Subject Index

Chapters in this book

1. I-X I
2. I. Introduction
3. Language change and the Saussurean dichotomy: Diachrony versus synchrony 3
4. Linguistic reconstruction: The scope of historical and comparative linguistics 11
5. II. Aspects of Language Change
6. Synchronic manifestations of linguistic change 25
7. Evidence of language change 37
8. The context of language change 71
9. Methods to Study Language Change
10. Philology: Analysis of written records 97
11. The chronology of phonological change 107
12. Linguistic paleontology: Migration theory, prehistory, and archeology correlated with linguistic data 137
13. Linguistic geography and language change 161
14. Psycholinguistics: A research review 175
15. Lexicostatistics 217
16. Theoretical Models of Change
17. The Neogrammarian hypothesis 223
18. A structural view of sound-change 241
19. The transformational-generative model 249
20. Other Approaches
21. Dialect geography 257
22. Social stratification of language 273
23. Contact and interference 281
24. III. Types of Language Change
25. Phonological Change
26. Phonetic, phonemic, and phonotactic change 297
27. Evidence 303
28. Structuralist interpretation 307
29. Synchronic rules and diachronic "laws": The Saussurean dichotomy reaffirmed 313
30. Morphophonology 325
31. Morphological change
32. Morphological change 347
33. Syntactic change
34. Syntactic change 365
35. Lexical Change
36. Onomasiological change: Sachen-change reflected by Wörter 389
37. Semantic change 399
38. Borrowing 409
39. Etymology 415
40. Change of Languages
41. Language families and subgroupings, tree model and wave theory, and reconstruction of protolanguages 441
42. The development of standard language (koine) and dialect: Language split and dialect merger 455
43. Contact linguistics: Research on linguistic areas, strata, and interference in Europe 471
44. Creolization and language change 507
45. Bi- and multilingualism: Code-switching, interference and hybrids 527
46. Subject Index 535
47. Language Index 548
48. Author Index 553
49. 565-566 565