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122047 PS Proseminar Linguistics 2 (2020W)

Changes in English Syntax

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Completely Digital as of 03.11.

  • Friday 09.10. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
  • Friday 16.10. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
  • Friday 23.10. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
  • Friday 30.10. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
  • Friday 06.11. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
  • Friday 13.11. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
  • Friday 20.11. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
  • Friday 27.11. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
  • Friday 04.12. 08:15 - 09:45 Hybride Lehre
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 11.12. 08:15 - 09:45 Hybride Lehre
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 18.12. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
  • Friday 08.01. 08:15 - 09:45 Hybride Lehre
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 15.01. 08:15 - 09:45 Hybride Lehre
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 22.01. 08:15 - 09:45 Hybride Lehre
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 29.01. 08:15 - 09:45 Hybride Lehre
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The aim of this course is to explore some of the contemporary controversies in both the noun phrase and the clause in the English language. Concretely, this course helps students develop their understanding of syntactic analysis and to develop their ability to analyze English phrases, clauses and sentences in terms of form and function. The course comprises advanced syntactic analysis and trains the capacity to make use of relevant research material (i.e. references, corpora) in the study of English grammar. A further course aim is to show students how to work empirically and write an empirical academic paper in linguistics. Therefore, in this course students will use corpora to investigate creative syntactic phenomenon.

In this course, students gain:

i) an understanding of basic concepts and problems in the field of syntax pertaining to the study of English,
ii) an overview of the resources and tools for syntactic research, in particular, the use of corpora
iii) an insight into basic syntactic analysis,
iv) an insight into what it means to work empirically,
v) a greater understanding of the conventions of writing an empirical paper in linguistics.

Assessment and permitted materials

The final grade is based on exercises and quizzes, active participation, research proposal, oral presentation and seminar paper.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Regular class attendance (max 2 absences)
Participation, readings, smaller assignments/quizzes 10%
Research Proposal 15%
Presentation 20%
Paper a written seminar paper (3500 words, excluding references and graphs) 55%

You need 60% to pass the course.
Plagiarism or cheating on any of the tasks will not be tolerated.

Examination topics

Reading list

Will be posted on Moodle

Association in the course directory

Studium: BA 612;
Code/Modul: BA06.1;
Lehrinhalt: 12-2044

Last modified: Fr 12.05.2023 00:16