Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2019) |
Subjects |
Variation and Change in English |
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Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Variation and Change in English | Code | 613505108 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Optional | 3 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
1. Introduction and basic concepts | The idea of language change The idea of language variation Language classifications: typological, geographical, genealogical Diachrony, synchrony, diatopy and diaphases in language |
Historical Linguistics: main tenets and methodologies. | The comparatist method Reconstruction as a method |
Theoretical frameworks for the study of variation and change | Structuralism Generativism Grammaticalisation Construction grammar (Historical) sociolinguistics Other approaches |
Variation and change at different levels: | Phonology Lexis Semantics Morphology Syntax |
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