Q: HL textbook

[John Hewson]

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On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Larry Trask wrote:
 
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> Does anybody know of a university-level textbook of historical
> linguistics earlier than W. P. Lehmann's 1962 textbook?
 
There was a general introduction for undergraduates published by the Welsh
scholar T. Hudson-Williams that in its own way was a little gem. It
tabulated much of the data from Meillet's _Introduction_.
 
        T. Hudson-Williams. 1935. A Short Introduction to the Study of
                Comparative Grammar (Indo-European) (Reprinted 1951).
                Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
 
 
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