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LT5416 - Historical Linguistics

Offering Academic Unit
Department of Linguistics and Translation
Credit Units
3
Course Duration
One semester
Pre-cursor(s)
Equivalent Course(s)
CTL5416
Course Offering Term*:
Not offering in current academic year

* The offering term is subject to change without prior notice
 
Course Aims

This course introduces grammaticalization, one of the important approaches to historical linguistics, to graduate students. Students will be able to identify language change in lexicon, morphology and syntax. The similarities and differences between grammaticalization and lexicalization will be discussed. The theories of constructionalization and diachronic construction grammar will also be introduced. Chinese data will be examined or re-examined under the frameworks of grammaticalization, lexicalization and constructionalization.


Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information)

Continuous Assessment: 100%
 
Detailed Course Information

LT5416.pdf

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