Structuralism and Structural Method in Linguistics

Seminar 1

Germanic Languages in the Modern World

1. Germanic languages in the world language map

2. Proto-Indo-European language as an ancestor of Indo-European languages

3. Indo-European family of languages

4. Proto-Germanic and Germanic: from the history of languages

5. The classification of Germanic languages

6. The Germanic language family: general characteristics

7. The distinctive features of Germanic languages

8. Grammatical system of modern Germanic languages

Literature:

1. Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press – [e-resource] - http: www.encyclopedia.com/.../ Germanic _langu.

2. Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World / [ed. K. Brown]. – Amsterdam, Boston, Heidelberg, London, New York, Oxford, Paris, San Diego, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, 2009. – 1320p.

3. Streadbeck A.L. A Short Introduction to Germanic Linguistics / Arval Streadbeck. – Boulder, Colo.: Pruett Press, 1966. – 111p.

4. The Oxford History of English / [ed. L.Mugglestone]. – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. – 498p.

5. The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: a Comprehensive Guide / [ed. B. Cortmann, J. van der Auwera]. – De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. – 934p.

Reports:

1. Germanic people and their cultural identity

2. The Indo-Europeans in the spotlight

3. Runic texts as the earliest written records of the Germanic people

4. Runes: their utmost importance in the development of Germanic culture Linguistic Typology as a Branch of Modern Linguistics

5. Typological Classification of Languages

6. Great Changes in the Phonological System of Germanic Languages

7. German / Dutch / English / the Scandinavian Languages: Grammar in Spotlight

8. The Dead Germanic Languages: What We Know about Them?

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Seminar 2

Structuralism and Structural Method in Linguistics

1. A linguistic school of structuralism

2. F. de Saussure and L. Bloomfield as the founders of the method

3. The procedures of structuralism

Literature:

1. Амирова Т. А. Из истории лингвистики ХХ века: структурно-функциональное языкознание (истоки, направления, школы): [учеб. пособ.] / Тамара Александровна Амирова. – М.: ЧеРО, 1999. – 106 с.

2. LaPalombara L. E. An Introduction to Grammar: Traditional, Structural, Transformational / L. E. La Palolambara. – Cambridge, Massachusetts: Winthrop Publishers, Inc., 1976. – 450 p.

3. Lyons J. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics / John Lyons. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968. – 519 p.

4. Palmer F. Grammar / Frank Palmer. – L., etc.: Pelican Books, 1984. – 205 p.

5. The Linguistics: Encyclopedia / [ed. K. Malmkjær]. – L. and NY.: Routledge, 2003. – 542 p.

Reports:

1. Leonard Bloomfield and his “Language”

2. The role of descriptivists in the development of structural method in linguistic

3. Ferdinand de Saussure: life and work of the linguist

4. Schools of structuralism

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Seminar 3

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