Prerequisite/Corequisite: The following course must be completed previously: LING 200 with a grade of C or higher.
Description: This course provides a survey of the primary tools and methods of historical linguistics. Change and mechanisms of change at the various levels of the grammar (phonological, morphological, and syntactic) are surveyed. The comparative method, including both subgrouping and reconstruction, is treated in detail.
Component(s): Lecture
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