Linguistics 2Lh: Structure and History of Western European Languages
The aim of this course is to make students more familiar with the major structural properties and the history of three Western European language families: the Romance family, the Germanic family, and the Celtic family. For a complete overview of the syllabus, assessment, etc. of this course, please visit the course’s WebCT page.
Below you can find the lecture notes for those parts of the course that I will teach:
Week 4: The Germanic languages - a synchronic and diachronic overview
Week 8: Clitics
Week 9: Creolization
Week 10: Auxiliary selection and unaccusativity
Other links:
The Indo-European language family tree
The Indo-European language family tree (alternative format)
Map of Indo-European languages spoken in Europe
Isoglosses for the High German Sound Shift, incl. the 'Benrather Linie'
