Status
O
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
History of English Lang
Term
2020C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
LING
Section number only
001
Section ID
LING310001
Course number integer
310
Registration notes
Crse Online: Sync & Async Components
Meeting times
TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Donald A Ringe
Description
This course traces the linguistic history of English from its earliest reconstructable ancestor, Proto-Indo-European, to the present. We focus especially on significant large-scale changes, such as the restructuring of the verb system in Proto-Germanic, the intricate interaction of sound changes in the immediate prehistory of Old English, syntactic change in Middle English, and the diversification of English dialects since 1750.
Course number only
310
Use local description
No