Begleitseminar Englisch/Anglistik zum Grundkurs Linguistik (Do 8-10)

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.

References (Semesterapparat)

1. Akmajian, Adrian, Richard A. Demers, Ann K. Farmer, Robert M. Harnish (1990). Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
2. Alyeshmerni, Mansoor & Paul Taubr (1975). Working with Aspects of Language. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
3. Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken & Norval Smith (1995). Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
4. Bielefelder Linguistik (1997). Linguistik: Die Bielefelder Sicht. Bielefeld: Aisthesis.
5. Bloomfield, Leonard (1933). Language. London: Allen & Unwin.
6. Bolinger, Dwight (1968). Aspects of Language. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
7. Bühler, Karl (1965). Sprachtheorie. Stuttgart: Fischer.
8. Carroll, John B. (1956). Language, Thought and Reality. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
9. Chambers, J. K. & Trudgill, Peter (1980). Dialectology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
10. Chomsky, Noam (1957). Syntactic Structures. The Hague: Mouton.
11. Chomsky, Noam (1965). Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. The Hague: Mouton.
12. Fromkin, Victoria & Robert Rodman (1974). An Introduction to Language. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
13. Gramley, Stephan & Kurt-Michael Pätzold (1992). A Survey of Modern English. London: Routledge.
14. Hudson, Richard A. (1980). Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridte University Press.
15. Ladefoged, Peter (1993). A Course in Phonetics. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace.
16. Saeed, John (1997). Semantics. Oxford: Blackwell.
17. de Saussure, Ferdinand (1915). Cours de linguistique générale. Paris: Payot.
18. von Savigny, Eike (1970). Grundkurs im wissenschaftlichen Definieren. München: DTV.
19. Strang, Barbara M. H. (1970). A History of English. London: Methuen.
20. Traugott, Elizabeth Closs & Mary Louise Pratt (1980). Linguistics for Students of Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.