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Core Topics in English Historical Linguistics [Import]- Lecturer
- Dr. Florian Schleburg
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: single appointment on 14.2.2018 10:00 - 12:00, 00.3 PSG; single appointment on 27.2.2018, single appointment on 28.2.2018 10:00 - 16:00, 00.3 PSG; single appointment on 5.3.2018, single appointment on 6.3.2018 10:00 - 16:00, C 601; single appointment on 19.3.2018 10:00 - 12:00, 00.3 PSG
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- This seminar is taught in a block during the semester break!
Das Hauptseminar Core Topics in English Historical Linguistics gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zufolgenden Modulen: BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A (auf Anfrage!)
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-Gym Linguistics
MA English Studies - Linguistics and Applied Linguistics: English Historical Linguistics (Modul 11)
MA Linguistik: Modul 2/10
- Contents
- Synchronic linguistics has been admirably successful in describing what a language system looks like at any given point in time. As soon, however, as we start asking the eminently human question ›why?‹, only a diachronic approach will satisfy our curiosity.
This seminar, taught in a block during the semester break, will explore the Germanic heritage of English and then trace the most important developments that have shaped the language over the last 1500 years. The why’s and how’s of this dramatic story include: reasons and mechanisms of language change in general, phonetic and phonological processes, the structural consequences of language contact, the loss of grammatical categories and the emergence of new ones, and the overall shift from a synthetic to a predominantly analytic type of language.
- Recommended literature
- A reading list comprising both up-to-date scholarship and classic handbooks will make the seminar 100% compatible with the syllabus of the Old or Middle English option in the Bavarian State Examination.
- Additional information
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2017/2018:
- English Historical Linguistics (EngHistLing)
- Department: Chair of English Philology and Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Herbst)
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