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Historical Linguistics by R.L. Trask and My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar came today. The linguistics book is full of pink highlighting tape, but I've been waiting for it for so long that I don't even care.
... general linguistics texts), is to get familiar with the nomenclature that linguistics writers are more likely to use. For historical linguistics, according to my little intro to historical linguistics by Herbert Schendl, there is a recommendation of looking at Lyle Campbell's Historica ...