PERSPECTIVES ON HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Dedication -- Copyright page -- PREFATORY NOTE -- Table of contents -- CHARTS, FIGURES AND TABLES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: DIACHRONIC LINGUISTICS -- BUILDINGON EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS -- 1. The fundamental principles -- 2. Paradoxes and problems of linguistic change -- 2.1 Five problems for the study of language change -- 3. Sources of new data and new findings on linguistic change -- 3.2. The analysis of variation in historical texts -- 3.4 Contributions from dialect geography -- 3.6 Linguistic change in small-scale societie -- 4. Building a theory of language change -- 5. The interface of language and society -- NOTES -- A SEMIOTIC MODEL OF DIACHRONIC PROCESS PHONOLOGY -- NOTES -- SEMANTICALLY-MARKED ROOT MORPHEMES IN DIACHRONIC MORPHOLOGY -- I. A neglected dimension of Indo-European morphology -- II. Physical defects designated by -a- in Latin root morphemes -- III. Samples of Earlier Research in Critical Retrospect -- IV. Consecutive Stages in the Crystallization of the Dominant Type of Spanish Primary Adjectives -- V. Analysis of the Italian matto, pazzo, sciocco Type -- VI. A Counterpart in English Derivation: From snowy through bloody to flimsy -- (A) The General Problem -- (B) English and German Compared -- C.The Sources and Stratification of the English Adjectival Suffix -y -- (D) The Breaking-up of a Tradition -- (E) The Concluding Stage of the Development -- VII. Conclusion -- NOTES -- FROM PROPOSITIONAL TO TEXTUAL AND EXPRESSIVE MEANINGS: SOME SEMANTIC-PRAGMATIC ASPECTS OF GRAMMATICALIZATION -- NOTES -- ROMANCEETYMOLOGY -- I. Background -- II. Etymology and Phonology -- III. Etymology and Morphology -- IV. Lexical Blends and Lexical Loss -- V. Conclusion -- NOTE -- DIRECTIONS IN INDO-EUROPEAN ETYMOLOGY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY.

I. INTRODUCTION -- II. HITTITE šakki 'KNOWS', -za šakki 'ACKNOWLEDGES' -- III. THE INDO-EUROPEAN MIDDLE AND OTHER TRANSITIVIZING DEVICES -- (See Chart I) -- (See Chart II) -- (See Chart III) -- See Chart IV -- See Chart V -- See Chart VI -- See Chart VII -- See Chart VIII -- See Chart IX -- IV. RELATED MORPHOSYNTACTIC CHANGES -- V: REVISING THE HYPOTHESIS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.