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Historical lexicology

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• Historical linguistics
• Lexicology

• Language and languages -- Etymology

• A Book of the Beginnings (2 volumes; London: Williams and Norgate, 1881), by Gerald Massey
  • Volume I (Egyptian Origines in the British Isles): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Egyptian Origines in the Hebrew, Akkado-Assyrian and Maori): multiple formats at archive.org

• Ka: A Handbook of Mythology, Sacred Practices, Electrical Phenomena, and Their Linguistic Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean World, by Hugh Crosthwaite, contrib. by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)

• Names (full serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Letters as Loot: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2014), by Gijsbert Johan Rutten and M. J. van der Wal (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Directions for Historical Linguistics: A Symposium (c1968), ed. by Winfred P. Lehmann and Yakov Malkiel (HTML at Texas)

• Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Linguistic Variation and Change (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1988; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1989), ed. by Thomas Joseph Walsh (PDF at Georgetown)

• Bulletin des Séances de la Société Philologique, by Société philologique (partial serial archives)

• Emerita (in Spanish; 1933-) (partial serial archives)
• Literator (South African journal of literary studies, criticism, and linguistics, in English and Afrikaans; 1980-) (full serial archives)
• Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Atene e Roma (in Italian) (partial serial archives)
• Actes de la Société Philologique (partial serial archives)
• Language (partial serial archives)
• Anglia (partial serial archives)

• Bulletin des Séances de la Société Philologique, by Société philologique (partial serial archives)

• Laboratory Phonology (2010-) (full serial archives)

• On the Science of Language and Its Study, With Special Regard to South Africa: Address Delivered by Theophilus Hahn, Esq. Ph.D., Colonial Philologist, at the South African Public Library, on Saturday, 29th April, 1882 (Cape Town, South Africa: H. Michaelis, 1882), by Theophilus Hahn
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Die Ungleichheit Menschlicher Rassen Hauptsächlich vom Sprachwissenschaftlichen Standpunkte, unter Besonderer Berücksichtigung von des Grafen von Gobineau Gleichnamigem Werke (in German; Lemgo and Detmold: Meyer, 1856), by August Friedrich Pott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Psycho-Biology of Language: An Introduction to Dynamic Philology (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1935), by George Kingsley Zipf (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Spanish to Portuguese (1971, with supplementary audio material and texts), by Jack Lee Ulsh (PDF and audio at livelingua.com)
• Quatre Lettres sur le Mexique: Exposition Absolue du Système Hiéroglyphique Mexicain; La Fin de Pȧge de Pierre; Époque Glaciaire Temporaire; Commencement De Pȧge de Bronze; Origines de la Civilisation Et des Religions de L'antiquité; (Collection de Documents Dans les Langues Indigenes v4, in French, with an English appendix by Rafinesque on the Lenape; Paris: F. Brachet; Mexico: Juan Buxo y Cia., 1868), by abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, contrib. by C. S. Rafinesque
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The World Atlas of Language Structures (free online edition), ed. by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at wals.info)

• Re-Awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2010), ed. by John Robert Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch, and Michael Walsh (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (third edition; Paris: UNESCO, 2010), ed. by Christopher Moseley (page images at Unesco)

• Patterns of Change in 18th-Century English: A Sociolinguistic Approach (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2018), ed. by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin, and Tanja Säily (PDF and Epub with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Letters as Loot: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2014), by Gijsbert Johan Rutten and M. J. van der Wal (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2007; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2009), ed. by Ronald P. Leow, Héctor Campos, and Donna Lardiere (PDF at Georgetown)

• Lexis (full serial archives)

• The Century Vocabulary Builder, by Garland Greever and Joseph M. Bachelor (Gutenberg text)

• The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz, illust. by Wallace Goldsmith
  • illustrated HTML at aaaugh.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Devil's Dictionary (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1911), by Ambrose Bierce (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Devil's Dictionary (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1911), by Ambrose Bierce
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at ambrosebierce.org

• The Teacher's Word Book of 30,000 Words (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, c1944), by Edward L. Thorndike and Irving Lorge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Teacher's Word Book (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1921), by Edward L. Thorndike (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Matteo Ricci and the Missionary Role in the Evolution of Chinese Lexicon (London and New York: Routledge, c2024), by Zhao Ming (multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)

• Vocabulary of Soviet Society and Culture: A Selected Guide to Russian Words, Idioms, and Expressions of the Post-Stalin Era, 1953-1991 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Irina H. Corten (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Few Practical Suggestions (Society for Pure English Tract #3; 1920), by Logan Pearsall Smith (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Boucher's Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words: A Supplement to the Dictionaries of the English Language, Particularly Those of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Webster (nothing further published after "Blade"; London: Printed for Black, Young, and Young, 1832-1833), by Jonathan Boucher, ed. by Joseph Hunter and Joseph Stevenson, contrib. by J. Odell
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, ed. by Catherine E. Snow, M. Susan Burns, and Peg Griffin (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Grammatical and Lexical Notes on the Keres Language (Acoma-Language Dialect) of the Keresan Stock (Hervas Laboratories of American Linguistics Bulletin #5; 1914), by Noxon Toomey (page images at HathiTrust)