printer friendly pageLINGUIST 160: Historical Linguistics
Principles of historical linguistics:, the nature of language change. Kinds and causes of change, variation and diffusion of changes through populations, differentiation of dialects and languages, determination and classification of historical relationships among languages, the reconstruction of ancestral languages and intermediate changes, parallels with cultural and genetic evolutionary theory, and implications of variation and change for the description and explanation of language in general. Prerequisite: introductory course in linguistics.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
Instructors:
Sanker, C. (PI)
;
O'Reilly-Brown, M. (TA)
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