Course Credit: 4
This course is designed to make the students well acquainted with some important theoretical, methodological and descriptive issues in the history of linguistics. In this course, students will know about the prominent schools and movements in linguistics including rational aspects of language study and historical, comparative, structural, generative, typological, functional and cognitive approaches of linguistics.
The objective of this course is to explore how theories in linguistics have evolved in the context of the history of linguistics, with a key focus on certain figures in linguistics and various schools of linguistic thought.