This seminar is the part of the 4 hour compulsory Grundkurs Linguistik which is directed specifically towards students of Englisch/Anglistik. This seminar is not an independent course and be taken only in conjunction with the Grundkurs Linguistik lecture.
The purpose of the course is to treat topics of linguistics which are particularly relevant to English and also to relate certain topics treated in the main Grundkurs lecture specifically to the English language, combining theory and practice by means of descriptive examples. The course will be partly on a lecture basis and partly based on group discussion of practical tasks and presentation of results.
This seminar provides the necessary basis for more specialised linguistics courses in the Grundstudium Englisch/Anglistik.
The course will use the following text book:
Fromkin, V. & R. Rodman (1993): An Introduction to Language. 5th Edition, Fort Worth etc.: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.A detailed plan and reading list will be distributed at the beginning of term.