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LING 404 -  Historical Linguistics

Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 220  
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: ANTH 411