Introduction to Middle English (AE_HIMidE)- Dozent/in
- Julian Mader, M.Ed.
- Angaben
- Sprachhistorisches Seminar
2 SWS, ECTS-Studium, Sprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Mi 14:15 - 15:45, KH 0.023
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Das sprachhistorische Seminar gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
Die Sitzungen am 29.4., 6.5. und 13.5.20 müssen entfallen und werden im Rahmen eines Blocktermins am Samstag, 13.6.20, 10-16:30 nachgeholt. Scheinerwerb: Klausur
- Inhalt
- In the Middle English period, commonly seen as stretching from the 12th to the 15th century, the English language is undergoing considerable changes: From a Modern English speaker’s point of view, the earliest texts from that period seem to be written in a foreign language, while later Middle English texts, such as those by Geoffrey Chaucer, are by and large easily understood.
In this class, you will become familiar with the most important phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic and dialectal features of Middle English as well as their origin and further development. This will provide you with a better understanding of (ir)regularities and characteristics of today’s English. For example: the discrepancy between spelling and writing (e.g. <ee> for /i:/ as in see /si:/), irregular forms such as the plural form mice (instead of mouses) or the irregular verb forms ride-rode-ridden, the fixed word order SVO or the origin of the wealth of synonyms in English (e.g. kingly, royal, regal).
The class also involves intensive reading and translation of a text by Chaucer as well as shorter excerpts from other – earlier and later – Middle English works.
- 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: Juniorprofessur für Englische Linguistik, insbesondere historische Linguistik und Variationslinguistik
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