Kanehiro Nishimura

On the etymology of ­­Latin signum and Its Sabellic counterparts

Journal of Latin Linguistics (Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter), 24 103-112, 2025  Peer-reviewed

A new approach to the etymology of Latin testa ‘earthenware’ and tesca/tesqua ‘?’

Exploring Latin: Structures, Functions, Meaning, vol. 1: Word, ed. Lucie Pultrová & Martina Vaníková (Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter), 153-165, 2025  Peer-reviewed

Iterative or stative? New morphosemantic analyses of Latin lūgeō ‘mourn’ and doleō ‘feel pain’

Journal of Latin Linguistics (Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter), 22 199-214, 2023  Peer-reviewed

Lat. disertus revisited

Latomus (Leuven: Société d’études latines de Bruxelles / Peeters), 81 591-598, 2022  Peer-reviewed

‘Day’ and ‘night’ in Latin: The formation of temporal adjectives and adverbs

Indo-European Linguistics (Leiden: Brill), 10 129-150, 2022  Peer-reviewed

The resultative marker *-(e)u̯- in Latin: Adjectives in -vus/-uus, some u-stem nouns, and perfects with -v/u-

Die italischen Sprachen: Neue linguistische und philologische Aspekte, ed. Satoko Hisatsugi (Hamburg: Baar-Verlag), 65-84, 2021  Invited

On the spread of the Indo-European nasal infix to perfects and perfect participles in Latin: An analysis with special focus on the semantics of verbs

Linguisticae Dissertationes. Current Perspectives on Latin Grammar, Lexicon and Pragmatics: Selected Papers from the 20th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 17–21, 2019), ed. Antonio María Martín Rodríguez (Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas), 33-44, 2021  Peer-reviewed

Roman king Numa as an Indo-European distributor

Glotta (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), 96 131-147, 2020  Peer-reviewed

How to handle the Proto-Indo-European suffix *-eh2- in Latin compounds: Tībīcen-type and armiger-type treatments

Historische Sprachforschung (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), 132 208-224, 2019  Peer-reviewed

Fors and fortūna: Linguistic and cultural aspects

Lemmata Linguistica Latina, vol. 1: Words and Sounds, ed. Nigel Holmes, Marijke Ottink, Josine Schrickx, & Maria Selig (Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter), 192-205, 2019  Peer-reviewed

A linguistic approach to the prayer to Venus in Lucretius’ first proem: Māvors and poetic tradition

QAZZU warrai: Anatolian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Kazuhiko Yoshida, ed. Adam Alvah Catt, Ronald I. Kim, & Brent Vine (Ann Arbor & New York: Beech Stave Press), 256-266, 2019  Invited

The humī-rule in Italic

Vina Diem Celebrent: Studies in Linguistics and Philology in Honor of Brent Vine, ed. Dieter Gunkel, Stephanie Jamison, Angelo O. Mercado, & Kazuhiko Yoshida (Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press), 276-287, 2018  Invited

New thoughts on Umbrian nuvime and oscan maimas: Syncope and glide treatment in sabellic

Incontri Linguistici (Pisa & Rome: Fabrizio Serra), 40 93-106, 2017  Peer-reviewed

Mavors vis-a-vis Mars: Linguistic History and Cultural Background

Glotta (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), 93 135-153, 2017  Peer-reviewed

Inseparable etymologies: Latin crīnis, Greek κορέω, and related Germanic forms

Proceedings of the 27th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, ed. David M. Goldstein, Stephanie W. Jamison, & Brent Vine (Bremen: Hempen), 131-142, 2016  Peer-reviewed

On syncope of u-vocalism in Sabellic: Syllable structure, glide treatment, and other phonological issues

Indogermanische Forschungen (Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter), 121 199-211, 2016  Peer-reviewed

Elision and prosodic hiatus between monosyllabic words in Plautus and Terence

Sahasram Ati Srajas: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Stephanie W. Jamison, ed. Dieter Gunkel, Joshua T. Katz, Brent Vine, & Michael Weiss (Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press), 264-275, 2016  Invited

On Latin strāgulum and strāgēs: -g- and analogy

Words and Dictionaries: A Festschrift for Professor Stanisław Stachowski on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday, ed. Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld & Barbara Podolak (Cracow: Jagiellonian University Press), 231-236, 2015  Invited

Vowel lengthening in the Latin nominal lexicon: Innovation and inheritance

Historische Sprachforschung (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), 127 228-248, 2014  Peer-reviewed

On accent in the Italic languages: Nature, position, and history

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis (Cracow: Jagiellonian University Press), 131 161-192, 2014  Peer-reviewed

On the phonological mystery in Latin suspīciō: A trick of suspectus?

Tokyo University Linguistic Papers 33 = Festschrift for Professor Hiroshi Kumamoto, ed. T. Hayashi, et al. (Tokyo: Department of Linguistics, University of Tokyo), 187-203, 2013  Invited

Vowel reduction and deletion in Sabellic: A synchronic and diachronic interface

The Sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, Phonemics, and Morphophonemics, ed. B. Nielsen Whitehead, et al. (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press / University of Copenhagen), 381-398, 2012  Invited

Syncope in Latin: A historical restatement of its conditions

International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction (Munich: Peniope), 8 1-41, 2011  Peer-reviewed

A phonological factor in Mārs’ lexical genealogy

Alessandria – Rivista di Glottologia 5 = Atti del Convegno Internazionale “Le lingue dell’Italia antica: iscrizioni, testi, grammatica” in memoriam Helmut Rix (1926-2004), 7–8 marzo 2011, Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, ed. Giovanna Rocca (Milan: Edizioni dell’Orso), 233-245, 2011  Peer-reviewed

Notes on glide treatment in Latin orthography and phonology: -iciō, servus, aiō

Historische Sprachforschung (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), 124 167-183, 2011  Peer-reviewed

On the chronology of vowel contraction in Latin

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, ed. S. W. Jamison, H. C. Melchert, & B. Vine (Bremen: Hempen Verlag), 181-191, 2011  Peer-reviewed

Patterns of vowel reduction in Latin: Phonetics and phonology

Historische Sprachforschung (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), 123 217-257, 2010  Peer-reviewed

Chronology between word-internal and word-final vowel reduction in Latin

Incontri Linguistici (Pisa & Rome: Fabrizio Serra), 33 167-178, 2010  Peer-reviewed

The orthographic and phonological interpretation of the Oscan praenomen marahis and related forms

East and West: Papers in Indo-European Studies, ed. Kazuhiko Yoshida & Brent Vine (Bremen: Hempen Verlag), 163-179, 2009  Invited

Latin -issimus

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia (Crakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego), 11 105-113, 2006  

Umbrian restatu: A restitution

Indogermanische Forschungen (Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter), 111 182-191, 2006  Peer-reviewed

Superlative suffixes *-ismo- and *-ismmo- in Sabellian languages

Glotta (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), 81 160-183, 2005  Peer-reviewed

Development of the prevocalic *m in Latin

Glotta (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), 80 231-250, 2004  Peer-reviewed

Superlative suffixes in Indo-European and Latin: Relation to ordinal numbers and process of variation

Kyoto University Linguistic Research, 20 37-50, 2001  Peer-reviewed