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

About the Author

Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans

Reviews

'...this volume represents a great introduction for anyone interested in historical linguistics, as well as in other connected disciplines such as history, archaeology, and molecular anthropology. Also, it represents a good starting point for research and an impressive testimony to the progress achieved in historical linguistics.' - Monica Vasileanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Linguistics, The LINGUIST List

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