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

Test 1

Week 5

Natural morphology (Natural Morphology, Bauer 253–267)

Respondent:

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)

Respondent:

Presentation: None

Test 4