Collinge N.E. Collectanea linguistica: Essays in General and Genetic Linguistics

Mouton, 1970. — 224 p. — (Janua linguarum: Series minor 21).Historical linguistics and general linguistics have had a long divorce this century, though overtures of rapprochement have been more frequent recently. But they do each other so much good as to outweigh the feeling among general theorists that historical study is no more than a minute subdivision of the general field, and the delusion of some historians that they alone touch reality. These essays have a foot in both doors. If they seem merely programmatic, that is because they seek only to provoke thought, not codify it. If not everywhere is there great depth, shallow waters at least run wide.Phonetic Shifts and Phonemic Asymmetries
Pattern in Linguistics
Names and Resistance to Sound Shifts
Prehistory via Language: Some Guidelines
The Indo-European Laryngeal
Some Reflexions on Comparative Historical Syntax
Linguistic Models: A Historian’s Use (I)
Linguistic Models: A Historian’s Use (II)
Computation and Latin Consonants