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120064 SE Linguistics Seminar / BA-Arbeit / MA historical & descriptive linguistics (2011S)

Historical English word-formation

11.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Continuous assessment of course work

Early topics:

1. Word-formation: basic principles and frameworks (Marchand, Bauer, Plag, Coseriu, etc.)

2. The role of productivity in word-formation (synchronic and diachronic)

3. Why is the demarcation of compounding and affixation difficult both synchronically and diachronically?

4. The genesis of affixes in English.

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from Mo 07.02.2011 00:00 to Su 20.02.2011 23:59
Registration is open from We 23.02.2011 00:00 to Tu 01.03.2011 23:59
Deregistration possible until Th 31.03.2011 23:59

Details

max. 18 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Dieter Kastovsky

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Tuesday 08.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Tuesday 15.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Tuesday 22.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Tuesday 29.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Tuesday 05.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Tuesday 12.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Tuesday 03.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Tuesday 10.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Tuesday 17.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Tuesday 24.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Tuesday 31.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Tuesday 07.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Tuesday 21.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Tuesday 28.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Word-formation deals with the creation of new lexical items according to productive morpho-semantic patterns, such as compounding (beefwar, history-changer, homepage, couch potato, walkman, Euroland, glide-walk), prefixation (rebrand, unmurder, download, minidisk), suffixation (slacker, quizzee, Nettie, Blairite), Blending (Clintonomics, cybercafé, Dimania, docusoap), acronyms (DVD, HTML). Especially the latter less regular patterns have become very productive in the last years and will form one focus of the seminar.
First we will look at the Modern English word-formation patterns and their properties (compounding, prefixing, suffixing, zero, etc,). In the second part we will look at the historical development of these patterns, especially into the history and rivalry of native and non-native patterns of the type disconnect, detoxify, unfasten; afterthought, post-war; asymmetric, disloyal, incapable, non-white, unfair; ante-diluvian, foretell, precook.

Assessment and permitted materials

Assessment: oral presentation of a paper in class (ca. 45 minutes), written version of the oral presentation, written paper (ca. 20 pages, 7000 words for a seminar paper, ca. 30 pages, ca. 10 000 words for a B.A. paper), class participation, active participation in the seminar discussions. The quality of your English performance will form an important part of the grading!

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Familiarity with the principles of English word-formation and the most productive present-day English patterns as well as their history.

Examination topics

Oral presentation (ca. 45 min.), written paper (ca. 20 pages, 7000 words for a seminar paper, ca. 30 pages, ca. 10 000 words for a B.A. paper), class participation

Reading list

Bauer, Laurie, 1983. English word-formation. (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Dieter Kastovsky: English word-formation. Lecture notes (available via e-mail from Dieter Kastovsky (Dieter.Kastovsky@univie.ac.at) by personal request

As additional introductory reading the following are suggested:

Hans Marchand. 1969. The categories of present-day English word-formation. 2nd revisd edition. Munich: Beck. (introductory chapters)
Plag, Ingo, 2003. Word-formation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Association in the course directory

Studium: Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612, ME 812;
Code/Modul: 222, 226/228, 236/238, 721-723, 821, BA8, ME4;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0211

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