Social stratification, acculturation, language maintenance, standardization, language planning and language change. The comparative method in diachronic linguistic methodology and theory, graphemics, glottochronology, language families, dialect geography and internal reconstruction. Fulfills the course requirement of the university upper division baccalaureate writing requirement for linguistics majors. Methodology and practice of linguistic analysis and language description as practiced in field. May be repeated for credit.
Topic varies with the student.
May be repeated for credit. Must be taken prior to Linguistics 597. Linguistics 406 or consent of instructor. Contemporary theories of grammar, such as transformational-generative, with emphasis on theoretical problems in the analysis of language structure. The history of language, including principles and techniques for the historical study and classification of individual languages and language families, writing systems, lexicostatistical methods and linguistic geography.