Course title:

Contact linguistics

Course code: PSL232
Course status: Elective
Course leader: Velimir Piškorec
Course instructor:
Language of instruction: English
Total hours: 8S
Form of instruction:
ECTS credits: 4

Course content by topics:

  1. Fundamental concepts in contact linguistics; 2. Historical evolution of contact linguistics; 3. Typology of language contacts; 4. Methodological aspects; 5. Language system perspective in contact linguistics; 6. Contact linguistics in an interdisciplinary context

Learning outcomes at course level:

  1. To list and explain the basic concepts in contact linguistics; 2. To critically analyse and evaluate the theoretical and methodological approaches in the historical evolution of contact linguistics; 3. To identify various phenomena in language contact and choose appropriate methodological analytical procedures

Learning outcomes at programme level:

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Reading list:

Obligatory reading: Filipović, R. (1986): Teorija jezika u kontaktu. Uvod u lingvistiku jezičnih dodira. Zagreb: JAZU- Školska knjiga.; Muhvić-Dimanovski, V. (2005): Neologizmi: problemi teorije i primjene. Zagreb: FF press.; Piškorec, V. (2005): Germanizmi u govorima đurđevečke Podravine. Zagreb: FF press.; Turk, M. (2012): Jezično kalkiranje u teoriji i praksi. Prilog

lingvistici jezičnih dodira. Zagreb: Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada.; Izborna literatura: Goebl, H. et al. (1996/1997) Kontaktlinguistik. Ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenössischer Forschung. Vol. I & II. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter.; Ljubičić, M. (2011): Posuđenice i lažni parovi.

Hrvatski, talijanski i jezično posredovanje. Zagreb: FF press.; Riehl, C. M. (2009): Sprachkontaktforschung. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.; Sočanac, L. (2010): Studije o višejezičnosti. Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Globus.; Thomason, S. (2000): Language Contact.

Washington Georgetown University Press.; Winford, D. (2003): An Introduction to Contact Linguistics. Blackwell.

Assessment of student achievement: course attendance and active participation in class discussions, student critical/analytical presentations of selected research texts in contact linguistics

Quality assurance mechanism: student survey

Prof. Velimir Piškorec
Prof. Velimir PiškorecCourse leader
Full professor at the Department of German Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
2001 PHD thesis on the topic of German loanwords in the Kajkavian dialect of Podravina
1993 teaching assistant at the Department of German Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Research interests
His main areas of scientific interest are sociolinguistics, contact linguistics with a focus on Croatian-German/Austrian linguistic and cultural contacts, language biographical studies, ecolinguistics, dialect geography, interlinguistics, Esperantology and history of philology.