Academic Writing

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Lucas Ardelean, Laurentia Schreiber

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 5

Termine:

Mi, 14:15 - 15:45, SP17/01.05
Start on April 19th with a video lecture on the VC, on April 26th Teams Meeting.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulanbindung: Anmeldung in FlexNow über "Professur für Cultural Studies of the Middle East": Erweiterungsmodul D3 (5 ECTS)

Bitte schreiben Sie sich dennoch 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.

Registration for exams June 26th 2023 (10 AM) until July 10th 2023 (23:59 PM)

Language variation and change in contact settings

Dozent/in:

Laurentia Schreiber

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 8, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, MA General Linguistics: MA module 2; MA Cultural Studies of the Middle East: PLing2 (5 ECTS)

Termine:

Di, 14:15 - 15:45, SP17/01.18

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.

• This course will be held in English.
• Registration for course participation via FlexNow from April 1st to April 30th

• Registration for the exam via FlexNow from June 26th to July 10th 2023

Inhalt:

This course is a study group primarily intended for MA students with the aim to understand the mechanisms of language contact. The course will focus on the structural effects of language contact on language variation and change and is not in first instance a sociolinguistic class, although sociolinguistic aspects like the societal setting in which a language is spoken as well as individual and societal multilingualism play a crucial role in analysing structural variation and change. The central research question of the class asks what happens to languages when they get in contact and which structural effects may result from this. The class is structured in three parts: I. What is language contact? II. What is language change and what is the role of language variation in it? III. Principles of contact-induced language change. The course is designed as a workgroup including both theory and hands-on practice; each session will consist roughly of a theoretical part and a practical part in which case studies will be examined. On the part of students, active participation in class is required, involving preparation of course readings and an oral presentation of an individual case study on language contact in a language of their choice, which will be also the topic of the final term paper.
The course has the following objectives: Upon completion, students (i) are able to reproduce theoretical knowledge on language contact, its structural effects and sociolinguistic conditions (ii) can reconstruct the process of linguistic theory building by means of inductive reasoning (iii) are capable of designing a contact linguistic study

Empfohlene Literatur:

Introductory reading: Thomason, S. G. 2001. Language Contact: An Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Other course readings: Lucas, Ch. 2015. Contact-induced language change. In Bowern, C. & B. Evans (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 519–536. London: Routledge. Matras, Y. 2007. The borrowability of structural categories. In Matras, Y. & J. Sakel (eds.), Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective, 31-73. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Thomason, S. G. & Kaufman, T. 1988. Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics. Berkeley: University of California Press. Winford, D. 2003. An Introduction to Contact Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.

Research colloquium

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Laurentia Schreiber, Nils Norman Schiborr

Angaben:

Kolloquium, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, MA "General Linguistics": Colloquium for module 5 "Forschungsmodul" (Research Module)

Termine:

Di, 16:15 - 17:45, SP17/02.19
Vorbesprechung am 18.04. Anschließend: Termine nach Vereinbarung
Vorbesprechung: Dienstag, 18.4.2023, 16:00 - 18:00 Uhr

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Bitte schreiben Sie sich für diesen Kurs zeitnah in FlexNow ein und melden Sie sich unbedingt im VC (Virtueller Campus) an. Falls Sie Probleme haben wenden Sie sich bitte an admin.aspra@uni-bamberg.de.

Students are asked to enrol for this course in FlexNow and join the associated Virtual Campus (VC) course as soon as possible. If you encounter issues with enrolment, please contact admin.aspra@uni-bamberg.de.

• The lecture will be held in English
• FlexNow-Anmeldung vom 01.04. bis 30.04. / Registration via FlexNow from April 1st to April 30th

Registration for exams June 26th 2023 (10 AM) until July 10th 2023 (23:59 PM)

Inhalt:

The colloquium is primarily aimed at graduate students (MA and PhD candidates) who are working on a thesis, or are developing their research questions. Students will be expected to present their work, and engage with the other participants and the lecturer in discussions of key concepts in method and theory. Please contact the lecturer via email if you wish to attend, and give an indication of your research interests.
The colloquium is also open to interested linguists of all backgrounds who wish to participate in general exchange of ideas, and we may, depending on the programme, also be able to incorporate additional presentations; please check with the lecturer beforehand.