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 Cameron Laird''s personal index to anthropologic resources on the net -- Two software applications to aid glottochronological & lexostatistical analysis.
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.
Emily''s Introduction to Historical Linguistics -- A brief summary of the topic.
Encyclopedia.com - Grimm''s law -- The principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822.
Genetic Distance and Language Affinities -- Between Autochthonous Human Populations.
Grimm''s Law -- A demonstration of the law.
Historical Linguistics -- Methodologies of language reconstruction.
Historical Linguistics -- An example of the comparative method of reconstructing language forms.
Historical Linguistics -- HyperCard stacks (for Macintosh) on historical linguistics, Indo-European roots, comparative reconstruction, and Grimm''s law.
Historical Linguistics Methodology -- Academic papers available in Postscript, PDF, and Word97 formats.
History of the English Language: Grimm''s Law -- Practice exercises.
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.
Kjell Gustafson''s homepage - Historical Linguistics -- An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines.
LSA Fields of Linguistics - Language Variation and Change -- by Sarah G. Thomason of the University of Pittsburgh.
Language Contact & Historical Linguistics -- The common methods of historical linguistics for the reconstruction of previous stages or states of languages are the Comparative Method and Internal Reconstruction. Both of these methods break down in cases involving contact between differing languages.
Lehmann''s Reader -- A reader in nineteenth century historical Indo-European linguistics.
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.
Linguistics: Historical Linguistics -- A light-hearted discussion of Indo-European.
Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction -- The relation of place names to inter-tribal relations.
Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages -- Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages.
Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics -- For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course.
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.
Take Our Word for It -- Weekly online etymology magazine.
The Boy Who Followed the Moon -- A fairy tale designed to demonstrate Grimm''s law.
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.
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.
The power of Greek words -- The influence of Greek on other European languages.
Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method -- Lecture notes.
Verner''s Law -- Verner noticed that a great number of exceptions to Grimm''s Law also had a regularity and system of their own, and could be explained logically.

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