Linguistics 505 - Int Historical Ling

Spring
2019
01
3.00
Alice Harris
TU TH 1:00PM 2:15PM
UMass Amherst
16866
Hasbrouck Laboratory room 137
acharris@linguist.umass.edu
Survey of goals, methods, and results of research into the history and prehistory of languages. Focus on language variation and change, comparative method and linguistic reconstruction, linguistic classification and models of linguistic change. Examples drawn primarily from the Indo-European language family. Course will be of interest to students of anthropology, sociology, classics, and modern languages. Prerequisite: LINGUIST 201.
LINGUIST 201 & 402
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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