Courses

The three “core” graduate-level courses in Indo-European linguistics are offered every year, i.e. Indo-European Studies 205 (“Indo-European Phonology”; fall), Indo-European Studies 210 (“Indo-European Morphology”; winter), and Indo-European Studies 215 (“Indo-European Syntax”; spring).

The “proseminar” course Indo-European Studies 200 is normally offered every other year.

Indo-European Studies C260 (“Indo-European Comparative Mythology and Poetics”) is offered every two to three years.

Every year, one or more advanced seminars on specialized topics are offered under the courses Indo-European Studies 280 and 281 (“Seminar: Indo-European Linguistics”). Recent offerings have included “Indo-European Phylogenetics”, “Ancestral State Estimation in Indo-European and Beyond”, “Introductory Luwian”, “Indo-European Word Prosody”, “Phrygian”.

Some advanced courses in ancient Indo-European languages are offered as Indo-European Studies courses, often cross-listed with other departments, and others as courses available in other departments (though sometimes taught by Indo-European faculty). For example:

  • IE Studies M168 (= Ancient Near East M168), “Introductory Hittite”
  • IE Studies M222A/B (= Iranian M222A/B, South Asian M222A/B), “Vedic”
  • IE Studies M230A/B (= Iranian M230A/B), “Old Iranian”

(For elementary and intermediate Sanskrit, see the course listings under “South Asian”.)

  • Greek 240A, “History of the Greek Language”
  • Greek 242, “Greek Dialects and Historical Grammar”
  • Greek 243, “Mycenaean Greek”
  • Latin 240A, “History of the Latin Language”
  • Latin 242, “Italic Dialects and Latin Historical Grammar”
  • Slavic 201, “Introduction to Old Church Slavic”
  • German 231, “Gothic”
  • German 232, “Old High German”
  • German 233, “Old Saxon”
  • Armenian 230A/B/C, “Elementary Classical Armenian”
  • Armenian 231A/B/C, “Intermediate Classical Armenian”
  • Armenian 232A/B/C, “Advanced Classical Armenian”

Advanced language and historical/comparative linguistic material is also regularly offered in the context of the Block Seminars; see past listings in areas such as “Tocharian” (2019), “Slavic Historical Grammar and Balto-Slavic Prosody” (2018), “The Hittite Verb” (2017), “Aeolic and West Greek Features in Homer” (2016), “Germanic Historical Grammar” (2015), “Celtic Historical Grammar” (2014), “Historical Grammar of Armenian” (2012), “Middle Iranian/Bactrian” (2010), “Historical Grammar of Albanian” (2009).