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Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie (Phil) >> Anglistik und Amerikanistik >>
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PS Extra-linguistic factors that shape grammar (AE_PSXtra)- Dozent/in
- Dr. Laura Becker
- Angaben
- Proseminar
2 SWS, ECTS-Studium, Sprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Do 10:15 - 11:45, A 603 (Bismarckstr. 1)
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Das PS Linguistics gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies (neu): Zwischenmodul II Linguistics. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul I: Thematisches Kombinationsmodul) Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Zwischenmodul L-GYM Linguistics. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Linguistics) Lehramt Englisch an Grund-, Haupt- und Realschulen (neu): Seminarmodul L-UF Linguistics. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Elementarmodul Linguistics)
Scheinerwerb: Referat + Hausarbeit
- Inhalt
- Comparing (some of) the 5000-7000 languages that are spoken today shows that even though most languages probably serve similar purposes, we are confronted with a high degree of variation in terms of linguistic structure and grammar. One question that emerges from this is the following: Which extra-linguistic factors can we identify to shape grammar? In other words: Which factors can account for the attested linguistic variation across languages?
This class will first introduce language typology, positioning the properties of English and similar European languages in relation to other languages of the world.
The second and main part of this class will then discuss different factors that have been shown to influence grammar and linguistic structures in a systematic way. Topics included are:
adaptation
Why are there different languages? The role of adaptation in linguistic diversity (Lupyan & Dale 2016) Understanding the origins of morphological diversity: The linguistic niche hypothesis (Dale & Lupyan 2012)
sociolinguistic factors
Social factors and linguistic processes in the emergence of stable mixed languages (Thomason 2003) Cultural constraints on grammar and cognition in Pirahã: Another look at the design features of human language (Everett 2005) Context, culture, and structuration in the languages of Australia (Evans 2003) Language structure is partly determined by social structure (Lupyan & Dale 2010) The consequences of talking to strangers: Evolutionary corollaries of socio-cultural influences on linguistic form (Wray & Grace 2007)
the influence of literacy, writing, and standardisation
Orality versus literacy as a dimension of complexity (Maas 2009) Clause combining in Otomi before and after contact with Spanish (Bakker & Hekking 2012) Are There Linguistic Consequences of Literacy? Comparing the Potentials of Language Use in Speech and Writing (Biber 2009) Language standardization and language change: The dynamics of Cape Dutch (Deumert 2004)
ecological factors
Linguistic diversity and the first settlement of the New World (Nichols 1990) Types of spread zones (Nichols 2015) A full-scale test of the language farming dispersal hypothesis Warm climates and sonority classes: Not simply more vowels and fewer consonants (Munroe et al. 2009) Evidence for direct geographic influences on linguistic sounds: The case of ejectives (Everett 2013) Climate, vocal folds, and tonal languages: Connecting the physiological and geographic dots (Everett et al. 2015) Languages in drier climates use fewer vowels (Everett 2017) The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity (Hua et al. 2019)
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 25
Für diese Lehrveranstaltung ist eine Anmeldung erforderlich.
Die Anmeldung erfolgt von Montag, 16.3.2020, 19.00 Uhr bis Samstag, 18.4.2020, 22.00 Uhr über: mein Campus.
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Language und Cognition (Alexander von Humboldt-Professur)
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