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