Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. Chapter 1. Introduction 3
4. Chapter 2. The discovery of Indo-European 34
5. Chapter 3. Writing: Its history and its decipherment 63
6. Chapter 4. Sound change 113
7. Chapter 5. Analogy and change in word structure 150
8. Chapter 6. Syntactic change 183
9. Chapter 7. Semantic change 205
10. Chapter 8. Lexical borrowing 241
11. Chapter 9. Lexical change and etymology: The study of words 279
12. Chapter 10. Language, dialect, and standard 307
13. Chapter 11. Dialect geography and dialectology 332
14. Chapter 12. Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism 349
15. Chapter 13. Convergence: Dialectology beyond languageboundaries 370
16. Chapter 14. Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language 392
17. Chapter 15. Language death 419
18. Chapter 16. Comparative method: Establishing language relationship 427
19. Chapter 17. Proto-World?: The question of long-distance genetic relationships 455
20. Chapter 18. Historical linguistics, history, and prehistory: Linguistic paleontology and other applications of our methods 477
21. Chapter notes and suggested readings 510
22. Backmatter 533