Table of Contents

Tables, Figures, Maps, Preface, Phonetic Symbols, Language Maps 1. Introduction 2. Types of Sound Change 3. Expressing Sound Changes 4. Phonetic and Phonemic Changes 5. The Comparative Method (1): Procedures 6. Determining Relatedness 7. Internal Reconstruction 8. Computational and Statistical Methods 9. The Comparative Method (2.) History and Challenges 10. Morphological Change 11. Semantic and Lexical Change 12. Syntactic Change 13. Observing Language Change 14. Language Contact 15. Cultural Reconstruction Data Sets Language Index References Endnotes Index

About the Author

Terry Crowley was Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Claire Bowern is Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Yale University.

Reviews

"Because of the diversity of the data presented and the completeness displayed in these chapters, this book constitutes an essential tool for linguistics students, and for all readers with a smattering in phonetics ... this updated edition shows that the classic work of T. Crowley remains an essential tool both for its completeness and its simplicity, especially thanks to C. Bowern's addition to this new edition." -- Oscar Garcia-Marchena, Lexis