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The 135 pages that link to Historical linguistics, each with the reason it gives.

• LexicostatisticsNarrower topic: Lexicostatistics arose as a quantitative approach within this broader field.

• Oxford English DictionaryNarrower topic: Its dated word evidence can support research on changes in English.

• Language divergenceNarrower topic: It provides the methods for tracing divergence across generations.

• Myazedi inscriptionNarrower topic: Its parallel versions enable comparisons among language histories in medieval Myanmar.

• Nilotic peoplesNarrower topic: It supplies methods for assessing Nilotic language relationships and reconstructed histories.

• Proto-Polynesian languageNarrower topic: Proto-Polynesian is a central object of historical linguistic reconstruction.

• Slavic second palatalizationNarrower topic: The palatalization is reconstructed by tracing sound patterns across Slavic history.

• Bartholomae's lawNarrower topic: The law is a proposed regular change reconstructed from language history.

• Morris SwadeshNarrower topic: This field encompasses Swadesh’s work on language change and relationships.

• Na-Dene languagesNarrower topic: The family is a historical classification built from systematic linguistic comparison.

• Nilotic languagesNarrower topic: Nilotic classification depends on evidence about language change and descent.

• MonophthongizationNarrower topic: Monophthongization helps identify sound correspondences and trace vowel histories.

• Slavic third palatalizationNarrower topic: The third palatalization is a reconstructed historical sound change.

• Sun Language TheoryNarrower topic: Its claims can be assessed against the comparative methods of historical linguistics.

• EpenthesisNarrower topic: Epenthetic sounds can become established through repeated historical sound change.

• Evolutionary linguisticsNarrower topic: Its methods reconstruct language histories, though they cannot directly reach language’s first origins.

• HaplologyNarrower topic: Haplology is a recurring sound change reconstructed from differences among historical forms.

• Johanna NicholsNarrower topic: Her work uses structural evidence to investigate deep linguistic history.

• Lyle CampbellNarrower topic: This field frames Campbell’s research on language history and family relationships.

• Otto JespersenNarrower topic: Jespersen examined language change and proposed accounts of its direction.

• Proto-Indo-European mythologyNarrower topic: It tests whether religious words and names descend from a common source.

• Wackernagel's lawNarrower topic: The law originated as a claim about a recurring historical pattern.

• Zhang BinglinNarrower topic: His reconstruction of ancient sounds applied historical methods to the Chinese language.

• Alexander VovinNarrower topic: This is the discipline through which Vovin investigated language history and contact.

• History of EnglishNarrower topic: It provides the methods used to reconstruct and explain English's past.

• History of linguisticsNarrower topic: It is the field whose methods and theories form a major thread in this history.

• Lachmann's lawNarrower topic: Lachmann's law is reconstructed through regular sound correspondences and morphological comparison.

• LexicologyNarrower topic: Lexical change is one part of language change more broadly.

• Monophthongization of diphthongs in Proto-SlavicNarrower topic: Reconstructing the change relies on methods of historical linguistic comparison.

• North Caucasian languagesNarrower topic: Its comparative methods underpin claims about the grouping's family relationships.

• Osthoff's lawNarrower topic: Osthoff's law is used to explain historical changes in vowel quantity.

• Phonological history of EnglishNarrower topic: It supplies methods for inferring pronunciation from written and comparative evidence.

• Ruki sound lawNarrower topic: The law is a case study in reconstructing sound change from descendant languages.