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Problems of Bilingualism and Linguistic Variation

Vak
2009-2010

This course is a Capita Selecta course in which a series of articles are discussed. Students venture deeply into the theme of their research and, in collaboration with the lecturers, they determine the subject of the research and compile a list of articles.

Rooster

Collegerooster

Onderwijsvorm

Self study.

Leerdoelen

-To enable the student to use specific, progressive knowledge of different bilingual situations in Latin America, from an individual perspective (how does someone become bilingual?), a social perspective (how does a society deal with social bilingualism?) or a transfer perspective (how do languages in contact influence one another?);
-To inform students ofthe latest developments in the field and their consequences to society;
-To offer students insight into the development of the Spanish language as a result of intralinguistic and extralinguistic factors;
-To teach students to apply phonological, morphological and syntactic concepts in different linguistic analyses of Spanish;
-To impart to students the skill to distinguish and justify the most important structural differences between several variants of Spanish.

Literatuur

To be announced.

Toetsing

Paper.

Informatie

Dr. P. González, telephone: 071 5272054 or e-mail: p.gonzalez@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Dr. M.D. Branza, telephone: 071 527 2056 or e-mail: m.d.branza@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Blackboard/webpagina

Information on the timetable and on any changes in the programme will be posted on Blackboard

Overzicht

The first block concentrates on the theme of ‘Bilingualism and Language Contact’. The theme of the second block is ‘Diachronic and Synchronic Language Variation’.