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LING E-122 Section 1 (17237)

Fall 2024

Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics

Zachary Rothstein-Dowden PhD

This course is an introduction to the historical linguistic study of the Indo-European languages and to the comparative method of language reconstruction. The course focuses on the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European and the changes that have taken places in the major branches that gave rise to the Indo-European daughter languages.