LING 4012 - Historical Linguistics

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENG 2010 and junior standing, or permission of instructor

Description: This course covers the various languages and language families of the world from an historical perspective. The student will study language change, methods of historical linguistics research, and language classification. Individualized projects are required. This course may be used as an elective to satisfy either the linguistic or the interdisciplinary requirement for the Linguistics major, but not both.