Schedule of topics

Linguistic Variation and Language Change · Fall 2012

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Monday	Wednesday
	[outline] *Aug 22* Introduction to the course Observing language change
[outline] *Aug 27* Linguistic relationships Reasons(?) for language change	[outline] *Aug 29* Review: Basic phonetics
*Sept 3* No class -- Labor Day	[outline] *Sept 5* Types of sound change Ordering sound changes
[outline] *Sept 10* Phonetic and phonemic change	[outline] *Sept 12* Phonetic and phonemic change
[outline] *Sept 17* Social factors in sound change	[outline] *Sept 19* Review: Morphology Morphological change
[outline] *Sept 24* Morphological change Analogy	[outline] *Sept 26* Typological classification Basic constituent order
[outline] *Oct 1* Grammaticalization	[outline] *Oct 3* Discussion and examples: Morphological and syntactic change
[study guide] *Oct 8* Review and discussion	*Oct 10* MIDTERM EXAM
[outline] *Oct 15* Lexical and semantic change Intro to comparative reconstruction	[outline] *Oct 17* The Comparative Method Comparative reconstruction
[see last outline] *Oct 22* The Comparative Method Comparative reconstruction	[outline] *Oct 24* Language relationships: Subgrouping
[outline] *Oct 29* Language relationships: Determining relatedness	[outline] *Oct 31* Internal reconstruction
[outline] *Nov 5* Reconstruction of morphology and syntax	[outline] *Nov 7* Quantitative methods: Lexicostatistics (and glottochronology)
[outline] *Nov 12* Quantitative methods: Methods from biological sciences	[outline] *Nov 14* PIE and the history of the Comparative Method
[outline] *Nov 19* Dialect continuua The 'wave model' of language change	*Nov 21* No class -- Thanksgiving
[outline] *Nov 26* Labov (2007): Wave vs. tree models	[outline] *Nov 28* Labov (2007): Wave vs. tree models, cont.
[outline] *Dec 3* Written records in historical linguistics	[study guide] *Dec 5* Course wrap-up Review for final exam

>> FINAL EXAM: Tues Dec 11, 4:00 pm **in Dey 307** <<