Blog #8: Historical Linguistics
Blog #8: Historical Linguistics (Nordquist). Introduction: Historical linguistics sounds more complicated than it is, I promise! It's just a fancy way of talking about the history of linguistics, and the study of that specific topic. How did languages change over time? WAIITTT! The study of linguistics changes? *audible gasp* I know, it's crazy, but stay with me here. Before moving on, today's sources are "Historical Linguistics introduction" by Dr. Mohsin Khan, "What Is Historical Linguistics?" by Richard Nordquist, and "Why does diachronic linguistics matter?" by David Mortensen. As always, I'm an extremely picky person, and these sources were not just run of the mill first-results-choices. Nordquist is an old friend to this blog, so upon finding his article on historical linguistics in page 3 or 4 of the Google search results, I picked him up as a reliable source. Dr. Mohsin Khan was a more obscure source in later pages of Google, ...
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