Historical Linguistics 3130 A

Historical linguistics essay ideas

As you know, you can choose to write a paper instead of doing the second mid-term test. You might get some ideas for essay topics from the Campbell "state of the art" paper, but the site for the historical linguistics course at the University of Cambridge has a section called Supervision Assignments with many good ideas for paper topics (and lists of references you can use for researching them). You could use one of these or they may inspire you to do something slightly different, but along the same lines. One warning: you have to submit a proposal before we get to the topics of reconstruction in class, so you should keep that in mind if you're thinking of doing anything from sections 12 and 13 of the Cambridge site.