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Web Pages
| What Has a Hippo in Common With a Feather? Historical linguistics and etymology. www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/hippo.html |
| Genetic Distance and Language Affinities Between Autochthonous Human Populations. www.friesian.com/trees.htm |
| 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 |
| Grimm's Law A demonstration of the law. www-personal.umich.edu/~clunis/wow/grimm/ |
| 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/ |
| Take Our Word for It Weekly etymology magazine. www.takeourword.com/ |
| Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins Etymological site offers a brief history of the English language, discussion boards and a search feature. www.wordorigins.org/ |
| 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 |
| Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course. www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/hoe/pschousboe.htm |
| Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list. www.ancientscripts.com/hl.html |
| Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages. www.dabis.at/Anwender.htm/Alscher/afroasia.htm |
| 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 |
| Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method Lecture notes. www.departments.bucknell.edu/linguistics/lectures/05lect21.html |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net Two software applications to aid glottochronological and lexostatistical analysis. phaseit.net/claird/sci.anthropology/index.html |
| History of the English Language 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. ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html |
| Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesianae Philological Thracology. A Traco-Dacian Thesaurus, a few articles and links. soltdm.tripod.com/home.htm |
| Introduction to Historical Linguistics A brief summary of the subject of comparative linguistics. www.mit.edu/~ejhanna/language/histlang.html |
| Indin Independent investigations into the history of the Indo-European languages and peoples (by Valentyn Stetsyuk). Includes Turkic and Finno-Ugric material. www.geocities.com/valentyn_ua/ |
| The Controversy over the Word 'Squaw' The definition of the word 'squaw' and its corruption by the American Indian Movement. www.tomjonas.com/squawpeak/squaw.htm |
| A possible homeland of the Indo-European languages 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 www.hjholm.de |
| English from the 7th to the 18th c. An attempt at a very brief outline of the history of English by Tuba Ince. www.ingilish.com/orofeng.htm |
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