Annotation
The aim of the course is to provide students of master's studies in German studies with an insight into the grammatical structures of the German language, and thus create a theoretical anchor for the safe mastery of the grammatical structure of contemporary standard German. On this basis, attention is paid to variance linguistics, especially areal variants at the morphological, syntactic, lexical and pragmatic levels.
The course will offer students an insight into the sociolinguistic issues of German varieties (especially the concepts of P. Wiesinger, H.
Scheuringer and R. Muhr), and the basis of these attitudes is Polenz's pluricentric conception of the German language.
Attention is focused, among other things, on the basic issues of the functional-structural description of the sentence and on the functioning of word forms in the sentence and in the texts, always taking into account the distribution factor. The next part focuses on the functional properties of grammatical means with an emphasis on the German functions of fall, grammatical fall and semantic fall.
In addition to the traditional structuralist approach, the concept of the subject is also based on pragmatics and textual linguistics. The aim of the seminar is to apply theoretical knowledge to selected texts, ie the ability to use theoretical knowledge in practice.
The content of the course includes the following topics: From the mind grammar of speech variation to all linguistic descriptions. Language dynamics on the German language - stabilizing and modifying processes.
Typology and descriptive methods of national language variants on morphosyntactic and lexical levels. Factors relevant to the abstraction of varieties.
Regional specificities in morphology. Regional specific issues in the syntax.
Regional specialties in the Lexicon. Regional specific issues in vocabulary and phraseology.
Properties on pragmatic levels. The phonetic-phonological level.
Socialist positioning of the Austrian variety and the EU-wide. Variation of German language under multilingual conditions - insb.
Contact German.