Category: 17311_20W

Seminar (Mr Rauhut)

Week 13

Quicklinks:

Webex Room: weekly live seminars Mo. 16:00–18:00
Schedule: weekly readings, videos and homework
Course Bibliography

Next Homework

Conference

Next week, we are going to have a little sort of conference that is reflecting the way our “Aufbauphase”  is designed. Each instructor will open their course for everyone and give a presentation on a topic they focus on in their research and possibly in either Levels of Linguistic Analysis or History of English next semester. So feel free to visit as many as you like and have a look at what your instructors do at this university, and also what you can expect from future courses. It should be exciting. 🙂

End of term mock conference — programme 2021

All are invited!
No registration necessary. 😀 No student discounts.
Talks will be between 45 and 60 minutes; we will reserve at least 30 minutes for discussion. Please do not hesitate to ask questions!

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Monday, Feb 8, 4-6 p.m.

Title

Beautiful frequencies—visualizing Linguistic categories: A scientific overview

Alexander Rauhut

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Tuesday, Feb 9, 10-12 p.m.

Go have yourselves some fun! Reflexive possession constructions and other ditransitives in English and beyond: Diachronic and Comparative Construction Grammar

Kirsten Middeke

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Tuesday, Feb 9, 12-2 p.m.

Sneak preview on Levels of Linguistic Analysis & History of English: What is waiting for you in the advanced seminars?

Shuk Han Ho

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Password: hJX2ZrDU3p6

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Wednesday, Feb 10, 12-2 p.m.

One discipline to rule them all: Combining everything you’ve learnt so far to study language change

Martin Konvička

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Password: 5tSJB9c8YnQ

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Thursday, Feb 11, 10-12 p.m.

SNEAK PREVIEW ON LEVELS OF LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS and lexical semantics

Magdalena Borowik

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Friday, Feb 12, 10-12 p.m.

Introspection versus empiricism: What is corpus linguistics, why do we need it and how do we do it?

Kirsten Middeke

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Following week: Round-up with your lecturers and sneak preview on Levels of Linguistic Analysis and History of English. Don’t miss is!

Grading scale for the exam

Dear all,

We have agreed on a grading scale for your exam that requires 60% of the points for a grade 4.0 (pass). Since you have two jokers (the two worst submissions will be exempt from the total), you effectively only need 45% of the points. The complete scale can be found below.

Grade Points Percentage
1,0 27 100%
1,3 26
1,7 25
2,0 24
2,3 23
2,7 21
3,0 20
3,3 19
3,7 17
4,0 16 60%

All the best,

Your Introduction to Linguistics team

Week 11

Quicklinks:

Webex Room: weekly live seminars Mo. 16:00–18:00
Schedule: weekly readings, videos and homework
Course Bibliography

Next Homework
Next Video: Pragmatics & Speech-act Theory

Further watching

And some interesting casual video about color terms in languages. In summary: difference between languages, how this isn’t racist, universal tendencies.

Vox@YouTube: The surprising pattern behind color names around the world

Week 8

Quicklinks:

Webex Room: weekly live seminars Mo. 16:00–18:00
Schedule: weekly readings, videos and homework
Course Bibliography

Next Homework

Next Videos:

Updates

Note that there is going to be another transfer task starting from Friday this week. I have uploaded homework already. I’ll update the rest as soon as everything is ready for next year.

Have a great Christmas, stay healthy and rutscht gut rein!

See you in 2021!

Week 7

Quicklinks:

Webex Room: weekly live seminars Mo. 16:00–18:00
Schedule: weekly readings, videos and homework
Course Bibliography

Next Homework

Next Videos:
Syntax I Video I
Syntax I Video II

Reading for Syntax I

Updates

The regular updates are here. 🙂 Note that the text is uploaded here this time, see link above.

I showed the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) on Monday, which is possibly the best resource for etymology, meaning, use, and grammatical information about English words, phrases, and morphemes. It also makes extensive use of linguistic terminology, as opposed to your every-day-normal dictionary. Make yourself familiar with it. It should become a staple for you when you do research for your own personal curiosity, study, and later term papers.

You can access the online interface while connected to the FU-VPN, the same you used for the text book on Primo: More information here: https://www.zedat.fu-berlin.de/VPN

Bonus

As promised, here is a fun video on irregular and regular verb inflection attempting to outline why and how English is losing its old “strong” verbs:

How some words get forgotted

Definitely also check out the Video on Zipf’s Law mentioned in the video for some mind-blowing stuff. 🙂

Week 6

Quicklinks:

Webex Room: weekly live seminars Mo. 16:00–18:00
Schedule: weekly readings, videos and homework
Course Bibliography

Next Homework
Slides

Next Videos:
Morphology IV: Inflection and Derivation
Morpology V: Word Formation

Updates

By popular request, I have uploaded the next homework. Slides are linked as well this week. Video links are following tomorrow. Don’t forget to read the weekly chapters in the book!

Bonus

Here is the link to the phonotactics video featuring Hawaiian ‘Mele Kalikimaka’. Tom Scott’s channel is also interesting and used to focus heavily on linguistics. Another guy with a linguistics degree who has turned science communicator.

Crucial follow-up reading addressing the observation about birds during the lecture: http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/birds.pdf