Historical linguistics, as opposed to the history of linguistics, is the study, reconstruction, theoretical explication and modelling of language change over time. It is the linguistic counterpart of (diachronic) cultural anthropology, cultural or...

Subdiscipline of general linguistics concerned with developing a theory of language change in general or of a specific language. This comprises, among others, the following subareas: (a) representation of the origins and development of individual...

1 Totality of all linguistic changes in time (internal language history) while also considering external factors such as political history, cultural influences, social changes, territorial changes, language contact, etc. (external language history). 2...

Description of the individual historical stages of a language as well as the representation of the historical relationships between individual languages. The most comprehensive historical grammars of Indo-European and its daughter languages were...

Historical linguistics (also called diachronic linguistics) is the study of language change. It has five main...