TABLE OF CONTENTS OF

ESSAYS ON TIME-BASED LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Introduction by P. Muelhaeusler

1. Prologue

2. Variation theory and so-called sociolinguistic grammars

3. Theory, description, and what keeps linguistics from becoming a science.

4. Conceptualizing dialects as implicational constellations rather than as entities bounded by isoglossic bundles

5. Reversals in marked categories and contexts, with the pragmatic principle of reading between the lines in the presence of marked usages

6. What grammarians haven't been doing right, or Unriddling analytical paradoxes

7. Old and new views on language history and language relationships

8. Reconstructing language development: two principles of change

9. A note on [Greek xi] as 'ss' [like English sh] and a ruki-rule in ancient Greek

10. Epilogue on historical linguistics

Ch. 1 discusses developmental linguistics. Ch. 4 presents anti-isoglossic dialectology.  Ch. 6 (with Ch. 5) discusses reversals in marked contexts. The new kind of family tree advocated by the author is found in Ch. 8; the non-Anglo-Saxon nature of English grammatical structure is discussed in one section of Ch. 10.