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A possible homeland of the Indo-European languages
http://www.hjholm.de
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

Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics
http://www.ancientscripts.com/hl.html
Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list.

Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net
http://phaseit.net/claird/sci.anthropology/index.html
Two software applications to aid glottochronological & lexostatistical analysis.

Chronology: History of English
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/chron.html
"Chronology of Events in the History of English" summarizing the emergence and evolution of the language spanning 5 millenia.

Corpora and Historical Linguistics
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/corpus4/4hist.htm
"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."

Encyclopedia.com - Grimm's law
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/g/grimmsla.asp
The principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822.

English from the 7th to the 18th c.
http://www.ingilish.com/orofeng.htm
An attempt at a very brief outline of the history of English by Tuba Ince.

Genetic Distance and Language Affinities
http://www.friesian.com/trees.htm
Between Autochthonous Human Populations.

Grimm's Law
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~clunis/wow/grimm/
A demonstration of the law.

Historical Linguistics Methodology
http://www-cmll.concordia.ca/linguistics/hale/mypapers.html
Academic papers available in Postscript, PDF, and Word97 formats.

History of the English Language
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html
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.

Indin
http://www.geocities.com/valentyn_ua/
Independent investigations into the history of the Indo-European languages and peoples (by Valentyn Stetsyuk). Includes Turkic and Finno-Ugric material.

Indo-European and the Comparative Method
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/PIE.html
Everything you ever wanted to know about Proto-Indo-European (and the comparative method), but were afraid to ask.

Introduction to Historical Linguistics
http://www.mit.edu/~ejhanna/language/histlang.html
A brief summary of the subject of comparative linguistics.

Kjell Gustafson's homepage - Historical Linguistics
http://www.speech.kth.se/~kjellg/kg_historical_linguistics.htm
An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines.

Lehmann's Reader: A Reader in Nineteenth Century Historical Indo-European Linguistics
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-docs/lehmann/reader/reader.html
Anthology of important works of nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics, edited and translated by W. P. Lehmann, 1967.

Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesianae
http://soltdm.tripod.com/home.htm
Philological Thracology. A Traco-Dacian Thesaurus, a few articles and links.

Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction
http://www.etext.org/Politics/World.Systems/papers/working_papers:johns_hopkins_pcid/chase-dunn_hokan
The relation of place names to inter-tribal relations.

Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages
http://www.dabis.at/Anwender.htm/Alscher/afroasia.htm
Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages.

Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics
http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/hoe/pschousboe.htm
For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course.

Sergei Starostin's Etymological Databases
http://starling.rinet.ru/Intrab.htm
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
http://www.takeourword.com/
Weekly etymology magazine.

The Computational Historical Linguistics Project
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~histling/
A joint research project of the Computer and Information Science Department and the Linguistics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Controversy over the Word 'Squaw'
http://www.tomjonas.com/squawpeak/squaw.htm
The definition of the word 'squaw' and its corruption by the American Indian Movement.

The Great Vowel Shift Web Site
http://www.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/
An interactive introduction to the Great Vowel Shift, a major sound change in the English language. Includes sound and animation.

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