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126-027 Germanic Languages | |
Note | Formerly available as 126-375/475. Students who have completed 126-375/475 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 3rd and 4th year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Assoc Prof B Donaldson |
Semester | Not Offered (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2.5-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | Germanic languages constitute one branch of the Indo-European language family. Languages as diverse as German, English, Icelandic, Afrikaans, Yiddish and Pennsylvania German (and quite a few more) all share a common origin. How such languages now differ from each other, how they came to achieve the status of separate languages and how a knowledge of one or more sheds light on developments in the other, including for instance dialectal variation, will form the content of this course. Only a knowledge of English and German will be presupposed, but students with a knowledge of other Germanic languages will be most welcome in the course as they will be able to indicate where their language differs from the other two. It is a goal of the course to analyse such differences. |
Assessment | An assignment or classpaper of 1000 words, and written work totalling 4000 words. |
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