Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Survey -- Language change as cultural evolution: Evolutionary -- approaches to language change -- Formal Approaches -- Language change as a source of word order -- correlations -- Evolutionary motivations for semantic -- universals -- Back to nature or nurture: Using computer models in -- creole genesis -- Forces in Language Change -- Economy of Merge and grammaticalization: Two steps -- in the evolution of language -- Prehistoric and posthistoric language in -- oblivion -- Grammaticalization, constructions and the -- incremental development of language: Suggestions from the development of -- Degree Modifiers in English -- Cognitive Foundations -- The two faces of creole grammar and their -- implications for the origin of complex language -- Functional similarities between bimanual -- coordination and topic/comment structure -- Inflectional morphology and universal grammar: post -- hoc versus propter hoc -- Why don't apes point? -- Backmatter