Historical and Comparative Linguistics
The study of language in change.
At LUCL, the field of Historical and Comparative Linguistics covers a wide range of approaches that all have in common that they study language in change.
- Researchers in the Comparative Indo-European Linguistics group study and compare the ancient Indo-European languages in order to reconstruct a prehistoric ancestor language.
- Those in the field of Historical Linguistics and Philology study older stages of literary languages and reconstruct non-Indo-European prehistoric ancestor languages.
News
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One language = one archaeological culture? Peruvian evidence for a richer interface between language and archaeology
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A Luwian song in Old Hittite and its relevance for the study of negation compounds
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Modality without moods? Preliminary considerations for a systematic study of modal strategies in Hittite
