Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Conventions, abbreviations and symbols
- General prologue: time travel and signal processing
- 1 The past, the present and the historian
- 2 Written records: evidence and argument
- 3 Relatedness, ancestry and comparison
- 4 Convergence and contact
- 5 The nature of reconstruction
- 6 Time and change: the shape(s) of history
- 7 Explanation and ontology
- References
- Index of names
- Subject index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Conventions, abbreviations and symbols
- General prologue: time travel and signal processing
- 1 The past, the present and the historian
- 2 Written records: evidence and argument
- 3 Relatedness, ancestry and comparison
- 4 Convergence and contact
- 5 The nature of reconstruction
- 6 Time and change: the shape(s) of history
- 7 Explanation and ontology
- References
- Index of names
- Subject index
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- Historical Linguistics and Language Change , pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997