Inhalt
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Language change is a many-faceted problem. This course is supposed to acquaint you with several of these facets, in particular concerning syntactic change, and allow participants to discuss and analyze them, mainly but not exclusively on the basis of English data. The crucial problem we will be confronted with is the question of how grammatical properties change, and if so, why they do. The notions we are going to have to deal with are those of parameters and parametric change.
Registration: Via "Elektronisches Vorlesungsverzeichnis" alias "WUSEL" during the registration period for the "Anglistik/Amerikanistik" department.
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| Literatur |
A syllabus for this course will be made available via moodle to enrolled students later in March, including literature resources and a list of topics for student presentations. Enrolled students will automatically have access to the moodle page of this course and there also find information about preparatory reading, etc.
One text we will access frequently is
Ian Roberts, Diachronic Syntax, Oxford 2007 |
| Voraussetzungen |
Students should have successfully completed Module BI.
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| Leistungsnachweis |
Acquisition of the B II/B 2 Variation ”Leistungsbescheinigung” (4 pts) requires active participation, preparation for each session, and participation in a presentation plus preparation of a corresponding paper. Participation in a presentation is mandatory. |
| Zielgruppe |
Kombi-BA: B II (Variation)
MEd 2011 - HRGe, G: EN I, Ia |
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