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Comparative linguistics

Here are entered works which compare languages or groups of languages for the specific purpose of determining their common origin, or discuss the method of their comparison, as represented by 19th century comparative philology and its subsequent developments. Works which compare or contrast two or more languages with the aim of finding principles which can be applied to practical problems in language teaching and translation are entered under the heading Contrastive linguistics.

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• Historical linguistics

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• Comparative philology
• Philology, Comparative

• 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)

• Emerita (in Spanish; 1933-) (partial serial archives)
• Language (partial serial archives)
• Atene e Roma (in Italian) (partial serial archives)
• Actes de la Société Philologique (partial serial archives)

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

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

• 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)

• 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)