Preface

Abstract

The volume Historical Issues in Hamito-Semitic and Indo-European Languages is a collection of nine articles presented at the scientific session SIEHL (Session on Indo-European Historical Linguistics) organized annually in the Department of Language History at the Institute of English, Faculty of Philology, University of Silesia in Katowice. Overall, SIEHL is dedicated to issues related to broadly understood history of language, and in particular the history of Indo-European languages discussed both from the diachronic and synchronic perspective. Each year, the session has a different guiding theme and it aims not only at creating an opportuniy for exchange of thoughts but also at popularization of historical linguistics at the abovementioned Faculty of Philology.