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Abstract
This paper deals with the historical relations between dialects of Boni, a Cushitic language of Kenya and Somalia.
Boni forms the subject of Volume 10 of the Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya (Heine & Möhlig 1982). Heine presents evidence for three subgroups within Boni, as well as several
areas of convergence between dialects belonging to different proposed subgroups. In reviewing his evidence, I find that two of the
three splits are not supported by the data, and therefore his conclusions on convergence must also be reinterpreted. Given the
presence of numerous intersecting isoglosses, the tree diagram is an inappropriate model for describing the relations between Boni
dialects, and I turn to Historical Glottometry (Kalyan & François 2018) to provide
a visualization of the data.
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The Journal of Historical Linguistics aims to publish, after peer-review, papers that make a significant contribution to the theory and/or methodology of historical linguistics. Papers dealing with any language or language family are welcome. Papers should have a diachronic orientation and should offer new perspectives, refine existing methodologies, or challenge received wisdom, on the basis of careful analysis of extant historical data. We are especially keen to publish work which links historical linguistics to corpus-based research, linguistic typology, language variation, language contact, or the study of language and cognition, all of which constitute a major source of methodological renewal for the discipline and shed light on aspects of language change. Contributions in areas such as diachronic corpus linguistics or diachronic typology are therefore particularly welcome.
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