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Language History

Language History

Code	8572
Year	1
Semester	S2
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	Linguística
Mode of delivery	- Teaching with classroom lectures and practices in a dynamic seminar.
Learning outcomes	- Understanding the phenomenon of language change; - Critically analyze some changes from the Portuguese and the Romance languages??. - The UC should give students a sense of constant mutability inherent in languages, particularly the Portuguese and the Romance languages??.
Syllabus	1. The Linguistic Change. 2. The story of the Romance languages??. 3. The Portuguese in the context of Iberian languages??.
Main Bibliography	A - HICKEY, Raymond (ed.) (2003) Motives for Language Change. Cambridge: CUP. A - JOSEPH, Brian D. & Richard D. JANDA (eds.) (2003) The Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. A - McMAHON, April M. S. (1994) Understanding Language Change. Cambridge: CUP. A - TRASK, R. L. (1996) Historical Linguistics. London: Arnold. B- CASTRO, Ivo (1991) (com a colaboração de Rita MARQUILHAS e J. Léon ACOSTA) – Curso de história da língua portuguesa. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta. B- MAIA, Clarinda (1988) “Algumas questões scriptológicas relativas à prosa documental galego-portuguesa”. In: Homenagem a Joseph M. Piel por ocasião do seu 85o aniversário. Editada por Dieter Kremer. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, pp. 327-347. B- OSÓRIO, Paulo e SILVA, Jaime (2008) Introdução à História da Língua Portuguesa. Lisboa: Cosmos. B- TRASK, R. L. (2000) The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics. London: Routledge.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.