M.L. Samuels: Linguistic Evolution, with Special Reference to English, 1972. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 180.
Roger Lass: On Explaining Language Change, 1980. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 172.
E. Itkonen: review of Lass 1980, Language 57, 1981. Pp. 688-97.
Dieter Kastovsky & G. Bauer: Luick Revisited, 1988. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. Select papers, as below.
- Robert P. Stockwell & Donka Minkova (1988a), 'The English vowel shift: problems of coherence and explanation'. In Kastovsky & Bauer 1988, pp. 355-94.
- Roger Lass (1988), 'Vowel shifts, great and otherwise: remarks on Stockwell and Minkova'. In Kastovsky & Bauer 1988, pp. 395-410.
- Robert P. Stockwell & Donka Minkova (1988b), 'A rejoinder to Lass'. In Kastovsky & Bauer 1988, pp. 411-17.
John Ole Askedal: 'Configurationality in language typology: Evidence from Germanic', Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 11, 1993. Pp. 125-34.
Roger Lass: Historical Linguistics and Language Change, 1997. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 423.
Additional material, mainly from journals, will be read as the course and the candidates' interests progress.
For candidates wishing to take this course as a 'hovedemne' (15 study points), the reading list will be extended.