LING252

Familiarizes students with the Indo-European language family, its history, its textual artefacts, and the cultures that produced them; also introduces students to the methods used by working Indo-Europeanists. Readings, lectures, and discussions cover the grammar reconstructed for proto-Indo-European (PIE) as well as its vocabulary, which facilitates reconstruction of PIE culture (e.g. law, family structure, mythology, and various other aspects of the way of life of PIE speakers). Also explores the results of cross-disciplinary collaboration between IE linguistics and archaeology.