Emily's Introduction to Historical Linguistics - A brief summary of the topic.

What Has a Hippo in Common With a Feather? - Historical linguistics and etymology.

The Computational Historical Linguistics Project - A joint research project of the Computer and Information Science Department and the Linguistics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction - The relation of place names to inter-tribal relations.

Corpora and Historical Linguistics - "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."

Historical Linguistics - HyperCard stacks (for Macintosh) on historical linguistics, Indo-European roots, comparative reconstruction, and Grimm's law.

Genetic Distance and Language Affinities - Between Autochthonous Human Populations.

Sergei Starostin's Etymological Databases - 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 - An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines.

LSA Fields of Linguistics - Language Variation and Change - by Sarah G. Thomason of the University of Pittsburgh.

The power of Greek words - The influence of Greek on other European languages.

Lehmann's Reader: A Reader in Nineteenth Century Historical Indo-European Linguistics - Anthology of important works of nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics, edited and translated by W. P. Lehmann, 1967.

Grimm's Law - A demonstration of the law.

Encyclopedia.com - Grimm's law - The principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822.

The Great Vowel Shift Web Site - This site is 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 - Weekly etymology magazine.

English Words from Hindu Mythology - Etymology of some Sanskrit and English words.

Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins - Etymological site offers a brief history of the English language, discussion boards and a search feature.

Chronology: History of English - "Chronology of Events in the History of English" summarizing the emergence and evolution of the language spanning 5 millenia.

The Indo-European Language Family - Extensive collection of resources in historical Indo-European linguistics.

Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net - Two software applications to aid glottochronological & lexostatistical analysis.

The Boy Who Followed the Moon - A fairy tale designed to demonstrate Grimm's law.

Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics - For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course.

Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics - Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list.

Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages - Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages.

Linguistics 450 - Language Reports - A collection of student papers from a historical linguistics class. Covers the histories of individual languages and that of language families.

Indo-European and the Comparative Method - 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 - Lecture notes.

The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process - Eleven-page paper describing how the early Sumerians invented their language, with a complete lexicon of the first words in their language.