Resources on Historical Linguistics
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Some basic resources on historical linguistics The language museum
– information and comparative vocabularies for a variety of language families Proto-Indo-European
demonstration and exhibition site Lehmann’s
Reader – On-line version of A Reader in Nineteenth CenturyHistorical
Indo-European Linguistics edited and translated by W.P. Lehmann A great
collection of writings in historical linguistics Ethnologue Hypercard stacks related to historical linguistics – study aids from Michael Barlow AncientScripts.com
historical linguistics page
– a brief introduction |
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Additional
resources on historical linguistics PEOPLES
AND LANGUAGES IN PRE-ISLAMIC INDUS VALLEY – an article by Tariq Rahman Linguasphere – a project to classify
all of the world’s languages Comparative
and Historical
linguistics articles from CogPrints Society for Mediaeval Languages and
Lingusitics includes
an exploration of Indo-European roots and practice with comparative
reconstruction Comparison
of Austronesian Languages Numbers in 4,000 languages –
interesting for comparisons across language families http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/language/ Comparative
Indo-European Data Corpus Isidore Dyen at the UPenn Language Data
Consortium Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary The Evolution of the Maltese
Language Links will go here |
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Resources on
the history of the English language Early Modern
English Dictionaries Database HEL - History
of the English Language homepage – a great resource with references on
various stages of the language and links to courses, HEL-List archives and
information on conferences and Old English Pages
– Electronic resources on Old English Middle English
Electronic Texts Collection from the University of Virginia See also the language and
linguistics pages at the Chaucer website at Harvard Melinda Menzer’s Great Vowel Shift page – with
audio samples of the sounds involved See also Bill Roger’s site for an overview
of the history of English
phonemes English words borrowed from Arabic Origin of phrases – a
fun site about the origins of English phrases OED On-line X-Refer
on linguistic borrowing – a
long list of English borrowings and their probably source languages H. W. Fowler’s The King’s English – a
prescriptive grammar from 1908 1811
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University
Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence (updated after 1811), ed. by Francis Grose and
Robert Cromie A Dissolving View
of Punctuation by Wendell Phillips Garrison an article published in The
Atlantic in 1906 about the language was in decline 100 years ago. H.L.
Mencken’s The American Language –
An Inquiry into the development of English in the United States from 1921 Notes
on the origins of some prescriptive rules of Standard English from Pyles and
Algeo’s book The
origins and development of the English language |
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Links related to
long-range comparison The Nostratic
macrofamily – basic introduction to the Nostratic theory by Ilya Yakubovich An
introduction to Nostratic
with links Ural-Altaic, Dravidian,
Sumerian Languages papers trying to show relationships between these
families as well as others, some dubious things like Penutian/Urgic
comparative wordlists. Deriving Proto-World with Tools You
Probably Have at Home Also,
an article about chance
resemblances between languages Where
do languages come from? by Merrit Ruhlen an interactive article on historical
linguistics, particularly mass comparison. The Tower of Babel Project –
a project attempting to reconstruct “Proto-World” |
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Indo-European
linguistics is conscpicuously contrived counterfeit science by Edo Nyland
see also his page of Linguistic
References including an article Classifying the world’s
languages – a possible new approach arguing that all of the world’s
lanaguages descended from a language called Saharan (“the first highly evolved and
invented language on earth”) The
MacroEusian Homepage– by Glen Gordon“MacroEusian is a partial
acronym for some of its proposed daughter languages, namely, Etruscan,
Uralic, Sumerian, IndoEuropean and Altaic
(spelling out EUSIA), as well as EskAleut, Yukaghir and Dravidian
which all seem to be more closely related” includes a discussion of
MacroEusian grammar |
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A
twisted view of The History of
the English Language by Owen Alun and Brendan O'Corraidhe (actually written
by Corrie Bergeron and Ben Tucker) posted for Michael Pemberton’s course on
Descriptive English Grammar at the University of Illinois The sound change applier – a computer
program that applies a set of sound changes to a lexicon Page
on the Rosetta
Stone from KidsKonnect.com |