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German Linguistics

Objectives

1. To understand the functioning of the German language from a morphological, lexical and syntactical point of view;
2. Acquire methodologies for the analysis of specific German lexicographical products

General characterization

Code

01100210

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Marta Filipa Gomes Marques Fidalgo

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

  • Cedillo, Ana Caro. 2004. Fachsprachliche Kollokationen. Eine übersetzungsorienteirtes Datenbankmodell Deutsch­Spanisch. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag
  • Donalies, Elke. 2005. Die Wortbildung des Deutschen. Ein Überblick. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.
  • Lemnitzer, Lothar &Heike Zinsmeister. 2006. Korpuslinguistik. Eine Einführung. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.
  • Lühr, Rosemarie. 1996. Neuhochdeutsch. Eine Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag GmbH & Co. KG.
  • Meibauer, Jörg et al. 2002. Einführung in die germanistische Linguistik. Stuttgart – Weimar, J.B. Metzler Verlag.
  • Römer, Christine & Brigitte Matze. 2005. Lexikologie des Deutschen. Eine Einführung. 2. A

Teaching method

The lecture classes will be developed according to the following strategies: expository lessons, seminars, scheduled readings (directed study) and discussion in the classroom

Evaluation method

Continuous assessment - two written tests (50% each). (100%)

Subject matter

1. Concepts of General Linguistics
2. Cases system of German ('Kasussystem')
3. Words formation
3.1 Constituents of words
3.2 Composition
3.3 Derivation
3.4 Conversion
3.5 Abbreviations
4. Aspects of Lexicology
4.2 Lexical Unit
4.3 Characteristics of the lexicon
4.4 Collocations and phraseologies
4.5 Lexical and semantic fields
5. Aspects of German lexicography
5.1 Dictionaries
5.2 Specialized dictionaries