Historical Linguistics: Problems and Perspectives Book

	Notes on the Contributors
	Editor's Preface
	Acknowledgements
1	Parameters of syntactic change: a notional view	1
2	Change and metatheory at the beginning of the 1990s: the primacy of history	43
3	Typology and reconstruction	74
4	On the phonetic basis of phonological change	98
5	Internally and externally motivated change in language contact setting: doubts about dichotomy	131
6	How real(ist) are reconstructions?	156
7	Why UG needs a learning theory: triggering verb movement	190
8	On the social origins of language change	215
9	The phonetics of sound change	237
10	Nicaraguan English in history	279
11	Language change as language improvement	319
12	Bidirectional diffusion in sound change	345
	Index	401