German Linguistics
Code
711131020
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Linguística
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. To understand the functioning of the German language from a morphological, lexical and sintactical point of view;
2. 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
4.2 Lexical Unit
4.3 Characteristics of the lexicon
4.4 Collocations and phraseologies
4.5 Lexical and semantic fields
5. Aspects of German lexicography
5.1 Dictionaries
5.2 Specialized dictionaries
Bibliography
Cedillo, Ana Caro. 2004. Fachsprachliche Kollokationen. Eine übersetzungsorienteirtes Datenbankmodell Deutsch-Spanisch. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag
Donalies, Elke. 2005. Die Wortbildung des Deutschen. Ein Überblick. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.
Lemnitzer, Lothar &Heike Zinsmeister. 2006. Korpuslinguistik. Eine Einführung. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.
Lühr, Rosemarie. 1996. Neuhochdeutsch. Eine Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag GmbH & Co. KG.
Meibauer, Jörg et al. 2002. Einführung in die germanistische Linguistik. Stuttgart – Weimar, J.B. Metzler Verlag.
Römer, Christine & Brigitte Matze. 2005. Lexikologie des Deutschen. Eine Einführung. 2. A
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 consist on two written tests (50% each).