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24.914 Language Variation and Change
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Not offered academic year 2025-2026Undergrad (Spring) HASS Social Sciences
Prereq: 24.900 or 24.9000
Units: 3-0-9
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Explores how linguistic systems vary across time and space. Uses case studies in particular languages to examine how language transmission and social factors shape the grammatical systems of individual speakers, and how grammar constrains variation and change. Students work in groups to analyze corpus or survey data. Provides instruction and practice in written and oral communication.
E. Flemming