Claire Bowern
Courses
Ling 212/612 - Linguistic Change
How languages change, how we study change, and how language relates to other areas of society. This seminar is taught through readings chosen by instructor and students, on topics of interest.
Prerequisite: LING 112 or equivalent.
This course can be applied towards the Social Sciences Yale College distributional requirement.
Ling 350/750 - Topics in Language Documentation: Technology
Using technology to support documentation for low-resource languages. Overview of linguistic diversity; techniques for language documentation; metadata; practical exercises in using javascript to create materials for analysis.
Permission of instructor is required.
Ling 112 - Historical Linguistics
Introduction to language change and language history. How do people use language, and how does that lead to language change over time: sound change, analogy, syntactic and semantic change, borrowing. Techniques for recovering earlier linguistic stages: philology, internal reconstruction, the comparative method. The role of language contact in language change. Evidence from language in prehistory (doing archaeology with language).
Ling 491 - The Senior Essay
Research and writing of the senior essay under the guidance of a faculty adviser. Students present research related to their essays in a weekly colloquium.
Prerequisite: LING 490.