The Handbook of Historical Linguistics Book

Part I: Introduction:.

On Language, Change, and Language Change – Or, Of History, Linguistics, and Historical Linguistics: Richard D. Janda & Brian D. Joseph, both The Ohio State University.

Part II: Methods for Studying Language Change: .

1. The Comparative Method: Robert L. Rankin, University of Kansas.

2. On the Limits of the Comparative Method: S.P. Harrison, University of Western Australia.

3. Internal Reconstruction: Don Ringe, University of Pennsylvania.

4. How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant Genetic Relationship: Lyle Campbell, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

5. Diversity and Stability in Language: Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley.

Part III: Phonological Change:.

6. The Phonological Basis of Sound Change: Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University.

7. Neogrammarian Sound Change: Mark Hale, Concordia University.

8. Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change: Gregory R. Guy, York University.

9. “Phonologization” as the Start of Dephoneticization – Or, On Sound-Change and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization: Richard D. Janda, The Ohio State University.

Part IV: Morphological and Lexical Change: .

10. Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition: Raimo Anttila, University of California, Los Angeles.

11. Analogical Change: Hans Henrich Hock, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

12. Naturalness and Morphological Change: Wolfgang U. Dressler, Vienna University.

13. Morphologization from Syntax: Brian D. Joseph, The Ohio State University.

Part V: Syntactic Change: .

14. Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change: David Lightfoot, Georgetown University.

15. Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change: Susan Pintzuk, University of York.

16. Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change: Alice C. Harris, Vanderbilt University.

17. Functional Perspectives on Syntactic Change: Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Part VI: Pragmatico-Semantic Change:.

18. Grammaticalization: Bernd Heine, University of Cologne.

19. Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency: Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico.

20. Constructions in Grammaticalization: Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Stanford University.

21. An Approach to Semantic Change: Benjamin W. Fortson, IV.

Part VII: Explaining Linguistic Change:.

22. Phonetics and Historical Phonology: John J. Ohala, University of California, Berkeley.

23. Contact as a Source of Language Change: Sarah Grey Thomason, University of Pittsburgh.

24. Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion: Walt Wolfram & Natalie Schilling-Estes, North Carolina State University and Georgetown University.

25. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Linguistic Change: Jean Aitchison, University of Oxford.

Bibliography.

Subject Index.

Name Index.

Language Index.