The Handbook of Historical Linguistics

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Part I Introduction
On Language, Change, and Language Change – Or, Of History, Linguistics, and Historical Linguistics
Part II Methods for Studying Language Change
1 The Comparative Method
2 On the Limits of the Comparative Method
3 Internal Reconstruction
4 How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant Genetic Relationship
5 Diversity and Stability in Language
Part III Phonological Change
6 The Phonological Basis of Sound Change
7 Neogrammarian Sound Change
8 Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change
9 “Phonologization” as the Start of Dephoneticization – Or, On Sound Change and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization
Part IV Morphological and Lexical Change
10 Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition
11 Analogical Change
12 Naturalness and Morphological Change
13 Morphologization from Syntax
Part V Syntactic Change
14 Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change
15 Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change
16 Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change
17 Functional Perspectives on Syntactic Change
Part VI Pragmatico-Semantic Change
18 Grammaticalization
19 Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency
20 Constructions in Grammaticalization
21 An Approach to Semantic Change
Part VII Explaining Linguistic Change
22 Phonetics and Historical Phonology
23 Contact as a Source of Language Change
24 Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion
25 Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Change
Bibliography
Subject Index
Name Index
Language Index