The present volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the general sessions of ICHL 9. The 34 papers cover topics from the full range of contempor

In any course of historical and comparative linguistics there will be students of different language backgrounds, different levels of linguistic training, and d

An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical l

The contributors to this volume cover the international range of scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics, as well as some of its major themes. The wo

Discusses all aspects of language change as a dynamic process against a background of the differing approaches of the structuralist, neogrammarian and transform