LING3460 (Historical Linguistics) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Introduces diachronic linguistics, the study of language change over time. Surveys common changes in the areas of sound systems, word and sentence structure, and semantic meaning. Introduces methodologies to access earlier stages of language, including the comparative method and internal reconstruction. Other topics include linguistic borrowing, analogical change, linguistic paleontology, and areal diffusion.
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