Historical Linguistics

This book is an introduction to the study of languages from a diachronic perspective, discussing the mechanics and theory of language change.

Table of Contents

 * 1) /Introduction/
 * 2) /Sound Change/
 * 3) /Internal Reconstruction/
 * 4) /Comparative Reconstruction/
 * 5) /Language Contact and Borrowing/
 * 6) /Subgrouping and Linguistic Classification/
 * 7) /Analogical Change/
 * 8) /Semantic Change/
 * 9) /Syntactic Change/
 * 10) /Written Records/