One Day Short Story

“You won’t want to head there,” the storekeeper in Yucca, had told me in her dialect. “The trail is challenging and I doubt your metal contraption you call a car can survive it. Plus, there is only one person I heard of that lives there, and he won’t be of much help since he doesn’t … Read more

History of Historical Linguistics

?History of historical linguistics Modern historical linguistics dates from the late 18th century and grew out of the earlier discipline of philology, the study of ancient texts and documents, which goes back to antiquity. At first historical linguistics was comparative linguistics and mainly concerned with establishing language families and the reconstruction of prehistoric proto-languages, using … Read more