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122225 SE Linguistics Seminar / BA Paper / MA historical & descriptive linguistics (2011W)

American English and how it got that way

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

max. 18 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Montag 10.10. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Montag 17.10. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Montag 24.10. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Montag 31.10. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Montag 07.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Montag 14.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Montag 21.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Montag 28.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Montag 05.12. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Montag 12.12. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Montag 09.01. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Montag 16.01. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Montag 23.01. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Montag 30.01. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In this course we attempt to establish some of the specific characteristics of American English in terms of vocabulary and morphosyntax and try to find out when they first emerged. For that purpose we shall analyse corpora of contemporary and historical American English and compare them to counterparts representing English English. Topics we shall address will range from the use of tenses and aspects to the use of specific constructions, lexical items or classes of such. Where we observe changes, we shall attempt to account for them in terms of theories such as grammaticalisation or lexicalisation.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Classroom participation, reports on project design and development (conceptual, bibliographical and methodological), oral presentation at a seminar conference, written seminar paper.

Oral presentations will be given at a mini-conference taking place from Fri 09-12-2011, 14.00 to Sat 10-12-2011, 15:00). Full participation in the conference is mandatory, so please bear this in mind when registering for the course.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

To develop expertise in the use of large language corpora and the tools and methods required for analysing them, to learn how corpus evidence can be exploited to identify (a) specific characteristics of language varieties and (b) the developments by which they come about, as well as to (c) learn to what extent copus evidence may inform us about the reasons why varieties are as they are and why they got that way.

Prüfungsstoff

Classroom instruction, guided work on research projects, and particularly guided practice in corpus analysis.

Literatur

To be announced

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612, ME 812;
Code/Modul: Diplom 222, 226/228, 236/238, 721-723, 821, UF 4.2.3-222, BA06.2, M04
Lehrinhalt: 12-0211

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33