Englisches Seminar
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

HAUPTSEMINAR:
CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS: ENGLISH - GERMAN

Oliver M. Traxel

SS 16
25 July-29 July 2016
Mo-Fr 9-11, 11-13, 13-15

Room: ES 3


SCHEDULE

Due to the block nature of this seminar there is no exact date/time for the individual topics. The following sections represent a guideline for your presentations with each section focussing on two chapters in our main textbook Ekkehard König & Volker Gast. 2012. Understanding English-German Contrasts. 3rd ed. (important! earlier editions do not have all chapters!) Grundlagen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik 29. Berlin: Erich Schmidt. The chapters should be consulted first but you will also need to incorporate further literature in your presentations, as found, for example, in the Bibliography.

Section Chapters Topics Presentation
       
1.   Introduction Oliver Traxel
2.   Origins and Contact Oliver Traxel
3. 2 Phoneme Inventories Oliver Traxel
4. 3 Phonotactics and Stress Jessica Rose, Oliver Traxel
5. 4+5 Inflectional Morphology & Tense and Aspect Mareike Diekmann
6. 6+7 Modality and Modal Verbs & Grammatical Relations Victoria Köppen, Jayde Watton
7. 8+9 Possessors & Active and Passive Voice Kerstin Fanslau
8. 10+11 Reflexivity and Intensification & Word Order and Sentence Types Ilona Janosch, Jasna Kartal
9. 12+13 Wh-Movement and Relativization & Non-Finite Subordination Sean Mertens
10. 14+15 Content Words & Compounding Hendrik Brand, Hendrik Rzitki
11. 16+17 Derivation & Function Words Julian Tümmers
12.   Discussion of Coursework  


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