Patrick Honeybone is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh where his main interests are historical phonology, phonological theory, and northern English dialects. He has published articles in English Language and Linguistics, Lingua, Language Sciences, and a range of other journals. He is the main organizer of the annual Manchester Phonology Meeting. Joseph Salmons is the Lester W.J. "Smoky" Seifert Professor of Germanic Linguistics. He is the author of A History of German, OUP 2012, and serves as executive editor of Diachronica: International Journal of Historical Linguistics.

Honeybone and Salmons have succeeded in compiling a useable, up-to-date, and comprehensive handbook that will prove an essential resource to generations of students and scholars interested in and working on any and all aspects of historical phonology.

• PART I INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT; PART II: EVIDENCE AND METHODS IN HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY; PART III: TYPES OF PHONOLOGICAL CHANGE; PART IV: FUNDAMENTAL CONTROVERSIES IN PHONOLOGICAL CHANGE; PART V: THEORETICAL HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY; PART VI: SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND EXOGENOUS FACTORS IN HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY

Patrick Honeybone is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh where his main interests are historical phonology, phonological theory, and northern English dialects. He has published articles in English Language and Linguistics, Lingua, Language Sciences, and a range of other journals. He is the main organizer of the annual Manchester Phonology Meeting. Joseph Salmons is the Lester W.J. "Smoky" Seifert Professor of Germanic Linguistics. He is the author of A History of German, OUP 2012, and serves as executive editor of Diachronica: International Journal of Historical Linguistics.

Honeybone and Salmons have succeeded in compiling a useable, up-to-date, and comprehensive handbook that will prove an essential resource to generations of students and scholars interested in and working on any and all aspects of historical phonology.

• PART I INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT; PART II: EVIDENCE AND METHODS IN HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY; PART III: TYPES OF PHONOLOGICAL CHANGE; PART IV: FUNDAMENTAL CONTROVERSIES IN PHONOLOGICAL CHANGE; PART V: THEORETICAL HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY; PART VI: SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND EXOGENOUS FACTORS IN HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY

Patrick Honeybone is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh where his main interests are historical phonology, phonological theory, and northern English dialects. He has published articles in English Language and Linguistics, Lingua, Language Sciences, and a range of other journals. He is the main organizer of the annual Manchester Phonology Meeting. Joseph Salmons is the Lester W.J. "Smoky" Seifert Professor of Germanic Linguistics. He is the author of A History of German, OUP 2012, and serves as executive editor of Diachronica: International Journal of Historical Linguistics.

Honeybone and Salmons have succeeded in compiling a useable, up-to-date, and comprehensive handbook that will prove an essential resource to generations of students and scholars interested in and working on any and all aspects of historical phonology.

• PART I INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT; PART II: EVIDENCE AND METHODS IN HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY; PART III: TYPES OF PHONOLOGICAL CHANGE; PART IV: FUNDAMENTAL CONTROVERSIES IN PHONOLOGICAL CHANGE; PART V: THEORETICAL HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY; PART VI: SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND EXOGENOUS FACTORS IN HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY