Part I: Introduction:.On Language, Change, and Language Change: Richard D. Janda & Brian D. Joseph, both The Ohio State University.Part II: Methods for Studying Language Change: .1. The Comparative Method: Robert L. Rankin, University of Kansas.2. On the Limits of the Comparative Method: S.P. Harrison, University of Western Australia.3. Internal Reconstruction: Don Ringe, University of Pennsylvania.4. How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant Genetic Relationship: Lyle Campbell, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.5. Diversity and Stability in Language: Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley.Part III: Phonological Change:.6. The Phonological Basis of Sound Change: Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University.7. Neogrammarian Sound Change: Mark Hale, Concordia University.8. Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change: Gregory R. Guy, York University.Part IV: Morphological and Lexical Change: .9. Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition: Raimo Anttila, University of California, Los Angeles.10. Analogical Change: Hans Henrich Hock, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.11. "Phonologization"as the Start of Dephoneticization - Or, On Sound-Change and Its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization: Richard D. Janda, The Ohio State University.12. Morphologization from Syntax: Brian D. Joseph, The Ohio State University.13. Naturalness and Morphological Change: Wolfgang U. Dressler, Vienna University.Part V: Syntactic Change: .14. Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change: David Lightfoot, Georgetown University.15. Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change: Susan Pintzuk, University of York.16. Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change: Alice C. Harris, Vanderbilt University.17. Functional Perspectives on Syntactic Change: Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara.Part VI: Semantico-Pragmatic Change:.18. Grammaticalization: Bernd Heine, University of Cologne.19. Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency: Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico.20. Constructions in Grammaticalization: Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Stanford University.21. Principles of Semantic Change: Benjamin W. Fortson, IV.Part VII: Explaining Linguistic Change:.22. Phonetics and Historical Phonology: John Ohala, University of California, Berkeley.23. Contact as a Source of Language Change: Sarah Grey Thomason, University of Pittsburgh.24. Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion: Walt Wolfram & Natalie Schilling-Estes, North Carolina State University and Georgetown University.25. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Linguistic Change: Jean Aitchison, University of Oxford.Bibliography.Index