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LING 5802 [0.5 credit] Historical Linguistics: English


A theory-intensive course that will study the development of English starting with Proto-Indo-European progressing through Common Germanic to the stages of English itself. Topics include phonological sound changes, phonemic inventories, and morphological and syntactic theory.
Also listed as ENGL 5101.
Also offered at the undergraduate level, with different requirements, as LING 4802, for which additional credit is precluded.