The basic Linguistics curriculum at the Australian National University is offered by the Program in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics of the School of Language Studies in the Faculty of Arts. The following units include substantial content on language change and are informed by the research of members of the Centre for Research on Language Change:

• History of English (LING2104/LING6529), offered biennually, gives students an overview of the history of English phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax as well as the development of 'new Englishes' due to colonisation.       ← NEW!
  
• Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction (LING2005), offered annually, introduces the concepts and methods of the subdiscipline of historical linguistics.
  
• Languages in Contact (LING2018), a course offered every year and a half, describes the changes caused by the mutual influence languages may exert on one another, including such topics as word borrowing, linguistic diffusion areas, pidgin and creole language formation, language shift and language death.
  
• Study of a Language Family (LING3008), offered annually, describes the historical relations, changes, and reconstructed structure of a given language family, which varies from year to year, with coordinators drawn from the (Arts) Linguistics Program as well as staff from Linguistics (Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies), and Visiting Fellows. Language families that have been or will be offered include: Subsaharan African (1998), Austronesian (2000), Tai-Kadai (2001), Australian (2002), Mon-Khmer (2003), Papuan (2004), Indo-European (2005), Sino-Tibetan (2006), Pama-Nyungan (2007), Germanic (2008).
• The Chinese Language (LING2017), offered every two or three years, includes the history and dialects of Chinese.
  
• The German program offers a unit on German Language Change (GERM2111).

In addition to the offerings of the School of Language Studies, the Asian Studies Faculty, which includes several scholars whose recent publications have a focus on language change (Hendriks, Hooker, Kumar, et al.), offers the following units in which language change is especially important and of which the first three many be included in a Linguistics major:

• Language in Asia (ASIA2001/2103)
• Classical Chinese 1-2 (CHIN3030/3031)

Recently Completed Theses

Recently completed ANU theses and subtheses relevant to language change by members of the CRLC:

PhD
AMUZU, Evershed, Ewe-English Codeswitching - A Composite rather than Classic Codeswitching (2005, Supervisor Harold Koch)
DANILIUC, Laura, Auxiliary selection in the Romance languages. Synchrony and diachrony (2004, Supervisor Cynthia Allen)
EVANS, Bethwyn, A study of valency-changing devices in Proto Oceanic (2002, Supervisor Malcolm Ross)
HENDERY, Rachel, The diachronic typology of relative clauses (submitted 2007, currently under examination, Supervisor Cynthia Allen)
TOULMIN, Matthew W.S. Reconstructing linguistic history in a dialect continuum. The Kamta, Rajbanshi, and Northern Deshi Bangla subgroup of Indo-Aryan. (2006, Supervisor Harold Koch)

MPhil
JACQ, Pascale, A Description of Jruq (Loven): a Mon-Khmer language of the Lao PDR (2001, Supervisor Avery Andrews)

Master of Linguistics
BARRETT, Bevin, Historical reconstruction of the Maric languages of Central Queensland (2005, Supervisor Harold Koch)
HONDA, Koichi, Phonological history of Vietnamese—With special focus on the phonological system of Middle Vietnamese (2004, Supervisor Paul Sidwell)
MCLAGAN, Helen, The Syntax of Genitive Constructions in Old English: placement of genitive phrases in Ælfric's second series of Catholic Homilies (2003, Supervisor Cynthia Allen)

Honours
LAFFAN, Kate, Reconstruction of the Wakka-Kabic languages of south-eastern Queensland (2003, Supervisor Harold Koch)
STYLES, Suzy, “In tho days…”: The semantics of temporal uses of the prepositions at, in and on in Middle English; A corpus-based study of collocations with units of time up to the size of a day (2002, Supervisor Cynthia Allen)

© Chameleon mascot and CRLC logo are copyright of the CRLC, designed by Pascale Jacq. The Greek character Delta and the chameleon symbolise change, and the chameleon's flicking tongue symbolises language/linguistic change.