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Areal Linguistics- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig
- Angaben
- Seminar
2 SWS, benoteter Schein
Zeit und Ort: Di 10:00 - 12:00, OK8/02.04
ab 22.10.2013
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- als Seminar, MA-Studiengang General Linguistics, Mastermodul 2 “Sprachvariation und Sprachwandel” 8 ECTS
The lecture will be in English.
Eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich.
- Inhalt
- Languages in contact: areal linguistics
The way a language changes over time is mediated by many factors, including for example its origins, the sociocultural conditions under which it is spoken, and universal cognitive / physiological constraints on the way human languages are acquired and deployed. A further powerful factor that shapes a language’s development is contact with other languages. In earlier research, where an attempt was made to differentiate between so-called “internal” factors, and “external” factors, language contact was considered an “external” factor, thus a “special case” of language change. In more recent research, however, it is becoming increasingly obvious that this distinction is impossible to maintain: the overwhelming majority of the world’s languages are spoken in contact with other languages, and the majority of the world’s population is multi-lingual. Thus language contact cannot be simply set aside as an external factor; rather, it has been operative in language change through most of human history. In this seminar, we will review some of the major themes and concepts in modern areal linguistics including:
1. Contexts of language contact:
individual bilingualism, societal bilingualism
language shift vs. substrate effects
code-switching
pidginization and creole genesis
2. Linguistic effects of language contact
matter vs. pattern borrowing
structural convergence, linguistic areas
contact and grammaticalization
3. Case studies:
Central Anatolia
Amazon basin
(others depending on students’ choices)
All students are required to hold an oral presentation on a topic of their choice. For the 8 ECTS of the Seminar a term paper is required (min. 14 pages).
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Select bibliography
Haig, G. 2002. Linguistic diffusion in present-day East Anatolia: from top to bottom. In: Dixon, R.M.W. & Alexandra Aikhenvald (eds.) Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance: problem in comparative linguistics. Oxford University Press.Matras, Yaron (2009) Language Contact, Cambridge University Press
Saville-Troike, Muriel (2006) Introducing second language acquisition, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]
Thomason, Sarah G. (2001) Language Contact, Georgetown University Press
Thomason, S. G. & Kaufman, T. 1988 , Language contact, creolization and genetic linguistics, University of California Press, Berkeley.
Winford, Donald (2003) An Introduction to Contact Linguistics, Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Language in Society.
Wohlgemuth, Jan (2009) A Typology of Verbal Borrowings, De Gruyter Mouton
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
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