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    Posted: 26-Jan-2008 at 18:43
This is a very awesome topic King John.
 
With something as dynamic as language it would be interesting to learn the effects of various influences and why certain aspects are easily abandoned while others survive. Also, how language can reflect change in a culture and possible inferences we can make from identifying key elements (like a middle-range approach).
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Originally posted by King John

I would be using this in conjunction with my historical research. I plan to have historical linguistics as an outside field when I do my PhD.
 
Wow, this is a new development!  It will go well with your interest in English law.  Remember when we read Brian Stock's Listening for the Text?  Although it smacks of postmodernism, some of his other works seem to deal with historical linguistics and methods of interpretation.
 
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I would be using this in conjunction with my historical research. I plan to have historical linguistics as an outside field when I do my PhD.
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That would be interesting, but it's a pretty narrow field. For access to sources you might find http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook-law.html#ENGLISH%20LAW  useful.
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Originally posted by Flipper

Hi King John!Can you specify what you mean with historical linguistics? Like Hesychius for example who compiled dictionaries?


That would be one aspect of Historical linguistics, that is comparing dictionaries and grammars from certain periods of time to other dictionaries and grammars from another period of time to see how the language has changed. Another aspect of historical linguistics is the study of languages and how they relate using morphological and phonological examples to show similarities and common ancestry.

The way I envision using it for my research is to look at the changes in word usage in legal documents over a few hundred years in England and the North Sea countries (Denmark, Norway, etc.).
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The classic writer with regard to Indo-European languages was always Antoine Meillet, but I read him in French. There are translations of various works available on Amazon though, and presumably in libraries.
 
For a look at an unusual aspect of language development you might like Gasparov's A History of European Versification. It concentrates on the development of verse forms, but they reflect of course the development of the underlying languages.
 
And there is always the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language for general overview and a collection of facts as well as a reasonably objective summary of opinions and theories.


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Aaah, ok! Thank you! That is indeed an interresting field.


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Flipper, AFAIK the historical linguistics is the branch which studies how and why the languages change.
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Posts: 1813 		  Quote Flipper Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21-Jan-2008 at 11:20
Hi King John!
Can you specify what you mean with historical linguistics? Like Hesychius for example who compiled dictionaries?


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Posts: 1366 		  Quote King John Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Jan-2008 at 22:35
Personally I am a big fan of the "Linguistic Turn" in Historiography I am curious if there are any people here who are interested in Historical Linguistics? This is an area that I have very recently gotten into and would like some suggestions as to what would be best to read in this area.
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