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Historical Linguistics Methodology  - http://www-cmll.concordia.ca/linguistics/hale/mypapers.html  Academic papers available in Postscript, PDF, and Word97 formats.  What Has a Hippo in Common With a Feather?  - http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/hippo.html  Historical linguistics and etymology.  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."  Genetic Distance and Language Affinities  - http://www.friesian.com/trees.htm  Between Autochthonous Human Populations.  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.  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.  Grimm's Law  - http://www-personal.umich.edu/~clunis/wow/grimm/  A demonstration of the law.  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.  Take Our Word for It  - http://www.takeourword.com/  Weekly etymology magazine.  Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins  - http://www.wordorigins.org/  Etymological site offers a brief history of the English language, discussion boards and a search feature.  The Indo-European Language Family  - http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-lg/ie-lg.html  Extensive collection of resources in historical Indo-European linguistics.  Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics  - http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/hoe/pschousboe.htm  For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course.  Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics  - http://www.ancientscripts.com/hl.html  Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list.  Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages  - http://www.dabis.at/Anwender.htm/Alscher/afroasia.htm  Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages.  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.  Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method  - http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/linguistics/lectures/05lect21.html  Lecture notes.  The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process  - http://www.sumerian.org/prot-sum.htm  Eleven-page paper describing how the early Sumerians invented their language, with a complete lexicon of the first words in their language.  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.  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.  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.  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.  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.  Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesianae  - http://soltdm.tripod.com/home.htm  Philological Thracology. A Traco-Dacian Thesaurus, a few articles and links.  Introduction to Historical Linguistics  - http://www.mit.edu/~ejhanna/language/histlang.html  A brief summary of the subject of comparative linguistics.  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.  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.  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  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.