Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-352) and index.
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1. Introduction -- 2. Three views of sound change -- 3. Sound change 2: the implementation problem -- 4. Morphological change -- 5. Syntactic change 1: the Transparency Principle -- 6. Word order change and grammaticalisation: language change and general laws -- 7. Semantic and lexical change -- 8. Language contact -- 9. Linguistic variation -- 10. Pidgins and creoles -- 11. Language death -- 12. Linguistic evolution?