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Preface, Charles Jones; parameters of syntactic change - a notationalview, John Anderson; the primacy of history - change and metatheory at thebegining of the 1990's, Raimo Antilla; typology and reconstruction, BernardComrie; on the phonetic basis of phonological change, Patricia Donegan;contact settings - doubts about dichotomy internally and externally motivatedchange in language, Nancy Dorian; how real(ist) are reconstructions?, RogerLass; why UG needs a learning theory - triggering verb movement, DavidLightfoot; on the social origins of language change, James Milroy; thephonetics of sound change, John Ohala; Nicaraguan English in history, WayneO'Neil; language change as language improvement, Theo Vennemann;bidirectional diffusion in sound change, William A-Y Wang and Chinfa Lien.