LIN 460/560 Historical and Comparative Linguistics

11:00-11:50, M/W/F, PLC 627

Instructor: Susan Guion	GTF: Ana Perez-Sanchez
Office: 257 Straub	Office: 240 Straub
email: guion@oregon.uoregon.edu	email: aperezsa@gladstone.uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tues 13:00-15:00	Office Hours: TBA

Required text book:

Campbell. 1999. Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. MIT Press.

Date	Topic	Reading
Sept. 27-Oct 1	Introduction, Neogrammarian Hypothesis, Classic Sound Changes	Ch1
Oct. 4-8	Sound Change Typology	Ch 2
Oct. 11-15	Borrowing	Ch 3
Oct. 18-22	Analogy	Ch 4
Oct. 25-29	Comparative Reconstruction	Ch 5
Nov. 1-3	Proto-Indo-European and Comparative Reconstruction
Nov 5	Release day to work on midterm
Nov. 8-12	Historical Syntax (Scott DeLancey)	Ch 10
Nov. 15-19	Grammaticalization (Scott DeLancey)
Nov. 22-24	Internal Reconstruction	Ch 8
Nov. 29-3	Perception in Sound Change

Requirements:

40% Weekly homework to be given out each Friday and due back the next Wednesday. No late homeworks will be accepted. You may work in groups, but you must turn in your own homework and indicate the other members of the group.

30% A midterm exam will be handed out at the end of class on Wednesday, Nov 3^rd and due at the beginning of class on Monday, Nov 8^th. Note that you will have Friday, Nov 5^th off to work on the midterm. You may consult your textbook and notes, but no other source. You must work alone.

30% A final exam will be handed out on Friday, December 3^rd and due back in my office on Thursday, December 9^th (our official exam day). You may consult your textbook and notes, but no other source. You must work alone.

Graduate students will have longer, more challenging homework and exam problems than the undergraduate students and in general be held to a higher standard of work quality.

Academic Honesty:

All work submitted in this course must be your own and produced exclusively for this course. The use of sources (ideas, quotations, paraphrases) must be properly acknowledged and documented. Any suspected dishonesty will be taken seriously and reported. Students found guilty of academic dishonesty will fail the course.

Students with Disabilities:

If you have a disability and are anticipating needing accommodation in this course, make arrangements to see me soon. Also, request a letter from disability services verifying your disability and stating needed accommodation.

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