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History of the English Language
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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.
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A possible homeland of the Indo-European languages
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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
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Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics
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Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list.
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Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net
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Two software applications to aid glottochronological & lexostatistical analysis.
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Chronology: History of English
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"Chronology of Events in the History of English" summarizing the emergence and evolution of the language spanning 5 millenia.
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Corpora and Historical Linguistics
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"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."
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Encyclopedia.com - Grimm's law
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The principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822.
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English from the 7th to the 18th c.
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An attempt at a very brief outline of the history of English by Tuba Ince.
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Genetic Distance and Language Affinities
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Between Autochthonous Human Populations.
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Grimm's Law
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A demonstration of the law.
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Historical Linguistics Methodology
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Academic papers available in Postscript, PDF, and Word97 formats.
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Indin
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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.
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Indo-European and the Comparative Method
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Proto-Indo-European (and the comparative method), but were afraid to ask.
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Introduction to Historical Linguistics
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A brief summary of the subject of comparative linguistics.
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Kjell Gustafson's homepage - Historical Linguistics
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An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines.
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Lehmann's Reader: A Reader in Nineteenth Century Historical Indo-European Linguistics
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Anthology of important works of nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics, edited and translated by W. P. Lehmann, 1967.
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Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesianae
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Philological Thracology. A Traco-Dacian Thesaurus, a few articles and links.
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Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction
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The relation of place names to inter-tribal relations.
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Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages
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Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages.
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Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics
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For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course.
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Sergei Starostin's Etymological Databases
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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.
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Take Our Word for It
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Weekly etymology magazine.
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The Controversy over the Word 'Squaw'
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The definition of the word 'squaw' and its corruption by the American Indian Movement.
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The Great Vowel Shift Web Site
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An interactive introduction to the Great Vowel Shift, a major sound change in the English language. Includes sound and animation.
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The Indo-European Language Family
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Extensive collection of resources in historical Indo-European linguistics.
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The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process
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Eleven-page paper describing how the early Sumerians invented their language, with a complete lexicon of the first words in their language.
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Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method
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Lecture notes.
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What Has a Hippo in Common With a Feather?
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Historical linguistics and etymology.
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Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins
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Etymological site offers a brief history of the English language, discussion boards and a search feature.
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