Historical Linguistics

Abstract

Preface, Charles Jones parameters of syntactic change - a notational view, John Anderson the primacy of history - change and metatheory at the begining of the 1990's, Raimo Antilla typology and reconstruction, Bernard Comrie on the phonetic basis of phonological change, Patricia Donegan contact settings - doubts about dichotomy internally and externally motivated change in language, Nancy Dorian how real(ist) are reconstructions?, Roger Lass why UG needs a learning theory - triggering verb movement, David Lightfoot on the social origins of language change, James Milroy the phonetics of sound change, John Ohala Nicaraguan English in history, Wayne O'Neil language change as language improvement, Theo Vennemann bidirectional diffusion in sound change, William A-Y Wang and Chinfa Lien.

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