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Recent Change in English Grammar- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Julia Schlüter
- Angaben
- Seminar/Hauptseminar
2 SWS
Zeit und Ort: Do 10:15 - 11:45, U11/00.16; Bemerkung zu Zeit und Ort: In the second week of term, MA students as well as BA/Lehramt students in their Vertiefungsmodul are expected to take part in an introduction to research methods (unless they have already participated in the Übung “Methods and Theories in Linguistics”). Thus, these participants are required to reserve the following times and dates: Mo, 16 April 2018, 8–10 h OR 10–12 h OR 12–14 h AND Thu, 19 April 2018, 10–16 h OR Fri, 20 April 2018, 8–14 h. To coordinate course dates and times, please register for the following Virtual Campus course by 12 April at the latest and take part in the survey you will find there: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=26997. You will receive notice of the time slots you have been allotted on 13 April.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- General organization
1. Modules:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
LA GY modularisiert: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
LA GY modularisiert: Wahlpflichtmodul Englische Sprachwissenschaft bei Kombination mit dem Fach Russisch Seminar (6 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Master Module English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Profile Module English Linguistics I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Consolidation Module English Linguistics I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)
2. Registration and Deregistration:
Registration via FlexNow from 19 March 2018, 10:00h, to 12 April 2018, 23:59h.
Deregistration via FlexNow from 19 March 2018, 10:00h, to 30 April 2018, 23:59h.
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:
4 ECTS: regular active participation in class + oral presentation
5/6/8 ECTS in MA English and American Studies Consolidation Module English Linguistics I/II/III: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + oral exam
5 ECTS in other programmes or modules: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + assignment of 2500-3500 words
6 ECTS: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + seminar paper of 3000-4000 words
8 ECTS BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik Vertiefungsmodul: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + seminar paper of 3500-4500 words
8 ECTS in other programmes or modules, and visiting students: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + seminar paper of 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 are more prominent. 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 a 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 occurred 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 (Thursdays, 16:00 - 16:45 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 zum Hauptseminar "Recent Change in English Grammar"
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Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Julia Schlüter
Zeit und Ort: Do 16:00 - 16:45, U9/01.03
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft einschließlich Sprachgeschichte
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