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Historical Morphology- Lecturer
- Dr. Florian Schleburg
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h
Time and place: Thu 14:15 - 15:45, KH 1.020
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das Hauptseminar Linguistics gehört in folgendenStudiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A (auf Anfrage!)
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-Gym Linguistics
MA English Studies: Modul 11
MA Linguistik: 2/10
- Contents
- Historical Morphology starts asking WHY where synchronic grammar is satisfied to state THAT man and give do not behave like fan and live. Undaunted by grammatical terminology and ever eager for reasons, participants of this Hauptseminar will dig into the past of the language to find out what made irregular verbs irregular in the first place (and regular ones regular), and how English in the course of a few centuries lost nominal gender, half of its cases, most of its poor subjunctive and an entire personal pronoun, developing new categories like the perfect and the progressive instead. While we may not be able to solve the riddle of the mysterious origin of she, some pleasurable insight is almost guaranteed. (Some knowledge of German will be of use.)
- Additional information
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2016/2017:
- English historical Linguistics (EngHistLing)
- Department: Chair of English Philology and Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Herbst)
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