Syllabus
Anttila, Raimo. Historical and Comparative Linguistics. CILT6.
Bynon, Theodora. Historical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1977.
Durie - Ross (ed.) 1996. The Comparative Method Reviewed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fox, Anthony. 2007. Linguistic Reconstruction (An Introduction to Theory and Method). Oxford (: Oxford University Press).
* Další literatura:
Hock. H. H. 1991. Principles of Historical Linguistics. Amsterdam-New York (: Mouton de Gruyter).
Hale, Mark. 2007. Historical Linguistics. Theory and Methods. Oxford (: Blackwell).
Lass, Roger. Historical Linguistics and Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997.
Sihler, Andrew L. Language History, An Introduction, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 191, Amsterdam (: John Benjamins), 2001.
Annotation
This seminar is aimed at Ph.D., M.A. and advanced B.A. students of historical-comparative linguistics who are starting to carry out research, e.g. for a thesis or dissertation. We will set up a basic reading list and research agenda, and meet roughly every two weeks to discuss your progress, take turns presenting your findings. The focus will be on research methods (literature search, online resources) and how best to structure a linguistic argument in writing; in addition, we will also discuss common problems in preparing an article for publication and how to overcome them. Students from other departments are especially welcome, including Germanic, Slavic, classical studies, Ancient Near Eastern studies, and South Asian studies.
Selected bibliography:
Aronoff, Mark. 1994. Morphology by Itself: Stems and Inflectional Classes. (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, 22.)
Cambridge, Mass./London: The MIT Press.
Bobaljik, Jonathan David. 2012. Universals in Comparative Morphology: Suppletion, Superlatives, and the
Structure of Words. (Current Studies in Linguistics, 50.) Cambridge, Mass./London: The MIT Press.
Corbett, Greville G. 2007. Canonical typology, suppletion, and possible words. Language 83:1, 8-42.
Haspelmath, Martin and Andrea D. Sims. 2010. Understanding Morphology. 2nd edition. London: Hodder
Education.
Mel’čuk, Igor. 2006. Aspects of the Theory of Morphology. Ed. by David Beck. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and
Monographs, 146.) Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Veselinova, Ljuba N. 2006. Suppletion in Verb Paradigms: Bits and Pieces of the Puzzle. (Typological Studies in
Language, Vol. 67.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.