The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailedaccount of the numerous issues, methods, and results thatcharacterize current work in historical linguistics, the area oflinguistics most directly concerned with language change as well aspast language states.
* Contains an extensive introduction that places the study ofhistorical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics andthe historical sciences in general
* Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presentssophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological,morphological, syntactic, and semantic change
* Includes contributions from the leading specialists in thefield