Category:Historical linguistics

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The main article for this category is Historical linguistics.

Broadly Historical linguistics covers the elements of the historical linguistics, language variation and change, and language histories, including the specific fields of study

Linguistic prehistory

  • Indo-European linguistic prehistory
  • Methods of linguistic prehistory
  • Linguistic prehistory limitations

Linguistic change

  • Early theories
  • Internal and external causes
  • Interaction of causal factors

Sound change

  • Non-phonemic (Allophonemic) changes
  • Phonemic changes
  • General sound changes
  • Common sound changes
  • Relative chronology
  • Chain shifts

Borrowing

  • Cultural inferences

Analogical changes

  • Proportional Analogy
  • Analogical levelling
  • Analogical extension
  • Analogy and sound change
  • Analogical models
  • Other analogies

Comparative method

  • Regularity of sound change
  • Basic assumptions

Linguistic reconstruction

  • Proto-languages

Linguistic classification

  • Language families
    • Sub-grouping
  • Terminology
  • Glottochronology (Lexicostatistics)

Models of linguistic change

  • Family-tree model
  • Dialectology (Linguistic geography)
  • Wave theory
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Lexical diffusion

Internal reconstruction

  • Relative chronology

Syntactic change

  • Mechanisms of syntactic change
  • Reanalysis and extension
  • Generative approaches
  • Grammaticalisation
  • Syntactic reconstruction

Semantic change

Lexical change

Areal linguistics

  • Linguistic areas

Distant genetic relationships

  • Lexical comparison
  • Sound correspondences
  • Grammatical evidence
  • Borrowing
  • Semantic constraints
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Nursery forms
  • Short forms and unmatched segments
  • Chance similarities
  • Sound-meaning isomorphism
  • Only linguistic evidence
  • Erroneous morphological analysis
  • Non-cognates
  • Spurious forms

Philology

  • Role of writing
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