122047 PS Proseminar Linguistics 2 (2017W)
Investigating variation and change in Present Day English syntax
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 11.09.2017 00:00 to Th 21.09.2017 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Tu 31.10.2017 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
This PS2 is PARTLY BLOCKED!!! Instead of the last 4 regular sessions, all student presentations will be blocked on Friday, 12th of January (16.00-20.00) & Saturday, January 13th (9.00-13.00) in SR 3.
Attendance during this entire block is mandatory for course completion!
Weekly sessions will be held until 15th of December. Note that there is no class on the 3rd of November! Instead we will have a double session on the 27th of October.
- Friday 13.10. 08:30 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Friday 20.10. 08:30 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Friday 27.10. 08:30 - 11:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Friday 10.11. 08:30 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Friday 17.11. 08:30 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Friday 24.11. 08:30 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Friday 01.12. 08:30 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Friday 15.12. 08:30 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Friday 12.01. 16:00 - 20:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
- Saturday 13.01. 09:00 - 13:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Each student will choose one syntactic phenomenon/construction which has been undergoing observable change in the last decades e.g. future reference (Im gonna be there), increase of progressive form (Im loving it), alternative adverb formation (Come quick!), decrease of present perfect usage (I didnt do it yet), increase of kind of, sort of, dropping of 3rd person -s, regularization of irregular plural and past forms
,get-passive, Intensifier competition.... By using the BYU corpora - COCA, COHA, BNC,... - empirical data will be elicited and analyzed. The results of this data analysis will be presented in a 25 min group presentation and in a written proseminar paper (written individually).This interactive course involves discussions, group work and presentations. Course evaluation is based on regular attendance (max. 2 absences of weekly seesions; full participation at blocked sessions in June), class participation (readings, 2 smaller assignments) 16%, an oral in-class presentation 20%, a paper proposal 20% and a written seminar paper 44%.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
you need to collect > 60p/% to pass the course successfully
Examination topics
Reading list
Materials will be provided in class. Please note that there is a moodle platform for this course.
Association in the course directory
Studium: BA 612;
Code/Modul: BA06.1;
Lehrinhalt: 12-2044
Code/Modul: BA06.1;
Lehrinhalt: 12-2044
Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33
The following questions will be answered:Why and how does a language change (external social reasons, cognitive functional internal reasons…)?
How can language change be modelled and which linguistic levels are mostly being affected?
How can linguistic variation and change be detected in the data?Another aim of this course in to show students what it means to work empirically and how to write an academic paper in linguistics.