Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
History of the English Language
Term
2023C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
LING
Section number only
001
Section ID
LING3100001
Course number integer
3100
Meeting times
TR 12:00 PM-1:29 PM
Meeting location
PCPE 101
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
3100
Use local description
No