Syllabus
| Date | Topic | Main Reading | Homework2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12.04. | Welcome | ||
| 2 | 19.04. | Word classes | Stefanowitsch (To appear) ch. 1-2 | #2 |
| 3 | 26.04. | Form and meaning | Stefanowitsch (To appear) ch. 3 | #3 |
| 4 | 03.05. | Lexical Relations | Justeson & Katz (1991) | #4 |
| 5 | 10.05. | Collocation | Kennedy (2003) | #5 |
| 6 | 17.05. | Metaphor and metonymy | Deignan (2005) | #6 |
| 7 | 31.05. | Focus I: Derivation | Kaunisto (1999) | #7 |
| 8 | 07.06. | Focus II: Irregular inflection | Anderwald (2011) | #8 |
| 9 | 14.06. | Focus III: Conversion | Deignan (2006) | #9 |
| 10 | 21.06. | Focus IV: Productivity | Plag, Dalton-Puffer & Baayen (1999) | #10 |
| 11 | 28.06. | Focus V: Morphosyntax | Rosenbach (2003) | #11 |
| 12 | 05.07. | Project Day 1 | t.b.a. | |
| 13 | 12.07. | Project Day 2 | t.b.a. |
References
Anderwald, Lieselotte. 2011. Norm vs variation in British English irregular verbs: The case of past tense sang vs sung. English Language & Linguistics. Cambridge University Press 15(1). 85–112.
Deignan, Alice. 2005. A corpus linguistic perspective on the relationship between metonymy and metaphor. Style 39(1). 72–91.
Deignan, Alice. 2006. The grammar of linguistic metaphors. In Anatol Stefanowitsch & Stefan Th. Gries (eds.), Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy, 106–122. Mouton de Gruyter.
Justeson, John & Slava M Katz. 1991. Co-occurrences of antonymous adjectives and their contexts. Computational linguistics. MIT Press 17(1). 1–19.
Kaunisto, Mark. 1999. Electric/electrical and classic/classical: Variation between the suffixes -ic and -ical. English Studies. Taylor & Francis 80(4). 343–370.
Kennedy, Graeme. 2003. Amplifier collocations in the British National Corpus: Implications for English language teaching. Tesol Quarterly. Wiley Online Library 37(3). 467–487.
Plag, Ingo, Christiane Dalton-Puffer & Harald Baayen. 1999. Morphological productivity across speech and writing. English Language & Linguistics. Cambridge University Press 3(2). 209–228.
Rosenbach, Anette. 2003. Aspects of iconicity and economy in the choice between the s-genitive and the of-genitive. In Günther Rohdenburg & Britta Mondorf (eds.), Determinants of grammatical variation in English, 379–411. Mouton de Gruyter.
Stefanowitsch, Anatol. To appear. Corpus linguistics: A guide to the methodology. Draft.
