Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship

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Preface
Introduction	p. 3
The discovery of Indo-European	p. 35
Writing: Its history and its decipherment	p. 65
Sound change	p. 113
Analogy and change in word structure	p. 153
Syntactic change	p. 189
Semantic change	p. 215
Lexical borrowing	p. 253
Lexical change and etymology: The study of words	p. 292
Language, dialect, and standard	p. 321
Dialect geography and dialectology	p. 346
Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism	p. 369
Convergence: Dialectology beyond language boundaries	p. 393
Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language	p. 418
Language death	p. 446
Comparative method: Establishing language relationship	p. 455
Proto-World? The question of long-distance genetic relationships	p. 484
Historical linguistics, history, and prehistory: Linguistic paleontology and other applications of our methods	p. 507
Chapter notes and suggested readings	p. 536
Copyright acknowledgments	p. 555
References	p. 557
Indexes	p. 585
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