Courses
Ling 11 Writing Systems: Examines different writing systems in terms of their historical origin and their cognitive properties.
Ling 130 Comparative and Historical Linguistics: Methods of reconstruction. Types and explanations of language change. Dialectology. The establishment of language relationships and subgroupings.
Ling 131 Indo-European Comparative Linguistics: The affinities of the Indo-European languages and the reconstruction of their common ancestor.
Ling 139 Language Spread: Linguistic background and the general principles of language spread. Mechanism of language spread, including creolization-decreolization, language planning, and the role of bilingualism. Case studies in language spread, including Austronesian, Indo-European, Amerindian, Uralic, African, Sinitic, and Australian languages. Relationship of language spread to immigration and culture spreads.
Ling 230 Historical Linguistics: Graduate introduction to the field, surveying change in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics as well as methods of reconstruction and principles of dialectology.
Ling 231 Historical Semantics: Synchronic variation and diachronic change in the realm of meaning.
Ling 290F Diachronic Linguistics
Ling 290H Linguistic Reconstruction