I-X -- I. Introduction -- Language change and the Saussurean dichotomy: Diachrony versus synchrony -- Linguistic reconstruction: The scope of historical and comparative linguistics -- II. Aspects of Language Change -- Synchronic manifestations of linguistic change -- Evidence of language change -- The context of language change -- Methods to Study Language Change -- Philology: Analysis of written records -- The chronology of phonological change -- Linguistic paleontology: Migration theory, prehistory, and archeology correlated with linguistic data -- Linguistic geography and language change -- Psycholinguistics: A research review -- Lexicostatistics -- Theoretical Models of Change -- The Neogrammarian hypothesis -- A structural view of sound-change -- The transformational-generative model -- Other Approaches -- Dialect geography -- Social stratification of language -- Contact and interference -- III. Types of Language Change -- Phonological Change -- Phonetic, phonemic, and phonotactic change -- Evidence -- Structuralist interpretation -- Synchronic rules and diachronic "laws": The Saussurean dichotomy reaffirmed -- Morphophonology -- Morphological change -- Morphological change -- Syntactic change -- Syntactic change -- Lexical Change -- Onomasiological change: Sachen-change reflected by Wörter -- Semantic change -- Borrowing -- Etymology -- Change of Languages -- Language families and subgroupings, tree model and wave theory, and reconstruction of protolanguages -- The development of standard language (koine) and dialect: Language split and dialect merger -- Contact linguistics: Research on linguistic areas, strata, and interference in Europe -- Creolization and language change -- Bi- and multilingualism: Code-switching, interference and hybrids -- Subject Index -- Language Index -- Author Index -- 565-566