Session

Topic

Reading Assignment

 1   April 13

Preliminaries

 2   April 20

Language through time

Salzmann, "Language Origin" (77-94)

Salzmann, "Language through time" (97-109, 116-123)

 3   April 27

Sound Change

Hock/ Joseph, "Sound Change" (113-152)

 4   May 04

Sound Change

Bauer "Sound Change" (93-110)

Labov "The Northern Cities Shift" (1-15),

 5   May 11

Morphological Change

Hock/Joseph, "Analogy and Change in Word Structure" (153-188)

 6   May 25

Syntactical Change

Hock/Jospeh, "Syntactic change" (189-211)

 7   June 01

Grammaticalization

Hopper, "Some recent trends in Grammaticalization" (217-234)

 8   June 08

Change in the Lexicon

Hock/Joseph, "Semantic change" (215-240)

 9   June 15

Change in the Lexicon

Hock/ Joseph, "Lexical Borrowing" (253-285)

10  June 22

Pidgins & Creoles

Hock/Joseph, "Pidgins,Creoles and related forms of language" (418-445)

11  June 29

a) Language Death

b) Causes of Change

Hock/Joseph, "Language Death" (446-452)

Campbell, "Explaining Linguistic Change" (282-298)

12  July 06

Spread of Change

Mc Mahon"Linguistic Variation" (225-252)

13  July 13

Progress or Decay?

McMahon,"Linguistic Evolution ?" (314-340)

14  July 20

Final Exam