Claire Bowern

Courses

Term: Fall 2022

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.

Term: Fall 2022
Day/Time: TTh 2:30pm-3:45pm

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.

This course can be applied towards the Social Sciences Yale College distributional requirement.
Term: Fall 2022
Day/Time: Th 9:25am-11:15am
Term: Spring 2023

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).

This course can be applied towards the Humanities and Arts Yale College distributional requirement.
Term: Spring 2023
Day/Time: TTh 2:30pm-3:45pm

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.

Term: Spring 2023