Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Language change as cultural evolution: Evolutionary approaches to language change -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.