Course Catalog - 2007-2008

     

LING 305 - HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

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)
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: ANTH 305, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 505.