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Spring 2020 | LING 3601 Section 001: Historical Linguistics (52490)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
LING 5601 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Burton Hall 125
- Enrollment Status:
Open (19 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Historical change in phonology, syntax, semantics, and lexicon. Linguistic reconstruction. Genetic relationship among languages. prereq: 3001 or instr consent
- Class Description:
- This course examines the changes which languages undergo over time. We will study language change at the levels of sound, structures, and meaning, paying particular attention to the systematic changes that occur across languages. Discussion topics will include the causes of language change and the consequences for languages of various real-world circumstances. Skills to be developed include methods to model the spread of change, methods for reconstructing earlier (unattested) forms of language, and techniques for establishing historical relationships among languages. This course presumes success completion of an introduction to linguistics.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
40% Final Exam
15% Quizzes
5% In-class Presentations
5% Class Participation
15% Problem Solving
- Exam Format:
- mixed
- Class Format:
- 50% Lecture
30% Discussion
20% Other Style small group work and student presentations
- Workload:
- 25 Pages Reading Per Week Other Workload: problem-solving assignments
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52490/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 May 2007
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