Germanic Philology LM (2010/2011)

Learning outcomes

In the light of recent inquiry trends, the course aims to indicate the basic issues of comparative linguistics, referred to the Germanic complex. Summarizing the comparative methods history, will be shared its influences on the growth of national and post-national identities, in European countries and in the New World. The main topics are: historical and comparative linguistics; genetic languages relationships; Indo-European family: the primitive common language; the starting point of Indo-European studies; interdisciplinary Indo-European studies: archaeology and language; language change and linguistic ‘laws’; Indo-European, Germanic and their subgrouping; earliest written Indo-European and Germanic sources; history of Indo-European and Germanic studies in the light of the shared ethnic names (Indo-European, Indo-Germanic, Germanic); Indo-European studies in the digital age: the TITUS-Project