Course
Course 7.5 credits • LINN30
Teaching – autumn semester of 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect our courses and programmes. Teaching and assessment during the first half of the autumn semester 2021 will be conducted both online and on campus. From 1 November more elements will be conducted on campus – the current schedule is available on course websites and/or in Canvas.
The course deals with the reconstruction of the prehistory of language. Vital components target the emergence of the human capacity for producing and perceiving language, the roots and evolution of linguistic diversity, the migration and expansion of languages in the past, and cognitive and sociocultural aspects of language in the prehistoric period. The course features an array of theoretical, empirical and methodological aspects on prehistoric language reconstruction, both of traditional qualitative and quantitative, computational nature, including philology, the comparative method, linguistic anthropology, cognitive linguistics, computational modelling, phylogenetics, and cultural evolution. In addition, the course discusses the theoretical framework for reconstructing language beyond the historical record.
Study period:
autumn semester 2021
Type of studies:
part time, 50 %,
day
Study period:
2021-08-30 – 2021-10-29
Language of instruction:
English
Application code:
LU-35771
Teachers:
Gerd Carling
How to apply?
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