Handbook of historical linguistics / edited by Richard D Janda, Brian D Joseph, Barbara S Vance.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction

01. Some Things Old, Some Renewed, Some on Borrowing – Here, Previewed RICHARD D. JANDA, BRIAN D. JOSEPH, AND BARBARA S. VANCE

Part I: Change within and across Core Components of Language

02. The Expanding Universe of the Study of Sound Change
FRANS HINSKENS

03. Tonogenesis: Register Tones Tone Realignment
GRAHAM THURGOOD

04. Historical Morphology – Overview and Update
BRIAN D. JOSEPH

05. Theory and Data in Historical Syntax
BARBARA VANCE

Part II: On the Variety of Methods and Foci Available for the Study of Language Change

6. Dialect Convergence and the Formation of New Dialects
PETER TRUDGILL

7. Formal Syntax as a Phylogenetic Method
CRISTINA GUARDIANO, GIUSEPPE LANGOBARDI, GUIDO CORDONI, AND PAOLA CRISMA

8. Typological Approaches and Historical Linguistics
NA’AMA PAT-EL

9. Inferring Linguistic Change from a Permanently Closed Historical Corpus
KAZUHIKO YOSHIDA

10. Studying Language Change in the Present, with Special Reference to English
LAURIE BAUER

11. Bayesian Phylolinguistics
SIMON GREENHILL, PAUL HEGGARTY, AND RUSSELL GRAY

12. Eliciting Evidence of Relatedness and Change: Fieldwork-Based Historical Linguistics
EDWARD VAJDA

13. Using Large Recent Corpora to Study Language Change,
TERTTU NEVALAINEN

Part III: Causation and Linguistic Diachrony: What Starts, Shoves, Shifts, Shapes, and/or Spreads Language Change?

14. The Phonetics of Sound Change,
ALAN C. L. YU

15. What Role Do Iconicity and Analogy Play in Grammaticalization?
OLGA FISCHER

16. Spread across the Lexicon: Frequency, Borrowing, Analogy, and Homophones
BETTY S. PHILLIPS

17. Language Acquisition, Microcues, Parameters, and Syntactic Change
MARIT WESTERGAARD

18. Theorizing Language Contact: From Synchrony to Diachrony
YARON MATRAS

Part IV: Changing Perspectives in the Study of Linguistic Diachrony

19. Genetic Creolistics as Part of Evolutionary Linguistics
SALIKOKO MUFWENE

20. Historical Change in American Sign Language
TED SUPALLA, FANNY LIMOUSIN, AND BETSY HICKS MCDONALD

21. Language Change in Language Obsolescence
ALEXANDRA Y. AIKHENVALD

22. Narrative Historical Linguistics: Linguistic Evidence for Human (Pre)history
MALCOLM ROSS

23. A Comparative Evolutionary Approach to the Origins of Cognition and of Language
MONICA TAMARIZ

24. Perturbations, Practices, Predictions, and Postludes in a Bioheuristic Historical Linguistics
RICHARD D. JANDA

"We propose to edit a second volume of the highly successful 2003 Handbook of Historical Linguistics (HoHL1), keeping key chapters (with some updating) from that book that give an overview of essential subareas within historical linguistics, redoing a few chapters which are important but were less than successful in the 2003 tome, reprinting a chapter from a different Blackwell Handbook, and adding many new topics that complement and supplement HoHL1. We do not duplicate the latter's long introduction (it may be turned into a separate monograph) but instead give a more standard, brief introduction laying out the rationale for a 2nd volume. By way of situating this second volume in a broader context of handbooks, and of clarifying its relation to the 2003 volume, let us say that we feel strongly that just updating each chapter would not yield the best possible book, largely because the essential issues in historical linguistics that are so well covered in HoHL1 have not changed all that much in the decade since its publication. Further, in HoHL1,we deliberately included several chapters on the same topic (e.g., for sound-change: Mark Hale on the Neogrammarian approach, Gregory Guy on the variationist approach, and Paul Kiparsky on the phonologically based approach), since we felt it was important to give a sense of the points on which there is legitimate debate and controversy. However, with those controversies aired there, there is no need for re-including all of the scholarly back-and-forth and varying viewpoints. Readers interested in seeing scholars go back and forth on certain topics can still get that from HoHl1. This is the basis for our decision to keep only chapters dealing directly with core matters in the discipline (= sound change, analogy, semantic change, etc.) and to ask the respective authors for updates (especially as regards bibliography) for those and only those"-- Provided by publisher.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Richard D. Janda is currently Visiting Scholar in French and Italian at Indiana University Bloomington, USA, but his teaching spans eleven universities in nine US states. He is author or editor of over 75 publications, including The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (Wiley Blackwell, 2003).

Brian D. Joseph is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio State University, USA. He has written and edited numerous books and published some 300 articles. He served as editor of the journal Language from 2002???–???2009, and is currently co-editor of the Journal of Greek Linguistics.

Barbara S. Vance is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Associate Professor of French Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. She is the author of Syntactic Change in Medieval French (1997) and is a specialist in the historical syntax of French and Occitan.

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