An introduction to linguistics (Seminar)

Dozent/in:

Nils Norman Schiborr

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Seminar für das Basismodul im BA-Nebenfach Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft. Modulteilprüfung

Termine:

Di, 10:15 - 11:45, SP17/00.13
ab 8.11.2022

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Please join the Virtual Campus (VC) course for this seminar as soon as possible in order to stay informed about possible changes in the course format and scheduling. If you have trouble registering on the VC, please contact admin.aspra@uni-bamberg.de.

Depending on the development of the pandemic situation over the winter, parts of this course may be held via MS Teams. The link to the MS Teams room and all course material will be made available via the VC.

• This course will be held in English.
• Successful completion of this course requires a passing grade in a written exam.
• Classes commence in the fourth week of the semester.
• Registration for course participation via FlexNow! starts 01 October 2022.

Registration for the exam via FlexNow! is possible from 16 January to 30 January 2023.

Inhalt:

In this course students will have the opportunity to practice the key skills of language analysis that they have learnt in the lecture An Introduction to Linguistics. Students will work intensively on example sets taken from a broad range of different languages, discuss different analyses, and evaluate different theoretical proposals. The course closes with a written exam.

An introduction to linguistics (Vorlesung, für Romanisten verwendbar als "Einführung in die Linguistik" / "Einführung 1")

Dozent/in:

Nils Norman Schiborr

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, Schein, ECTS: 2, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Vorlesung für das Basismodul im BA-Nebenfach Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft sowie die Basismodule Sprachwissenschaft (Französisch/Spanisch/Italienisch) im BA Romanistik. Keine Prüfung

Termine:

Mi, 12:15 - 13:45, SP17/02.19
ab 26.10.2022

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Please join the Virtual Campus (VC) course for this lecture as soon as possible in order to stay informed about possible changes in the course format and scheduling. If you have trouble registering for the VC, please contact admin.aspra@uni-bamberg.de.

This course will be held online via MS Teams. The link to the MS Teams room and all course material will be made available via the VC.

• This course has no prerequisites.
• This course will be held in English.
• Class commences in the second week of the semester.
• Registration for course participation via FlexNow! starts 01 October 2022.

Registration for the exam via FlexNow! is possible from 16 January to 30 January 2023

Informationen für Studierende der Romanischen Sprachwissenschaft:
Die Veranstaltung entspricht für Studierende der Romanischen Sprachwissenschaft der obligatorischen Vorlesung (2 ECTS) für das Basismodul Romanische Sprachwissenschaft.
In diesem Fall muss die FlexNow-Lehrveranstaltungsanmeldung wie auch die Prüfungsanmeldung über den FlexNow!-Zugang der Romanischen Sprachwissenschaft erfolgen.

Inhalt:

This course introduces the student to the skills and techniques necessary for the scientific analysis of language, and to some of the different theoretical approaches to linguistics currently available. The focus will be on the traditional areas of language structure: sound patterns (phonetics and phonology), the structure of words (morphology) and their meaning (semantics), and the structure of phrases and sentences (syntax). The lecture will also give students a short overview of the world's languages, and an introduction to the resources available for studying them. Students will have an opportunity to practice their skills in the companion seminar An Introduction to Linguistics, which is offered in parallel to this lecture.

Methods in quantative analysis: Corpus annotation

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Geoffrey Haig, Nils Norman Schiborr

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, MA General Linguistics: Seminar for MA modules 4 and 9 (Linguistic Research Methods) (8 ETCS); MA Cultural Studies of the Middle East: PLing 5 (5 ETCS)

Termine:

Mi, 16:00 - 17:30, SP17/01.05
ab 26.10.2022

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Bitte schreiben Sie sich zu Semesterbeginn im Virtuellen Campus (VC) für diesen Kurs ein. Falls Sie sich nicht einschreiben können, wenden Sie sich bitte an admin.aspra@uni-bamberg.de.

Please register for this course on Virtueller Campus (VC)at the beginnig of the semester. Note that if you cannot enrol in Virtueller Campus you are kindly asked to contact admin.aspra@uni-bamberg.de.

The first half of this course will be held in person, the second half (starting 14 December) online via MS Teams. The link to the MS Teams room and all course material will be made available via the VC.

• This course will be held in English.
• Students of the MA General Linguistics may use this course for the Linguistic research methods modules M4 (core) or M9 (elective) for 8 ETCS.
• Students of the MA Cultural Studies of the Middle East may use this course for Methods in quantitative analysis module PLing5 for 5 ETCS.
• Successful completion of this course requires a passing grade in two written assignments.
• Registration for course participation via FlexNow! starts 10 October 2022.

Registration for the exam via FlexNow! is possible from 16 January to 30 January 2023.

Inhalt:

This course provides a hands-on introduction to quantitative methods in linguistics, illustrated with practical analysis of the spoken language data based developed at the department (the Multi-CAST, WOWA, and HamBam corpora).

The course will be divided into two parts: The first, held in person by Geoffrey Haig, will discuss the foundations of quantitative research, with a focus on language corpora. The second part, held via MS Teams by Nils Schiborr, will provide hands-on instruction on analytical methods using the statistical computing language R, regular expressions, and other tools.

For both parts of the course, use of a laptop or desktop computer is recommended, as we will be working intensively with numerous pieces of software.

Empfohlene Literatur:

• Stefanowitsch, Anatol. 2020. Corpus linguistics: A guide to the methodology. Berlin: Language Science Press. (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/148)
• Barth, Danielle & Schnell, Stefan. 2021. Understanding corpus linguistics. London: Routledge.
• Rasinger, Sebastian. 2013. Quantitative research in linguistics: An introduction. 2nd ed. New York: Bloomsbury.
• Baayen, Harald. 2008. Analyzing linguistic data: A practical introduction to statistics using R. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Levshina, Natalia. 2015. How to do linguistics with R: Data exploration and statistical analysis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.). 2022. Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. Bamberg: University of Bamberg. (https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/)
• Haig, Geoffrey & Stilo, Donald & Do an, Mahîr C. & Schiborr, Nils N. (eds.). 2022. WOWA Word Order in Western Asia: A spoken-language-based corpus for investigating areal effects in word order variation. Bamberg: University of Bamberg. (https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/resources/wowa/)
• Haig, Geoffrey & Rasekh-Mahand, Mohammad. 2022. HamBam: The Hamedan-Bamberg Corpus of Contemporary Spoken Persian. Bamberg: University of Bamberg. (https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/resources/hambam/)