Structure, Typology and Internal Variation in the Catalan Language
Code: 42493 ECTS Credits: 10| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4313382 Advanced Studies in Catalan Language and Literature | OT | 0 | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Gemma Rigau Oliver
- Email:
- Gemma.Rigau@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
Other comments on languages
This subject requires a native or near-native level of Catalan.Teachers
- Teresa Cabré Monné
External teachers
- Josefina Carrera Sabaté
- Mar Batlle
Prerequisites
It is highly recommended that students be able to read literature in English.
Objectives and Contextualisation
In this module, different aspects of the structure of the language are studied in a critical and specialized way for the student to obtain a different perspective from that offered by university degrees. The module provides the student with the tools for performing research in Catalan linguistics while laying the groundwork for a possible applied extension.
Competences
- Apply the research methods of linguistics and literary studies.
- Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Construct a well-argued critical evaluation of a linguistic or literary analysis.
- Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously
- Produce reports on linguistic or literary activities or works.
- Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
- Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse the most important research conducted recently into the Catalan language.
- Apply the newest methods in social and functional research into language.
- Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Construct a well-argued comparison and critical evaluation of several linguistic analyses based on diverging hypotheses.
- Construct a well-argued comparison and critical evaluation of several linguistic analyses framed within diverging theories and methodologies.
- Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously
- Evaluate and apply the various theoretical frameworks for processing linguistic data and the research methods that they support.
- Prepare critical reports on linguistic productions from any context and period.
- Prepare critiques and critical reports on bibliographic works on the Catalan language.
- Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
- Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
Content
Bloc 1. Prof.: Gemma Rigau (UAB) gemma.rigau@uab.cat
Syntactic microvariation
1. Syntactic variation. Typological diversity. Relevance of some microsyntactic phenomena.
2. Syntactic behaviourof deontic existential verbs (caldre, tocar, urgir, etc.) in Old Catalan and Contemporary Catalan: (a) presence / absence of agreement; (b) possible clitic climbing to the main clause.
3. Formation and evolution of some locative constructions with postponed adverbs: (a) pel riu avall / lo riu avall / riu avall; (b) de cara amunt / cara amunt.
Bloc 2. Prof.: Mar Batlle (IEC) mbatlle@iec.cat
The fundamental principles of Catalan onomastics
The proper name; linguistic and grammatical characterization; regulations; interdisciplinarity of onomastics.
Anthroponymy; historical evolution and current system.
Toponymy; historical evolution; standardization; applied toponymy (signage, media).
Bloc 3. Prof.: Teresa Cabré (UAB) teresa.cabre@uab.cat
Aspects and problems of linguistic interfases
1. Phonology-Morphology interface: dependent phenomena of the prosodic structure. Dialectal variation in the truncation and reduplication processes.
2. Lexicon-Phonology interface: word formation and loanword adaptation. Single vs. stratal lexicon. Dialectal variation.
3. Morphology-Syntax interface: the 3rd person pronominal clitics. Historical and dialectal variation vs. standard language.
Bloc 4. Prof.: Josefina Carrera (UB) jcarrera@ub.edu
Sociphonetic variation in multilingual areas
1. Cognitive foundations of sociophonetic variation
2. Language internal variation and theories of speech production and perception
3. Language variation categorisation in multilingual areas from second language acquisition and categorisation models
4. Catalan sociophonetic variation in multilingual areas
Methodology
Professors' presentations will be combined with the resolution of exercises, practical activities, oral presentations, debates and short exercises.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Debates and practical activities | 50 | 2 | 4, 5, 10, 3, 6 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Supervisions and oral presentations | 75 | 3 | 11 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Personal study, exercises and written assignments | 115 | 4.6 | 2, 1, 7, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 3, 6, 11 |
Assessment
The module will be graded from four proves tests. Each professor will propose and grade an evaluation activity (exercise, review, project, oral presentation, critical comment, etc.), which will represent 25% of the final mark..
The student will obtain a "No avaluable" in case of not delivering the four assessment activities
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exercises, short written assignments and oral presentations | 100% | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 1, 7, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 3, 6, 11 |
Bibliography
Bloc 1
Par, A. (1923) Sintaxi catalana, segons los escrits en prosa de Bernat Metge, Halle, Verlag von Max Niemeyer.
Pérez Saldanya, M.l & Rigau, G. (2005): «Cuesta arriba e por llano: The development of “postpositions in Spanish and Catalan». Journal of Portuguese Linguistics. Núm. 4, p. 69-91.
Rigau, G., (1998a) “La variació sintàctica: uniformitat en la diversitat”, Caplletra, 25, p. 63-82.
Rigau, G., (1999) “Los predicados impersonales relativos en las lenguas romànicas”, Revista Española de Lingüística, 29, 2, p. 317-355.
Rigau, G., (2006) “Estudi microsintàctic del verb caldre en el català antic i en l’actual”; Caplletra, 38, pp. 241-258.
Rigau, G. / Pérez Saldanya, M. (2007): “Els adverbis de lloc intransitius i la formació de construccions amb adverbis posposats”, Estudis Romànics, XXIX. p. 61-80.
Bloc 2
Amigó, Ramon (2011). Onomàstica i llenguatge. De cap a cap del país. Barcelona: Rafael Dalmau, Editor.
Moran i Ocerinjauregui, Josep (2009): Característiques del nom propi. Estudi d’interpretació lingüística. Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Criteris per a la toponímia d’àmbit municipal. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, 2006.
Bloc 3
Bonet, E. (2002) "Cliticització". J. Solà et alii ( eds) Gramàtica del català contemporani Vol.1 Morfologia, Cap. 10: 933-989. Barcelona: Empúries.
Bonet, E. (1993) "3rd pronominal clitics in dialects of Catalan" CatWPL, 3.1:85-112.
Cabré, T. (2002) "Altres sistemes de formació de mots". J. Solà et alii ( eds) Gramàtica del català contemporani Vol.1 Morfologia, Cap. 9: 889-932. Barcelona: Empúries.
Cabré, T. (2009) "Els sistema vocàlic del català central i l'adaptació de manlleus" Actes del XIV Col·loqui Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes, vol. 3: 111-120. Budapest 2006.
IEC (2016) Gramàtica de la llengua catalana. Barcelona: IEC.
Mascaró, J. (2011) "Efectes accentuals i sil·làbics sobre la distribució de les vocals mitjanes en català central" M-R. Lloret i C. Pons (eds) Noves aproximacions a la fonologia i la morfologia del català. Symposia Philologica, 21: 405-426. Alacant: IIFV.
Todolí, J. (1992) "Variants dels pronoms febles de tercera persona al País Valencià: regles fonosintàctiques i morfològiques subjacents" Zeitschrift für Katalanistik: Revista d'Estudis Catalans, 5: 137-160. Frankfurt am Main.
Bloc 4
LABOV, W. (2010) Principles of Linguistic Change. Vol 3: Cognitive and Cultural Factors. Malden/Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
MORENO-FERNÁNDEZ, F. (2012) Sociolingüística cognitiva. Proposiciones, escolios y debates. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert.
PRADILLA, M. A. (2008). Sociolingüística de la variació i llengua catalana. Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis Catalans
TATHAM, M.; MORTON, K. (2011). A guide to Speech Production and Perception. Edinburgh University Press: Edimburg.