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, plus references:
A General information on your creole language
B Definitenss marking in your creole language
- Does your creole have a definite article?
- Find examples of the definite contexts from class for your creole language. Is a (definite) article used in these examples?
- Does your creole language use a definite article where Metropolitan English does not? (for example with proper names)
- Summarize your findings (contrasting them with Metropolitan English)
- Model the defin
C Tense marking in your creole language
- Provide two sentences in your creole language that use different tense forms
- 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