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SEMINAR 1
1. The reasons to study the history of English. The subject of history of English. The aims of the course (theoretical and practical).
2. Evolution of language and scope of language history.
3. Statics and dynamics in language history. Causes of language evolution.
4. The ties of the history of English with other branches of linguistics; its purpose and methods of studying.
5. Sources of language history. Inner and outer history of the language.
6. Methods of comparative linguistic research, its advantages and drawbacks.
7. The periods in the history of English.
8. Generalities about Germanic languages. Name the closest linguistic relations of English. Give the classification of Germanic languages. Position of Germanic languages within the Indo-European family (main groups of languages, with special reference to Germanic, Celtic, Slavonic).
9. Languages spoken on the British Isles prior to the Germanic invasion. Their descendants that have survived till today.
10. Historical events that account for the influence of Latin on Old English.
11. The linguistic situation on the British Isles after the Germanic invasion.
12. Regional Dialects of Old English.
SEMINAR 2
Old English Phonology
PLAN
1. Modern Germanic Languages.
2. The earliest period of Germanic history.
3. Linguistic features of Germanic languages.
4. Linguistic features of Old English phonetics.
5. Old English Vowel and Consonant Symbols.
6. Independent vowel changes in Proto-Germanic.
7. Mutations of vowels in late Proto-Germanic.
8. Diphthongisation before Velarised Consonants.
9. Diphthongisation after Palatal Consonants.
10. Front Mutation.
11. Back Mutation.
12. Some Minor Sound Changes.
13. Assimilative Changes of Vowels (Breaking, Palatal Mutation) and Their Traces in Modern English.
14. Consonant shift in Proto-Germanic (Grimm’s law).
15. Voicing of fricatives in Proto-Germanic (Verner’s law).
SEMINAR 3
Old English Grammar
PLAN
I. Old English Noun.
1. Old English Nominal System. Means of Form-building.
2. Grammatical Categories of Nouns, Adjectives and Pronouns.
3. Morphological Classification of Old English Nouns (Declension Types of Nouns). Traces of the Old English Declensions in Modern English.
4. Declension Types of Adjectives. Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives and Their Further History.
5. Pronouns.
6. Numerals.
II. Old English Verbal System. Means of Form-building.
1. Grammatical Categories of Finite and Non-Finite Forms of the Verb.
2. Morphological Classification of Old English Verbs.
3. Consonantal Type: the Consonantal Conjugation.
4. Vocalic Type: the Vocalic Conjugation.
5. Irregular Verbs.
6. Preterite-Present Verbs.
7. Traces of the Old English Verb Conjugation in Modern English.
SEMINAR 4
Old English Vocabulary
Old English Syntax
PLAN
I. Old English Vocabulary.
1. The Resourcefulness of Old English Vocabulary.
2. Celtic Loan Words.
3. Latin Borrowings.
4. Scandinavian Loan Words and Their Character.
II. Phrases in Old English.
III. Functions of the cases in Old English.
IV. Ways of expressing syntactical relations in Old English.
1. Agreement.
2. Government.
3. Joining.
V. Sentences in Old English.
1. The simple sentence.
2. Main and secondary parts of the sentence.
3. The complex verbal forms.
4. The category of mood.
5. Word order and the order of clauses..
6. The compound and complex sentence. Types of clauses.
7. Mixed sentences.
Seminar 5
Middle English: Changes in Phonetics and Vocabulary
Plan.
I. Historical Events Affecting the English Language and the Subjection of English.
1. The Scandinavian Invasion.
2. The Norman Conquest.
3. Middle English Dialects.
4. English Versus French.
II. Middle English Vocabulary.
1. French Loan-Words.
2. Latin Borrowings.
3. Synonyms at Three Levels.
4. Innovations in Spelling in Middle English as Compared with Old English.
5. Word formation in Middle English.
Seminar 6.
Plan
Middle English Written Records:
1) Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (Peterborough Chronicle) (12th century)
2) Poema Morale (“Moral Ode”) (13th century)
3) Ormulum: Havelok the Dane (13th century)
4) Brut by Layamon (a free rendering of the Brut D’Angleterre by Wace) (13th century)
5) Proclamation of Henry III
Political poems of 13-14th centuries
6) Dan Michael, Ayenbite of Inwit
7) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
8) Higden: translation of Polychronicon
9) Romances of chivalry: Richard Coeur de Lion and others
10) William Langland, Piers the Plowman
11) The age of Chaucer
12) Cursor Mundi
13) Richard Rolle of Hampole, The Prick of Conscience
14) Henry the Minstrel, Wallace
15) John Barbour, The Brus
16) Thomas Malory, Morte d’Arthur
17) James I, King’s Quair
Seminar 7 .
Middle English Grammar
Plan.
Seminar 8.
Writings in Middle English
IV. Middle English Syntax.
1. Ways of Expressing Syntactic Connections.
2. The Complex Verbal Forms.
a) The Perfect.
b) The Continuous.
c) Future Tense.
d) Use of the Subjunctive Mood.
c) The Passive.
3. Types of Phrases.
4. The Sentence. The Compound and Complex Sentences.
Seminar 9.
SEMINAR 1
1. The reasons to study the history of English. The subject of history of English. The aims of the course (theoretical and practical).
2. Evolution of language and scope of language history.
3. Statics and dynamics in language history. Causes of language evolution.
4. The ties of the history of English with other branches of linguistics; its purpose and methods of studying.
5. Sources of language history. Inner and outer history of the language.
6. Methods of comparative linguistic research, its advantages and drawbacks.
7. The periods in the history of English.
8. Generalities about Germanic languages. Name the closest linguistic relations of English. Give the classification of Germanic languages. Position of Germanic languages within the Indo-European family (main groups of languages, with special reference to Germanic, Celtic, Slavonic).
9. Languages spoken on the British Isles prior to the Germanic invasion. Their descendants that have survived till today.
10. Historical events that account for the influence of Latin on Old English.
11. The linguistic situation on the British Isles after the Germanic invasion.
12. Regional Dialects of Old English.
SEMINAR 2
Old English Phonology
PLAN
1. Modern Germanic Languages.
2. The earliest period of Germanic history.
3. Linguistic features of Germanic languages.
4. Linguistic features of Old English phonetics.
5. Old English Vowel and Consonant Symbols.
6. Independent vowel changes in Proto-Germanic.
7. Mutations of vowels in late Proto-Germanic.
8. Diphthongisation before Velarised Consonants.
9. Diphthongisation after Palatal Consonants.
10. Front Mutation.
11. Back Mutation.
12. Some Minor Sound Changes.
13. Assimilative Changes of Vowels (Breaking, Palatal Mutation) and Their Traces in Modern English.
14. Consonant shift in Proto-Germanic (Grimm’s law).
15. Voicing of fricatives in Proto-Germanic (Verner’s law).
SEMINAR 3
Old English Grammar
PLAN
I. Old English Noun.
1. Old English Nominal System. Means of Form-building.
2. Grammatical Categories of Nouns, Adjectives and Pronouns.
3. Morphological Classification of Old English Nouns (Declension Types of Nouns). Traces of the Old English Declensions in Modern English.
4. Declension Types of Adjectives. Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives and Their Further History.
5. Pronouns.
6. Numerals.
II. Old English Verbal System. Means of Form-building.
1. Grammatical Categories of Finite and Non-Finite Forms of the Verb.
2. Morphological Classification of Old English Verbs.
3. Consonantal Type: the Consonantal Conjugation.
4. Vocalic Type: the Vocalic Conjugation.
5. Irregular Verbs.
6. Preterite-Present Verbs.
7. Traces of the Old English Verb Conjugation in Modern English.
SEMINAR 4
Old English Vocabulary
Old English Syntax
PLAN
I. Old English Vocabulary.
1. The Resourcefulness of Old English Vocabulary.
2. Celtic Loan Words.
3. Latin Borrowings.
4. Scandinavian Loan Words and Their Character.
II. Phrases in Old English.
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