The Comparative Method Reviewed: Regularity and Irregularity in Language Change

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• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Contents *
• 1 - Introduction 3
• Notes 32
• References 34
• 2 - The Comparative Method as Heuristic 39
• Notes 68
• References 69
• 3 - On Sound Change and Challenges to Regularity 72
• Notes 86
• References 87
• 4 - Footnotes to a History of Cantonese: Accounting for the Phonological Irregularities 90
• Notes 110
• References 110
• 5 - Early Germanic Umlaut and Variable Rules 112

• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Contents *
• 1 - Introduction 3
• Notes 32
• References 34
• 2 - The Comparative Method as Heuristic 39
• Notes 68
• References 69
• 3 - On Sound Change and Challenges to Regularity 72
• Notes 86
• References 87
• 4 - Footnotes to a History of Cantonese: Accounting for the Phonological Irregularities 90
• Notes 110
• References 110
• 5 - Early Germanic Umlaut and Variable Rules 112
• Notes 131
• References 133
• 6 - Neogrammarian Hypothesis and Pandemic Irregularity 135
• Notes 153
• References 155
• 7 - Regularity of Change in What? 157
• Appendix Table 7.1 - Consonant Correspondences Occurring at Least Ten Times in the Cognate List 176
• Notes 178
• References 178
• 8 - Contact-Induced Change and the Comparative Method: Cases from Papua New Guinea 180
• Notes 211
• References 213
• 9 - Reconstruction in Morphology 218
• References 261
• 10 - Natural Tendencies of Semantic Change and the Search for Cognates 264
• Notes 300
• References 301
• Contributors 305
• Subject Index 307
• Language Index 313
• Name Index 318