Historische Sprachforschung is an annual peer-reviewed

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 covering Indo-European

Indo-European studies

Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. Its goal is to amass information about the hypothetical proto-language from which all of these languages are descended, a language dubbed Proto-Indo-European , and its speakers, the...

 historical linguistics

Historical linguistics

Historical linguistics is the study of language change. It has five main concerns:* to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages...

. It was established by Adalbert Kuhn in 1852 as the Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung (Journal of Comparative Linguistics; colloquially referred to as Kuhns Zeitschrift) and obtained its present title in 1988. It is the second oldest linguistics journal still in publication and subsumes the former Beiträge zur vergleichenden Sprachforschung or Kuhn-Schleichlers Beiträge (1852-1874) and the Beiträge zur Kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen or Bezzenbergers Beiträge (1877-1906).

The current editors-in-chief are Alfred Bammesberger (Catholic University of Eichstätt), Olav Hackstein, and Sabine Ziegler. The journal is published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

External links

Index of Kuhns Zeitschrift 1-100

• Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung, available online: 1 (1852), 1 (1852), 2 (1853), 2 (1853), 3 (1854), 3 (1854), 4 (1855), 5 (1856), 5 (1856) 6 (1857), 6 (1857), 7 (1858), 8 (1859), 8 (1859), 9 (1860), 10 (1861), 10 (1861)11 (1862), (1863), 12 (1863), 12 (1863), 13 (1864), 13 (1864), 14 (1865), 14 (1865), 14 (1865), 15 (1865), 15 (1866), 15 (1866), 16 (1867), 16 (1867), 17 (1868), 17 (1868), 18.1 (1868), 19 (1870), 20 (1872), Gesamtregister 11-20 (1874), 21(1) (1873), 22(2) (1874), 23 (1877), 27(7) (1885), 32(17) (1900), 40(20) (1907), 41 (1907), 41 (1907)