LANGUAGE CHANGE
| Title | ΓΛΩΣΣΙΚΗ ΜΕΤΑΒΟΛΗ / LANGUAGE CHANGE |
| Code | Γλ4-498 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | English Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate, 2nd / Postgraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600007770 |
Programme of Study: 2024-2025
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses | Winter/Spring | - | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2015 – 2016 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors | |
| Class ID | 600046996
|
Course Type 2016-2020
- Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600046996
- eLearning: http://eclass.auth.gr/courses/ENL138/
Language of Instruction
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes and competences:
• Understanding how languages change; discuss reasons for language change; identify and analyse changes in the use of spoken language at discourse, sentence and word level;
• Mastering the methods of describing linguistic changes; discuss and analyse data concerning the origin and spread of language change;
• Practically apply historical linguistic methodology to analyse linguistic data; understand the principle of how changes diffuse: through a speech community, from language to language, and through language structure.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an international context
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Design and manage projects
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course aims to shed light on the various factors (causes, mechanisms) –of both an external and an internal nature– that play a role in language change. We also address some of the central problems in the study of syntactic/phonological/morphological/semantic change: stability and change, the role of sociolinguistic factors, first language acquisition and “internal” change, how languages begin and end.
Topics:
A. The inevitability of language change
-Studying changes in progress
B. Transition
-Syntactic change
-Phonological change
-Morphological change
-Semantic change
C. Causation
-Sociolinguistic causes
-Inherent causes
-Therapeutic changes
-Chain reaction changes
D. Origin and ending
-Language birth
-Language death
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Video lectures
- Interactive excersises
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Description
Optional Assignments
and
Final Exams
All criteria are explicitly defined and are available on the eclass website.
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 39 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Laboratory Work | 30 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Reading Assigment | 30 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Interactive Teaching in Information Center | 30 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Exams | 90 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Total | 219 |
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Summative)
- Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Recommended Bibliography
Aitchison, J. 1991 [2nd ed.]. Language Change: Progress or Decay? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Joseph, B.D. & R.D. Janda. 2003. The Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
Labov, W. 1994. Principles of Linguistic Change: Internal Factors. Oxford: Blackwell.
Labov, W. 2001. Principles of Linguistic Change: Social Factors. Oxford: Blackwell.
Labov, W. 2010. Principles of Linguistic Change: Cognitive and Cultural Factors. Oxford: Blackwell.
Lightfoot, D.W. 1991. How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Lightfoot, D.W. 1999. The Development of Language: Acquisition, Change and Evolution. Oxford: Blackwell.
Lightfoot, D.W. 2006. How New Languages Emerge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Additional bibliography for study
Fennell, B.A. 2001. A History of English: a Sociolinguistic Approach. Oxford: Blackwell.
Fischer, O., A. van Kemenade, W. Koopman & W. van der Wurff. 2000. The Syntax of Early English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lehmann, W.P. 1992 [3η έκδοση]. Historical Linguistics: an Introduction. New York: Routledge.
Last Update
07-11-2015
