Englisches Seminar
Universität Münster

HISTORICAL LEXICOLOGY

SCHEDULE

Here you find the suggested course schedule for this semester. If you are to give a presentation, do this with your group. All students should prepare the relevant chapters in the course book and respective exercises in the text collection before each session.

Session	Date	Topic	Course Book: Hughes (2000)

1.	18.4.	Structure of the Seminar; Introduction
2.	25.4.	Presentation: Where Do English Words Come From?; Historical Survey, Introduction to OED	text collection, pp. 21-47
3.	2.5.	Presentation: History in the Language: The Vocabulary as a Historical Repository I; Basics of Historical Lexicology	Chapter 1, pp. 1-33
4.	9.5.	Presentation: History in the Language: The Vocabulary as a Historical Repository II; Basics of Historical Lexicology	Chapter 1, pp. 33-64
5.	23.5.	Presentation: The Foundations of English and the Formation of the Base Register I; Old English Vocabulary	Chapter 2, pp. 65-86
6.	30.5.	Presentation: The Foundations of English and the Formation of the Base Register II; Old English Vocabulary	Chapter 2, pp. 86-108
7.	6.6.	Presentation: The Norman Elite and the New Language of Power I; Middle English Vocabulary	Chapter 3, pp. 109-25
8.	13.6.	Presentation: The Norman Elite and the New Language of Power II; Middle English Vocabulary	Chapter 3, pp. 125-45
9.	20.6.	Presentation: The Lexical Expansion of the Renaissance: Exuberance and Restraint I; Early Modern English Vocabulary	Chapter 4, pp. 146-76 + 212-22
10.	27.6.	Presentation: The Lexical Expansion of the Renaissance: Exuberance and Restraint II; Early Modern English Vocabulary	Chapter 4, pp. 176-212
11.	4.7.	Presentation: Licentiousness, Decorum and Lexicographical Order; Modern English Vocabulary	Chapter 5, pp. 223-76
12.	11.7.	Presentation: The Lexical Interchange of Imperialism; Modern English Vocabulary	Chapter 6, pp. 277-314
13.	18.7.	Preparation for Coursework; Choice of Topics	handout

Go back