Brian Joseph & Richard Janda 
The Handbook of Historical Linguistics [PDF ebook] 

Part I: Introduction:.
On Language, Change, and Language Change – Or, Of History,
Linguistics, and Historical Linguistics: Richard D. Janda &
Brian D. Joseph, both The Ohio State University.
Part II: Methods for Studying Language Change: .
1. The Comparative Method: Robert L. Rankin, University of
Kansas.
2. On the Limits of the Comparative Method: S.P. Harrison,
University of Western Australia.
3. Internal Reconstruction: Don Ringe, University of
Pennsylvania.
4. How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant
Genetic Relationship: Lyle Campbell, University of Canterbury, New
Zealand.
5. Diversity and Stability in Language: Johanna Nichols,
University of California, Berkeley.
Part III: Phonological Change:.
6. The Phonological Basis of Sound Change: Paul Kiparsky,
Stanford University.
7. Neogrammarian Sound Change: Mark Hale, Concordia
University.
8. Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change: Gregory R.
Guy, York University.
9. ‘Phonologization’ as the Start of
Dephoneticization – Or, On Sound-Change and its Aftermath: Of
Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization:
Richard D. Janda, The Ohio State University.
Part IV: Morphological and Lexical Change: .
10. Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition: Raimo Anttila,
University of California, Los Angeles.
11. Analogical Change: Hans Henrich Hock, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
12. Naturalness and Morphological Change: Wolfgang U. Dressler,
Vienna University.
13. Morphologization from Syntax: Brian D. Joseph, The Ohio
State University.
Part V: Syntactic Change: .
14. Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change: David Lightfoot,
Georgetown University.
15. Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change: Susan Pintzuk,
University of York.
16. Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change: Alice C.
Harris, Vanderbilt University.
17. Functional Perspectives on Syntactic Change: Marianne
Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Part VI: Pragmatico-Semantic Change:.
18. Grammaticalization: Bernd Heine, University of Cologne.
19. Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of
Frequency: Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico.
20. Constructions in Grammaticalization: Elizabeth Closs
Traugott, Stanford University.
21. An Approach to Semantic Change: Benjamin W. Fortson, IV.
Part VII: Explaining Linguistic Change:.
22. Phonetics and Historical Phonology: John J. Ohala,
University of California, Berkeley.
23. Contact as a Source of Language Change: Sarah Grey Thomason,
University of Pittsburgh.
24. Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion: Walt Wolfram &
Natalie Schilling-Estes, North Carolina State University and
Georgetown University.
25. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Linguistic Change: Jean
Aitchison, University of Oxford.
Bibliography.
Subject Index.
Name Index.
Language Index.

Brian D. Joseph is Professor of Linguistics and Kenneth E.
Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at The Ohio State
University. Within historical linguistics, his research focuses
mainly on Indo-European languages. He has written and edited
numerous books – including Language History, Language
Change, and Language Relationship (with Hans H. Hock, 1996) and
The Synchrony and Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive (1983)
– and has published over 160 articles. He became editor of
the journal Language in 2002.
Richard D. Janda is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator for
Undergraduate Education in the Department of Linguistics at The
Ohio State University. A specialist in both Germanic and Romance
linguistics, he has written widely not only on diachronic but also
on synchronic issues in phonology, morphology, and morphosyntax, as
well as on historical linguistics in general. His more than 70
publications focus on drawing broader implications from the
application of theory to specific problems of structure, function,
variation, and change in individual languages.