Historical Linguistics: Theory and Method

Introduction. Part I: "Language" and "Language Change": Preliminaries. 1. What is "Language"?. 2. Linguistic Artifacts: Philology. 3. What is a "Descent" Relationship?. Part II: Phonological Change. 4. Galilean-Style Phonology. 5. The Traditional Approach. 6. In-Depth Consideration of Selected Issues. 7. The Regularity of Sound Change. Part III: Syntactic Change. 8. What is Syntactic Change?. 9. The Diachrony of Clitics: Phonology and Syntax. Part IV: Reconstruction Methodology. 10. Reconstruction Methodology. Part V: Concluding Remarks. 11. Synchronic and Diachronic Linguistics. References. Index