Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Maps and charts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phonetics, transcription, terminology, abbreviations -- 3. Sound change: The regularity hypothesis -- 4. Sound change and phonological contrast -- 5. Sound change: Assimilation, weakening, loss -- 6. Sound change: Dissimilation, haplology, metathesis -- 7. Sound change: Epenthesis, elimination of hiatus, other changes -- 8. Sound change: Structure and function -- 9. Analogy: General discussion and typology -- 10. Analogy: Tendencies of analogical change -- 11. Analogy and generative grammar -- 12. Semantic change -- 13. Syntactic change -- 14. Linguistic contact: Lexical borrowing -- 15. Linguistic contact: Dialectology -- 16. Linguistic contact: Koinés, convergence, pidgins, creoles, language death -- 17. Internal reconstruction -- 18. Comparative method: Establishing linguistic relationship -- 19. Comparative reconstruction -- 20. Linguistic change: Its nature and causes -- Notes -- References -- Index