Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

German Linguistics

Code

711131020

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Linguística

Credits

6

Teacher in charge

Catharina Ciossek

Weekly hours

4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

1. To understand the functioning of the German language from a morphological, lexical and morfossintáctico point of view;
2. To acquire methodologies for the analysis of specific German lexicographical products

Prerequisites

None.

Subject matter

1. Concepts of General Linguistics
2. Cases system of German (´Kasussystem´)
3. Words formation
3.1 Constituents of words
3.2 Composition
3.3 Derivation
3.4 Conversion
3.5 Abbreviations
4. Aspects of Lexicology
4.1 Lexical Unit
4.2 Characteristics of the lexicon
4.3 Collocations and phraseologies
4.4 Lexical and semantic fields
5. Aspects of German lexicography
5.1 Dictionaries
5.2 Specialized dictionaries

Bibliography

1. Cedillo, A. C. (2004). Fachsprachliche Kollokationen. Eine übersetzungsorienteirtes Datenbankmodell Deutsch-Spanisch. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag
2. Donalies, E. (2005). Die Wortbildung des Deutschen. Ein Überblick. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.
3. Lemnitzer, L. & Zinsmeister, H. 82006). Korpuslinguistik. Eine Einführung. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.
4. Lühr, R. 81996). Neuhochdeutsch. Eine Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag GmbH & Co. KG.
5. Meibauer, J. et al. (2002). Einführung in die germanistische Linguistik. Stuttgart – Weimar: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
6. Römer, Christine; Brigitte Matze. 2005. Lexikologie des Deutschen. Eine Einführung. 2. Auflage. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.

Teaching method

The lecture classes will be developed according to the following strategies: expository lessons, seminars, scheduled readings (directed study) and discussion in the classroom.

Evaluation method

The evaluation will be done a written tests.

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