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Historical linguistics

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• Historical lexicology
• Language obsolescence
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• Language and languages -- History

• 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)
• Language (partial 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• The English Language: From Sound to Sense (c2010), by Gerald Patrick Delahunty and James J. Garvey (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• University of California Publications in Linguistics (partial serial archives)
• The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (1982), by Per Linell (PDF with commentary in Sweden)
• Introduzione Agli Elementi di Glottologia (in Italian; Bologna: N. Zanichelli, 1922), by Alfredo Trombetti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Language and War: Letter to a Friend Concerning Stalin's Article on Linguistics (Yonkers, NY: The author, c1950), by Earl Browder (page images at HathiTrust)

• Developments in Linguistics and Semiotics, Language Teaching and Learning, Communication Across Cultures (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1986; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1987), ed. by Simon P. X. Battestini (PDF at Georgetown)
• Contemporary Perceptions of Language: Interdisciplinary Dimensions (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1982; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1982), ed. by Heidi Byrnes (PDF at Georgetown)
• Semantics: Theory and Application (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1976; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1976), ed. by Cléa Rameh, contrib. by Winfred P. Lehmann, Jorge Hankamer, Ray Jackendoff, Geoffrey N. Leech, Barbara Hall Partee, Oswald Werner, Martin D. Topper, Chuck Rieger, Gilbert Harman, Alfonso Caramazza, Ellen Grober, Frances M. Aid, Milton Mariano Azevedo, Christopher Candlin, and Ragnhild Söderbergh (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fifteenth Annual (First International) Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1964), ed. by C. I. J. M. Stuart (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fourteenth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Robert J. Di Pietro (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report Of The Thirteenth Annual Round Table Meeting On Linguistics And Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Elisabeth Delorme Woodworth and Robert J. Di Pietro (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Twelfth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Michael Zarechnak (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Eleventh Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1960), ed. by Bernard Choseed and Allene Guss Grognet (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Seventh Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1956), ed. by Paul L. Garvin (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Sixth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1955), ed. by Ruth Hirsch (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fifth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1954), ed. by Hugo J. Mueller (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report on The Second Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1951), ed. by John DeFrancis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Third Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1952), ed. by Salvatore J. Castiglione (PDF at Georgetown)

• The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology (originally published 1996; this edition Berlin: Language Science Press, c2016), by Carson T. Schütze (PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org)

• Annual Review of Linguistics (partial serial archives)
• Linguistics (partial serial archives)
• Linguistica (Slovenian journal) (partial serial archives)
• Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics (2016-) (full serial archives)
• The Linguistics Journal (issues from 2006-2013 freely readable online) (partial serial archives)

• Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language, by Rens Bod (PDF at Stanford)

• Essentials of Linguistics (2018), by Catherine Anderson (multiple formas with commentary at PressBooks)

• Anaphora and Quantification in Situation Semantics, by Jean Mark Gawron and Stanley Peters (PDF at Stanford)

• Time, Tense, and the Verb: A Study in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, With Particular Attention to Spanish (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968), by William Emerson Bull (page images at HathiTrust)

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