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joseph salmons is the Lester W. J. “Smoky” Seifert Professor of Language Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He edited Diachronica: International Journal for Historical Linguistics from 2002 until 2019. He is the author of A History of German: What the Past Reveals about Today’s Language (Oxford, 2nd ed., 2018) and Sound Change (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). His research focuses on language change and linguistic theory. Email: .