LING 535 A: Advanced Sociolinguistics

Spring 2021
Meeting:
MW 1:30pm - 3:20pm / * *
SLN:
16288
Section Type:
Lecture
OFFERED AS SYNCHRONOUS LEARNING OFFERED VIA REMOTE LEARNING
Catalog Description:
Explores perspective on language change and its mechanisms, understood in relation to the social context of language use in the speech community. Examines language-internal and -external motivations for change; phonological mergers and splits, chain-shifts, and diffusion of change through the lexicon. Prerequisite: LING 432 and LING 533.
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
April 23, 2024 - 10:55 pm