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LINGUIST 2LC3

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS: LANGUAGE EVOLUTION AND CHANGE

Undergraduate

Winter 2025 · C01

Topics

  • Chapter 1, The Fact of Language Change
  • Chapter 2, Lexical and Semantic Change
  • Chapter 3, Phonological Change I: change in pronunciation
  • Chapter 4, Phonological Change II: change in phonological systems
  • Chapter 5, Morphological change
  • Review
  • Chapter 6, Syntactic Change
  • Chapter 7, Relatedness between Languages
  • Chapter 8, The Comparative Method
  • Chapter 9, Internal Reconstruction
  • Chapter 10, The Origin and Propagation of Change
  • 7-8 Review

Readings

  • Trask’s Historical Linguistics
    Robert McColl Millar · 4th · Required
  • Chapter 1, The Fact of Language Change
    See source
  • Chapter 2, Lexical and Semantic Change
    See source
  • Chapter 3, Phonological Change I: change in pronunciation
    See source
  • Chapter 4, Phonological Change II: change in phonological systems
    See source
  • Chapter 5, Morphological change
    See source
  • Review
    See source
  • READING WEEK
    See source
  • Chapter 6, Syntactic Change
    See source
  • Chapter 7, Relatedness between Languages
    See source
  • Chapter 8, The Comparative Method
    See source
  • Chapter 9, Internal Reconstruction
    See source
  • Chapter 10, The Origin and Propagation of Change
    See source
  • 7-8 Review
    See source
Sources