LANGUAGE HISTORY AN INTRODUCTION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Table of contents -- A NOTE ON NOTATION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHANGES IN PRONUNCIATION -- ASSIMILATION -- DISSIMILATION -- ADDITION OF SEGMENTS -- LOSS OF SEGMENTS -- METATHESIS -- OTHER INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SEGMENTS -- CHANGES IN MANNER OF ARTICULATION -- SOUND LAWS -- MERGER -- PRIMARY SPLIT -- SECONDARY SPLIT -- SOUND LAWS -- EFFICIENT CAUSES OF PHONETIC CHANGE -- PATTERNLESS CHANGES -- ANALOGY -- LEVELING ANALOGY -- RECOMPOSITION -- CONTAMINATION -- PORTMANTEAU WORDS -- FOLK ETYMOLOGY -- MORPHOLOGICAL ANALOGY -- HYPERCORRECTION -- SEMANTIC CHANGE -- CHANGES IN THE NUMBER OF SEMANTIC FEATURES -- PEJORATION AND MELIORATION -- FOREGROUNDING OF CONNOTATIONS -- FIGURATIVE MEANINGS -- METAPHOR -- METONYMY -- CHANGES RESULTING FROM CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE LANGUAGE, REINTERPRETATION OF AMBIGUITIES, AND CHANGES IN THE PHYSICAL OR SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT -- CALQUES -- THE ETYMOLOGICAL FALLACY -- RECONSTRUCTION -- THE COMPARATIVE METHOD -- RECONSTRUCTION OF FEATURES OF MORPHOLOGY, SEMANTICS, AND SYNTAX -- INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHONOLOGICAL RESTRUCTURING (26 - 9) AND INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION -- EXTERNAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE CHANGE -- LANGUAGE AND DIALECT -- DIFFERENTIATION OF LANGUAGES -- LANGUAGES IN CONTACT -- WRITTEN RECORDS -- THE INTERPRETATION OF WRITTEN RECORDS -- TRANSLITERATION -- BORROWING -- MULTIPLE VALUES OF SYMBOLS -- CHRONOLOGY -- BORROWING THE SYMBOLS -- COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE -- TYPOLOGY, PARALLELISM -- STATEMENTS BY CONTEMPORANEOUS AUTHORITIES -- POETRY -- FULL DRESS EXAMPLE: LATIN C AND G -- APPENDIX : PHONETICS -- THE MECHANISMS OF SPEECH AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF SPEECH SOUNDS -- CONSONANTALS -- MANNER OF ARTICULATION -- POINT OF ARTICULATION -- THE BASIC FRAMEWORK -- VOCALICS.

NATURAL CLASSES -- SYSTEMS OF PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION -- GLOSSARY -- GLOSSARY OF LINGUISTIC TERMSIN GERMAN -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SUBJECT INDEX -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES CITED -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE -- The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.