Introduction Raymond Hickey = 1
Part I. The Phenomenon of Language Change:
1. On change in 'E-language' Peter Matthews = 7
2. Formal and functional motivation for language change Frederick J. Newmeyer = 18
Part II. Linguistic Models and Language Change:
3. Metaphors, models and language change Jean Aitchison = 39
4. Log(ist)ic and simplistic S-curves David Denison = 54
5. Regular suppletion Richard Hogg = 71
6. On not explaining language change: optimality theory and the Great Vowel Shift April McMahon = 82
Part III. Grammaticalization:
7. Grammaticalization: cause or effect? David Lightfoot = 99
8. From subjectification to intersubjectification Elizabeth Traugott =124
Part IV. The Social Context for Language Change:
9. On the role of the speaker in language change James Milroy = 143
Part V. Contact-based Explanations:
10. The quest for the most 'parsimonious' explanations: endogeny
vs. contact revisited Markku Filppula = 161
11. Diagnosing prehistoric language contact Malcolm Ross = 174
12. The ingenerate motivation of sound change Gregory K. Iverson
and Joseph C. Salmons = 199
13. How do dialects get the features they have? On the process of new dialect formation Raymond Hickey = 213
Part VI. The Typological Perspective:
14. Reconstruction, typology, and reality Bernard Comrie = 243
15. Reanalysis and typological change Raymond Hickey. = 258
Part I. The Phenomenon of Language Change:
1. On change in 'E-language' Peter Matthews = 7
2. Formal and functional motivation for language change Frederick J. Newmeyer = 18
Part II. Linguistic Models and Language Change:
3. Metaphors, models and language change Jean Aitchison = 39
4. Log(ist)ic and simplistic S-curves David Denison = 54
5. Regular suppletion Richard Hogg = 71
6. On not explaining language change: optimality theory and the Great Vowel Shift April McMahon = 82
Part III. Grammaticalization:
7. Grammaticalization: cause or effect? David Lightfoot = 99
8. From subjectification to intersubjectification Elizabeth Traugott =124
Part IV. The Social Context for Language Change:
9. On the role of the speaker in language change James Milroy = 143
Part V. Contact-based Explanations:
10. The quest for the most 'parsimonious' explanations: endogeny
vs. contact revisited Markku Filppula = 161
11. Diagnosing prehistoric language contact Malcolm Ross = 174
12. The ingenerate motivation of sound change Gregory K. Iverson
and Joseph C. Salmons = 199
13. How do dialects get the features they have? On the process of new dialect formation Raymond Hickey = 213
Part VI. The Typological Perspective:
14. Reconstruction, typology, and reality Bernard Comrie = 243
15. Reanalysis and typological change Raymond Hickey. = 258