Undergraduate seminar given at the University of Konstanz, 2017–2018.
1. Handouts (lectures)
- Week 1: Introduction
- Week 3: Sounds and scribbles – then and now
- Week 5: Comparative reconstruction and language families
- Week 7: Syntactic change
- Week 9: Modelling language change
- Week 11: Modelling language change, part 2
2. Handouts (reading groups)
- Week 2: Hale
- Week 4: Ringe & Eska
- Week 6: Harris & Campbell
- Week 8: Denison
- Week 10: Yang
- Week 12: Nettle
- Chapters 1 & 2 from: Hale, M. (2007) Historical linguistics: theory and method. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
- Chapter 5 from: Ringe, D. & Eska, J. F. (2013) Historical linguistics: toward a twenty-first century reintegration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Chapter 12 from: Harris, A. C. & Campbell, L. (1995) Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Denison, D. (2003) Log(ist)ic and simplistic S-curves. In R. Hickey (ed.), Motives for language change, 54–70. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Yang, C. D. (2000) Internal and external forces in language change. Language Variation and Change, 12, 231–250.
- Nettle, D. (1999) Using Social Impact Theory to simulate language change. Lingua, 108, 95–117.