Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 300 OR ANTH 300 OR ANTH 311 OR WGST 333 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 sociolinguistics of language change, and the history of European languages. Cross-list: LING 305.