Courses Currently Offered

Winter 2024

  • I E STD M150 - Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics

    Instructor(s): John Clayton, Elisa Migliaretti

    (Same as Linguistics M150.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisite: Linguistics 1 or 20. Indo-European languages (ancient and modern), including their relationships, chief characteristics, writing systems, and sociolinguistic contexts; nature of reconstructed Indo-European proto-language and proto-culture. One or more Indo-European languages may be investigated in detail. P/NP or letter grading.

  • I E STD 200 - Proseminar: Indo-European Studies

    Instructor(s): Stephanie Watkins, David Goldstein, Anthony Yates

    Seminar, two hours every other week. Required of graduate Indo-European studies students during first year. Introduction to graduate-level research in Indo-European studies. S/U grading.

  • I E STD 210 - Indo-European Morphology

    Instructor(s): Anthony Yates

    Lecture, three hours. Comparative study of proto-Indo-European nominal and verbal morphology and its historical development into most important of oldest attested descendant languages. S/U or letter grading.

  • I E STD M222B - Vedic

    Instructor(s): Stephanie Watkins

    (Same as Iranian M222B and South Asian M222B.) Lecture, three hours. Preparation: knowledge of Sanskrit equivalent to South Asian 110C. Characteristics of Vedic dialect and readings in Rig-Vedic hymns. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.

  • I E STD 280A - Seminar: Indo-European Linguistics: Evolutionary Methods in Indo-European Linguistics

    Instructor(s): David Goldstein

    Historical linguistics is in midst of methodological revolution. Tool kit for making inferences about linguistic history has changed dramatically in last 20 years. Hands-on introduction to range of these new methods, most of which focus on phylogenetic estimation and ancestral state estimation. Study also looks at recent scholarship on history of Indo-European language that takes advantage of these new tools.

  • I E STD 281A - Seminar: Indo-European Linguistics

    Instructor(s): Stephanie Watkins, David Goldstein, Anthony Yates

    Seminar, three hours. Requisite: course 210. Selected topics in Indo-European comparative grammar for advanced graduate students. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.

  • I E STD 281B - Seminar: Indo-European Linguistics: Lycian Grammar

    Instructor(s): Anthony Yates

    Introduction to Lycian grammar. Includes lectures covering morphology and syntax, and readings of selected texts.

  • I E STD 596 - Directed Individual Studies

    Instructor(s): David Goldstein, Stephanie Watkins, H Melchert, Joseph Nagy, Christopher Stevens, Brent Vine, Anthony Yates

    Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading.

  • I E STD 597 - Preparation for PhD Qualifying Examinations

    Instructor(s): David Goldstein, Stephanie Watkins, H Melchert, Joseph Nagy, Christopher Stevens, Brent Vine, Anthony Yates

    Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading.

  • I E STD 599 - Research for PhD Dissertation

    Instructor(s): David Goldstein, Stephanie Watkins, H Melchert, Joseph Nagy, Christopher Stevens, Brent Vine, Anthony Yates

    Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading.