How and why languages change over time, and how languages can be grouped into families based on historical relationships. Methods of comparative and internal reconstruction of phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic change. Social factors in language change. Not offered every year. Prerequisite: LING 200 and LING 201.
How and why languages change over time, and how languages can be grouped into families based on historical relationships. Methods of comparative and internal reconstruction of phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic change. Social factors in language change. Not offered every year. Prerequisite: LING 200 and LING 201.
