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FL 410. Introduction to Romance Linguistics


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 014468

This course takes a historical approach to the study of Romance languages, the linguistic evolution from Latin to Romance, with a focus on three of the modern Romance languages, Spanish, Italian and French. The language of instruction is English. Students will study examples of sound change, morphological change, syntactical change and lexical development. The course will introduce linguistic geography, language contact, the relationship of language and culture, the role of dialects, the creation of the national standards, minority languages, and the expansion of Romance languages beyond Europe.   Prerequisite(s): SPAN 232  or FR 232  or ITAL 232  or the equivalent as approved by the instructor; or a pre-approved course in linguistics, upon approval of the instructor. These courses have been pre-approved to fulfill the linguistics prerequisite: ANTH 305 /SCOM 305 , ANTH 405 , ENG 308 , ENG 310 , ENG 348 , ENG 417 , PHIL 380 , SCOM 245 , SMAD 150 , SPAN 310 , SPAN 311 , SPAN 404 , SPAN 448 .