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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2019) |
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| Variation and Change in English |
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| Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
| 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 | Main approaches |
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