1. List of tables; 2. List of figures; 3. List of contributors; 4. Acknowledgements; 5. Chapter 1. When paradigms change (by Robbeets, Martine); 6. Part I. Paradigm change: Theoretical issues; 7. Chapter 2. On the strength of morphological paradigms: A historical account of radical pro-drop (by Bisang, Walter); 8. Chapter 3. Derivational paradigms in diachrony and comparison (by Nichols, Johanna); 9. Chapter 4. On arguing from diachrony for paradigms (by Joseph, Brian D.); 10. Chapter 5. Reconstructing the Niger-Congo Verb Extension Paradigm: What's Cognate, Copied or Renewed? (by Hyman, Larry M.); 11. Part II. The continuation of paradigms; 12. Chapter 6. Perceived formal and functional equivalence: The Hungarian ik-conjugation (by Csato, Eva Agnes); 13. Chapter 7. Comparative consequences of the tongue root harmony analysis for proto-Tungusic, proto-Mongolic, and proto-Korean (by Ko, Seongyeon); 14. Chapter 8. Old Japanese bigrade paradigms and Korean passives and causatives (by Unger, J. Marshall); 15. Chapter 9. The Japanese inflectional paradigm in a Transeurasian perspective (by Robbeets, Martine); 16. Part III. The innovation of paradigms; 17. Chapter 10. A Yakut copy of a Tungusic viewpoint aspect paradigm (by Johanson, Lars); 18. Chapter 11. Amdo Altaic directives and comparatives based on the verb 'to see' (by Nugteren, Hans); 19. Chapter 12. Innovations and archaisms in Siberian Turkic spatial case paradigms: A Transeurasian historical and areal perspective (by Nevskaya, Irina); 20. Chapter 13. Paradigm copying in Tungusic: The Lamunkhin dialect of Even and beyond (by Pakendorf, Brigitte); 21. Chapter 14. Ural-Altaic: The Polygenetic Origins of Nominal Morphology in the Transeurasian Zone (by Janhunen, Juha A.); 22. Language index; 23. Subject index