LING 1860 - INTRO TO HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey of the principles and methods of historical linguistics; practice in the basic techniques of historical linguistic research. The major topics to be studied are the analysis of sound change, analogic change, contact-induced language change, the relationship between variation (region al and social) and language change, the comparative method, and internal reconstruction.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 1578 and 1773
Course Attributes: Global Studies

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