Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Old English
Term
2019C
Subject area
LING
Section number only
301
Section ID
LING411301
Course number integer
411
Registration notes
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Meeting times
MWF 12:00 PM-01:00 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Donald A Ringe
Description
The main purpose of this course is to teach students to read Old English ("Anglo-Saxon"), chiefly but not exclusively for research in linguistics. Grammar will be heavily emphasized; there will also be lectures on the immediate prehistory of the language, since the morphology of Old English was made unusually complex by interacting sound changes. In the first eight weeks we will work through Moore and Knott's "Elements of Grammar" and learn the grammar; the remainder of the term will be devoted to reading texts.
Course number only
411
Use local description
No