LINGUIST 731

Historical Linguistics

Please note: this is archived course information from 2012 for LINGUIST 731.

Description

Current topics in historical linguistics, such as: theories of change in sound systems; syntactic change and syntactic reconstruction; grammaticalisation; distant genetic relationships and comparative methods.

Availability 2012

Not taught in 2012

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Dr Ross Clark

Points

LINGUIST 731: 15 points