<strong>Optimality Theory and Language Change</strong> discusses many optimization andlinguistic issues in great detail treats the history of a variety oflangua... » 

Optimality Theory and Language Change discusses many optimization andlinguistic issues in great detail treats the history of a variety oflanguages including English French Germanic GalicianPortuguese LatinRussian and Spanish shows that the application of OT allows for innovativeand improved analyses allows researchers that appeal to OT to see theconnections of their usually synchronic work with diachronic studies contains a complete bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change.Thisvolume may be used as one of the texts in courses on historical phonology orsyntax that treat these topics from generative approaches or that give ageneral survey of various frameworks of research into these areas. Likewisethe volume may serve as a text for courses in phonology syntax and OptimalityTheory that have a component dedicated to extensions of linguistic theory tohistorical change. It is of interest for historical linguists researchers intoOptimality Theory and linguistic theory and for phonologists and syntacticianswith an interest in historical change. «