Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9

[Olle Engstrand]

I have found that the University of Pisa, Italy - also La Spaienza in Rome - provide good academic environments for the study of historical linguistics.

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Olle Engstrand
PhD, Prof. em.
http://www.ling.su.se/staff/olle/olle.html

 
On 19 Oct 2010, at 08:13, Scott wrote:

> I will wait to see who answers.  Fifty years ago UT, UNC, and Columbia had
> top notch programs in Historical Romance Linguistics; today that field is on
> life-support: generative grammar and the concept that the current spoken
> language is the only language worth studying have become a cancer on the
> field of linguistics.  Perhaps some Historical Germanic Linguistics survive
> in the US.  You may have better luck in Europe depending upon the languages
> in which you are fluent.  I know the joke: Asking linguists how many
> languages they speak is comparable to asking economists how much money they
> make; however, a command of French, German, and Spanish will take you
> further than English and French alone.
> 
> N. Scott Catledge, PhD/STD
> Professor Emeritus
> history & languages
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>   1. Study-Abroad, Undergraduate (Ross Clarke Kettleson)
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> Not to disrupt the stream of conference calls, but I'm an undergrad in
> Linguistics at McGill University, 2nd year, looking for a Uni with a good
> Historical Linguistics or PIE-centred undergrad program to which I can
> transfer for a semester abroad. The partner institutions offered at McGill
> are a bit sparse on either the historical side or the Linguistics side
> completely, and I thought that this would be the prime place to ask for
> suggestions or advice.
> Thanks;
> Ross Kettleson
> McGill University
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