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Introduction | |
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"Language" and "Language Change": Preliminaries | |
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What is "Language"? | |
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Synchronic "Language" vs. Diachronic "Language" | |
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"Language" as a Synchronic Object | |
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"Language" as a Diachronic Object | |
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Discussion Questions and Issues | |
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Linguistic Artifacts: Philology | |
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Objects vs. "Texts" | |
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"Texts" and "Languages" | |
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Discussion Questions and Issues | |
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What is a "Descent" Relationship? | |
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The Nature of Linguistic "Descent" | |
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Further Remarks on "Change" | |
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Diffusion | |
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Conclusion | |
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Discussion Questions and Issues | |
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Phonological Change | |
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Galilean-Style Phonology | |
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The Grammar, Production, and Perception | |
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What is a "Phonological Object"? | |
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Phonological Change | |
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Discussion Questions and Issues | |
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The Traditional Approach | |
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Marshallese Historical Phonology | |
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Summary of Marshallese Developments from Proto-Micronesian | |
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Discussion Questions and Issues | |
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In-Depth Consideration of Selected Issues | |
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Phonetics, Phonology, and Sound Change I: The Marshallese Velars | |
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A Digression on the History of Research | |
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Phonetics, Phonology, and Sound Change II: The Marshallese Vowels | |
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Phonological Change without Phonetic Change | |
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Discussion Questions and Issues | |
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The Regularity of Sound Change | |
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The Neogrammarian Hypothesis | |
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Conclusion | |
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Discussion Questions and Issues | |
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Syntactic Change | |
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What is Syntactic Change? | |
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"Regular" Syntactic Change | |
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Some Comments on Lightfoot's Model of Parametric Change | |
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"Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics": Some Models of Variation and Change | |
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Conclusion | |
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Discussion Questions and Issues | |
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The Diachrony of Clitics: Phonology and Syntax | |
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Wackernagel's Law: Traditional Diachronic Syntax | |
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What Can('t) be a Clitic? | |
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What Can('t) be a "Syntactic" Clitic? | |
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Discussion Questions and Issues | |
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Reconstruction Methodology | |
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Reconstruction Methodology | |
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Introduction | |
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The Genetic Hypothesis | |
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Trivial vs. Nontrivial Innovations | |
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Subgrouping | |
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Democracy and Reconstruction: Is "Majority Rules" a Principle? | |
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Recent Criticisms | |
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"Realist" and "Formalist" Views of Reconstruction | |
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Final Remarks | |
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Discussion Questions and Issues | |
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Concluding Remarks | |
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Synchronic and Diachronic Linguistics | |
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The Mirage of Apparent Identity | |
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Conclusion | |
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Discussion Questions and Issues | |
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References | |
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Index | |