This book, a reprint of one of the classics of historical linguistics, contains five papers originally presented at a 1966 symposium at the University of Texas

This volume presents seven extensive essays by specialists in their respective fields of historical linguistics. The first essay after the Introduction states t

In the spring of 1966 a symposium devoted to renewing interest in historical linguistics was held at The University of Texis at Austin. Reflecting the view of t

"The first edition of this Handbook is built on surveys by well-known figures from around the world and around the intellectual world, reflecting several differ

The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, a