This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas

This volume presents seven extensive essays by specialists in their respective fields of historical linguistics. The first essay after the Introduction states t

This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages

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