<div dir="ltr">[posted on behalf of the series editors]<div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As editors of De Gruyter Mouton’s monograph series <i>Studies in Language Change</i> we would like to invite historical linguists to submit book-length studies (e.g. dissertations) to the series. See </span><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/SLC-B" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/SLC-B</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> for a brief description of the series, plus (under Contents) the titles that have been published since the series was taken over by DGM from Pacific Linguistics Canberra.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The scope of interest of the series includes:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-112770741389889138MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">empirically based studies<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-112770741389889138MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">any of the world’s languages, language families, and linguistic areas<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-112770741389889138MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">descriptions of changes in a specific language<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-112770741389889138MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">reconstruction of earlier stages of a language or language family<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-112770741389889138MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">establishing genealogical relations between languages<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-112770741389889138MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">descriptions of contact-induced change<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-112770741389889138MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">synchronic descriptions of earlier stages of a language<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-112770741389889138MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">issues of historical linguistics methodology<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-112770741389889138MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">theoretical explanations<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Expressions of interest and book proposals should be sent in the first instance to </span><a href="mailto:Birgit.Sievert@degruyter.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Birgit.Sievert@degruyter.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Harold Koch, Cynthia Allen, Malcolm Ross and Don Daniels</span></p></div></div>