Richard D. Janda is currently Visiting Scholar in French and Italian at Indiana University Bloomington, USA, but his teaching spans eleven universities in nine US states. He is author or editor of over 75 publications, including The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (Wiley Blackwell, 2003). Brian D. Joseph is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio State University, USA. He has written and edited numerous books and published some 300 articles. He served as editor of the journal Language from 2002???–???2009, and is currently co-editor of the Journal of Greek Linguistics. Barbara S. Vance is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Associate Professor of French Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. She is the author of Syntactic Change in Medieval French (1997) and is a specialist in the historical syntax of French and Occitan.

• About the Editors ixAbout the Contributors xi1 Introduction: Some Things Old, Some Renewed, Some on Borrowing – Here, Previewed 1Richard D. Janda, Brian D. Joseph, and Barbara S. VancePart I Change Within and Across Core Components of Language 52 The Expanding Universe of the Study of Sound Change 7Frans Hinskens3 Tonogenesis: Register > Tones > Tone Realignment 47Graham Thurgood4 Historical Morphology – Overview and Update 63Brian D. Joseph5 Theory and Data in Historical Syntax: A Case Study from Old French 88Barbara S. VancePart II On the Variety of Methods and Foci Available for the Study of Language Change 1236 Dialect Convergence and the Formation of New Dialects 125Peter Trudgill7 Formal Syntax as a Phylogenetic Method 145Cristina Guardiano, Giuseppe Longobardi, Guido Cordoni, and Paola Crisma8 Typological Approaches and Historical Linguistics 183Na’ama Pat‐El9 Inferring Linguistic Change from a Permanently Closed Historical Corpus 196Kazuhiko Yoshida10 Studying Language Change in the Present, with Special Reference to English 214Laurie Bauer11 Bayesian Phylolinguistics 226Simon J. Greenhill, Paul Heggarty, and Russell D. Gray12 Eliciting Evidence of Relatedness and Change: Fieldwork‐Based Historical Linguistics 254Edward J. Vajda13 Using Large Recent Corpora to Study Language Change 272Terttu NevalainenPart III Causation and Linguistic Diachrony: What Starts, Shoves, Shifts, Shapes, and/or Spreads Language Change? 29114 The Phonetics of Sound Change 293Alan C. L. Yu15 What Role Do Iconicity and Analogy Play in Grammaticalization? 314Olga Fischer16 Spread across the Lexicon: Frequency, Borrowing, Analogy, and Homophones 343Betty S. Phillips17 Language Acquisition, Microcues, Parameters, and Morphosyntactic Change 357Marit Westergaard18 Theorizing Language Contact: From Synchrony to Diachrony 375Yaron MatrasPart IV Changing Perspectives in the Study of Linguistic Diachrony 39319 Genetic Creolistics as Part of Evolutionary Linguistics 395Salikoko S. Mufwene20 Historical Change in American Sign Language 423Ted Supalla, Fanny Limousin, and Betsy Hicks McDonald21 Language Change in Language Obsolescence 447Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald22 Narrative Historical Linguistics: Linguistic Evidence for Human (Pre)history 468Malcolm Ross23 A Comparative Evolutionary Approach to the Origins and Evolution of Cognition and of Language 500Mónica Tamariz24 Perturbations, Practices, Predictions, and Postludes in a Bioheuristic Historical Linguistics 523Richard D. JandaSubject Index 651Language Index 677Name Index 685

Richard D. Janda is currently Visiting Scholar in French and Italian at Indiana University Bloomington, USA, but his teaching spans eleven universities in nine US states. He is author or editor of over 75 publications, including The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (Wiley Blackwell, 2003). Brian D. Joseph is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio State University, USA. He has written and edited numerous books and published some 300 articles. He served as editor of the journal Language from 2002???–???2009, and is currently co-editor of the Journal of Greek Linguistics. Barbara S. Vance is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Associate Professor of French Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. She is the author of Syntactic Change in Medieval French (1997) and is a specialist in the historical syntax of French and Occitan.

• About the Editors ixAbout the Contributors xi1 Introduction: Some Things Old, Some Renewed, Some on Borrowing – Here, Previewed 1Richard D. Janda, Brian D. Joseph, and Barbara S. VancePart I Change Within and Across Core Components of Language 52 The Expanding Universe of the Study of Sound Change 7Frans Hinskens3 Tonogenesis: Register > Tones > Tone Realignment 47Graham Thurgood4 Historical Morphology – Overview and Update 63Brian D. Joseph5 Theory and Data in Historical Syntax: A Case Study from Old French 88Barbara S. VancePart II On the Variety of Methods and Foci Available for the Study of Language Change 1236 Dialect Convergence and the Formation of New Dialects 125Peter Trudgill7 Formal Syntax as a Phylogenetic Method 145Cristina Guardiano, Giuseppe Longobardi, Guido Cordoni, and Paola Crisma8 Typological Approaches and Historical Linguistics 183Na’ama Pat‐El9 Inferring Linguistic Change from a Permanently Closed Historical Corpus 196Kazuhiko Yoshida10 Studying Language Change in the Present, with Special Reference to English 214Laurie Bauer11 Bayesian Phylolinguistics 226Simon J. Greenhill, Paul Heggarty, and Russell D. Gray12 Eliciting Evidence of Relatedness and Change: Fieldwork‐Based Historical Linguistics 254Edward J. Vajda13 Using Large Recent Corpora to Study Language Change 272Terttu NevalainenPart III Causation and Linguistic Diachrony: What Starts, Shoves, Shifts, Shapes, and/or Spreads Language Change? 29114 The Phonetics of Sound Change 293Alan C. L. Yu15 What Role Do Iconicity and Analogy Play in Grammaticalization? 314Olga Fischer16 Spread across the Lexicon: Frequency, Borrowing, Analogy, and Homophones 343Betty S. Phillips17 Language Acquisition, Microcues, Parameters, and Morphosyntactic Change 357Marit Westergaard18 Theorizing Language Contact: From Synchrony to Diachrony 375Yaron MatrasPart IV Changing Perspectives in the Study of Linguistic Diachrony 39319 Genetic Creolistics as Part of Evolutionary Linguistics 395Salikoko S. Mufwene20 Historical Change in American Sign Language 423Ted Supalla, Fanny Limousin, and Betsy Hicks McDonald21 Language Change in Language Obsolescence 447Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald22 Narrative Historical Linguistics: Linguistic Evidence for Human (Pre)history 468Malcolm Ross23 A Comparative Evolutionary Approach to the Origins and Evolution of Cognition and of Language 500Mónica Tamariz24 Perturbations, Practices, Predictions, and Postludes in a Bioheuristic Historical Linguistics 523Richard D. JandaSubject Index 651Language Index 677Name Index 685

Richard D. Janda is currently Visiting Scholar in French and Italian at Indiana University Bloomington, USA, but his teaching spans eleven universities in nine US states. He is author or editor of over 75 publications, including The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (Wiley Blackwell, 2003). Brian D. Joseph is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio State University, USA. He has written and edited numerous books and published some 300 articles. He served as editor of the journal Language from 2002???–???2009, and is currently co-editor of the Journal of Greek Linguistics. Barbara S. Vance is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Associate Professor of French Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. She is the author of Syntactic Change in Medieval French (1997) and is a specialist in the historical syntax of French and Occitan.

• About the Editors ixAbout the Contributors xi1 Introduction: Some Things Old, Some Renewed, Some on Borrowing – Here, Previewed 1Richard D. Janda, Brian D. Joseph, and Barbara S. VancePart I Change Within and Across Core Components of Language 52 The Expanding Universe of the Study of Sound Change 7Frans Hinskens3 Tonogenesis: Register > Tones > Tone Realignment 47Graham Thurgood4 Historical Morphology – Overview and Update 63Brian D. Joseph5 Theory and Data in Historical Syntax: A Case Study from Old French 88Barbara S. VancePart II On the Variety of Methods and Foci Available for the Study of Language Change 1236 Dialect Convergence and the Formation of New Dialects 125Peter Trudgill7 Formal Syntax as a Phylogenetic Method 145Cristina Guardiano, Giuseppe Longobardi, Guido Cordoni, and Paola Crisma8 Typological Approaches and Historical Linguistics 183Na’ama Pat‐El9 Inferring Linguistic Change from a Permanently Closed Historical Corpus 196Kazuhiko Yoshida10 Studying Language Change in the Present, with Special Reference to English 214Laurie Bauer11 Bayesian Phylolinguistics 226Simon J. Greenhill, Paul Heggarty, and Russell D. Gray12 Eliciting Evidence of Relatedness and Change: Fieldwork‐Based Historical Linguistics 254Edward J. Vajda13 Using Large Recent Corpora to Study Language Change 272Terttu NevalainenPart III Causation and Linguistic Diachrony: What Starts, Shoves, Shifts, Shapes, and/or Spreads Language Change? 29114 The Phonetics of Sound Change 293Alan C. L. Yu15 What Role Do Iconicity and Analogy Play in Grammaticalization? 314Olga Fischer16 Spread across the Lexicon: Frequency, Borrowing, Analogy, and Homophones 343Betty S. Phillips17 Language Acquisition, Microcues, Parameters, and Morphosyntactic Change 357Marit Westergaard18 Theorizing Language Contact: From Synchrony to Diachrony 375Yaron MatrasPart IV Changing Perspectives in the Study of Linguistic Diachrony 39319 Genetic Creolistics as Part of Evolutionary Linguistics 395Salikoko S. Mufwene20 Historical Change in American Sign Language 423Ted Supalla, Fanny Limousin, and Betsy Hicks McDonald21 Language Change in Language Obsolescence 447Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald22 Narrative Historical Linguistics: Linguistic Evidence for Human (Pre)history 468Malcolm Ross23 A Comparative Evolutionary Approach to the Origins and Evolution of Cognition and of Language 500Mónica Tamariz24 Perturbations, Practices, Predictions, and Postludes in a Bioheuristic Historical Linguistics 523Richard D. JandaSubject Index 651Language Index 677Name Index 685