'...this volume represents a great introduction for anyone interested in historical linguistics, as well as in other connected disciplines such as history, archaeology, and molecular anthropology. Also, it represents a good starting point for research and an impressive testimony to the progress achieved in historical linguistics.' - Monica Vasileanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Linguistics, The LINGUIST List

• Editors’ Introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguistics1 Claire Bowern and Bethwyn EvansPart 1 Overviews Lineage and the constructive imagination: the birth of historical linguisticsRoger Lass New perspectives in historical linguisticsPaul Kiparsky Compositionality and changeNigel Vincent Part 2 Methods and models The Comparative MethodMichael Weiss The Comparative Method: theoretical issuesMark Hale Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversificationAlexandre François Language phylogeniesMichael Dunn Diachronic stability and typologySøren Wichmann Part 3 Language change The Sound changeAndrew Garrett Phonological changesSilke Hamann Morphological changeStephen Anderson Morphological reconstructionHarold Koch Functional syntax and language changeZigmunt Frajzyngier Generative syntax and language changeElly van Gelderen Syntax and Syntactic reconstructionJóhanna Barðdal Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstructionMatthias Urban Formal semantics/pragmatics and language changeAshwini Deo DiscourseAlexandra D’Arcy EtymologyRobert Mailhammer Sign languages in their historical contextSusan D. Fischer Language acquisition and language changeJames N. Stanford Social dimensions of language changeLev Michael Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic changeJoan Bybee and Clayton Beckner Contact-induced language changeChristopher Lucas Language attrition and language changeJane SimpsonPart 4 Interfaces26 Demographic correlates of language diversitySimon J. Greenhill27 Historical linguistics and socio-cultural reconstructionPatience Epps28 Prehistory through language and archaeologyPaul Heggarty 29 Historical linguistics and molecular anthropologyBrigitte Pakendorf Part 5 Regional Summaries30 Indo-European: methods and problemsBenjamin W. Fortson IV31 The Austronesian language familyRitsuko Kikusawa32 The Austro-Asiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuringPaul Sidwell 33 Pama-NyunganLuisa Miceli 34 The Pacific Northwest lingusitic area: historical perspectivesSarah G. Thomason Index

'...this volume represents a great introduction for anyone interested in historical linguistics, as well as in other connected disciplines such as history, archaeology, and molecular anthropology. Also, it represents a good starting point for research and an impressive testimony to the progress achieved in historical linguistics.' - Monica Vasileanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Linguistics, The LINGUIST List

• Editors’ Introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguistics1 Claire Bowern and Bethwyn EvansPart 1 Overviews Lineage and the constructive imagination: the birth of historical linguisticsRoger Lass New perspectives in historical linguisticsPaul Kiparsky Compositionality and changeNigel Vincent Part 2 Methods and models The Comparative MethodMichael Weiss The Comparative Method: theoretical issuesMark Hale Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversificationAlexandre François Language phylogeniesMichael Dunn Diachronic stability and typologySøren Wichmann Part 3 Language change The Sound changeAndrew Garrett Phonological changesSilke Hamann Morphological changeStephen Anderson Morphological reconstructionHarold Koch Functional syntax and language changeZigmunt Frajzyngier Generative syntax and language changeElly van Gelderen Syntax and Syntactic reconstructionJóhanna Barðdal Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstructionMatthias Urban Formal semantics/pragmatics and language changeAshwini Deo DiscourseAlexandra D’Arcy EtymologyRobert Mailhammer Sign languages in their historical contextSusan D. Fischer Language acquisition and language changeJames N. Stanford Social dimensions of language changeLev Michael Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic changeJoan Bybee and Clayton Beckner Contact-induced language changeChristopher Lucas Language attrition and language changeJane SimpsonPart 4 Interfaces26 Demographic correlates of language diversitySimon J. Greenhill27 Historical linguistics and socio-cultural reconstructionPatience Epps28 Prehistory through language and archaeologyPaul Heggarty 29 Historical linguistics and molecular anthropologyBrigitte Pakendorf Part 5 Regional Summaries30 Indo-European: methods and problemsBenjamin W. Fortson IV31 The Austronesian language familyRitsuko Kikusawa32 The Austro-Asiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuringPaul Sidwell 33 Pama-NyunganLuisa Miceli 34 The Pacific Northwest lingusitic area: historical perspectivesSarah G. Thomason Index