TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Charles
TI  - Historical linguistics: problems and perspectives
SN  - 9781138226241
U1  - 417.7/HIS/H 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Longman
KW  - Historical linguistics
N1  - Parameters of syntactic change / John Anderson -- Change and metatheory at the beginning of the 1990s : the primacy of history / Raimo Anttila -- Typology and reconstruction / Bernard Comrie -- On the phonetic basis of phonological change / Patricia Donegan -- Internally and externally motivated change in language contact settings / Nancy C. Dorian -- How real(ist) are reconstructions? / Roger Lass -- Why UG needs a learning theory : triggering verb movement / David Lightfoot -- On the social origins of language change / James Milroy -- The phonetics of sound change / John Ohala -- Nicaraguan English in history / Wayne O'Neil -- Language change as language improvement / Theo Vennemann -- Bidirectional diffusion in sound change / William S-Y Wang and Chinfa Lien
ER  -