Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LING 300 AND LING 311) OR (ANTH 300 AND ANTH 311) or permission of instructor

Description: Exploration of the nature of language change. Topics covered include sound change, syntactic and semantic change, modeling language splits, the sociolinguists of language change, and the history of European languages. Cross-list: ANTH 305, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 305, ANTH 505, LING 505.