LING 2274 - LANGUAGE CONTACT

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the effects of language contact on the structure of the involved languages. We will investigate a variety of language contact situations and the ways in which varying degrees of intensity of contact lead to differing degrees of interference between linguistic systems. Topics include: language contact as a cause for linguistic change (loan words, phonological and other structural change); typologies of language contact (substratum, sprachbund); bilingualism in the individual and the bilingual community (social dialects, diglossia); the emergence of new languages through contact (regional versions of standard languages, pidgins and Creoles).
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 1253 or 2253 or 2267

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