LT5416 - Historical Linguistics | ||||||||||||
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* 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 | ||||||||||||
Useful Links | ||||||||||||
Department of Linguistics and Translation |