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175-017 Historical Linguistics | |
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Note | Formerly available as 175-213/313. Students who have completed 175-213 or 175-313 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Assoc Prof Nick Evans |
Prerequisites | Completion of 175-004 Introduction to Language or 175-005 English: Its Structure and History or departmental approval. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial per week. There will be no tutorial in the first week of semester |
Subject Description | This subject examines the ways in which languages change over time, and the techniques used to infer what these changes have been. Specific topics include the nature of language change, the comparative method and linguistic reconstruction in phonology and morphology, the family-tree model of language change, effects of language contact, sociolinguistic aspects of language change, grammaticalisation, semantic change, language and prehistory, synthetic models based on historical linguistics, archaeology, genetics and diachronic anthropology. The focus will be on the languages of Europe, Australia and the western Pacific. |
Assessment | Three assignment problems of 500 words each, and an essay of 2500 words. |
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