Semantics 2, SoSe 2016: Course Requirements

Courses of study

L1, L2, L5

not possible

L3

4 CP = 120 h

• participation: including presentation of homework
• Leistungsnachweis: portfolio with weekly exercises
• Modulprüfung (optional): Long term paper (15-18 pages for additional 4 CP)

BAES 3.4 (Vertiefungsmodul 2)

• Teilnahmenachweis (4 CP)

• presentation of a homework
• [Semantics_2,_SoSe_2016:_Course_Requirements#Portfolio|portfolio]] with weekly exercises

• Modulprüfung (additional 4 CP): Assignment sheets "Creole"

• registration via QIS: 03.06-26.08.2016
• deadline for unregistration: 02.09.2016
• deadline for submission: 09.09.2016 (pdf-file, by e-mail to Manfred Sailer)
• deadline for resit: 16.12.2016

Portfolio

The portfolio is a collection of your results to our weekly tasks. It will comprise three parts:

A General information on your creole language

B Definitenss marking in your creole language

C Tense marking in your creole language

1. Provide two sentences in your creole language that use different tense forms
2. For each of them give the overall logical form of the sentences

(focussing on tense) References

Assignment sheet "Creole"

The assignment is a documentation for a creole language. Your results can take the form of a wiki page (to be integrated into our LRS wiki) or that of a regular term paper.

1. Provide general information on your language

2. Find 2-3 papers on the semantic properties of the language, such as definiteness marking, plural, tense, or other topics mentioned in class.

3. Describe the phenomena, providing enough data.

4. Ideally: Provide natural data from the internet or other text sources.

5. Sketch an LRS analysis