The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

Editors’ Introduction 
Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans

Part I: Overviews         

1 Foundations of the new historical linguistics
Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans

2 New perspectives in historical linguistics       
Paul Kiparsky

3 Compositionality and change
Nigel Vincent

Part II: Methods and models 

4 The Comparative Method      
Michael Weiss

5 The Comparative Method: theoretical issues
Mark Hale

6 The computational Comparative Method     
Johann-Mattis List

7 Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification
Alexandre François and Siva Kalyan

8 Language phylogenies
Michael Dunn

9 Diachronic stability and typology       
Søren Wichmann

10 Historical treebanks   
Hanne Eckhoff

Part III: Language change

11 Sound change
Andrew Garrett

12 Morphological change             
Stephen R. Anderson

13 Morphological reconstruction             
Harold Koch

14 Generative syntax and language change        
Elly van Gelderen

15 Functional syntax and language change         
Zigmunt Frajzyngier

16 Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstruction             
Matthias Urban

17 Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change
Ashwini Deo

18 Computational semantics      
Nina Tahmasebi and Haim Dubossarsky

19 Etymology       
Robert Mailhammer

20 Discourse         
Alexandra D'Arcy

21 Language acquisition and language change  
James N. Stanford and Samantha Wray

22 Social dimensions of language change            
Lev Michael

23 Language change in multilingual situations  
Jane Simpson

24 Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic change
Joan Bybee and Clayton Beckner

25 Analogy            
Erich Round and Emily Lindsay-Smith

26 Sign languages in their historical context       
Susan D. Fischer

27 Contact-induced language change     
Christopher Lucas

28 Historical linguistics and sociocultural reconstruction             
Patience Epps

29 Prehistory through language and archaeology           
Paul Heggarty

30 Historical linguistics and molecular anthropology    
Brigitte Pakendorf

Part IV: Regional summaries 

31 Indo-European: methods and problems     
Benjamin W. Fortson IV

32 The Austro-Asiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuring
Paul Sidwell

33 On the diachronic development of pronominal systems in Upper Guinea Creoles
Marlyse Baptista and Ariana Bancu

34 Pama-Nyungan
Luisa Miceli

35 The Pacific Northwest linguistic area: historical perspectives                                                         
Sarah G. Thomason

Index

Biography

Claire Bowern is Professor of Linguistics at Yale University, USA.

Bethwyn Evans is Lecturer in Linguistics at the Australian National University, Australia.