The Handbook of Historical Linguistics

Abstract

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.