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.
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Kurz je koncipován jako možné pokračování předmětu Dějiny anglického jazyka (přednáška a seminář v
bakalářském studio).
Smyslem semináře je prohloubit znalost jednak funkcí a forem historické angličtiny, jednak principů jazykové
změny, a to za pomoci prezentací relevantních lingvistické literatury, 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.
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Course completion requirements - Czech
Credit based on course work, one presentation and accomplished workgroup assignments (including 4 tests).
Attendance is required, with a maximum of 3 absences per semester. Any additional absence during the pandemic must be remedied by additional work upon arrangement with the course instructor.
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Literature -
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.
Machan, T.W. - Scott, Ch. T. (eds) (1992). English in Its Social Contexts. Essays in Historical Sociolingusitics. OUP.
Mugglestone, L. (ed.) (2007) The Oxford History of English. OUP.
Bex & Richard J. Watts (eds) (1999) Standard English: the widening debate. London: Routledge.
topic-related exercise sheets
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Bybee, Joan (2015). Language Change. Cambridge University Press. (Week 1–5, 7–9, 13)
Bauer, Laurie (2003). Introducing Linguistic Morphology. Edinburgh University Press, 2nd ed. (Week 5)
Joseph, D. B. and R. D. Janda (eds) (2003), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell (Week 2, 3, 4, 8, 11)
individual studies (Week 6, 7, 10)
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Teaching methods
seminar
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Syllabus -
PROGRAMME:
Week 1
Introduction.
Text: Nevalainen, Terttu, “Historical Sociolinguistics and Language Change” (in: van Kemenade – Los, pp. 1-26)
Week 2
Text:Corrie, Marilyn, “Middle English – Dialects and Diversity” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 86-120)
Week 3
Text: Townend, Matthew, “Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse and French” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 61-86)
Week 4
Text: Smith, Jeremy J., “From Middle to Early Modern English” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 120-147)
Week 5
Text: Blank, Paula, “The Babel of Renaissance English” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 212-240)
Week 6
Text:Nevalainen, Terttu – Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid, “Standardisation in the History of English” (in: Hogg – Denison; pp. 271-311)
Week 7
Text: Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid, “English at the Onset of the Normative Tradition” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 240-274)
Week 8
Text: Mugglestone, Lynda, “English in the Nineteenth Century” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 274-304)
Week 9
Text: Upton, Clive: „Modern Regional English in the British Isles“ (in: Mugglestone, pp. 305-333)
Week 10
Text: Bailey, Richard W.: „English Among the Languages“ (in: Mugglestone, pp. 334-359)
Week 11
Text: McArthur, Tom: „English World-wide in the Twentieth Century“ (in: Mugglestone, pp. 360-393)
Week 12
Text: Trudgill, Peter: “Standard English: What It Isnʼt” (in: Bex & Watts, pp. 117-128)
Concluding discussion.
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PROGRAMME: Week 1
Sound Change 0 (Sound change; Bybee 15–48)
Sound Change 1 (Sound change and phonological change in a wider perspective; Bybee 49–74)
Week 2
Presentation: Kiparsky, P. (2003). The Phonological Basis of Sound Change. In The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (eds B.D. Joseph and R.D. Janda), pp. 311–342. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470756393.ch6
Week 3
Sound change 2 (The interaction of sound change with grammar; Bybee 75–92)
Respondent:
Presentation: Kiparsky, P. (2003). The Phonological Basis of Sound Change. In The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (eds B.D. Joseph and R.D. Janda), pp. 311–342. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470756393.ch6 - CONTINUED
Week 4
Analogical Change (Bybee 93–114)
Respondent:
Presentation: Hock, H.H. (2003). Analogical Change. In The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (eds B.D. Joseph and R.D. Janda), pp. 441–460. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470756393.ch11
Presentation: Dressler, W.U. (2003). Naturalness and Morphological Change. In The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (eds B.D. Joseph and R.D. Janda), pp. 461–471. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470756393.ch12
Week 6
Grammaticalisation 1 (Grammaticalisation: processes and mechanisms; Bybee 117–138)
Respondent:
Presentation: Heine, Bernd. 2002. “On the role of context in grammaticalization”. In Ilse Wischer & Gabriele Diewald (eds.), New reflections on grammaticalization, pp. 83–101. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Week 7
Grammaticalisation 2 (Common paths of grammaticalisation; Bybee 139–160)
Respondent:
Presentation: Nykiel, J. (2018), “Onmang Þæt – Incipient Grammaticalisation in Old and Middle English”. Transactions of Philological Society, 116: 574-593. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12140
Week 8
Syntactic change (Syntactic change: the development and change of constructions; Bybee 161–187)
Respondent:
Presentation: Pintzuk, S. (2003). Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change. In The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (eds B.D. Joseph and R.D. Janda), pp. 509–528. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470756393.ch15
Test 2
Week 9
No class.
Week 10
Semantic and lexical change (Lexical change: how languages get new words and how words change their meaning; Bybee 188–208)
Respondent:
Presentation: Sylvester, Louise. "Naming and avoiding naming objects of terror: A case study". Placing Middle English in Context, edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta and Matti Rissanen, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011, pp. 277-292. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110869514.277
Week 11
Language contact (McMahon 200–224)
Respondent:
Presentation: Thomason, S.G. (2003). “Contact as a Source of Language Change”. In The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (eds B.D. Joseph and R.D. Janda), pp. 687–712. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470756393.ch23
Test 3
Week 12
Pidgins and creoles (McMahon, 253–283)
Respondent:
Presentation: None
Week 13
Sources of language change (Sources of language change: internal and external factors; Bybee 237–264)
