Guia docente 2024_25 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
0. Language variation & language change	0.1 Why and how do languages change? 0.2 Types of language change 0.3 Mechanisms of language change 0.4 Explanatory models
1. Factors determining variation and change	1.1. Internal factors 1.2. External factors
2. Materials for the study of variation and change in English. The nature of the evidence and its limitations.	Digitalised and online corpora, dictionaries, etc.
3. Variation and change in the different linguistic components.	3.1. Lexical and semantic change 3.2. Phonological change. 3.3. Morphological change. 3.4. Syntactic change 3.5. Other levels of analysis
4. An overview of approaches to the study of language variation and change.	4.1. Grammaticalisation 4.2. Historical sociolinguistics 4.3. Colloquialisation 4.4. Democratisation 4.5. Other approaches