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The succesful student will acquire (1) basic knowledge of the general principles of language change through contact; (2) knowledge of the methods and results of language contact research on the history of Western European languages (with a focus on the involvement of Celtic); (3) capability to conduct basic research on the ways in which language contact shaped a selected issue in the language in which the student is specialized
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Language contact has played an important and often underestimated role in the history of the languages of Western Europe. In this course, the methodological and theoretical state of the art concerning language change by language contact is explored. The focus lies on language structure (rather than loanwords) and on methods for detecting language change through language contact. Those methods are applied to modern examples of change in Western European languages and to more ancient and more spectacular instances of languages shift, which lie at the origins of the European linguistic map.
Since the course is part of a 'verdiepingspakket' of Celtic Studies. The focus will be on the way in which Celtic languages were shaped by language contact, as well as the way in which Celtic languages shaped other languages, such as English, Latin, French, German and Dutch. If students participate who have expertise in one of the above-mentioned non-Celtic languages rather than in Celtic itself, that language will be capable of forming the topic of the paper
This course is the fourth course in specialization Language contact and language change in Celtic
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