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Anaphora and agreement- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig
- Angaben
- Oberseminar
2 SWS, benoteter Schein, Aufbaumodul 2 BA Sprachwissenschaft, Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft, MA Anglistik, MA Germanistik. Prüfungsleistung: schriftliche Hausarbeit
Zeit und Ort: jede 2. Woche Mo 14:00 - 18:00, OK8/02.04
ab 22.10.2012
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Good knowledge of linguistics
- Inhalt
- In this seminar we will look at the related areas of anaphora and agreement from a typological perspective. Anaphora is, broadly speaking, the means for expressing a referent that has been previously mentioned in a given text. In English or German, some sort of pronoun is often used for this function, but languages vary considerably with regard to how they implement anaphora. Agreement, on the other hand, refers to the systematic reflection of some feature of a word (or phrase) through changes on another word in a related domain. Thus for example, a verb in German shows agreement with its subject, or an adjective shows agreement with its noun, and so on.
Although the two are in principle distinct, there are interesting areas of overlap, which will be the focus of this seminar. We will begin by looking at the some of the landmark literature on the topic from a theoretical perspective, before going on to look at case studies from different languages.
Students will be able to choose either a language that they wish to investigate, or a particular theoretical issue in the literature. Towards the end of term (February 1-2), there will be an international workshop on this topic in Bamberg, and students will have an opportunity to attend the workshop and listen to contributions from internationally leading linguists in this field.
The course will take place every second week (four hours, with a break in the middle). Students wishing to attend should send an email to geoffrey.haig@uni-bamberg.de before 5.10.2012.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Ariel, Mira. 1990. Accessing noun phrase antecedents. London: Routledge.
Bickel, Balthasar. 2003. Referential density in discourse and syntactic typology. Language 79, 708-736.
Bresnan, J. & S. Mchombo. 1987. Topic, pronoun and agreement in Chichewa. Language 63:741-782.
Corbett, Greville. 2006. Agreement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jelinek, E. 1984. Empty categories, case, and configurationality. Natural language and linguistic theory 2:39-76.
Kibrik, Andrej A. 2011. Reference in discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lehmann, Christian. 1988. On the function of agreement. In Michael Barlow & Charles A. Ferguson (eds.) Agreement in natural language, 55-66. CSLI, Stanford.
Levin, Magnus. 2001. Agreement with collective nouns in English. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell.
Siewierska, Anna. 2004. Person. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 10
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
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