SCHEDULE (TENTATIVE)

Note that none (or only a small portion) of the notes for a given day are available via these links, although they will all be available for in-class use. You will, however, be able to see the study questions for upcoming topics.

DATE		TEXT	TOPIC
INTRODUCTION
T	SEP 1		Course overview
Th	3	1	The reality of language change
T	8		Corpora and historical linguistics
Th	10	10.1-10.3	Explaining change
T	15	2.1-2.3, 11.1	Language contact
Th	17	2.4, 12.1-12.2	Lexical: Origins
T	22	2.5	Semantic change
PROCESSES
Th	24		Lexical: Change
T	29		TEST 1
Th	OCT 1	3, 10.3	Sound change: Phonetic
T	6	4, 10.4-10.5	Sound change: Phonological
Th	8	5	Morphological change
T	13	5	Morphological change
Th	15	6	Syntactic change: General
T	20	6	Syntactic change: Grammaticalization / Corpora
Th	22		[ Contemporary change ]
T	27		Presentation I: Linguistic changes
Th	29		TEST 2
COMPARISONS
T	NOV 3	7	Relatedness between languages
Th	5	8	The comparative method
T	10	8	The comparative method
Th	12	9	Internal reconstruction
T	17	11.2-11.4	Linguistic areas, birth, and death
Th	19	(11.5)-11.8	Linguistic areas, birth, and death
T	24		NO CLASS
T	DEC 1	12	Language and prehistory
Th	3		Presentation II: Comparative method
T	8		Review
T	10		TEST 3
Mon	14	2:30-5:30	Presentation III: History of specific languages (1:35-2:50 CLASS)
Wed	16	11:00-2:00	Presentation III: History of specific languages (9:30-10:50 CLASS)