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Definitions of historical:
  • adjective:   having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary
    Example: "The historical Jesus"
  • adjective:   of or relating to the study of history
    Example: "Historical scholars"
  • adjective:   belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past
    Example: "Historical (or historic) times"
  • adjective:   used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time



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phonology grammar semantics indo-european-languages historical-linguistics language-family comparative-linguistics speech-community etymology 18th-century philology comparative-method internal-reconstruction uralic austronesian-languages native-american-languages ferdinand-de-saussure descriptive-linguistics gramophone-3 title-page sociolinguistics origin-of-language mass-lexical-comparison proto-indo-europeans genetic-linguistics germanic-philology lexicostatistics-3 glottochronology-2 indo-europeanist afro-asiatic-languages language-change paleolinguistics protolanguage journal-of-language-and-linguistics list-of-languages-by-first-written-accounts august-schleicher brugmann-karl berthold-delbr-ck grundri-der-vergleichenden-grammatik-der-indogermanischen-sprachen winfred-p-lehmann larry-trask antoine-meillet indo-european rudolf-thurneysen leonard-bloomfield synchronic roman-jakobson indian-languages phonetics anthropology breaking-linguistics daughter-language linguistics race