Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- In Memoriam -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Language Change and Diversity at the Crossroads of Historical Linguistics, Language Documentation, and Linguistic Typology -- 2 Using the Acoustic Correlates of Voice Quality as Explanations for the Changes in the Descriptions of Xinkan Glottalized Consonants -- 3 Variation and Change in the Distribution of *-(V)n and *-(V)w in Kaqchikel -- 4 Origins of Metathesis in Batsbi, Part II: Intransitive Verbs -- 5 Some Remarks on Etymological Opacity in Austronesian Languages -- 6 The Relationship between Aquitanian and Basque: Achievements and Challenges of the Comparative Method in a Context of Poor Documentation -- 7 Evidence, New and Old, Against the Late *k(') > *ch(') Areal Shift Hypothesis -- 8 Are All Language Isolates Equal? The Case of Mapudungun -- 9 The Historical Linguistics and Archaeology of Ancient North America: "A Linguistic Look" at the Hopewell -- 10 The Lenguas de Bolivia Project: Background and Further Prospects -- 11 The Typology of Grammatical Relations in Tuparian Languages with Special Focus on Akuntsú -- 12 Meskwaki (Algonquian) Evidence against Basic Word Order and Configurational Models of Argument Roles -- 13 The Syntax of Alignment: An Emergentist Typology -- Subject and Scholar Index -- Languages and Linguistic Families Index