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Take Our Word for It
Weekly etymology magazine.
http://www.takeourword.com/
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.
http://www.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/
Grimm's Law
A demonstration of the law.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~clunis/wow/...
Encyclopedia.com - Grimm's law
The principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/g/grimmsl...
Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesianae
Philological Thracology. A Traco-Dacian Thesaurus, a few articles and links.
http://soltdm.tripod.com/home.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
http://www.hjholm.de
Kjell Gustafson's homepage - Historical Linguistics
An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines.
http://www.speech.kth.se/~kjellg/kg_histor...
The Controversy over the Word 'Squaw'
The definition of the word 'squaw' and its corruption by the American Indian Movement.
http://www.tomjonas.com/squawpeak/squaw.ht...
Dave Wilton's Etymology Page
Devoted to etymology of common words and slang phrases.
http://www.wordorigins.org/
HEL
History of the English Language. Also has a mailing list.
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html
Genetic Distance and Language Affinities
Between Autochthonous Human Populations.
http://www.friesian.com/trees.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.
http://www.sumerian.org/prot-sum.htm
Chronology of Events in the History of English
Concise list of key events specifically referring to the language and its evolvement. Covers the Pre-English, Anglo-Saxon, Middle and Modern periods.
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/chro...
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.
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedoc...
Indin
Independent investigations into the history of the Indo-European languages and peoples (by Valentyn Stetsyuk). Includes Turkic and Finno-Ugric material.
http://www.geocities.com/valentyn_ua/
Historical Linguistics Methodology
Academic papers available in Postscript, PDF, and Word97 formats.
http://www-cmll.concordia.ca/linguistics/h...
The Indo-European Language Family
Extensive collection of resources in historical Indo-European linguistics.
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedoc...
Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method
Lecture notes.
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/lingui...
Linguistics: Historical Linguistics
A light-hearted discussion of Indo-European and other linguistics topics, from the staff in the Linguistics Program at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA, USA).
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/hi...
Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics
Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/hl.html
Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages
Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages.
http://www.dabis.at/Anwender.htm/Alscher/a...
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."
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/lin...
Introduction to Historical Linguistics
A brief summary of the subject of comparative linguistics.
http://www.mit.edu/~ejhanna/language/histl...
Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net
Two software applications to aid glottochronological & lexostatistical analysis.
http://phaseit.net/claird/sci.anthropology...
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.
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/docum...
Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction
The relation of place names to inter-tribal relations.
http://www.etext.org/Politics/World.System...
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.
http://starling.rinet.ru/Intrab.htm
English from the 7th to the 18th c.
An attempt at a very brief outline of the history of English by Tuba Ince.
http://www.ingilish.com/orofeng.htm
Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics
For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course.
http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/hoe/psch...
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