LD 5354 Language Contact

(3 semester hours)
By the end of this course, students will be able to define and discuss phenomena which occur when speakers of different languages come in contact with each other including such areas as multilingualism (societal and individual), creolistics (pidgins and Creoles), and obsolescence (language maintenance, shift, and death, language-contact-induced language change, reversing language shift, etc.).

Prerequisite:

• LD 4350 Language and Society