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LIN 617 – Advanced Studies in Historical Linguistics
Fall 2009 - Elly van Gelderen
83513 – MW 2-3:15 CDS 141
Office: LL 226C; e-mail: [email protected] Office hours: MW 10:30 – 11 am; MW 1-2pm; and by appointment (or after class). http:// www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/elly.htm Aims : The aim of Historical Linguistics is to describe change and to (try to) explain it. In this course, we will (a) briefly look at the bigger picture (language evolution and possible migrations) (b) discuss some frameworks of language change and some methods (CM, IR, corpora) (c) examine specific morpho-syntactic changes in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English to get a sense for typical changes (d) discuss a variety of (mainly morphosyntactic) changes in different language families, e.g. from synthetic to analytic and back, changes in Case and agreement, embedding, negation, pronoun systems, number systems in Indo-European, Germanic, Romance, Athabascan, Uto-Aztecan, and other families. Evaluation : 40%: 4 Homework assignments 60%: Project/Research paper/handout for a conference. In week 12, a first draft of the project is due. This draft will be commented on by Elly and given back. The final version of your paper/project should incorporate the comments. There are no required textbooks. The instructor will make pdfs available of articles. Optional books Elly van Gelderen 2006 A History of the English Language. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (we will use chapters 3, 4, 6, and 7) Mike Hopper & Elizabeth Traugott 2003. Grammaticalization. CUP. David Lightfoot … Videos: Journey of Man and In search of the first language.
Preliminary schedule :
Week 1; August 24 and 26 Introduction, Organization, and Resources. Handouts on typical change, methods, history of historical linguistics, and Language Origins. We may watch parts of two videos ( Journey of Man and In search of the first language ). Greenberg on Eurasiatic and Amerind. Cavalli-Sforza. Week 2; August 31 and 2 Sept
Evolution of Language (van Gelderen 2006, chapter 3); evolution and grammaticalization (Bickerton, van Gelderen 2008); introduction to grammaticalization (Hopper & Traugott) and other frameworks relevant to language change. Week 3; Sept 7 = Labor Day; Sept 9 Grammaticalization theory continued; Grammaticalization and areal features (Heine & Kuteva) Week 4; Sept 14 and 16 Homework 1 due; Old English (van Gelderen 2006, chapter 4); introduction to corpora/e- texts Week 5; Sept 21 and 23 Middle English (van Gelderen 2006, chapter 6); e-texts continued Week 6; Sept 28 and 30 Homework 2 due; Early Modern English (van Gelderen 2006, chapter 7); Review of the morpho-syntactic changes from Old to Modern English. Week 7; Oct 5 and 7 Grammaticalization and negation/TMA. Traugott (1992) Week 8; Oct 12 and 14 The Linguistic Cycle: Macro and micro-cycles. Reading: Hodge 1970, Givon 2000, Schwegler 1990. Week 9; Oct 19 and 21 Homework 3 due; Grammaticalization in Chinese (Wu 200xxx; Yang 2009) Week 10; Oct 26 and 28 Grammaticalization in Semitic Week 11; Nov 2 and 4 Issues in Indo-European. Grammatical marking: changes in agreement and Case (head and dependent marking) and changes in clause structure. Read Nichols (1992: chap 1) and Kiparsky (1996); Skim Gamkrelidze & Ivanov (1994: 233-276). Week 12; Nov 9 and 11 Research paper draft due. xxxx Week 13; Nov 16 and 18 Homework 4 due; Conclusions; review; and case study. Week 14; Nov 23 and 25 Student papers.
- Use of corpora, see e.g. http://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/corpora%20and%20I- lg.doc
- The Computational Phylogenetics Project (www.cs.rice.edu/~nakhleh/CPHL/
- Glottochronology. Start with Bynon (1977: 266-72).
- Connections among writing systems: http://www.ancientscripts.com/ws_families.html. A particular school or idea:
- Historical pragmatics, Brinton, Jucker, Biber, Traugott 1997ab
- Influence of Darwinism on 19th^ century linguistics.
- Functionalist Historical Linguistics, e.g. Hapelmath 1999 http://email.eva.mpg.de/~haspelmt/Stockholm99.pdf
- Structuralism.
- Sound Symbolism (Prokosch 1939: 120-23).
- Racism in (Historical) Linguistics (Bernal, Koerner 2004, Said 1984)
- Analogy. De Saussure and Hock and Kiparsky.
LIN 617 INTRODUCTION AND RESOURCES
EvG – 24 August 2009 Why study HisLing? Some terminology/concepts See glossary at: http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/ CM cognate corpus/corpora diachronic - synchronic external - internal generative grammaticalization IR opacity proto-language reanalysis reconstruction UG E-resources Indo-European homepage: http://www.indo-european.org OED (http://0-dictionary.oed.com.library.lib.asu.edu/entrance.dtl) Electronic Texts (see my links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/links.htm) Monoconc and TACT BNC and other corpora (see http://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/links.htm). Utexas: www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc. Regular Conferences (with proceedings) ICHL (Benjamins), ICHL 20 will be in Osaka, Japan. August 2011 and Oslo 2013 ICEHL (Benjamins), Pecs, August 2010 DIGS (OUP) NRG (Benjamins) Journals Diachronica , see http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=DIA Language Variation and Change (http://0-journals.cambridge.org.library.lib.asu.edu). Studia Linguistica Historica Journal of Historical Pragmatics (http://www.es.unizh.ch/ahjucker/JHP.htm).
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