PROVISIONAL CONTENTS Volume I: Conceptual Bases 1. Ferdinand de Saussure, Cours de linguistique générale [1915], eds. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans. Roy Harris (Gerald Duckworth, 1983) (excerpts). 2. Edward Sapir, Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech (Harcourt Brace, 1921), pp. 157–82. 3. Henning Andersen, ‘Abductive and Deductive Change’, Language, 1973, 49, 765–93. 4. Robert Jeffers, ‘On the Notion "Explanation" in Historical Linguistics’, Historical Linguistics II: Theory and Description in Phonology, eds. J. M. Anderson and Charles Jones (North-Holland, 1974), pp. 231–55. 5. Brian D. Joseph, ‘Diachronic Explanation: Putting Speakers Back Into the Picture’, Explanation in Historical Linguistics, eds. Garry Davis and Greg Iverson (John Benjamins, 1992), pp. 123–44. 6. Henning Andersen, ‘Understanding Linguistic Innovations’, Language Change: Contributions to the Study of its Causes, eds. Leiv Egil Breivik and Ernst Håkon Jahr (de Gruyter, 1989), pp. 5–27. 7. William Labov, ‘Transmission and Diffusion’, Language, 2007, 83, 344–87. 8. Jacqueline Haring Russom, ‘An Examination of the Evidence for OE Indirect Passives’, Linguistic Inquiry, 1982, 13, 4, 677–80. Volume II: CAUSES OF CHANGE Physiological Factors 9. John Ohala, ‘The Listener as a Source of Sound Change’, Chicago Linguistic Society, 1981, 17, 2, 178–203. Psychological/Cognitive Factors 10. Morris Halle, ‘Phonology in Generative Grammar’, Word, 1962, 18, 54–72. 11. Anne Cutler, Jack A. Hawkins, and G. Gilligan, ‘The Suffixing Preference: A Processing Explanation’, Linguistics, 1985, 23, 723–58. 12. Joan L. Bybee, ‘Cognitive Processes in Grammaticalization’, The New Psychology of Language, Vol. 2, ed. Michael Tomasello (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002), pp. 145–68. 3. Functional Factors 13. André Martinet, ‘Function, Structure, and Sound Change’, Word, 1952, 8, 1–32. 14. Theo Vennemann, ‘An Explanation of Drift’, Word Order and Word Order Change, ed. Charles N. Li (University of Texas Press, 1975), pp. 269–305. 15. Joan Bybee, ‘Word Frequency and Context of Use in the Lexical Diffusion of Phonetically Conditioned Sound Change’, Language Variation and Change, 2002, 14, 261–90. 4. Social Factors 16. Penelope Eckert, ‘Adolescent Social Structure and the Spread of Linguistic Change’, Language in Society, 1988, 17, 183–207. 17. William Labov, ‘The Social Motivation of a Sound Change’, Word, 1963, 19, 273–309. 18. Peter Trudgill, ‘Sex, Covert Prestige and Linguistic Change in the Urban British English of Norwich’, Language in Society, 1972, 1, 179–95. Volume III: Methods in Historical Linguistics Language Relatedness/Language Families Comparative Method and Family-Tree Models 19. Antoine Meillet, The Comparative Method in Historical Linguistics [1925], trans. Gordon B. Ford, Jr. (Édouard Champion, 1967) (excerpts). 20. Leonard Bloomfield, ‘A Note on Sound Change’, Language, 1928, 4, 99–100. 21. Henry Hoenigswald, ‘The Principal Step in Comparative Grammar’, Language, 1950, 26, 357–64. 22. Joseph Greenberg, The Languages of Africa (Mouton, 1970) (excerpts). 23. Lyle Campbell, review of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg, Language, 1988, 64, 591–615. 24. Calvert W. Watkins, ‘Etymologies, Equations, and Comparanda: Types and Values, and Criteria for Judgment’, Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology, ed. Philip Baldi (Mouton de Gruyter, 1990), pp. 547–61. 25. Hans Henrich Hock, ‘Swallow Tales: Chance and the "World Etymology" MALIQ’A "Swallow, Throat"’, Chicago Linguistic Society, 1993, 29, 215–38. 26. Eric P. Hamp, ‘Some Draft Principles for Classification’, Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence, eds. Brian D. Joseph and Joseph C. Salmons (John Benjamins, 1998), pp. 13–16. Computational/Statistical/Mathematical Methods 27. Russell D. Gray and Quentin D. Atkinson, ‘Language-Tree Divergence Times Support the Anatolian Theory of Indo-European Origin’, Nature, 2003, 426, 435–9. 28. Tandy Warnow et al., ‘A Stochastic Model of Language Evolution that Incorporates Homoplasy and Borrowing’, Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages, eds. Peter Forster and Colin Renfrew (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2006), pp. 75–87. 29. April McMahon and Robert McMahon, ‘Why Linguists Don’t Do Dates: Evidence from Indo-European and Australian Languages’, Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages, eds. Peter Forster and Colin Renfrew (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2006), pp. 153–60. 30. Morris Swadesh, ‘Salishan Internal Relationships’, International Journal of American Linguistics, 1950, 16, 157–65. 31. Knut Bergsland and Hans Vogt, ‘On the Validity of Glottochronology’, Current Anthropology, 1962, 3, 115–30. 32. David Sankoff, ‘On the Rate of Replacement of Word–Meaning Relationships’, Language, 1970, 46, 564–9. 33. Quentin Atkinson et al., ‘From Words to Dates: Water into Wine, Mathemagic or Phylogenetic Inference?’, Transactions of the Philological Society, 2005, 103, 193–219. 3. Results: Some Controversial Cases 34. Mary Haas, The Prehistory of Languages (Mouton, 1969) (excerpts). 35. Ives Goddard, ‘Algonquian, Wiyot, and Yurok: Proving a Distant Genetic Relationship’, Linguistics and Anthropology: In Honor of C. F. Voegelin, eds. Dale Kinade, Kenneth L. Hale, and Oswald Werner (Peter de Ridder, 1975), pp. 249–62. 36. Lyle Campbell, ‘The Quechumaran Hypothesis and Lessons for Distant Genetic Comparison’, Diachronica, 1995, 12, 2, 157–200. 37. James Marshall Unger, ‘Japanese and What Other Altaic Languages’, Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology, ed. Philip Baldi (Mouton de Gruyter, 1990), pp. 547–61. 38. R. L. Trask, ‘Origin and Relatives of the Basque Language: Review of the Evidence’, Towards a History of the Basque Language, eds. José Ignacio Hualde, Joseba A. Lakarra, and R. L. Trask (John Benjamins, 1995), pp. 65–99. 39. Alexander Vovin, ‘The Comparative Method and Ventures Beyond Sino-Tibetan’, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1997, 25, 2, 308–36. Reconstruction Comparative and Internal, at the Phonological Level and Beyond 40. Antoine Meillet, A propos de oistos: Festschrift für Paul Kretschmer (Deutscher Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1926), pp. 140–1. 41. Calvert Watkins, ‘Towards Proto-Indo-European Syntax: Problems and Pseudo-Problems’, Chicago Linguistic Society, 1976, 12, 2, 306–26. 42. Ives Goddard, ‘Algonquian Linguistic Change and Reconstruction’, Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology, ed. Philip Baldi (Mouton de Gruyter, 1990), pp. 99–114. 43. Wallace L. Chafe, ‘Internal Reconstruction in Seneca’, Language, 1959, 35, 477–95. 2. Typologically Based Methodology in Reconstruction 44. Roman Jakobson, ‘Typological Studies and their Contribution to Historical Comparative Linguistics’, Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Linguists, ed. Eva Sivertsen et al. (Oslo University Press, 1958). 45. Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, ‘Language Typology and Indo-European Reconstruction’, The New Sound of Indo-European: Essays in Phonological Reconstruction, ed. Theo Vennemann (Mouton de Gruyter, 1989), pp. 117–21. 46. George Dunkel, ‘Typology Versus Reconstruction’, Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics in Honor of J. Alexander Kerns, eds. Yoël Arbeitman and Alan Bomhard (John Benjamins, 1981), pp. 559–69. 47. Michael Job, ‘Did Proto-Indo-European have Glottalized Stops?’, Diachronica, 1995, 12, 2, 237–50. 48. Jack Hawkins, ‘Implicational Universals as Predictors of Word Order Change’, Language, 1979, 55, 618–48. 49. Joseph Greenberg, ‘Synchronic and Diachronic Universals in Phonology’, Language, 1966, 42, 508–17. 50. Paul Kiparsky, ‘Universals Constrain Change, Change Results in Typological Generalizations’, Linguistic Universals and Language Change, ed. Jeff Good (Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 23–53. Volume IV: Types and Outcomes of Change Sound Change 51. Charles A. Hockett, ‘The Nature of Sound Change’, A Course in Modern Linguistics (Macmillan, 1958), pp. 439–45. 52. Jay Jasanoff, ‘A Gen
