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Master Class: Problems of bilingualism and linguistic variation

Vak
2010-2011

Admission requirements

Description

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.

Course objectives

  • 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 consequentces 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.

Timetable

Timetable

Method of Instruction

Self study.

Assessment method

Paper.

Blackboard

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

Reading list

To be announced.

Registration

Contact information

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

Remarks

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