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

Continuous assessment of course work

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Registration/Deregistration

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 Fr 16.09.2011 00:00 to Su 25.09.2011 23:59
Registration is open from Th 29.09.2011 14:00 to Tu 04.10.2011 23:59
Deregistration possible until Mo 31.10.2011 23:59

Details

max. 18 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Nikolaus Ritt

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

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

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

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.

Assessment and permitted materials

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.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

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.

Examination topics

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

Reading list

To be announced

Association in the course directory

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

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