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Diachronic syntax- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig
- Angaben
- Seminar
2 SWS, benoteter Schein
Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium, Seminar für das Mastermodul 2 "Sprachvariation und Sprachwandel" sowie für den Erweiterungsbereich im MA "General Linguistics"
Zeit und Ort: Do 8:15 - 9:45, OK8/02.04
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- The lecture will be in English
- FlexNow-Anmeldung ab dem 01.04.
- Inhalt
- In the English language spoken before around 1500, it was common to negate a simple clause using the particle not, as in go not! For today’s English speakers, however, this would sound very odd, because today, the same meaning is expressed using a negated form of do, as in: don’t go!
This is a simple example of syntactic change. The branch of linguistics that investigates syntactic change is diachronic, or historical, syntax. Diachronic syntax examines the ways in which the syntax of languages change over time, and develops models to account for them. In this course, we will review different kinds of syntactic change and some of the models that have been put forward to account for them, including grammaticalization, re-analysis, extension, and contact-induced change. We also discuss the issue of gradual versus abrupt change, and look at recent advances in corpus linguistics as a source of evidence in diachronic syntax. Examples will be taken from a variety of different languages and language families; students with an interest in a particular topic or language should contact the instructor prior to the beginning of term to discuss the possibility of including the topic in the programme.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- References (selection):
Fischer, Olga. 2007. Morphosyntactic change. Functional and formal perspectives. Oxford: OUP.
Gildea, Spike. 1998. On reconstructing grammar. Comparative Cariban morphosyntax. Oxford: OUP.
Givón, Talmy. 1979. From discourse to syntax. Grammar as a processing strategy. In Givón, T. (ed.) Discourse and Syntax. New York: Academic Press, 81-112.
Harris, Alice & Lyle Campbell. 1995. Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge: CUP.
Kroch, Anthony. 2001. Syntactic change. In: Baltin, Mark and C. Collins (eds.) The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 699-729.
Lightfoot, David. 1998. The development of language. Acquisition, change, and evolution. Malden: Blackwell.
Trask, R.L. 1996. Historical linguistics. London: Arnold.
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. 2010. Grammaticalization. In: Luraghi, S. & Vit Bubenik (eds.) The continuum companion to historical linguistics. London/NY: Continuum, 271-285.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 10
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
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