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 | 2022/23 | |||||||||||||
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 |
Introducing language variation and change: Linguistic variation as a condition for linguistic change. | The idea of language change The idea of language variation Language classifications: typological, geographical, genealogical Diachrony, synchrony, diatopy and diaphases in language. |
Basic types of linguistic change | Simplification and elaboration |
Factors determining variation and change: Internal and external factors. | |
Materials for the study of variation and change in English. | The nature of the evidence and its limitations |
Variation and change in the different linguistic components | Phonology Lexis Semantics Morphology Syntax |
An overview of approaches to the study of language variation and change |
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