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- Linguistics Books - Buy the book "Historical Linguistics" at Allisonsmarketingcompany, an Amazon affiliate!
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- The Boy Who Followed the Moon
- A fairy tale designed to demonstrate Grimm's law.
- Cameron Laird's personal index to anthropologic resources on the net
- Two software applications to aid glottochronological & lexostatistical analysis.
- The Computational Historical Linguistics Project
- A joint research project of the Computer and Information Science Department and the Linguistics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Corpora and historical linguistics
- Historical linguistics can be seen as a species of corpus linguistics, since the texts of a historical period or a "dead" language form a closed corpus of data which can only be extended by the (re-)discovery of previously unknown manuscripts or books.
- Emily's Introduction to Historical Linguistics
- A brief summary of the topic.
- Encyclopedia.com - Grimm's law
- The principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822.
- Genetic Distance and Language Affinities
- Between Autochthonous Human Populations.
- The Great Vowel Shift Web Site
- This site is an interactive introduction to the Great Vowel Shift, a major sound change in the English language. Includes sound and animation.
- Grimm's Law
- A demonstration of the law.
- Historical Linguistics
- HyperCard stacks (for Macintosh) on historical linguistics, Indo-European roots, comparative reconstruction, and Grimm's law.
- Historical Linguistics Methodology
- Academic papers available in Postscript, PDF, and Word97 formats.
- Indo-European and the Comparative Method
- Everything you ever wanted to know about Proto-Indo-European (and the comparative method), but were afraid to ask.
- The Indo-European Language Family
- Extensive collection of resources in historical Indo-European linguistics.
- Kjell Gustafson's homepage - Historical Linguistics
- An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines.
- Lehmann's Reader: A Reader in Nineteenth Century Historical Indo-European Linguistics
- Anthology of important works of nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics, edited and translated by W. P. Lehmann, 1967.
- Linguistics 450 - Language Reports
- A collection of student papers from a historical linguistics class. Covers the histories of individual languages and that of language families.
- LSA Fields of Linguistics - Language Variation and Change
- by Sarah G. Thomason of the University of Pittsburgh.
- Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction
- The relation of place names to inter-tribal relations.
- The power of Greek words
- The influence of Greek on other European languages.
- The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process
- Eleven-page paper describing how the early Sumerians invented their language, with a complete lexicon of the first words in their language.
- Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages
- Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages.
- Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics
- For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course.
- Sergei Starostin's Etymological Databases
- Currently comprise North Caucasian, Sino-Tibetan, Yenisseian, Altaic, Chukchee-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, and (partly) Semitic (proto-) languages. With reconstructed protoforms (including intermediary) and the attested forms in daughter tongues for each etymon. Downloadable, searchable. Need special fonts, also available onsite.
- Take Our Word for It
- Weekly etymology magazine.
- Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method
- Lecture notes.
- What Has a Hippo in Common With a Feather?
- Historical linguistics and etymology.
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