Science, Social Sciences, Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
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- Independent investigations into the history of the Indo-European languages and peoples (by Valentyn Stetsyuk). Includes Turkic and Finno-Ugric material.
- Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list.
- An attempt at a very brief outline of the history of English by Tuba Ince.
- Two software applications to aid glottochronological & lexostatistical analysis.
- Eleven-page paper describing how the early Sumerians invented their language, with a complete lexicon of the first words in their language.
- An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines.
- The principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822.
- "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 manuscri
- Academic papers available in Postscript, PDF, and Word97 formats.
- A considerable collection of online materials related to the history of English: texts, publications, fonts and course syllabuses. Includes Pre-History, Old English, Middle English, early Modern English and the spread of English beyond the British Isles.
- Extensive collection of resources in historical Indo-European linguistics.
- A joint research project of the Computer and Information Science Department and the Linguistics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Historical linguistics and etymology.
- A brief summary of the subject of comparative linguistics.
- 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 etymo
- A demonstration of the law.
- Everything you ever wanted to know about Proto-Indo-European (and the comparative method), but were afraid to ask.
- Weekly etymology magazine.
- Anthology of important works of nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics, edited and translated by W. P. Lehmann, 1967.
- For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course.
- Philological Thracology. A Traco-Dacian Thesaurus, a few articles and links.
- "Chronology of Events in the History of English" summarizing the emergence and evolution of the language spanning 5 millenia.
- The definition of the word 'squaw' and its corruption by the American Indian Movement.
- An etymological exploration of the language of love and sex (word origins). Companion site to the book of the same name. Excerpts, reviews, author details, MP3 files of the author discussing a few terms, and links to shopping sites.
- Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages.
- Since most scholars assume an Indo-European homeland in the steppes north of the Black Sea, a full video study of this option is presented, based on the splits suggested by the Separation Base Method
- Between Autochthonous Human Populations.
- An interactive introduction to the Great Vowel Shift, a major sound change in the English language. Includes sound and animation.
- Etymological site offers a brief history of the English language, discussion boards and a search feature.
- Lecture notes.
- The relation of place names to inter-tribal relations.
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