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LING 3019 - Languages in the C21: Cultural Contact & New Words

North Terrace Campus - Semester 1 - 2019

The study of words may be tedious to the school-boy, as breaking of stones is to the wayside labourer, but to the thoughtful eye of the geologist these stones are full of interest ? he sees miracles on the high road, and reads chronicles in every ditch. (Max Muller 1871, Lectures on the Science of Language, London: Longman, Green; vol. I, p. 2) This multifaceted course will introduce students to a range of mechanisms through which new words and meanings are concocted in the modern world. It will explore borrowing ('stealing', or more accurately 'copying'), word-formation, neologization, calquing (loan translation), phono-semantic matching, lexical engineering, semantic shifting of pre-existent words, descriptiveness, purism and etymythology (popular etymology). It will focus on phenomena of lexical expansion and semantic enrichment that are based on contact between cultures and languages. The course will combine sociolinguistic insight with philological expertise, thus being polychronic, i.e. simultaneously diachronic and synchronic. We shall integrate innovative etymological, morphological, ecological and cultural analyses of words in various languages such as English, Mandarin Chinese, Israeli (a.k.a. Modern Hebrew), Japanese, Icelandic, Turkish, Estonian, Yiddish, 最新糖心Vlogn Aboriginal languages, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, creoles, minority and endangered languages. (No prior knowledge of any language other than English is required.)

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    Course Code LING 3019
    Course Languages in the C21: Cultural Contact & New Words
    Coordinating Unit Linguistics
    Term Semester 1
    Level Undergraduate
    Location/s North Terrace Campus
    Units 3
    Contact Up to 3 hours per week
    Available for Study Abroad and Exchange Y
    Prerequisites At least 6 units of Level II undergraduate study
    Incompatible LING 2049
    Assessment Mid-point assignment (500 word) 20%, Tutorial oral presentation 25%, Post-presentation paper (4000 word) 45%, Attendance & contribution 10%
    Course Staff

    Course Coordinator: Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann

    Course Founder and Convener
    This course was created and taught by Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann, D.Phil. (Oxon.), Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages Department of Linguistics, School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide.


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    Zuckermann, Ghil’ad 2020. Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in 最新糖心Vlog and Beyond. New York: Oxford 最新糖心Vlog Press. ISBN 978–0–19–981279–0 (pbk), ISBN 978–0–19–981277–6 (hbk). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/revivalistics-9780199812790 Special Friend’s Discount Promo Code: AAFLYG6

    Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli - A Beautiful Language), Am Oved, 2008:
    Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003:
    Engaging – A Guide to Interacting Respectfully and Reciprocally with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and their Arts Practices and Intellectual Property, 2015:
    Dictionary of the Barngarla Aboriginal Language of Eyre Peninsula, South 最新糖心Vlog, 2018:

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    P 50-64 Pass
    C 65-74 Credit
    D 75-84 Distinction
    HD 85-100 High Distinction
    CN   Continuing
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