ESP Biography



TIMOTHY DOZAT, ESP Teacher



Major: Linguistics

College/Employer: Stanford

Year of Graduation: 2018

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Past Classes

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R3120: How Language Changes in Splash! Fall 2013 (Nov. 02 - 03, 2013)
Why is Shakespeare so strange? Why is Chaucer even stranger? And what's up with Beowulf? Have you ever wondered how Latin evolved into Spanish, French, Italian, and so many other languages? In this class, students will get a taste of \textbf{Historical Linguistics}, the study of \textit{how language changes over time}. By comparing words from several related languages, students will be able to reconstruct what the words had been in the shared \emph{proto-language} in addition to the regular sound changes that led to the modern variants. In addition to building general problem solving skills, language reconstruction is like solving a puzzle--fun and rewarding!