Notes on the Contributors
Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Parameters of syntactic change: a notional view — John Anderson
2. Change and metatheory at the beginning of 1900s: the primacy of history – Raimo Anttila
3. Typology and reconstruction – Bernard Comrie
4. On the phonetic basis of phonological change – Patricia Donegan
5. Internally and externally motivated change in language contact settings: doubts about dichotomy – Nancy C. Dorian
6. How real(ist) are reconstructions? – Roger Lass
7. Why UG needs a learning theory: triggering verb movement – David Lightfoot
8. On the social origins of language change – James Milroy
9. The phonetics of sound change – John Ohala
10. Nicaraguan English in history – Wayne O’Neil
11. Language change as language improvement – Theo Vennemann
12. Bidirectional diffusion in sound change – William S-Y Wang and Chinfa Lien
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