Historical Linguistics

Charles Jones

Notes on the Contributors
Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements

1. Parameters of syntactic change: a notional view: John Anderson
2. Change and metatheory at the beginning of the 1990s: the primacy of history: Raimo Anttila
3. Typology and reconstruction:Bernard Comrie
4. On the phonetic basis of phonological change: Patricia Donegan
5. Internally and externally motivated change in language and contact settings: doubts about dichotomy: Nancy D. Dorian
6. How real(ist) are reconstructions?: Roger Lass
7. Why UG needs a learning theory: triggering verb movement: David Lightfoot
8. On the social origins of language change: James Milroy
9. The phonetics of sound change: John Ohala
10. Nicaraguan English in history: Wayne O'Neil
11. Language change as language improvement: Theo Vennemann
12. Bi-directional diffusion in sound change: William S-Y Wang and Chinfa Lien

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