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Historical Linguistics

  • Sound Change
    • Neogrammarian laws (Grimm’s, Verner’s, etc.)
    • Sound change types, lexical diffusion, analogy
    • Reconstructing proto-languages, tree/wave models
  • Morphosyntactic and Semantic Change
    • Syncretism, grammaticalization
    • Semantic change: extension, narrowing, figurative use
  • Linguistic Reconstruction
    • External/internal methods, cognates, paradigms
    • Exceptions: analogy, borrowing, onomatopoeia
  • Language Contact and Dialect Geography
    • Borrowing types, tadbhava/tatsama, pidgins/creoles
    • Dialect atlas, isoglosses, focal areas

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