ELT620 LANGUAGE CONTACT
| Course Code: | 8200620 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (0.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | English Language Teaching |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
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.