Editors’ Introduction: Foundations of the new historical linguisticsPart 1 Overviews1 Lineage and the constructive imagination: the birth of historical linguistics2 New perspectives in historical linguistics3 Compositionality and changePart 2 Methods and models4 The Comparative Method5 The Comparative Method: theoretical issues6 Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification7 Language phylogenies8 Diachronic stability and typologyPart 3 Language change9 The Sound change10 Phonological changes11 Morphological change12 Morphological reconstruction13 Functional syntax and language change14 Generative syntax and language change15 Syntax and Syntactic reconstruction16 Lexical semantic change and semantic reconstruction17 Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change18 Discourse19 Etymology20 Sign languages in their historical context21 Language acquisition and language change22 Social dimensions of language change23 Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic change24 Contact-induced language change25 Language attrition and language changePart 4 Interfaces2 Demographic correlates of language diversity27 Historical linguistics and socio-cultural reconstruction28 Prehistory through language and archaeology29 Historical linguistics and molecular anthropologyPart 5 Regional Summaries30 Indo-European: methods and problems31 Austronesian32 The Austro-Asiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuring33 Pama-Nyungan34 The Pacific Northwest lingusitic area: historical perspectives