LgV37 Languages in Contact

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Gonzalo Maestro Paredes (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 12:00–13:40 K33, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
This course examines language contact phenomena from varied theoretical and methodological perspectives, including codeswitching and linguistic borrowing accounts. The course begins with a structural and definitional examination of these phenomena, and continues with an exploration of the social contexts and sociolinguistic outcomes of language contact through the discussion of contact-induced language change and contact languages.
Learning outcomes
- Understand basic concepts in contact linguistics - Understand and articulate the formal properties of language contact phenomena - Assess patterns of contact-induced linguistic variation and change - Identify, describe and explain mechanisms of language contact - Demonstrate a knowledge of language contact situations around the world - Read and evaluate advanced academic literature on language contact from a variety of theoretical approaches
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction. What and where is language contact? 2. Language shift. Types of contact situation 3. Lexical Borrowing: Social motivations and Phonological - Morphological integration of loanwords 4. Structural Diffusion: Context of structural convergence 5. Code-Switching 6. Bilingual mixed languages 7. Second language acquisition and shift. 8. Pidgins and Creoles
Literature
    recommended literature
  • WINFORD, Donald. An Introduction to Contact Linguistics. Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 440 pp. Not specified. ISBN 0-631-21251-5. info
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Short description of a chosen topic. Eventually, an additional colloquium.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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