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Cursus: GKRMV17013
GKRMV17013
Research Seminar AMR: Language and History II: Celtic II
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeGKRMV17013
Studiepunten (EC)5
Cursusdoelen
Students who pass this course:
• possess in-depth knowledge on the historical phonology of Old Irish and Middle Welsh and the absolute chronology of sound changes;
• have facility with the historical phonology from Proto-Celtic to Insular Celtic and from our earliest records in the early Middle Ages to the languages of the High Middle Ages;
• can integrate (inner-Celtic and Latin) loanwords into the established framework of historical phonology;
• can conduct research on a linguistic topic using available text corpora. 
Inhoud
This course expands upon the topics covered in block 1. The first way in which that expansion manifests itself is in the temporal domain. While the focus in block 1 was on developments of the 1st millennium, that time-span will be expanded here to focus both on earlier, Proto- or early Celtic changes, as well as later ones found within the attested record, i.e. from Old to Middle Irish and from Old British and Old Welsh to Middle Welsh.

Secondly, this course aims to establish a more rigorous time-frame for the relative chronology of developments established in block 1 by focusing on efforts to produce absolute chronologies of changes. This topic will force us to confront linguistic evidence with evidence from other disciplines, such as epigraphy and history.

Thirdly, since loanwords, both from Latin and from amongst the Celtic languages, offer a means of testing and refining our understanding of the sound changes, we will examine work on loanwords into the early Celtic languages.
Fourthly, and finally, we will examine the ever increasing number of online corpora available for the study of the medieval Celtic languages and explore how these can be exploited for research purposes. This topic will form the basis of the assignment, which will ask students to use available corpora to address an assigned or chosen problem.

Career orientation:
This course will help students refine their competency in data analysis as well as enhance their oral and written communicative skills. It will also teach them how to integrate resources made possible through advances in digital humanities into their research.
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