Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Angol Nyelvészet Tanszék
- Kód
- BBI-ANG17-342E.Cny13.4
- Cím
- Választható nyelvészeti szeminárium: A laringális realizmus és a germán nyelvek (története)
- Tervezett félév
- Tavaszi
- ECTS
- 5
- Nyelv
- Oktatás célja
- This experimental course will be devoted to analysing older stages of some of the Germanic languages, Old English include to try to establish what can be gleaned from the written data about the laryngeal setting of a particular language.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- Was Old English an aspirating language like (the standard reference accents of) Modern English or a voiced language like Hungarian or Russian? Which of its laryngeal features were ‘real’? We will ask whether a in Old English behaved in the same way as a modern English or Hungarian do: was it phonetically voiced or voiceless, was it a phonologically voiced or neutral/unmarked? We have no living speakers for a hands-on experience, so we will only be able to work from what remains (i.e., the texts). We are going to form hypotheses, try to test them and see the limitations that dead languages can present to an analyst. You will be expected to read specialised articles written by some of the authorities in the field. To kickstart the term we are going to revise and expand on some of the standard facts about the laryngeal features of Southern Standard British English (some of the terms we will be working with: lenis, fortis, voiceless, voiced, passively/actively voiced, devoicing, aspirated, pre-fortis clipping, etc.).
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- The grade is based on a mid-term and an end-of-term tests. There will also be a short paper to be submitted analysing some aspects of some of the contentious issues raised during the term. The grades will be weighed as follows: mid-term test (30%), end of term test (30%), paper (40%). You must hand in a paper for a grade. You may analyse a dead Germanic language of your own choice, or answer questions on a language presented to you. You will have at least two weeks to prepare the paper.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Honeybone, Patrick. 2005. Diachronic evidence in segmental phonology: the case of obstruent laryngeal specifications. In: van Oostendorp, M. and van de Weijer, J. (eds) The Internal Organization of Phonological Segments. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 319–354. Szigetvári, Péter. 2020. Emancipating lenes: A reanalysis of English obstruent clusters. Acta Linguistica Academica 67: 39–52.
- Ajánlott irodalom
- Campbell, Alistair. 1959. Old English Grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Hogg, Richard M. 1992. A grammar of Old English. Volume 1: Phonology. UK: Blackwell Publishing. Lass, Roger. 1994. Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Moulton, William G. 1954. The stops and spirants of early Germanic. Language 30.1–42. Moulton, William G. 1972. 'The Proto-Germanic non-syllabics (consonants). In Coetsem, F. van & H. L. Kufner (1972) Toward a Grammar of Proto-Germanic. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. 141–173. Ringe, Don and Ann Taylor. 2014. From Proto-Germanic to Old English. Vol. 2. A linguistic history of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.