Machine derived contents note: Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three views of sound change -- 3. Sound change 2 - the implementation problem -- 4. Morphological change -- 5. Syntactic change 1 the Transparency Principle -- 6. Word order change and grammaticalisation: language change and general laws -- 7. Semantic and lexical change -- 8. Language contact -- 9. Linguistic variation -- 10. Pidgins and creoles -- 11. Language death -- 12. Linguistic evolution? -- Bibliography -- Index
Analysis
Historical linguistics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-352) and index
