Silvia Luraghi is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pavia, Italy. Vit Bubenik is Professor of Linguistics at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

Advanced students of linguistics and practising linguists can read this book for both profit and enjoyment. The editors have assembled an impressive list of leading experts in each subfield, each contributing a chapter: together it makes for an interesting and informative read.

• Editor's Foreword; 1. Historical linguistics: history, sources and resources; 4. Methodology; 3. Phonological change; 4. Morphological change; 5. Change in grammatical categories; 6. Syntactic change; 7. Grammaticalization; 8. Semantic change; 9. Etymology; 10. Language contact; 11. Regional and social dialectology; 12. Causes of language change; A-Z of Key Terms; Bibliography.

Silvia Luraghi is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pavia, Italy. Vit Bubenik is Professor of Linguistics at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

Advanced students of linguistics and practising linguists can read this book for both profit and enjoyment. The editors have assembled an impressive list of leading experts in each subfield, each contributing a chapter: together it makes for an interesting and informative read.

• Editor's Foreword; 1. Historical linguistics: history, sources and resources; 4. Methodology; 3. Phonological change; 4. Morphological change; 5. Change in grammatical categories; 6. Syntactic change; 7. Grammaticalization; 8. Semantic change; 9. Etymology; 10. Language contact; 11. Regional and social dialectology; 12. Causes of language change; A-Z of Key Terms; Bibliography.

Silvia Luraghi is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pavia, Italy. Vit Bubenik is Professor of Linguistics at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

Advanced students of linguistics and practising linguists can read this book for both profit and enjoyment. The editors have assembled an impressive list of leading experts in each subfield, each contributing a chapter: together it makes for an interesting and informative read.

• Editor's Foreword; 1. Historical linguistics: history, sources and resources; 4. Methodology; 3. Phonological change; 4. Morphological change; 5. Change in grammatical categories; 6. Syntactic change; 7. Grammaticalization; 8. Semantic change; 9. Etymology; 10. Language contact; 11. Regional and social dialectology; 12. Causes of language change; A-Z of Key Terms; Bibliography.