Frontmatter -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Appendix to Chapter 1: Phonetics, phonetic symbols, and other symbols -- Chapter 2: The discovery of Indo-European -- Chapter 3: Writing: Its history and its decipherment -- Chapter 4: Sound change -- Chapter 5: Analogy and change in word structure -- Chapter 6: Syntactic change -- Chapter 7: Semantic change -- Chapter 8: Lexical borrowing -- Chapter 9: Lexical change and etymology The study of words -- Chapter 10: Language, dialect, and standard -- Chapter 11: Dialect geography and dialectology -- Chapter 12: Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism -- Chapter 13: Convergence: Dialectology beyond language boundaries -- Chapter 14: Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language -- Chapter 15: Language death -- Chapter 16: Comparative method: Establishing language relationship -- Chapter 17: Proto-World? The question of long-distance genetic relationships -- Chapter 18: Linguistic palaeontology: Historical linguistics, history, and prehistory -- Chapter notes and suggested readings -- References