Dear Colleague,

The literature is vast. If you wish to focus on criticism, articles by Don Ringe (with various coauthors) may be useful. On a different note, the book "Historical Linguistics and Lexicostatistics"  ed. by V.V. Shevoroshkin and Paul Sidwell (Melbourne, 1999) could provide you with food for thought (especially the chapters by Sergei Starostin, Harald Sverdrup).

I attach a paper which contains relevant details of the maths applied in the revised version of glottochronology (my co-author, V. Blazek is the mathematician :-)).

Hope, this helps.

Best regards,

Irén H.

Dear Hegedűs

It was very helpful. Thanks for your answer.

Dear Colleague,

I took a course in Historical and Comparative Linguistics last semester. Below, you can find the materials that were covered during the course. 

Note: Please let me know if you cannot find any of them. I would be more than happy to share the files with you. ( I have them in PDFs)

I hope this helps!

Best, 

Khadeejah Alaslani 

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Text: Language History, Language Change and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics, by H.H. Hock and B.D. Joseph. De Gruyter, Berlin, 2009.

Additional readings:

Appel, Rene and Muysken, Pieter. 1987. Language contact and language change. In, Appel, Rene and Muysken, Pieter, Language Contact and Bilingualism, 153-163. Edward Arnold, London.

Bybee, Joan 2003. Mechanisms of change in grammaticalization: the role of frequency. In, Joseph, Brian and Janda, Richard (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 602-623. Blackwell, Malden.

Bynon, Theodora. 1977. Historical Linguistics, Introduction, 1-14. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Casson, Ronald W. 1994. Russett, rose, and raspberry: the development of English secondary color terms. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 4:1, 5-22.

Chang, Will, Cathcart, Chundra, Hall, David and Garrett, Andrew. 2015. Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis. Language 91:1, 194-244.

Clark, Lynn and Trousdale, Graeme. 2009. Exploring the role of token frequency in phonological change: evidence from TH-fronting in east-central Scotland. English Language and Linguistics 13:1, 33-55.

Crowley, Terry. 1992. Language contact. In Crowley, Terry, An Introduction to Historical Linguistics, 253-283. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Culbertson, Jennifer. 2010. Convergent evidence for categorial change in French: from subject clitic to agreement marker. Language 86:1, 82-132.

Denison, David. 2003. Log(ist)ic and simplistic S-curves. In, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), Motives for Language Change, 54-70. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Dunn, Michael, Levinson, Stephen, Lingström Eva, Reesink, Ger and Terrill, Angela. 2008. Structural phylogeny in historical linguistics: methodological explorations applied in Island Melanesia. Language 84:4, 710-759.

Guy, Gregory and Boyd, Sally 1990. The development of a morphological class. Language Variation and Change 2, 1-18.

Guy, Gregory 2003. Variationaist approaches to phonological change. In, Joseph, Brian and Janda, Richard (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 369-400. Blackwell, Malden.

Hale, Mark 2003. Neogrammarian sound change. In, Joseph, Brian and Janda, Richard (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 343-368. Blackwell, Malden.

Harrison, S.P.2003. On the limits of the comparative method. In, Joseph, Brian and Janda, Richard (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 213-243. Blackwell, Malden.

Heine, Bernd 2003. Grammaticalization. In, Jospeh, Brian and Janda, Richard (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 575-601. Blackwell Publishing, Malden.

Hock, Hans Henrich 2003. Analogical change. In, Joseph, Brian and Janda, Richard (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 441-460. Blackwell, Malden.

John of Trevisa. 1387. The English language in 1385. In, Mossé, Fernand, 1952, A Handbook of Middle English (tr. James W. Walker), 285-289. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore.

King, Ruth, Martineau, France and Mougeon, Raymond. 2011. Language 87,3:470-509. The interplay of internal and external factors in grammatical change: first-person plural pronouns in French.

Labov, William. 2013. One hundred years of sound change in Philadelphia: linear incrementation, reversal, and reanalysis. Language 89:1, 30-65

Labov, William. 1972. The social motivation for a sound change. In Labov, William, 2

Sociolinguistic Patterns, 1-42. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.

Mackenzie, Ian and van der Wurff, Wim. 2012. Relic syntax in Middle English and Medieval Spanish: parameter interaction in language change. Language 88:4, 846-876.

Mahootian, Shahrzad. 2005. Linguistic change and social meaning: codeswitching in the media. International Journal of Bilingualism 9:3-4, 361-375.

Mallory, J.P. 1989. The discovery of the Indo-Europeans. In, In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth, chapter 1. Thames and Hudson, London.

Mallory, J.P. 1989. The Indo-European homeland problem. In, In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth, chapter 6. Thames and Hudson, London,.

McMahon, April 1994. Pidgins and creoles. In Understanding Language Change, chapter 10. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Ohala, John 2003. Phonetics and historical phonology. Joseph, Brian and Janda, Richard (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 669-686. Blackwell, Malden.

Ogura, Mieko. 2012. The timing of language change. In, Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel and Conde-Silvestre, Juan Camilo (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics, 427-450. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester.

Rankin, Robert 2003. The comparative method. In Joseph, Brian and Janda, Richard (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 183-212. Blackwell, Malden.

Ringe, Don 2003. Internal reconstruction. In, Joseph, Brian and Janda, Richard (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 244-261. Blackwell, Malden.

Roberts, Ian and Roussou, Anna 2003. Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Chapter 1, Chapter 2 pages 35-48.

Robinson, Laura C. and Holton, Gary. 2012. Internal classification of the Alor-Pantar language family using computational methods applied to the lexicon. Language Dynamics and Change 2, 123-149.

Romaine, Suzanne 1989. The role of children in linguistic change. In Breivik, Leiv (ed.), Language Change: Contributions to the Study of Its Causes, 199-225, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.

Saladino, Rosa 1990. Language shift in standard Italian and dialect: a case study. Language Variation and Change 2: 57-70.

Sankoff, Gillian and Blondeau, Hélène 2007. Language change across the lifespan: /r/ in Montreal French. Language 83:3, 560-588.

Stuart-Smith, Jane, Timmins, Claire, Pryce, Gwilym and Gunter, Barrie. 2013. Television can also be a factor in language change. Language 89:3, 501-536.

Thomason, Sarah Grey 2003. Contact as a source of language change. In, Joseph, Brian and Janda, Richard (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 687-712. Blackwell, Malden.

Watkins, Calvert (1970). Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: lexicon and culture. American Heritage Dictionary, 1992 edition, 2081-2089.

Wierzbicka, Anna 1994. Semantic universals and primitive thought: the question of the psychic unity of humankind. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 4,1: 23-49.

Williams, Joseph 1992. “O! When degree is shak’d”: Sixteenth-century anticipations of some modern attitudes toward usage. In Machan, Tim and Scott, Charles (eds), English in Its Social Contexts: Essays in Historical Sociolinguistics, Oxford University Press, New York, 60-101.

Wolfram, Walt and Schilling-Estes, Natalie 2003. Dialectology and linguistic diffusion. In Joseph, Brian and Janda, Richard (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Blackwell, Malden, 713-735.

Wolfram, Walt and Schilling-Estes, Natalie 2003. Gender and language variation. In American English, chapter 7. Blackwell, Malden.

"Television can also be a factor in language change"

That is the most magnificent gem of meek understatement I've seen in a long time.