English from the 7th to the
18th c.
www.mit.edu/~ejhanna/language/histlang.html
A brief summary of the subject of comparative linguistics
.
www.speech.kth.se/~kjellg/kg_historical_linguistics.htm
Lehmann`s Reader: A Reader in Nineteenth Century
Historical Indo-European Linguistics
Weekly etymology magazine.
The Great Vowel Shift Web Site
Lecture
notes.
syllabuses altaic
An interactive introduction to the Great Vowel Shift, a major sound change in the English language
.
etymological ugric
www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/corpus4/4hist.htm
A Traco-Dacian Thesaurus, a few articles
and links.Historical linguistics and etymology.
altaic traco
www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/hoe/pschousboe.htm
Currently
comprise North Caucasian, Sino-Tibetan, Yenisseian, Altaic, Chukchee-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, and (partly
) Semitic (proto-) languages.
www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/hippo.html
vowel ince
www.ancientscripts.com/hl.html
"Chronology of Events in the History of English" summarizing the emergence and evolution of
the language spanning 5 millenia.
Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics
The Controversy over the
Word `Squaw`
The definition of the word `squaw` and its corruption by the American Indian Movement.
ince millenia
Ancient
Scripts - Historical Linguistics
Cameron Laird`s Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net
www.ingilish.com/orofeng.htm
ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html
A considerable collection of online materials
related to the history of English: texts, publications, fonts and course syllabuses.
Kjell Gustafson`s
homepage - Historical Linguistics
Need special fonts, also available onsite.
www.tomjonas.com/squawpeak
/squaw.htm
www.wordorigins.org/
steppes starostin
The principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated
by Jakob Grimm in 1822.
altaic thraco
www.hjholm.de
Genetic Distance and Language Affinities
www-cmll.concordia.ca/linguistics
/hale/mypapers.html
www.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/
ince afroasiatic
An attempt at a very brief outline of the history of English
by Tuba Ince. Lehmann, 1967.
thraco gustafson
www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-docs/lehmann/reader/reader.html
Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages.Etymological site offers
a brief history of the English language, discussion boards and a search feature.
schousboe squaw
Everything you ever
wanted to know about Proto-Indo-European (and the comparative method), but were afraid to ask.Extensive
collection of resources in historical Indo-European linguistics.
www.departments.bucknell.edu/linguistics
/lectures/05lect21.html
indo squaw
Corpora and Historical Linguistics
Grimm`s Law
www-personal.umich.edu/~clunis/wow
/grimm/
Philological Thracology.The relation of place names to inter-tribal relations.
squaw gustafson
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.Independent investigations into the history of the Indo-European languages and peoples
(by Valentyn Stetsyuk).
www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/PIE.html
Wilton`s Word & Phrase Origins
indo vowel
Historical Linguistics Methodology
Includes Pre-History, Old English, Middle English, early Modern English
and the spread of English beyond the British Isles. Includes Turkic and Finno-Ugric material. Includes
sound and animation.
proto afroasiatic
Anthology of important works of nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics
, edited and translated by W.
thraco finno
www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/chron.html
Encyclopedia.com - Grimm`s law
Introduction to Historical Linguistics
corpora etymological
Chronology: History of English
www.geocities.com/valentyn_ua/
With
reconstructed protoforms (including intermediary) and the attested forms in daughter tongues for each
etymon.
What Has a Hippo in Common With a Feather?
corpora syllabuses
Indin
Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction
starling
.rinet.ru/Intrab.htm
Eleven-page paper describing how the early Sumerians invented their language, with
a complete lexicon of the first words in their language.
thraco steppes
Two software applications to aid glottochronological
& lexostatistical analysis.A demonstration of the law.Academic papers available in Postscript, PDF
, and Word97 formats.
Take Our Word for It
The Indo-European Language Family
ince millenia
P.
Sergei Starostin`s Etymological
Databases
Downloadable, searchable.
word97 starostin
A possible homeland of the Indo-European languages
www.encyclopedia
.com/html/g/grimmsla.asp
History of the English Language
For educators- a course curriculum designed for
a one-semester course.
altaic finno
Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive
links list.
soltdm.tripod.com/home.htm
www.dabis.at/Anwender.htm/Alscher/afroasia.htm
traco squaw
"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.
www.friesian.com/trees.htm
Indo-European and the Comparative
Method
Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesianae
www.takeourword.com/
The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process
altaic schousboe
phaseit.net/claird/sci.anthropology/index.html
"
An overview of the field of historical linguistics
and its sub-disciplines.
www.etext.org/Politics/World.Systems/papers/working_papers:johns_hopkins_pcid
/chase-dunn_hokan
Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages
www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc
/iedocctr/ie-lg/ie-lg.html
www.sumerian.org/prot-sum.htm
ugric afroasiatic
Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method
finno slavonic
