ELT620 LANGUAGE CONTACT
| Course Code: |
8200620 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(0-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
English Language Teaching |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
The course aims to introduce the study of language contact and its outcomes, as well as the social and linguaistic factors that regulate contact-induced change. The course covers concepts in language contact including bilingualism, code-switching and lexical borrowing, language change, contact and grammaticalization, language shift, language attrition, language death, pidgins and creoles formation.
