LINGUISTIC CHANGE AND VARIATION

Catalog description

Study of typological, diachronic, dialectal, and social variations in natural languages, with special attention to Spanish. Formulation of linguistic universals and parametrical differences in the grammatical systems of languages across the world. Phylogenetic classification of languages and analysis of phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical changes. Discussion of the relations between social variables in speakers and their surroundings and variables in linguistic performance. Description of dialectal variations in Spanish and linguistic phenomena and systems that emerge from language contact. LING 4080/