Dep. 4.6: Applied Linguistics, Translation & Interpreting
Universität des Saarlandes Saarbrücken

HAUPTSEMINAR
CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS: ENGLISH - GERMAN

Oliver M. Traxel

WS 15/16

Wd 14-16

Room: A2 2 - Seminarraum 2.01


SCHEDULE

Here you find the suggested course schedule for this semester. Some minor variation may occur. All students are expected to give presentations on the respective topics. Each session is to consist of 30-45 minutes presentation as well as exercises and discussion including my own input. The main textbook is König, Ekkehard, & Volker Gast. 2012. Understanding English-German Contrasts. 3rd ed. Grundlagen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik 29. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, which is available in my semester apparatus. The respective chapters should be consulted first but you will need to incorporate a lot of further literature in your presentations, as found, for example, in the Bibliography.


Session Date Topic Presentations
       
1. 21.10. Introduction Oliver Traxel
2. 28.10. Origins and Contact Oliver Traxel
3. 4.11. ch. 2: Phonology I: Phoneme Inventories Oliver Traxel
4. 11.11. ch. 3: Phonology II: Phonotactics and Stress Oliver Traxel
5. 18.11. ch. 4: Inflectional Morphology Julia Klein
6. 25.11. ch. 5: Syntax I: Tense and Aspect Marsina Bredow
7. 2.12. ch. 6: Syntax II: Modality and Modal Verbs Diego Leon Calvo Espinal
8. 9.12. no class due to external commitments  
9. 16.12. chs. 7 & 8: Syntax III: Grammatical Relations & Possessors; Discussion of Coursework Oliver Traxel
10. 6.1. chs. 9 & 10: Syntax IV: Active and Passive Voice & Reflexivity and Intensification Thomas Klein
11. 13.1. ch. 11: Syntax V: Word Order and Sentence Types Julia Brodt
12. 20.1. chs. 12 & 13: Syntax VI: Wh-Movement and Relativization & Non-Finite Subordination Lisa Zumpf
13. 27.1. ch. 14: Vocabulary I: Content Words Sophia Kimelman
14. 3.2. chs. 15 & 16: Vocabulary II: Word Formation Tamara Bernardy
15. 10.2. ch. 17: Vocabulary III: Function Words Julia Jung
  30.3. Date of Submission  


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