**Voices across Decades: A Multimodal Diachronic Corpus of German Bundestag Debates (GerParlDia-MM)**Ingo Siegert*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/siegert-2026-voices-across-decades-multimodal-diachronic/) 53. [**When Similar Means Different: Evaluating LLMs on Arabic–Hebrew Cognates**Junhong Liang, Noor Abo Mokh, Bashar Alhafni*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liang-2026-similar-means-different-evaluating-llms/) 54. [**“Oat Milk Vegan Chocolate Taste Great!”: Monitoring the Food Transition Debate in Reddit**Greta Zella, Jan Willem Bolderdijk, Saskia Peels, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zella-2026-oat-milk-vegan-chocolate-taste/) 55. [**AI-Driven Generation of Old English: A Framework for Low-Resource Languages**Rodrigo Gabriel Salazar Alva, Matias Nunez, Cristian Lopez, et al.*2025*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alva-2025-ai-driven-generation-old-english/) 56. [**Cognate Detection for Historical Language Reconstruction of Proto-Sabean Languages: the Case of Ge'ez, Tigrinya, and Amharic**Elleni Sisay Temesgen, Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Fitsum Assamnew Andargie*2025*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/temesgen-2025-cognate-detection-historical-language-reconstruction/) 57. [**Diachronic Analysis of Phrasal Verbs in English Scientific Writing**Diego Alves*2025*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alves-2025-diachronic-analysis-phrasal-verbs-english/) 58. [**Discourse structure and narration: A diachronic view from Germanic**Ulrike Demske, Barthe Bloom*2025*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/demske-2025-discourse-structure-narration-diachronic/) 59. [**Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon**Nelson Goering*2025*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/goering-2025-metre-clitics-old-english-old/) 60. [**Spiritual and Medical Dimensions of the Language of Memory in Middle English Texts**Natalia Cziganj*2025*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cziganj-2025-spiritual-medical-dimensions-language-memory/) 61. [**On Old English swa 'so'**Sigrid Beck*2023*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/beck-2023-old-english-em-swa-em/) 62. [**From polysemy to semantic change: remarks on the lexeme miṣwà in Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew**Romina Vergari*2021*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vergari-2021-polysemy-semantic-change-remarks-lexeme/) 63. [**Lemmatisation, etymology and information overload on English and Swedish editions of Wiktionary**Allahverdi Verdizade*2021*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/verdizade-2021-wiktionary-en-sv/) 64. [**Grammaticalization of qәl ‘gourd’ in Amharic**Orin D. Gensler*2020*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gensler-2020-grammaticalization-ql-gourd-amharic/) 65. [**Currents in the Historical Linguistics and Linguistic Dating of the Hebrew Bible: Report on the State of Research as Reflected in Recent Major Publications**Robert Rezetko, Ian Young*2019*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rezetko-2019-currents-historical-linguistics-linguistic-dating/) 66. [**Historical linguistics and linguistic dating of the Hebrew Bible 2015–2018: The Rezetko and Young assessment of the status quaestionis**Nicolai Winther-Nielsen*2019*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/winther-nielsen-2019-historical-linguistics-linguistic-dating-hebrew/) 67. [**Terms for Occupations, Professions and Social Classes in Ugaritic: An Etymological Study**Wilfred G.E. Watson*2018*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/watson-2026-terms-occupations-professions-social-classes/) 68. [**A semiautomatic lemmatisation procedure for treebanks. Old English strong and weak verbs**Marta Tío Sáenz, Darío Metola Rodríguez*2017*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saenz-2017-semiautomatic-lemmatisation-procedure-treebanks-old/) 69. [**Participant-Reference Shifts in Zech. 1:1-6. An Assessment of Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches**Christian Højgaard Jensen*2016*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jensen-2016-participant-reference-shifts-zech-1/) 70. [**Diachronic Study of the Hebrew Bible: A Field in Crisis**Joshua Berman*2014*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/berman-2014-diachronic-study-hebrew-bible-field/) 71. [**Grammaticalization of Adnominal Demonstratives in Neo-Aramaic. Towards the creation of a simple determiner**Fabio Gasparini*2014*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gasparini-2014-grammaticalization-adnominal-demonstratives-neo-aramaic/) 72. [**Notes on the Genitive Exponents of Some Modern Arabic Dialects**Aaron Rubin*2004*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rubin-2026-notes-genitive-exponents-some-modern/) 73. [**Excursions through Middle English syntax (Münster, 1887); The English indefinite (1903); History of the English language II: historical syntax (Strassburg: Trübner, 3rd ed. 1916) (Streifzüge durch die mittelenglische Syntax (Münster, 1887); Das englische Indefinitum (1903); Geschichte der englischen Sprache II: Historische Syntax (Strassburg: Trübner, 3. Aufl. 1916))**Eugen Einenkel*1887*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/einenkel-1887-streifzuge-durch-die-mittelenglische/) [← prev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/) [1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/) **2**