Roger Lass offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics.

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical lin

This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia. Fr

Historical and comparative linguistics has been a major scholarly discipline for 200 years, and yet this is the first dictionary ever devoted to it. With nearly

This accessible, hands-on text not only introduces students to the important topicsin historical linguistics but also shows them how to apply the methods descri