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FLE 279 Comparative Linguistics

Wolf König

 

Year 2004-05, spring term

 

Elective, open to all students of METU

 

FLE 279 Introduction to comparative linguistics

 

Thursday, 8.40-11.30, Z 19, Yabancż Diller Ešitimi Bölümü

 

(1)     24.2.  Introduction: the languages of the world

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(4)     17.3.           Students presentations: Introducing a language

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(13)   26.5.                     Final discussion

 

 

Evaluation: presentation 30%, homework (presentation report) 50%; attendance 20%.

 

 

Resources:

 

Anttila, Raimo [1972] An introduction to historical and comparative linguistics. The

Macmillan Company ((P201 A55))

 

Lehmann, Winfred P [1992] Historical linguistics: an introduction. Routledge

 

McMahon, April M.S. [1994] Understanding Language Change. Cambridge University Press

 

http://www.ilovelanguages.com

 

http://www.ethnologue.com

 

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides.html

 

http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/Languages/Language_Families/

 

 

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Middle East Technical University