Options vary from year to year. A maximum of two only may be taken for credit, the first as LING330 and the second LING331. Options currently include: Varieties of English (Associate Professor Peters); Historical Linguistics (Associate Professor Ilija Casule); Language and Religion (Ms Fahey), but the Department reserves the right to add or delete options in any semester according to staff resources. For descriptions of these three options see below. For all further information students should consult a Linguistics academic adviser.
| Credit Points: | 2 |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
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D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year
D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year
E1 - Evening; Offered in the first half-year
E2 - Evening; Offered in the second half-year
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Various members of staff |
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8 cp of relevant units in LING; permission of Dean of Division
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Department of Linguistics |
Historical Linguistics
| Staff Contact: | Associate Professor Casule |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
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This seminar studies the way languages change with in time. It focuses especially on phonological and lexical change, but also looks at change in morphology and syntax. Students will be introduced to the basic principles of comparative and internal reconstruction in explaining linguistic change and establishing the historical development of languages and their genetic relationship and grouping. Particular emphasis will be placed on the history of the Indo-European language family.
Language in Religion
| Staff Contact: | Ms Fahey |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
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This unit will examine texts from world religions, often in translation. Although lectures will begin with texts from a Judeo-Christian context (eg Genesis, Maccabees, Gospels, Prayer Books, Christian Fathers), other texts chosen will depend on the interests of the students. In the second half of the semester, students will present papers on their own investigations.
Varieties of English
| Staff Contact: | Associate Professor Peters |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
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This unit is designed to explore the diversification of English worldwide into regional varieties, and the formation of 'new Englishes' in ex-Commonwealth countries. It will examine the role of British and American English as the dominant 'super-varieties', and their interaction with other regional standards in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. The development of English pidgins and creoles in West Africa, Papua-New Guinea and northern Australia will be studied, as well as the processes of decreolisation in the Caribbean and in Singapore. Issues relating to English in Australia, its 'Americanisation', and Aboriginal English will also be covered. The unit will address both spoken and written forms of the language, and the possibilities of there being an 'international English' in either mode.
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