LING 202 Historical Linguistics (Not offered 1997-98)

An inquiry into the types of change that languages undergo through time with the goal of observing the systematicity of change and the mechanisms by which it occurs. Topics to be considered include sound change, morphological change, syntactic change, and semantic change. The methodology and techniques of language reconstruction and the discovery of Indo-European will be examined in some detail. Lecture-discussion course. Requirements: a midterm, a final exam, problem sets, and in-class presentation.
No prerequisites, although Linguistics 101 is recommended.

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