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Part I. Preliminaries: 1. The ever-whirling wheel; 2. Collecting upclues; 3. Charting the changes; Part II. Transition: 4. Spreading theword; 5. Conflicting loyalties; 6. Catching on and taking off; 7.Caught in the web; Part III. Causation: 8. The reason why; 9. Doingwhat comes naturally; 10. Repairing the patterns; 11. The Mad Hatter'sTea-Party; Part IV. Beginnings and Endings: 12. Development andbreakdown; 13. Language birth; 14. Language death; 15. Progress ordecay?