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Undergraduate Course: English Historical Syntax (LASC10017)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course explores properties of syntax and syntactic change in the history of English. (Some aspects of morphology may be included where relevant.) We will deal with selected changes and discuss different accounts, which will also introduce various approaches to syntactic change more generally. In addition, we will look at English historical syntax from a more practical perspective by collecting and analysing some data from electronic text corpora of Early and/or Late Modern English texts.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: LEL2A: Linguistic Theory and the Structure of English (LASC08017) AND LEL2C: English in Time and Space (LASC08019)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesVisiting students should have completed at least 3 Linguistics/Language Sciences courses at grade B or above. We will only consider University/College level courses.
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of some important syntactic changes in the history of English, as well as of different accounts of these changes;
- relate these changes to models for the description of syntax and/or syntactic change, as appropriate;
- collect and analyse syntactic data from the Modern English period;
- extract data from electronic text corpora.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Linda Van Bergen
Tel: (0131 6)51 1998
Email: l.vanbergen@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Lynne Robertson
Tel: (0131 6)50 9870
Email: Lynne.Robertson@ed.ac.uk
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