Admission requirements
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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
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
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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’.