Editors' Introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguistics
1 Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans
Part 1 Overviews
- Lineage and the constructive imagination: the birth of historical linguistics
Roger Lass
- New perspectives in historical linguistics
Paul Kiparsky
- Compositionality and change
Nigel Vincent
Part 2 Methods and models
- The Comparative Method
Michael Weiss
- The Comparative Method: theoretical issues
Mark Hale
- Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification
Alexandre François
- Language phylogenies
Michael Dunn
- Diachronic stability and typology
Søren Wichmann
Part 3 Language change
- The Sound change
Andrew Garrett
- Phonological changes
Silke Hamann
- Morphological change
Stephen Anderson
- Morphological reconstruction
Harold Koch
- Functional syntax and language change
Zigmunt Frajzyngier
- Generative syntax and language change
Elly van Gelderen
- Syntax and Syntactic reconstruction
Jóhanna Barðdal
- Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstruction
Matthias Urban
- Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change
Ashwini Deo
- Discourse
Alexandra D'Arcy
- Etymology
Robert Mailhammer
- Sign languages in their historical context
Susan D. Fischer
- Language acquisition and language change
James N. Stanford
- Social dimensions of language change
Lev Michael
- Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic change
Joan Bybee and Clayton Beckner
- Contact-induced language change
Christopher Lucas
- Language attrition and language change
Jane Simpson
Part 4 Interfaces
26 Demographic correlates of language diversity
Simon J. Greenhill
27 Historical linguistics and socio-cultural reconstruction
Patience Epps
28 Prehistory through language and archaeology
Paul Heggarty
29 Historical linguistics and molecular anthropology
Brigitte Pakendorf
Part 5 Regional Summaries
30 Indo-European: methods and problems
Benjamin W. Fortson IV
31 The Austronesian language family
Ritsuko Kikusawa
32 The Austro-Asiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuring
Paul Sidwell
33 Pama-Nyungan
Luisa Miceli
34 The Pacific Northwest lingusitic area: historical perspectives
Sarah G. Thomason
Index