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- Read: Ch. 12 of Trask.
- Assignment 7: due March 7.
- Etymology. The ``words and things'' method.
- Cultural reconstruction: inferences from the proto-vocabulary.
- Using linguistic evidence to trace prehistoric contacts and migrations.
Paul Kiparsky
2006-01-09