Historical Linguistics 3130 A

Reading chapter 2

As I mentioned last class, you should try to read as much as possible of chapter 2 before Monday's class.

The first 15 pages (section 2.1 through 2.6) we covered on Thursday, so reading this is just a review of that.

Section 2.7 will be the major topic of Monday's lecture. I thuink it will help if you read it over ahead of time. This is the part that requires a little bit of memorizing terminology. Anything that says it is "frequently used," you really need to learn. If it says it is not frequently used, you will not be required to know it for the test, but read it over anyway, just so you'll have heard of it if you ever read it anywhere. Most of the rest have fairly obvious names and shouldn't be difficult.

Section 2.8 is only one page, but it's important. You are probably familiar with this idea already from rule ordering in phonology.

We will do Section 2.9 (chain shifts) on Monday if we have time. It has already come up and will come up again I'm sure, even if we don't get to it Monday.

I will be updating the web site with some notes other things later today (Saturday), so check the blog Sunday or Monday before class if you can.