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Type of Course	Seminar	Number
Hours per week in term	2	Term	WiSe 2019/20
Department	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Language	englisch
Additional Links	comment
application periods	01.10.2019 - 20.11.2019 enrollment
application periods	01.10.2019 - 10.11.2019 enrollment

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		Day	Time	Frequency	Duration	Room	Lecturer	Cancelled on	Max. participants
	Seminar	Mi	14:00 to 16:00	wöchentlich	16.10.2019 to 05.02.2020	1.19.1.16	Lewis	25.12.2019: 1. Weihnachtstag 01.01.2020: Neujahr	40

Description	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. This course will consider the development of English in the period 1100-1500 - so-called Middle English. Representative texts will be used to illustrate the linguistic characteristics of the language in this period. The course will also deal with the emergence of Middle English in the 12th century as well as the rise of a standard written language in the 14th and 15th centuries and the implications for the later development of the language. It is recommended that course participants are attending the lecture series An Introduction to the History of English, or have attended in a previous semester.
Literature	Course material including text extracts and grammatical material will be placed on Moodle.

Description

Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading.

This course will consider the development of English in the period 1100-1500 - so-called Middle English. Representative texts will be used to illustrate the linguistic characteristics of the language in this period.
The course will also deal with the emergence of Middle English in the 12th century as well as the rise of a standard written language in the 14th and 15th centuries and the implications for the later development of the language.
It is recommended that course participants are attending the lecture series An Introduction to the History of English, or have attended in a previous semester.

Literature

Course material including text extracts and grammatical material will be placed on Moodle.

Structure Tree

Lecture not found in this Term. Lecture is in Term WiSe 2019/20 , Currentterm: SoSe 2024