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Key to symbols used Preface Introduction Part I. Models of Language Development: 1. The neogrammarian model 2. The structuralist model of language evolution 3. The transformational-generative model of language evolution Part II. Language Contact: 4. The neogrammarian postulates and dialect geography 5. The social motivation of language change 6. Contact between languages 7. Language and prehistory Further reading References Additional bibliography Index.