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The seminar is devoted to grammatical variation present in British dialects, including morphological, morphosyntactic and syntactic variation. Both regional and social aspects of the variation will be taken into consideration and the present-day non-standard features will be, where possible, traced back to the earlier stages of the development of English. The seminar will cover topics such as: the use of periphrastic do and did across regional varieties, the use of ain’t in urban dialects, the regularisation of verbal inflection (i.e. the use of non-standard weak past tense and past participle forms), the definite article reduction in northern dialects and the use of negative concord and double modals. The seminar will also give an overview of past and current research methods in the variation studies (in both dialectology and sociolinguistics), including corpus-based methods such as dialectometry. Two overarching questions the seminar addresses are: (a) What large-scale patterns of grammatical variability can be detected in present-day British English dialects and (b) in what way can these patterns be traced back to earlier stages in the history of English?
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| Literatur |
Britain, D. (ed.). 2007. Language in the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Chambers, J. K., P. Trudgill, N. Schilling‐Estes (eds.), 2013. The Handbook of Language Variation and Change. Wiley-Blackwell.
Szmrecsanyi, B. 2009. Grammatical variation in British English dialects: A study in corpus-based dialectometry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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| Voraussetzungen |
Registration via "WUSEL" during the official registration period.
It is highly recommended that students complete module B I or ANG-B1 first.
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| Leistungsnachweis |
Presentation and final test (Klausur)
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| Zielgruppe |
BA: B II; ANG-FG-B2
MEd: HRGe, G: EN Ia; M-ENG2, M-ENG5 |
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