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 Sep…
Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net
Two software applications to aid glottochronological & lexostatistical analysis.
Chronology: History of English
"Chronology of Events in the History of English" summarizing the emergence and evolution of the language spanning 5 millenia.
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 e…
English from the 7th to the 18th c.
An attempt at a very brief outline of the history of English by Tuba Ince.
Introduction to Historical Linguistics
A brief summary of the subject of comparative linguistics.
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.
Sergei Starostin's Etymological Databases
Currently comprise North Caucasian, Sino-Tibetan, Yenisseian, Altaic, Chukchee-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, and (partly) Semitic (proto-) languages. With reconstructed protoforms (includ…
The Controversy over the Word 'Squaw'
The definition of the word 'squaw' and its corruption by the American Indian Movement.
The Indo-European Language Family
Extensive collection of resources in historical Indo-European linguistics.
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.
Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins
Etymological site offers a brief history of the English language, discussion boards and a search feature.
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