Excerpt - Front Matter: "Since this is a textbook of historical linguistics rather than an intro- duction to Austronesian linguistics (or those of other areas), I hope that specialist readers will ... "
Excerpt - page 15: " ... will appear to be a clear violation of Garde's Principle (1961): that mergers are irre- versible by linguistic means. In the literature of historical linguistics, the only solution put ... "
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Excerpt - Back Matter: " ... Historical Linguistics, 2nd edn. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2003. Analogical change, in Joseph and Janda (2003) 44160. Hoenigswald, Henry M. 1960. Language ... "