Historical linguistics

For more information, see 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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