Historische Sprachforschung

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| title = {{Lang|de|Historische Sprachforschung}} / Historical Linguistics

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| editor = Martin Kümmel, Olav Hackstein, Sabine Ziegler

| discipline = Indo-European historical linguistics

| language = English, French, German

| abbreviation =Hist. Sprachforsch.

| formernames = Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung

| publisher = Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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| frequency = Annually

| history = 1852-present

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| website = http://www.v-r.de/de/redirect/z/500012/

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| JSTOR = 09353518

| OCLC = 237226312

| LCCN = 89642899

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| ISSN = 0935-3518

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{{Lang|de|Historische Sprachforschung}} / Historical Linguistics is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering Indo-European historical linguistics. It is the second oldest linguistics journal still in publication.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} The current editors-in-chief are Martin Kümmel (University of Jena), Olav Hackstein, and Sabine Ziegler. The journal is published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

History

The journal was originally established by Adalbert Kuhn in 1852, and consequently known colloquially as {{Lang|de|Kuhns Zeitschrift}} ({{Lang|fr|Journal de Kuhn}}, 'Kuhn's Journal'). Its official name was {{Lang|de|Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete des Deutschen, Griechischen und Lateinischen}} ({{lit|Magazine for Comparative Linguistics Research on German, Greek, and Latin}}) from 1852 to 1874. For most of this period, it ran in parallel to its sister publication {{Lang|de|Beiträge zur vergleichenden Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der arischen, celtischen und slawischen Sprachen}} ('Articles for Comparative Linguistics Research on the Aryan, Celtic, and Slavic Languages', known colloquially at {{Lang|de|Kuhn-Schleichlers Beiträge}}), which existed from 1858 to 1876.R.D. Fulk, [https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027263131 A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages], Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 3 (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2018), {{doi|10.1075/sigl.3}}, {{ISBN|978 90 272 6312 4}}, p. 338. {{Open access}}

In 1877, the publications merged with each other and with {{Lang|de|Beiträge zur Kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen}} ('Articles for the Science of Indo-European Languages', known colloquially as {{Lang|de|Bezzenbergers Beiträge}}, 1877–1906) as {{Lang|de|Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der indogermanischen Sprachen}} ('Magazine for Comparative Linguistics Research on the Indo-European Languages'). This title persisted until 1967.

From 1968 to 1987, the journal was called {{Lang|de|Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung}} ('Journal of Comparative Linguistics').

It obtained its present title in 1988.

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