Teaching Workshop: the Transformations of the German Language

The workshop aims to help students understand the mechanisms that led to the current aspect of German through the reading and analysis of texts from various periods. Particular attention is paid to the evolution of phonetics, morphology and semantics.

Ability to identify the linguistic specificities of texts belonging to previous stages of the language; understanding of the mechanisms that led to the current phonetic, morphological and semantic characteristics of the German language.