| Offered By: |
School of Language Studies |
| Academic Career: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Subject: |
Linguistics |
| Offered in: |
LING2005 will not be offered in 2010 |
| Unit Value: |
6 units |
| Course Description: |
An examination of the ways in which, and the reasons why, languages change. Types of sound change: morphological and syntactic change. Semantic shift. Methods of linguistic reconstruction. Cultural inferences from linguistic reconstruction. |
| Indicative Assessment: |
5 analytical assignments (40%), 2,500 word essay (30%) and 2.5 hour examination (30%). |
| Workload: |
2 hours of lectures and one hour of tutorial per week |
| Areas of Interest: |
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics |
| Requisite Statement: |
Introduction to the Study of Languages LING1001/2001 and Phonetics: Sounds of the World's Languages LING1010/2010. |
| Prescribed Texts: |
Robert McColl Millar. 2007. Trask's Historical Linguistics. 2nd edition. Paperback. Hodder Arnold. |
| Majors/Specialisations: |
Linguistics |
| Academic Contact: |
to be advised |
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