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  Word order typology

Dozent/in
Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig

Angaben
Seminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS, benoteter Schein
Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich, Seminar for Mastermodule 1 / 6 (8 ECTS) (Theoretical foundations of Linguistics) and Mastermodul 3 / 8 (8 ECTS) (Linguistic Diversity) for "General Linguistics"
Zeit und Ort: Do 8:15 - 9:45, U2/02.04; Do 8:00 - 10:00, SP17/02.19

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
Dieser Kurs findet bis auf weiteres in Präsenz statt. Bitte schreiben Sie sich vor dem 18.10. im Virtuellen Campus (VC) für diesen Kurs ein, damit vor dem Hintergrund der möglichen Online-Lehre die Kontaktaufnahme durch den Dozenten möglich ist. Falls Sie sich nicht einschreiben können, wenden Sie sich bitte an admin.aspra@uni-bamberg.de.

This course will be held in presence until further notice. Nevertheless, please register for this course on Virtueller Campus (VC)prior to 18th October, to allow the course instructor to get in touch with you ahead of course commencement to organise teaching in online format if necessary. Note that if you cannot enrol in Virtueller Campus you are kindly asked to contact admin.aspra@uni-bamberg.de.


  • The lecture will be in English.
  • FlexNow-Anmeldung ab dem 01.10.
  • Prüfungsanmeldung in FlexNow/Registration for exam in FlexNow: 17.01.2022 - 31.01.2022

Informationen für Studierende der Englischen Sprachwissenschaft:

1. Modules: BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS) LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 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)

2. Registration and Deregistration: Registration via FlexNow from 27 September 2021, 10:00h, to 21 October 2021, 23:59h. Deregistration via FlexNow from 27 September 2021, 10:00h, to 30 October 2021, 23:59h.

3. Requirements for successful completion of the course: 4 ECTS: regular active participation in class + oral presentation with handout 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. Combination with "Methods and Theories in Linguistics": In the early weeks of term, all students are expected to take part in a special introduction to research methods entitled "Methods and Theories in Linguistics": https://univis.uni-bamberg.de/form?dsc=anew/lecture_view&lvs=guk/angl/engls/method&anonymous=1&founds=guk/angl/engls/method&sem=2021w&codeset=utf8 (unless they have already participated in this course in an earlier semester). Thus, these participants are required to reserve the following times and dates: Friday, 29 October 2021, 8-10 am, Thursday, 11 November 2021, 8-10 am, and Friday, 12 November 2021, 8-11 am. To enable pre-planning, please register for the course in FlexNow and in the Virtual Campus course by 27 October at the latest: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/enrol/index.php?id=49429

Inhalt
Word order - the linear ordering of constituents in the clause - has been a fruitful area of cross-linguistic research for more than 50 years and remains the most widely-researched topic in contemporary language typology. This course introduces students to the context and rationale behind language typology itself, and the main developments in word order typology, starting with traditional grammar-based typology as pioneered by Joseph Greenberg in the 1960 s. From there we cover a number of related issues, closing with more recent corpus-based approaches (e.g. Levshina 2020). Word order typology is also intimately connected to the development of syntactic theory, and the concept of universal , which will also figure prominently in the course. The course is divided into the following six thematic blocks: (1) Foundations of language typology; (2) Greenberg ian word order typology (WOT); (3) Explanations in WOT; (4) Areal effects in WOT; (5) Diachronic WOT; (6) Corpus-based approaches to WOT. Students will work on a mix of conceptual and empirical readings and data, and are expected to give an oral presentation on topic of their choice (see below for options), and to complete a term paper of approx. 14 pages.
Pre-condition: Good background in syntactic analysis (at least equivalent to admission to MA programme)

Empfohlene Literatur
Comrie, Bernard. 1989. Language universals and linguistic typology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press Song, Jae Jung. 2001. Linguistic typology. Morphology and syntax. London: Longman Song, Jae Jung. 2012. Word order. Cambridge: CUP Hawkins, John. 2007. Efficiency and complexity in grammars. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Levshina, N., Namboodiripad, S., Allassonnière-Tang, M., Kramer, M. A., Talamo, L., Verkerk, A., Stoynova, N. (preprint, 2021). Why we need a gradient approach to word order. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yg9bf, accessed 31.08.2021

Englischsprachige Informationen:
Title:
Word order typology

Credits: 8

Institution: Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

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