122048 PS Proseminar Linguistics 2 (2017S)
BA (612) 6.1 - I am loving it! - investigating variation and change in Present Day English syntax
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von Do 16.02.2017 00:00 bis Mi 22.02.2017 23:59
- Abmeldung bis Fr 31.03.2017 23:59
Details
max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
This PS2 is PARTLY BLOCKED!!! Instead of the last 5 regular sessions, all student presentations will be blocked on Friday, June 9th (16.00-20.00) & Saturday, June 10th (9.00-13.00).
Attendance during this entire block is mandatory for course completion!
Weekly sessions will be held until 24th of May.
Mittwoch
08.03.
16:00 - 18:00
Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Mittwoch
15.03.
16:00 - 18:00
Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Mittwoch
22.03.
16:00 - 18:00
Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Mittwoch
29.03.
16:00 - 18:00
Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Mittwoch
05.04.
16:00 - 18:00
Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Mittwoch
26.04.
16:00 - 18:00
Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Mittwoch
03.05.
16:00 - 18:00
Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Mittwoch
10.05.
16:00 - 18:00
Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Mittwoch
17.05.
16:00 - 18:00
Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Mittwoch
24.05.
16:00 - 18:00
Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Freitag
09.06.
16:00 - 20:00
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Samstag
10.06.
09:00 - 13:00
Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
Information
Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Each student will choose one syntactic phenomenon/construction which has been undergoing observable change in the last decades e.g. future reference (Im gonna be there), increase of progressive form (Im loving it), alternative adverb formation (Come quick!), decrease of present perfect usage (I didnt do it yet), increase of kind of, sort of, dropping of 3rd person -s, regularization of irregular plural and past forms
,get-passive, Intensifier competition.... By using the BYU corpora - COCA, COHA, BNC,... - empirical data will be elicited and analyzed. The results of this data analysis will be presented in a 25 min group presentation and in a written proseminar paper (written individually).
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
This interactive course involves discussions, group work and presentations. Course evaluation is based on regular attendance (max. 2 absences of weekly seesions; full participation at blocked sessions in June), class participation (readings, 2 smaller assignments) 16%, an oral in-class presentation 20%, a paper proposal 20% and a written seminar paper 44%.
Prüfungsstoff
you need to collect > 60p/% to pass the course sucessfully
Literatur
Materials will be provided in class. Please note that there is a moodle platform for this course.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Studium: BA 612;
Code/Modul: BA06.1;
Lehrinhalt: 12-2044
Code/Modul: BA06.1;
Lehrinhalt: 12-2044
Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33
The following questions will be answered:Why and how does a language change (external social reasons, cognitive internal reasons…)?
How can language change be modelled and which linguistic levels are mostly being affected?
How can linguistic variation and change be detected in the data?Another aim of this course in to show students what it means to work empirically and how to write an academic paper in linguistics.