课程描述
This lecture series will discuss the principles of language evolution and change. Lectures will cover issues relating to principles of language change, such as analogy, sound change, and change in morphology, syntax and semantics. Further, causalities of change as well as the outcome of change will be central parts in the lectures. The theories, methods and models for classifying languages and reconstructing principles of change and their outcome will be discussed in detail.
课程安排：
Date |
Slot |
Nr. |
Content |
Literature |
11/5 |
8.30-9.15 |
1 |
Introduction: Linguistic diversity, language evolution, and the prehistory of languages |
(Carling, Cathcart, & Round, to appear; Hammarström, 2016) |
|
9.20-10.05 10.20-11.05 |
2 3 |
Phonological diversity Morphosyntactic diversity |
(Bickel, 2017; Carling et al., 2018) |
|
11.15-12.00 14.30-15.15
|
4 5 |
Lexical diversity and change Principles of historical linguistics |
(Chang, Cathcart, Hall, & Garrett, 2015; Urban, 2014) (Campbell, 2013) |
|
15.15-16 |
|
Instructions, assignments |
|
11/6 |
8.30-9.15
9.20-10.05 |
6
7 |
Language classification and distant language relationship Models of change |
(Holman et al., 2011) (Campbell & Poser, 2008) |
|
10.20-11.05 11.15-12.00
|
8 9 |
The comparative method Phylogenetic and evolutionary methods |
(Campbell, 2013; Weiss, 2014) (Dunn, 2014; Greenhill et al., 2017; Nichols & Warnow, 2008) |
|
14.30-16.00 |
|
Assignments, feedback |
|
11/7 |
8.30-9.15 9.20-10.05 |
10 11 |
Sound change Analogy and internal reconstruction
|
(Garrett, 2014) (Campbell, 2013) |
|
10.20-11.05
|
12 |
Morphosyntactic evolution and reconstruction |
(Campbell, 2013; Cathcart, Carling, Larsson, Johansson, & Round, 2018) |
|
11.15-12.00 14.30-15.15 |
13 14 |
Explaining language change Language contact, areal linguistics, and contact languages
|
(Campbell, 2013) |
|
15.30-16.00 |
|
Assignments, feedback |
|
11/8 |
8.30-9.15
9.20-10.05 |
15 16 |
Lexical borrowing Semantic and lexical evolution |
(Campbell, 2013) |
|
10.20-11.05
|
17 |
Evolution of writing systems |
|
|
11.15-12.00 14.30-15.15 |
18 19 |
Linguistic and cultural change Linguistic philology and language prehistory |
(Campbell, 2013; Epps, 2014) |
|
15.15-15.00 |
|
Assignments, feedback |
|
11/9 |
8.30-9.15 9.20-10.05 |
20 21 |
Case study Eurasia, past and present |
|
|
10.20-11.05 11.15-12.00 |
22 23 |
Case study South America: Introduction, Tupí, and Arawak families |
|
|
14.30-16.00 |
|
Discussion, assignments |
|
11/10 |
9.30-10.15 |
24 |
Comparative-historical and evolutionary linguistics – past, present and future |
|
|
10.30-11.15 |
|
Discussion |
|
教授简介：
Gerd Carling is Research Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Lund University,
Sweden. She is a historical and typological linguist, an expert in database linguistics and a
world-leading authority on the extinct Indo-European language Tocharian. She is editor of
the complete dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian which will appear next year. She is also
editor of the Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures, Volume 1 of which will appear next
year.
地点： 外国语学院报告
联系人：杨老师（13357219250）；刘老师（18684739125）
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