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This book investigates the diachronic change of the tone sandhi of Southern Min Chinese, which is known for its synchronic arbitrariness and opacity. It argues

Matthew Chen's study, first published in 2000, offers a most comprehensive analysis of the rich and complex patterns of tone used in Chinese languages. Chinese

Classification is a popular topic in typological, descriptive and theoretical linguistics. This volume is the first to deal specifically with the diachrony of l

The articles of this volume are centered around two competing views on language change originally presented at the 2003 International Conference on Historical L

This text considers syntactic change from the perspective of generative theory. It explains how diachronic generative theory may be used in the study of linguis