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Historical linguistics and etymology.
"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."
Between Autochthonous Human Populations.
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.
An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines.
Anthology of important works of nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics, edited and translated by W. P. Lehmann, 1967.
A demonstration of the law.
An interactive introduction to the Great Vowel Shift, a major sound change in the English language. Includes sound and animation.
Weekly etymology magazine.
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