English Historical Linguistics B - AAA500108

• Title: Anglická historická lingvistika B
• Guaranteed by: Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=671
• Note: you can enroll for the course repeatedly; course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc.
• Is pre-requisite for: AAA5PP116, AAA5ZK116

Annotation

English

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc. (24.09.2020)

The two-semester course is designed as an expansion on the B.A. level lecture and seminar on the history of English (History of English I).
Presentations of relevant linguistic essays, text analyses and exercises related to a variety of topics in English historical word-formation, syntax, lexical history and sociolinguistics will help the student develop a deeper understanding of the major historical forces shaping the development of English.

Prerequisite:
History of the English Language I, II
working knowledge of Czech, Old and Middle English

N.B. Courses in "English Historical Linguistics A" and "English Historical Linguistics B" work in conjunction, focusing on structural and sociolinguistic aspects of language change, respectively, but neither is to be considered a prerequisite for the other one.

Czech

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc. (24.09.2020)

Kurz je koncipován jako možné pokračování předmětu Dějiny anglického jazyka (přednáška a seminář v bakalářském studiu).
Smyslem semináře je prohloubit znalost jednak funkcí a forem historické angličtiny, jednak principů jazykové změn, a to za pomoci prezentací relevantních lingvistické literatur, textových analýz a cvičení se zaměřením na témata slovotvorná, syntaktická, lexikálně-sémantická a sociolingvistická.

Prerekvizity:
Dějiny anglického jazyka I, II
základní znalost češtiny, staré a střední angličtiny

Pozn. Kurzy “Anglická historická lingvistika A” a “Anglická historická lingvistika B” jsou metodologicky i tematicky provázány (jeden se zaměřuje na strukturní, druhý na sociolingvistické aspekty jazykové změny v dějinách angličtiny), ale ani jeden nepředstavuje prerekvizitu pro druhý.

Aim of the course

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc. (07.01.2019)

OBJECTIVES

1.   to strengthen the understanding of English in its historical forms and functions;

2.   to strengthen the understanding of language change

Course completion requirements

English

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc. (24.09.2020)

Credit based on course work, 1 presentation per semester and a final interview (based on questions assigned to the individual seminar topics and organized in the exam period). Should teaching go offline during the semester, the final interview would be replaced with a final test.

Attendance is required, with maximum 3 absences per semester. Any additional absence during the pandemic must be remedied by additional work upon arrangement with the course instructor.

Czech

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc. (22.09.2022)

Credit based on course work, accomplished workgroup assignments, one presentation and a passing of four tests.. Attendance is required, with maximum 3 absences per semester.

Literature

English

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc. (24.09.2020)

• Bybee, Joan (2015). Language Change. Cambridge University Press. (Week 1–5, 7–9, 13) 
• McMahon, April M. S. (1994, 2002). Understanding Language Change. Cambridge University Press (http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/governance/vc-man-group/biography/) (Week 10–12)
• Bauer, Laurie (2003). Introducing Linguistic Morphology. Edinburgh University Press, 2^nd ed.
• exercises on topic-related worksheets

Czech

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc. (22.09.2022)

• Hogg, R. – Denison, D. (eds.) (2006) A History of the English Language. CUP.
• van Kemenade, A. – Los, B. (eds.) (2006) A Handbook of the History of English. Blackwell.
• Mugglestone, L. (ed.) (2007) The Oxford History of English. OUP.
• Bex, T. & Richard J. Watts (eds.) (1999) Standard English: the widening debate. London: Routledge.
• Laura Wright (ed.) (2018) Southern English Varieties Then and Now, Topics in English Linguistics 100, De Gruyter: Mouton.
• texts for presentations to be shared in Moodle
• topic-related exercise sheets to be shared in Moodle

Teaching methods

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc. (02.02.2017)

seminar

Requirements to the exam

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc. (22.09.2022)

ASSESSMENT

Credit based on course work, accomplished workgroup assignments, one presentation and a passing of four tests. Attendance is required, with maximum 3 absences per semester.

Syllabus

English

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc. (24.09.2020)

PROGRAMME: 
Week 1 

Sound Change 1 (Sound change and phonological change in a wider perspective; Bybee 49–74) 

Week 2 

Sound change 2 (The interaction of sound change with grammar; Bybee 75–92)

Week 3 

Analogical Change (Bybee 93–114)

Week 4 

Grammaticalisation 1 (Grammaticalisation: processes and mechanisms; Bybee 117–138)

Week 5 

Grammaticalisation 2 (Common paths of grammaticalisation; Bybee 139–160)

Week 6 

Lexicalisation  (Lexicalisation: definitions and viewpoints; Brinton – Traugott 32–61)

Week 7 

Syntactic change 1(Syntactic change: the development and change of constructions; Bybee 161–187)

Week 8 

Syntactic change 2 (exercises and discussion)

Week 9 

Semantic and lexical change (Lexical change: how languages get new words and how words change their meaning; Bybee 188–208)

Week 10 

Language contact (McMahon, 200–224)

Week 11 

Pidgins and creoles (McMahon, 253–283)

Week 12 

Language death (McMahon, 284–313)

Week 13 

Sources of Language Change (Sources of language change: internal and external factors; Bybee 237–264)

NOTE:

All relevant primary and secondary materials will be available from Moodle.

Czech

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc. (22.09.2022)

PROGRAMME: 

 

Week 1 (3 Oct)

Introduction.

Text 1: Nevalainen, Terttu – Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid, “Standardisation in the History of English” (in: Hogg – Denison; pp. 271-311)

Week 2 (10 Oct):

Text 2: Nevalainen, Terttu, “Historical Sociolinguistics and Language Change” (in: van Kemenade – Los, pp. 1-26)

Presentation 1: Timofeeva, Olga. 2017. Lexical Loans and Their Diffusion in Old English: of ‘gospels’, ‘martyrs’, and ‘teachers’. Studia Neophilologica 89(3), 1-23

 

Week 3 (17 Oct)

Text 3: Terttu Nevalainen, Tanja Säily, Turo Vartiainen, Aatu Liimatta and Jefrey Lijffijt: History of English as punctuated equilibria? A meta-analysis of the rate of linguistic change in Middle English.

Presentation 2: Timofeeva, Olga. 2018. Mid ðare soðe luue ðe is icleped karite: Pastoral care and lexical innovation in the thirteenth century. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM) 23, 55–85.

Week 4 (24 Oct):

Text 4: Townend, Matthew, “Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse and French” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 61-86)

Presentation 3: Ingham, Richard. 2018. The diffusion of higher-status lexis in medieval England: the role of the clergy. English Language & Linguistics 22, Special Issue 2: Mechanisms of French contact influence in Middle English: diffusion and maintenance, pp. 207-224.

Week 5 (31 Oct)

Text 5: Corrie, Marilyn, “Middle English – Dialects and Diversity” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 86-120)

Presentation 4: Ingham, Richard. 2009. Mixing languages on the manor. Medium Ævum 78, 80–97.

TEST 1

 

Week 6 (7 Nov)

Text 6: Smith, Jeremy J., “From Middle to Early Modern English” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 120-147)

Presentation 5: Evans, Mel. "‘The vsuall speach of the Court’? Investigating language change in the Tudor family network (1544–1556)" Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, vol. 1, no. 2, 2015, pp. 153-188. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2015-0011

Week 7 (14 Nov)

Presentation 6: Nevalainen, Terttu. 2009. Grasshoppers and blind beetles. Caregiver language in Early Modern English correspondence. In: Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala, Minna Palander-Collin (eds). The language of daily life in England (1400-1800), Benjamins, 137-164.

Text 7: Blank, Paula, “The Babel of Renaissance English” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 212-240)

Week 8 (21 Nov)

Presentation 7: Gotti, Maurizio. 2002. The origin of 17th century canting terms. In: Diaz Vera, J. E. (ed.) A Changing World of Words. Studies in English Historical Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 163–196.

Presentation 8: But, Roxanne. "“He said he was going on the scamp”: Thieves’ cant, enregisterment and the representation of the social margins in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers", Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, vol. 3, no. 2, 2017, pp. 151-171. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2017-1001

TEST 2

 

Week 9 (28 Nov)

Text 8: Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid, “English at the Onset of the Normative Tradition” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 240-274)

Presentation 9: Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 2010.  Eighteenth-century women and their norms of correctness. In: Hickey, Raymond (ed.), Eighteenth Century English. Ideology and Change. Cambridge University Press, 59–72.

Week 10 (5 Dec)

Text 9: Mugglestone, Lynda, “English in the Nineteenth Century” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 274-304)

Presentation 10: Trudgill, Peter. “I’ll git the milk time you bile the kittle do you oon’t get no tea yit no coffee more oon’t I: Phonetic erosion and grammaticalisation in East Anglian conjunction-formation, In: Laura Wright (ed.), Southern English Varieties Then and Now, Topics in English Linguistics 100, De Gruyter: Mouton, 2018, pp. 132-148.

Week 11 (12 Dec)

Text 10: Upton, Clive: „Modern Regional English in the British Isles“ (in: Mugglestone, pp. 305-333)

Presentation 10: Beal, Joan C. 2004. Beyond the British Isles. In: Beal, Joan C. English in Modern Times 1700–1945. London: Arnold, 209–220. 

TEST 3

 

Week 12 (19 Dec)

Text 11: Bailey, Richard W.: „English Among the Languages“ (in: Mugglestone, pp. 334-359)

Presentation 11: Romaine, Suzanne. 2006. Global English: From Island Tongue to World Language. In: van Kemenade, Ans and Bettelou Los (eds), The Handbook of the History of English, Oxford: Blackwell, 589–608.

 

Week 13 (2 Jan)

Text 12: McArthur, Tom: „English World-wide in the Twentieth Century“ (in: Mugglestone, pp. 360-393)

Text 13: Trudgill, Peter: “Standard English: What It Isnʼt” (in: Bex & Watts, pp. 117-128)

TEST 4

Concluding discussion.