Intensive Seminar June 10 - July 3, 2002
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Prof. Anthony Kroch
University of PennsylvaniaVisiting professor at SFB 441 from 9 June to 8 July, 2002
will be offering an intensive seminar on
Language Transmission and Morphosyntactic Change
- Time & Place:
- Monday 2-4 pm, Room 06
- Wednesday 4-6 pm, Room 426
- (June 10 - July 3, 2002)
- Monday 2-4 pm, Room 06
- Abstract:
- This course will introduce students to the use of quantitative methods applied to corpus data in the study of morphosyntactic change. The use of these methods to investigate both the time course and the grammatical character of syntactic change will be covered. The course will concentrate on two areas: (1) the origin of change in imperfect language transmission (that is, in errors in language acquisition by first or second language learners) and (2) the spread of change in the language community through competition between old and new forms. The course will emphasize the application of multivariate quantitative methods to factor apart manifestations of change from stable variation and will discuss how such factoring can be used to individuate grammatical changes and to delineate more precisely their grammatical character. The changes considered in most detail will be changes in the history of English which have been investigated in great detail over the past decade and for which parsed corpora are now available to facilitate quantitative study.
- This course will introduce students to the use of quantitative methods applied to corpus data in the study of morphosyntactic change. The use of these methods to investigate both the time course and the grammatical character of syntactic change will be covered. The course will concentrate on two areas: (1) the origin of change in imperfect language transmission (that is, in errors in language acquisition by first or second language learners) and (2) the spread of change in the language community through competition between old and new forms. The course will emphasize the application of multivariate quantitative methods to factor apart manifestations of change from stable variation and will discuss how such factoring can be used to individuate grammatical changes and to delineate more precisely their grammatical character. The changes considered in most detail will be changes in the history of English which have been investigated in great detail over the past decade and for which parsed corpora are now available to facilitate quantitative study.
Suggested preparatory reading:
- Kroch, A. (1989): "Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change"
In: Language Variation and Change 1, 199-244.
Download .pdf (readable but, unfortunately, not printable)
- Kroch, A. (1994): "Morphosyntactic variation"
In: Beals, K. (ed.): Proceedings of the thirtieth annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society vol. 2, 180-201.
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- Han, C. & A. Kroch (2000): The rise of do-support in English: implications for clause structure
In: Hirotani, M. et al. (eds.): Proceedings of the 30th Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society. Amherst, MA. 311-325.
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- Kroch, A. & A. Taylor (2000): "Verb-object order in early Middle English"
In: Pintzuk, S. et al. (eds.): Diachronic syntax: models and mechanisms. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 132-163.
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- Kroch, A., Taylor, A. & D. Ringe (2000): "The Middle English verb-second constraint: A case study in language contact and language change."
In: Herring, S.C. et al. (eds.): Textual parameters in older languages. Current issues in linguistic theory 1950. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 353-391.
Download .pdf (Last revisions June 20, 1997)
- Kroch, A. (2001): "Syntactic change".
In: Baltin, M. & C. Collins (eds.): The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 699-729.
Download .pdf (Last revisions August 15, 1999)
Hardcopies of the papers have been put on hold in the "Apparate" section of the Neuphilologikum library.
Created May 22nd, 2002 by Roland Meyer. Last modified May 22nd, 2002 by Roland Meyer.