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Dialectology and linguistic diffusion /Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling-Estes --Psycholinguistic perspectives on language change /Jean Aitchison. On language, change, and language change -- or, of history, linguistics, and historical linguistics /Richard D. Janda, Brian D. Joseph --Comparative method /Robert L. Rankin --On the limits of the comparative method /S.P. Harrison --Internal reconstruction /Don Ringe --How to show languages are related : methods for distant genetic relationship /Lyle Campbell --Diversity and stability in language /Johanna Nichols --Phonological basis of sound change /Paul Kiparsky --Neogrammarian sound change /Mark Hale. Publisher's description: The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics concerned with language change as well as past language states. It provides a comprehensive and current account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize historical linguistics. It contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general. The book covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change. It includes contributions from the leading specialists in the field Variationist approaches to phonological change /Gregory R. Guy --"Phonologization" as the start of dephoneticization -- or, on sound change and its aftermath : of extension, generalization, lexicalization, and morphologization /Richard D. Janda --Analogy : the warp and woof of cognition /Raimo Anttila --Analogical change /Hans Henrich Hock --Naturalness and morphological change /Wolfgang U. Dressler --Morphologization from Syntax /Brian D. Joseph --Grammatical approaches to syntactic change /David Lightfoot. Variationist approaches to syntactic change /Susan Pintzuk --Cross-linguistic perspectives on syntactic change /Alice C. Harris --Functional perspectives on syntactic change /Marianne Mithun --Grammaticalization /Bernd Heine --Mechanisms of change in grammaticization : the role of frequency/Joan Bybee --Contructions in grammaticalization /Elizabeth Closs Traugott --Approach to semantic change /Benjamin W. Fortson IV --Phonetics and historical phonology /John J. Ohala --Contact as a source of language change /Sarah Grey Thomason.
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