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S/HS: Recent Change in English Grammar- Dozent/in
- PD Dr. Julia Schlüter, Akad. Rätin
- Angaben
- Seminar/Hauptseminar
2 SWS, benoteter Schein
Zeit und Ort: Mo 10:00 - 12:00, U5/01.17
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- General organization
1. Modules
LA GY modularisiert: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Mastermodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Master-Vertiefungsmodul I od. II Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Erweiterungsmodul I od. II: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Anglistik: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Erweiterungsmodul I oder II: Seminar (8 ECTS)
LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Sprachwissenschaft
Joint Degree: Mastermodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Joint Degree: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Joint Degree: Profilmodul I oder II Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (8 ECTS)
2. Registration:
via FlexNow!
23 September 2013, 10:00 - 17 October 2013, 23:59
For students transferring to the University of Bamberg, for Erasmus students and for those who need the credit to register for their upcoming final exams a few places will be reserved. If the course is fully booked please contact the lecturer personally.
3. Requirements for successful completion of the course:
regular active participation in class + oral presentation + termpaper (4500-6000 words)
4. Language of instruction:
English
- Inhalt
- Nothing is permanent except change. This well-known saying by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus is very much true of language, even though we tend to think of it as something static that can be set down in grammar books and exhaustively listed in dictionaries. Many of us think of language change as something belonging to the distant past, where examples stick out more noticeably. Rather than dealing with old hats , this seminar will however be concerned with relatively recent developments in the 20th and 21st centuries, which implies that their completion may yet be pending and we may at present witness the variation typical of such as situation.
We will focus on grammatical (i.e. morphological and syntactic) examples, such as the s-genitive, adjective gradation, contractions, modal auxiliaries and semi-modals, the perfect, the progressive, the passive, the future, the subjunctive, complex predicates, non-finite clauses, relative clauses etc. Methodological issues will be addressed as well as the question of which factors drive or impede change. We will consider language-internal (functional) forces as well as general trends such as colloquialization, Americanization, densification etc.
It will be shown that some changes are continuations of long-standing trends whereas others have come quite unexpectedly. The course will make students realize that English is a changing language, and that we are right in the midst of this permanent flux.
Participants will be asked to present current research in class and to carry out their own small-scale analyses of relevant phenomena in their termpapers.
The Übung that accompanies the Hauptseminar (Fridays, 9:15 10:00 h) is designed to discuss oral presentations, handouts, empirical analyses and termpaper projects individually and/or in small groups. Individual arrangements will be made also, if necessary, concerning the time of the Übung. Therefore clashes with other courses scheduled for the same time slot as the Übung can be avoided.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Recommended reading:
- Leech, Geoffrey, Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair and Nicholas Smith 2009. Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Mair, Christian 2006. Twentieth Century English: History, Variation, and Standardization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Aarts, Bas, Joanne Close and Geoffrey Leech (eds.) 2013. The Verb Phrase in English: Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Zugeordnete Lehrveranstaltungen
- Ü: Übung zu S/HS "Recent Change in English Grammar"
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Dozent/in: PD Dr. Julia Schlüter, Akad. Rätin
Zeit und Ort: Mo 9:15 - 10:00, U9/01.03
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft einschließlich Sprachgeschichte
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