Lehramt Französisch - Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft ...

Pragmatik III: Fokus Maribel Romero
Do, 10 - 12 Uhr, G 307
This seminar investigates the pragmatic properties (felicity conditions and/or contextual
restrictions) of several constructions involving focal stress, including question-answer congruence
in discourse, focus association with adverbs of quantification and with scalar particles, cleft
sentences, focus preposing, etc. Central to the seminar will be questions about: (i) focus projection
(from phonological prominence to marking of syntactic constituents), (ii) focus-marking vs. givenmarking,
(iii) in-situ vs. movement approaches to focus, (iv) direct vs. indirect association with
focus, and (v) implicatures and other pragmatic effects related to focus.
Literatur: wird bekannt gegeben.
Leistungsnachweis: Referat und Klausur
Voraussetzung: Pragmatik I oder äquivalente Lehrveranstaltung
Theorie des Erstspracherwerbs Janet Grijzenhout
Mo, 14 - 16 Uhr, G 307
This course studies in detail theoretical frameworks that provide alternative explanations about
how human children acquire grammatical knowledge. It examines syntactic, morphological and
phonological examples of first language research. The course explores the possible role of
Universal Grammar in first language acquisition and compares this approach with usage-based
theories of language acquisition.
Literatur: wird im Seminar bekannt gegeben.
Leistungsnachweis: kleinere benotete Übungen, 1 Referat, 1 Hausarbeit
Voraussetzung: Einführung in die Linguistik und mindestens 2 Seminare Kerngebiet
Sprachwissenschaft.
Psycholinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism Barış Kabak
Do, 12 - 14 Uhr, G 227a
This course explores various aspects of bilingualism from a psycholinguistic perspective. We will
study a wide range of issues central to the understanding of the complex nature of the bilingual
mind and how the multi-language user represents and processes linguistic information. A selection
of key classic articles on the study of bilingualism will be discussed under the following headings:
(i) early bilingual development, (ii) age effects and the critical period, (iii) bilingual language
processing (e.g., phonological and morphosyntactic processing), and (iv) the cognitive effects of
bilingualism (e.g., the relationship between bilingualism and intelligence, attention, and
communicative skills).
Literatur: the readings will primarily be drawn from different sources and will be made available
on ILIAS.
Leistungsnachweis: Presentation, Term paper
Frühneuenglisch Janet Grijzenhout
Mi, 10 - 12 Uhr, G 307
Emphasis in this course will be on the language, the literature and culture of the period, but also
the history of the English language will be briefly discussed. A few seminars will be dealing with
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