Front matter -- Preface -- Introduction -- Understanding linguistic innovations / Andersen, Henning -- On the causes of syntactic change in English / Breivik, Leiv Egil -- Pragmatics and syntactic change / Faarlund, Jan Terje -- Language planning and language change / Jahr, Ernst Håkon -- The origin and function of switch reference in Green Hmong / Li, Charles N. -- Invisible-hand processes and the universal laws of language change / Lüdtke, Helmut -- On the causes of accelerated linguistic change in the Pacific area / Mühlhäusler, Peter -- Sound change is drawn from a pool of synchronic variation / Ohala, John J. -- The role of children in linguistic change / Romaine, Suzanne -- Contact and isolation in linguistic change / Trudgill, Peter -- Some contact structures in Scandinavian, Dutch, and Raeto-Romansh: inner-linguistic and/or contact causes of language change / Ureland, P. Sture -- Index -- Backmatter |