http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/gibbon/Classes/Classes2007WS/ITL/
Repetition of course specifics with Gibbon plus Overview on topics, which are Language History, Language in Society, Language and the Mind, Building Blocks of Language and Applied Linguistics.
- Comparison between the brain and computer : computers are faster, brains can complete more parallel tasks.
- Signs are primarily processed by the subconscious brain
- Index signs = hand signals such as pointing with the INDEX finger.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Tutorial: Thu 14:30-16:00 C01-273
HOMEWORK
www.mapsofworld.com
TASKS
1) Quiz
? Why is a portfolio important?
a) easier interaction with professor
b) means of becoming familiar with electronic media
c) source of material for class
b) means of becoming familiar with electronic media
c) source of material for class
? What should a portfolio contain, and how are these
components defined?
components defined?
summaries of lecture
tasks
reports
glossary
technical terms
tasks
reports
glossary
technical terms
? Why should the portfolio be on a website?
Easier interaction with professor and other students.
? How do you make a website?
a) Run your own web server
– for example on a DSL line, with the Apache server
– save your HTML files
b) Use the university website
– and upload your HTML files
c) Use another web service provider
– and upload your HTML files
d) Use blogging software
– and make a weblog (blog)
2) What are the following and how old are they?– for example on a DSL line, with the Apache server
– save your HTML files
b) Use the university website
– and upload your HTML files
c) Use another web service provider
– and upload your HTML files
d) Use blogging software
– and make a weblog (blog)
a) Indo-European: relating to the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Euope and Asia as far as northern India (3,000 years old)
b) Proto-Germanic: The unrecorded ancient language from which East-Germanic, North-Germanic and West-Germanic developed. Thought to have been spoken on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the 3rd millennium BC.
c) Old English: The language of the Anglo-Saxons (up to about 1150), an inflected language with a Germanic vocabulary, very different from modern English.
d) Middle English: the English language from c. 1150 to c. 1470.
e) Early Modern English: the English language from c. 1500 to c.1650. (Shakespeare)
3) Provide examples of similar words in each of these:b) Proto-Germanic: The unrecorded ancient language from which East-Germanic, North-Germanic and West-Germanic developed. Thought to have been spoken on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the 3rd millennium BC.
c) Old English: The language of the Anglo-Saxons (up to about 1150), an inflected language with a Germanic vocabulary, very different from modern English.
d) Middle English: the English language from c. 1150 to c. 1470.
e) Early Modern English: the English language from c. 1500 to c.1650. (Shakespeare)
Am i a Pseudoscientific comparative Linguist??? I think not...yet!
4) What are the main differences between English andGerman?
syntax: word arrangement
declination of articles
gender determination within word
Formal pronoun and verb form ie Du hast, Sie haben vs. you have, Thou hast
declination of articles
gender determination within word
Formal pronoun and verb form ie Du hast, Sie haben vs. you have, Thou hast
TRIVIA
"boah ey voll hohl"
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