Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The nature of human language and language variation; 2. Language replication and language change; 3. Language change in the speech community; 4. Language contact as a source of change; 5. Sound change; 6. The evolution of phonological rules; 7. Morphology; 8. Morphological change; 9. Syntactic change; 10. Reconstruction; 11. Beyond comparative reconstruction: subgrouping and 'long-distance' relationships; Appendix: recovering the pronunciation of dead languages: types of evidence.
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Historical linguistics : toward a twenty-first century reintegration by Donald A. Ringe. ISBN 9780521587112. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
