| Lerninhalte |
This seminar explores the 'architecture' of the English language from a typological perspective and a synchronic-diachronic point of view. The analytical and evaluative criteria gained from a study of theoretical approaches to linguistic structure will be applied to key issues in the fields of morphology, morphophonemics, and grammar, such as the status and function of the few surviving inflexional markers, their relationship to analytic patterns (e.g. s- vs of-'genitive'), and the peculiarities of English word structure and accentual patterns. To explore past as well as more recent and ongoing structural changes, textual examples will be provided both for illustration and practical analysis. |
