Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Indo-European
6. Stratum and shadow 11
7. Slavic and the Indo-European migrations 45
8. The development of the perfect in Indo-European 77
9. Africa
10. Stratigraphy in African historical linguistics 107
11. Stratigraphy and prehistory 115
12. Language contacts in Nilo-Saharan prehistory 135
13. Southeast Asia
14. Evidence for Austroasiatic strata in Thai 159
15. Australia
16. Millers and mullers 177
17. Oceania
18. Loanword strata in Rotuman 201
19. Japan
20. Substratum and adstratum in prehistoric Japanese 241
21. Meso-America
22. Uto-Aztecan in the linguistic stratigraphy of Mesoamerican prehistory 259
23. Language Index 289