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- A Preliminary Study of Kharosthi Manuscript Paleography - Master's thesis on the development of the Kharosthi script (PDF format).
staff.washington.edu/asg/Downloads/Paleography.pdf
- Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics - Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list.
www.ancientscripts.com/hl.html
- Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net - Two software applications to aid glottochronological & lexostatistical analysis.
phaseit.net/claird/sci.anthropology/index.html
- Chronology: History of English - "Chronology of Events in the History of English" summarizing the emergence and evolution of the language spanning 5 millenia.
www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/chron.html
- 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 manuscripts or books."
www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/corpus4/4hist.htm
- Emily's Introduction to Historical Linguistics - A brief summary of the topic.
www.mit.edu/ejhanna/language/histlang.html
- Encyclopedia.com - Grimm's law - The principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822.
www.encyclopedia.com/articles/05438.html
- Genetic Distance and Language Affinities - Between Autochthonous Human Populations.
www.friesian.com/trees.htm
- Grimm's Law - A demonstration of the law.
www-personal.umich.edu/~clunis/wow/grimm
- Historical Linguistics - HyperCard stacks (for Macintosh) on historical linguistics, Indo-European roots, comparative reconstruction, and Grimm's law.
www.owlnet.rice.edu/~barlow/histnotes.html
- Historical Linguistics Methodology - Academic papers available in Postscript, PDF, and Word97 formats.
www-cmll.concordia.ca/linguistics/hale/mypapers.html
- 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.
www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/PIE.html
- Kjell Gustafson's homepage - Historical Linguistics - An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines.
www.speech.kth.se/~kjellg/kg_historical_linguistics.htm
- 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.
www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-docs/lehmann/reader/reader.html
- Linguistics 450 - Language Reports - A collection of student papers from a historical linguistics class. Covers the histories of individual languages and that of language families.
humanities.byu.edu/classes/ling450ch/reports.html
- LSA Fields of Linguistics - Language Variation and Change - by Sarah G. Thomason of the University of Pittsburgh.
www.lsadc.org/web2/variation.html
- Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction - The relation of place names to inter-tribal relations.
www.etext.org/Politics/World.Systems/papers/working_papers:johns_hopkins_pcid/chase-dunn_hokan
- Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages - Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages.
www.dabis.at/Anwender.htm/Alscher/afroasia.htm
- Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics - For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course.
www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/hoe/pschousboe.htm
- 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 etymon. Downloadable, searchable. Need special fonts, also available onsite.
starling.rinet.ru/Intrab.htm
- Seshat the Scribe's Extinct Languages Library - Description of the writing systems of several extinct languages, including Egyptian hieroglyphics, cuneiform, Linear B, runes and other undeciphered scripts.
seshat_the_scribe.tripod.com/index.html
- Take Our Word for It - Weekly etymology magazine.
www.takeourword.com
- The Boy Who Followed the Moon - A fairy tale designed to demonstrate Grimm's law.
www.utsa.edu/Academics/COFAH/ECPC/drinka/grimms$tale.html
- 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.
www.cis.upenn.edu/~histling
- 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.
www.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs
- The Indo-European Language Family - Extensive collection of resources in historical Indo-European linguistics.
www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-lg/ie-lg.html
- The Power of Greek Words - The influence of Greek on other European languages.
www.addgr.com/art/grwords/power.htm
- 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.
www.sumerian.org/prot-sum.htm
- Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method - Lecture notes.
www.departments.bucknell.edu/linguistics/lectures/05lect21.html
- What Has a Hippo in Common With a Feather? - Historical linguistics and etymology.
www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/hippo.html
- Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins - Etymological site offers a brief history of the English language, discussion boards and a search feature.
www.wordorigins.org
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