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Take Our Word for It Take Our Word for It: Weekly etymology magazine. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.takeourword.com/ Kjell Gustafson's homepage - Historical Linguistics Kjell Gustafson's homepage - Historical Linguistics: An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.speech.kth.se/~kjellg/kg_historical_linguistics.htm The Indo-European Language Family The Indo-European Language Family: Extensive collection of resources in historical Indo-European linguistics. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-lg/ie-lg.html Indo-European and the Comparative Method 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. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/PIE.html The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process 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. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.sumerian.org/prot-sum.htm Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net: Two software applications to aid glottochronological & lexostatistical analysis. (Historical Linguistics) http://phaseit.net/claird/sci.anthropology/index.html A History of English A History of English: A set of slides on the history of English (in 5 chapters). Author: G. Lampert. Contains both linguistic and extralinguistic history. Also available in PPT (PowerPoint) format at http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Philologie-II/fb1414/lampert/language_history/foli (Historical Linguistics) http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Philologie-II/fb1414/lampert/language_history/ History of the English Language History of the English Language: 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. (Historical Linguistics) http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html The Controversy over the Word 'Squaw' The Controversy over the Word 'Squaw': The definition of the word 'squaw' and its corruption by the American Indian Movement. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.tomjonas.com/squawpeak/squaw.htm What Has a Hippo in Common With a Feather? What Has a Hippo in Common With a Feather?: Historical linguistics and etymology. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/hippo.html Introduction to Historical Linguistics Introduction to Historical Linguistics: A brief summary of the subject of comparative linguistics. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.mit.edu/~ejhanna/language/histlang.html Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction: The relation of place names to inter-tribal relations. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.etext.org/Politics/World.Systems/papers/working_papers:johns_hopkins_pcid/chase-dunn_hokan Sergei Starostin's Etymological Databases 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 etymo (Historical Linguistics) http://starling.rinet.ru/Intrab.htm Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method: Lecture notes. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/linguistics/lectures/05lect21.html A possible homeland of the Indo-European languages A possible homeland of the Indo-European 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 (Historical Linguistics) http://www.hjholm.de Lehmann's Reader: A Reader in Nineteenth Century Historical Indo-European Linguistics 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. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-docs/lehmann/reader/reader.html The Power of Greek Words The Power of Greek Words: The influence of Greek on other European languages. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.addgr.com/art/grwords/power.htm Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins: Etymological site offers a brief history of the English language, discussion boards and a search feature. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.wordorigins.org/ Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesianae Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesianae: Philological Thracology. A Traco-Dacian Thesaurus, a few articles and links. (Historical Linguistics) http://soltdm.tripod.com/home.htm Corpora and Historical Linguistics 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 manuscri (Historical Linguistics) http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/corpus4/4hist.htm Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics: For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/hoe/pschousboe.htm Genetic Distance and Language Affinities Genetic Distance and Language Affinities: Between Autochthonous Human Populations. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.friesian.com/trees.htm Indin Indin: Independent investigations into the history of the Indo-European languages and peoples (by Valentyn Stetsyuk). Includes Turkic and Finno-Ugric material. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.geocities.com/valentyn_ua/ Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages: Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.dabis.at/Anwender.htm/Alscher/afroasia.htm Chronology: History of English Chronology: History of English: "Chronology of Events in the History of English" summarizing the emergence and evolution of the language spanning 5 millenia. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/chron.html The Great Vowel Shift Web Site The Great Vowel Shift Web Site: An interactive introduction to the Great Vowel Shift, a major sound change in the English language. Includes sound and animation. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/ Grimm's Law Grimm's Law: A demonstration of the law. (Historical Linguistics) http://www-personal.umich.edu/~clunis/wow/grimm/ Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics: Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.ancientscripts.com/hl.html Historical Linguistics Historical Linguistics: HyperCard stacks (for Macintosh) on historical linguistics, Indo-European roots, comparative reconstruction, and Grimm's law. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~barlow/histnotes.html The Lover's Tongue The Lover's Tongue: 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. (Historical Linguistics) http://members.shaw.ca/loverstongue/ The Computational Historical Linguistics Project 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. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~histling/ Encyclopedia.com - Grimm's law Encyclopedia.com - Grimm's law: The principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/g/grimmsla.asp Historical Linguistics Methodology Historical Linguistics Methodology: Academic papers available in Postscript, PDF, and Word97 formats. (Historical Linguistics) http://www-cmll.concordia.ca/linguistics/hale/mypapers.html English from the 7th to the 18th c. English from the 7th to the 18th c.: An attempt at a very brief outline of the history of English by Tuba Ince. (Historical Linguistics) http://www.ingilish.com/orofeng.htm