FLT 410 - Introduction to Romance Linguistics

3 Credit(s)

This course is a linguistic introduction to the Romance family of languages, which includes Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, tracing their evolution from Latin and using a comparative and historical approach. In addition, this course looks at larger issues, such as linguistic classification and typology, language change, language variation, dialectology, language standardization, and creolization, as they relate to the evolution of the Romance languages. Conducted in English with examples in Romance languages. Prerequisite: Intermediate to advanced knowledge of a Romance language or Latin.