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Studying Language Typology by Means of Corpora - The use of corpora in the study of Old English.
Comparative Lexicostatistics - A brief history and bibliography of key works.
Language Universals - An overview of language universals: semantic, phonological, and syntactic, as well as absolute universals.

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Comparative linguistics - Comparative linguistics (originally comparative philology) is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages in order to establish their historical relatedness. Languages may be related by convergence through borrowing or by genetic descent.
The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics - The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics is an international
Comparative method - The comparative method (in comparative linguistics) is a technique used by linguists to demonstrate genetic relationships between languages. It aims to prove that two or more historically attested languages are descended from a single proto-language by comparing lists of cognate terms.
Pseudoscientific language comparison - Pseudoscientific language comparison is a form of pseudoscience that seeks to establish historical connections between languages by pointing out similarities between them. While comparative linguistics also studies the historical relationships of languages, linguistic comparisons are considered pseudoscientific by linguists when they are not based on the established practices of comparative linguistics as well as the more general principles of the scientific method.
Kiyozō Kazama - born 8 December 1928 in Tokyo is a Japanese professor of comparative linguistics, specializing in Latin and Greek, and emeritus professor at Tokyo University. He studied comparative grammar under Kōzu Harushige at the department of linguistics at Tokyo University, and graduated in 1952.