Syllabus
Anttila, Raimo. Historical and Comparative Linguistics. CILT6.
Bynon, Theodora. Historical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1977.
Durie - Ross (ed.) 1996. The Comparative Method Reviewed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fox, Anthony. 2007. Linguistic Reconstruction (An Introduction to Theory and Method). Oxford (: Oxford University Press).
* Další literatura:
Hock. H. H. 1991. Principles of Historical Linguistics. Amsterdam-New York (: Mouton de Gruyter).
Hale, Mark. 2007. Historical Linguistics. Theory and Methods. Oxford (: Blackwell).
Lass, Roger. Historical Linguistics and Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997.
Sihler, Andrew L. Language History, An Introduction, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 191, Amsterdam (: John Benjamins), 2001.
Annotation
Language typology has emerged as a major subfield of linguistics in the past two decades, but the great majority of typological studies have focused exclusively on synchronic data from the present day. However, Indo-
Europeanists, Semitists, and other students of language families with long historical documentation can draw on diachronic data to address important questions about language change, e.g. which kinds of features or structures are more stable over time, or more likely to arise through internal vs. external change, or truly “universal” vs. restricted to certain regions of the world. We will read a selection of recent publications in diachronic typology, discuss their strengths and weaknesses, and propose questions for further study. Students from other departments are especially welcome, including classical studies, Ancient Near Eastern studies, and any of the other language departments.