https://davidgoldstein.netlify.app/tag/subgrouping/SubgroupingSource Themes Academic (https://sourcethemes.com/academic/)en-usTue, 15 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://davidgoldstein.netlify.app/images/icon_hu0b7a4cb9992c9ac0e91bd28ffd38dd00_9727_512x512_fill_lanczos_center_2.pnghttps://davidgoldstein.netlify.app/tag/subgrouping/https://davidgoldstein.netlify.app/teaching/2021w-lx110/Tue, 15 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://davidgoldstein.netlify.app/teaching/2021w-lx110/<h2 id="course-description">Course description</h2> <p>Historical linguistics is the study of language change. In this course, we will cover the following topics: types of language change; methods of linguistic reconstruction; effects of language contact; and linguistic classification and phylogenetics.</p> <h2 id="catalogue-description">Catalogue description</h2> <p>Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 20, 103, 120A. Methods and theories appropriate to historical study of language, such as comparative method and method of internal reconstruction. Sound change, grammatical change, semantic change. P/NP or letter grading.</p> <p>Winter 2021</p> <p><strong>Time</strong>: MW 4&ndash;5:50.</p> <p><strong>Location</strong>: Zoom.</p>