ENGL 404 - Historical Linguistics

Fall or Spring (3) Staff Prerequisite(s): (ANTH 204 or ENGL 220 or LING 220) and (ENGL 307 or LING 307). (GER 3)

A study of the kinds of change which languages may undergo. Covers the nature and motivation of linguistic evolution, and the methods by which unattested early stages of known languages may be reconstructed. (Cross-listed with LING 404.)