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122220 SE Linguistics Seminar / BA Paper (2025S)

11.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

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max. 20 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Montag 10.03. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Montag 17.03. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Montag 24.03. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Montag 31.03. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Montag 07.04. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Montag 28.04. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Montag 05.05. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Montag 12.05. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Montag 19.05. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Montag 26.05. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Montag 02.06. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Montag 16.06. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Montag 23.06. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Montag 30.06. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In this seminar we explore variation and change in the history of English morphosyntax. Our focus will be (a) on inflectional suffixes such as the suffixes ‘-er’ and ‘-est’ (used for comparing adjectives as in ‘nicer’ and ‘nicest’, and competing with the analytic comparison strategies involving ‘more’ and ‘most’, as in ‘more interesting’, ‘most interesting’), the adverb forming suffix ‘-ly’ (as in ‘quickly’), or the suffix ‘-ing’ (used since Middle English times for forming participles such as ‘walking’), and (b) on derivational affixes such as ‘-hood’, ‘-ship’, or ‘-dom’ (which can be used for forming nouns like ‘childhood’, ‘lordship’, or ‘kingdom’), ‘-able’ (used for forming adjectives such as ‘likeable’), ‘-(at)ion’ (forming nouns like ‘conversion’, ‘conversation’), ‘-er’ (forming agent and instrument nouns like ‘writer’ or ‘screwdriver’), prefixes like ‘un-’ (as in ‘unimaginable’, or ‘undo’), ‘de-’ (as in ‘detach’, ‘defreeze’), ‘for-’ as in (‘forgive’, ‘forbode’), and various others. Finally, we shall investigate the history of some grammatical constructions such as the passive progressive (as in ‘Dinner was being prepared’), which is a comparably recent phenomenon, and may have prepared the path for even more recent constructions such as ‘He was being sarcastic’.

In our projects we shall gather and analyse evidence form diachronic corpora such as the ‘Corpus of Historical American English’, the ‘Early English Books Corpus’, but (possibly) also corpora covering older stages of the language (such as the ‘Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English’).

The course will begin with an introductory phase in which we shall remind ourselves of terms and concepts that are crucial in the study of morphology, and in which we shall learn how to access digital corpora and how to retrieve relevant evidence from them. We shall also learn a few basic methods for analysing corpus findings quantitatively in programs such as MS Excel, and how to visualise our results graphically.

In the second phase, students select projects to work on from a list provided at the beginning of the course. They will design and submit brief proposals, describing their research questions, their hypotheses (if any), and the methods they intend to employ. This phase will involve some supervised work in the classroom as well.

In the third phase, students will present (preliminary) results of their research and discuss them with the seminar.

At the end, students will submit written project reports (aka BA-papers).

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Class needs to be attended.
Discourse needs to be participated in.
A research proposal needs to be written.
Relevant literature needs to be found, read, and understood.
Digital text corpora need to be queried in meaningful ways.
Linguistic data need to be analysed qualitatively and quantitatively.
A presentation needs to be given.
A paper needs to be written and submitted.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Minimum requirements:
-) regular class attendance (max. 2 absences)
-) regular participation in class and completion of regular readings and small assignments
-) submitting a project proposal (on set date)
-) giving an oral presentation (on set date)
-) conducting a small research project and submitting a BA paper (on set date)
-) refraining from plagiarism in all tasks

Course evaluation is based on:
Participation and small assignments (15%)
Project proposal (15%)
Presentation (20%)
BA paper (50%)
Pass grade: 60%

Grades:
1: 90-100%
2: 80-89.9%
3: 70-79.9%
4: 60-69.9%
5: < 60%

Prüfungsstoff

Participants must attend class regularly, produce a research proposal, give a presentation in class, and submit a final paper. They need to show that they have acquired skills and competencies in morphological analysis, and in the use of diachronic corpora for studying morphological variation and change.

Literatur

The items marked with *** are video introductions available on youtube. The one by Mark Davies should be watched before the course starts.

*** Anthony, Laurence. AntConc 3.4.0 Tutorial 1: Getting Started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ukHC3fyuc.
Bammesberger, Alfred. 1984. A sketch of diachronic English morphology (Eichstätter MaterialienBd. 7. Abteilung Sprache und Literatur). Regensburg: Pustet.
Barðdal, Jóhanna, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer & Spike Gildea (eds.). 2015. Diachronic construction grammar (Constructional approaches to language 18). Amsterdam: Philadelphia.
Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. 2018. An introduction to English morphology: Words and their structure, 2nd edn. (Edinburgh textbooks on the English language). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
*** Davies, Mark. English-Corpora.org: Introduction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu3Ry6es9Y4.
Faiss, Klaus. 1992. English historical morphology and word-formation: Loss versus enrichment (FokusBd. 8). Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Gaeta, Livio. 2015. Productivity. In Peter O. Müller, Ingeborg Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen & Franz Rainer (eds.), Word-Formation, 842–858. De Gruyter.
Jespersen, Otto. 1909-1949. A modern english grammar on historical principles (Germanische Bibliothek1-7). Heidelberg: Winter.
Joseph, Brian D. 2016. Morphological Change. In Andrew Hippisley & Gregory Stump (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics), 743–764. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kastovsky, Dieter. 2011. A historical morphology of English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Lüdeling, Anke & Merja Kytö. 2008. Corpus Linguistics, Volume 1. De Gruyter Mouton.
Luschützky, Hans C. 2015. Word-formation in natural morphology. In Peter O. Müller, Ingeborg Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen & Franz Rainer (eds.), Word-Formation, 123–144. De Gruyter.
Marchand, Hans. 1969. The categories and types of present-day English word-formation: a synchronic-diachronic approach, 2nd edn. (Handbücher für das Studium der Anglistik). München: Beck.
Minkova, Donka & Robert P. Stockwell. 2009. English words: History and structure, 2nd edn. Cambridge GB: Cambridge University Press.
Ringe, Donald A. 2021. A historical morphology of English (Edinburgh textbooks on the English language). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Trips, Carola. 2009. Lexical semantics and diachronic morphology: The development of -hood, -dom and -ship in the history of English (Linguistische Arbeiten 527). Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: BA 612
Code/Modul: BA06.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-2222

Letzte Änderung: Di 04.03.2025 13:26