Introduction to Romance Linguistics

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This course takes a historical approach to the study of Romance languages, the linguistic evolution from Latin to Romance, with a focus on three of the modern Romance languages, Spanish, Italian and French. The language of instruction is English. Students will study examples of sound change, morphological change, syntactical change and lexical development. The course will introduce linguistic geography, language contact, the relationship of language and culture, the role of dialects, the creation of the national standards, minority languages, and the expansion of Romance languages beyond Europe.