Englisches Seminar
Universität Münster

HISTORICAL LEXICOLOGY

SS 05
Mo 11-13, Room 032
Oliver M. Traxel


SCHEDULE

Here you find the suggested course schedule for this semester. If you are to give a presentation, do this with your group. All students should prepare the relevant chapters in the course book and respective exercises in the text collection before each session.


Session Date Topic Course Book:
Hughes (2000)
       
1. 18.4. Structure of the Seminar;
Introduction
 
2. 25.4. Presentation: Where Do English Words Come From?;
Historical Survey, Introduction to OED
text collection,
pp. 21-47
3. 2.5. Presentation: History in the Language: The Vocabulary as a Historical Repository I;
Basics of Historical Lexicology
Chapter 1,
pp. 1-33
4. 9.5. Presentation: History in the Language: The Vocabulary as a Historical Repository II;
Basics of Historical Lexicology
Chapter 1,
pp. 33-64
5. 23.5. Presentation: The Foundations of English and the Formation of the Base Register I;
Old English Vocabulary
Chapter 2,
pp. 65-86
6. 30.5. Presentation: The Foundations of English and the Formation of the Base Register II;
Old English Vocabulary
Chapter 2,
pp. 86-108
7. 6.6. Presentation: The Norman Elite and the New Language of Power I;
Middle English Vocabulary
Chapter 3,
pp. 109-25
8. 13.6. Presentation: The Norman Elite and the New Language of Power II;
Middle English Vocabulary
Chapter 3,
pp. 125-45
9. 20.6. Presentation: The Lexical Expansion of the Renaissance: Exuberance and Restraint I;
Early Modern English Vocabulary
Chapter 4,
pp. 146-76 + 212-22
10. 27.6. Presentation: The Lexical Expansion of the Renaissance: Exuberance and Restraint II;
Early Modern English Vocabulary
Chapter 4,
pp. 176-212
11. 4.7. Presentation: Licentiousness, Decorum and Lexicographical Order;
Modern English Vocabulary
Chapter 5,
pp. 223-76
12. 11.7. Presentation: The Lexical Interchange of Imperialism;
Modern English Vocabulary
Chapter 6,
pp. 277-314
13. 18.7. Preparation for Coursework;
Choice of Topics
handout


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