LING 420

Historical and Comparative Linguistics

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

Introduces historical and comparative linguistics with a focus on the principles of language change through time, and the methods used to study it. Examples are taken from both Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages.

Prerequisites: 200 and 203, or 230 and 251.

Undergraduate course in Linguistics offered by the Department of Linguistics in the Faculty of Humanities.