Approaches and Perspectives in English Historical Linguistics - Single View

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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
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application period	01.10.2019 - 20.11.2019 enrollment

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		Day	Time	Frequency	Duration	Room	Lecturer	Canceled/rescheduled on	Max. participants
	Seminar	Mo	08:00 to 10:00	wöchentlich	14.10.2019 to 03.02.2020	1.19.1.16	apl. Prof. Dr. Wischer	23.12.2019: Akademische Weihnachtsferien 30.12.2019: Akademische Weihnachtsferien	30

Description	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. The seminar focuses on an investigation of various linguistic changes in the history of English based on a variety of theoretical approaches and empirical methods. We will e.g. explore how certain changes in the history of English may be approached from a generative linguistic perspective or how they can be watched by applying corpus studies. Special attention will be given to approaches to grammaticalization and lexicalization as well as to pragmatic inferences in semantic change. Based on students interests, we will look at discourse-based case studies , sociohistorical research and historical-pragmatic analyses. Finally, we will look at how theories of language change may incorporate psycholinguistic perspectives and which role standardization and codification, regional variation and language contact may have played in the history of English.
Literature	Brinton, Laurel (ed.). 2017. English Historical Linguistics: Approaches and Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, relevant chapters will be made available on Moodle, together with other linguistic articles

Description

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

The seminar focuses on an investigation of various linguistic changes in the history of English based on a variety of theoretical approaches and empirical methods. We will e.g. explore how certain changes in the history of English may be approached from a generative linguistic perspective or how they can be watched by applying corpus studies. Special attention will be given to approaches to grammaticalization and lexicalization as well as to pragmatic inferences in semantic change. Based on students interests, we will look at discourse-based case studies , sociohistorical research and historical-pragmatic analyses. Finally, we will look at how theories of language change may incorporate psycholinguistic perspectives and which role standardization and codification, regional variation and language contact may have played in the history of English.

Literature

Brinton, Laurel (ed.). 2017. English Historical Linguistics: Approaches and Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, relevant chapters will be made available on Moodle, together with other linguistic articles

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