Download or read book Historical Linguistics 1995 written by John Charles Smith and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, contains papers on Germanic.