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Bislama: an English-lexifying contact language of the South Pacific [Import]- Dozent/in
- Dr. Stefan Schnell
- Angaben
- Seminar
2 SWS, benoteter Schein
Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, 2-8 ECTS, Seminar für das Vertiefungs- und Profilmodul im BA-Nebenfach "Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft"
Zeit und Ort: Mi 12:15 - 13:45, OK8/02.04
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- The lecture will be in English
- FlexNow-Anmeldung ab dem 01.04.
- Inhalt
- In this course, students of linguistics will acquire a basic understanding of so-called “contact languages”, i.e. languages that have evolved as a result of the contact between two or more (usually unrelated) languages with different lexica and grammatical systems. Contact languages, traditionally called “pidgin” or “creole” languages, have been developing over relatively short periods of time and thus represent a “special” type of language, therefore being of particular interest to both theoretical and typologically oriented linguists.
As an example of a contact language, we will study the grammatical system, lexicon, and historical development of Bislama, the so-called nasonel lanwis of the Republic of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. Bislama emerged among plantation workers in Queensland about 150 years ago and is nowadays spoken by approximately 260,000 cultural Melanesians, almost all of which have one (or more) of close to 100 Oceanic languages of Vanuatu as their first language. Bislama is also spoken by a much smaller number of ex-pat business people, aid workers and researchers with different linguistic backgrounds residing more or less permanently in the country. Its lexicon is to a large extent of English but also French origin, and its grammatical structure resembles to a considerable degree that of the indigenous Oceanic languages. One essential goal of the course is to show how contact languages represent “full-fledged” linguistic systems with their own complexities.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 20
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft einschließlich Sprachgeschichte
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