Directory of Historical Linguistics Resources

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Subcategories

• Classical Languages
• Gothic
• Old Church Slavonic
• Old English
• Proto-Language

Resources in This Category

• A possible homeland of the Indo-European languages

  http://www.hjholm.de/
  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

• Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics

  http://www.ancientscripts.com/hl.html
  Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list.

• Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net

  http://phaseit.net/claird/sci.anthropology/index.html
  Two software applications to aid glottochronological and lexostatistical analysis.

• Chronology: History of English

  http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/chron.html
  "Chronology of Events in the History of English" summarizing the emergence and evolution of the language spanning 5 millennia.

• Genetic Distance and Language Affinities

  http://www.friesian.com/trees.htm
  Between Autochthonous Human Populations.

• Introduction to Historical Linguistics

  http://www.mit.edu/~ejhanna/language/histlang.html
  A brief summary of the subject of comparative linguistics.

• Kjell Gustafson's homepage - Historical Linguistics

  http://www.speech.kth.se/~kjellg/kg_historical_linguistics.htm
  An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines.

• Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesianae

  http://soltdm.tripod.com/home.htm
  Philological Thracology. A Traco-Dacian Thesaurus, a few articles and links.

• Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics

  http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/hoe/pschousboe.htm
  For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course.

• Take Our Word for It

  http://www.takeourword.com/
  Weekly etymology magazine.

• The Olin Revelation

  http://www.olinrevelation.org/
  Revelations concerning the English language and the Bible.

• The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process

  http://www.sumerian.org/prot-sum.htm
  Eleven-page paper describing how the early Sumerians invented their language, with a complete lexicon of the first words in their language.

• Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method

  http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/linguistics/lectures/05lect21.html
  Lecture notes.

• What Has a Hippo in Common With a Feather?

  http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/hippo.html
  Historical linguistics and etymology.

• Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins

  http://www.wordorigins.org/
  Etymological site offers a brief history of the English language, discussion boards and a search feature.

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