III. Functions of the cases in Old English
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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.

 

III. Phonetic Changes in Middle English.

1. New Spelling Conventions.

2. The Lengthening and Shortening of Vowels.

3. Middle English Short Vowels.

4. Middle English Long Vowels.

5. Middle English Diphthongs. Development of Diphthongs Due to Vocalisation of Consonants.

6. Middle English Consonants. The Rise of Sibilants and Affricates.

 

Seminar 6.

Middle English Written Records

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.

I. Middle English Grammar: Noun.

1. Simplification of the Case system and Types of Declension in Middle English.

2. Means of Form-Building in Middle English.

3. Rise of the Article.

4. Middle English Pronouns’ System.

5. Cases and Prepositional Phrases in Middle English.

 

II. Middle English Grammar: Verb.

1. Historical Changes in the Verbal System. History of the Old English Categories of Tense, Number, Mood and Person.

 2. Development of Analytical Forms and New Grammatical Categories in Middle English.

 3. Strong and Weak Verbs.

 4. Perfect, Continuous and Future Tenses.

 

Seminar 8.

Middle English Vocabulary, Phonetics and Syntax

Writings in Middle English

 

I. Writings in Middle English.

1. Rise of the London Dialect.

2. Changes in the Spelling System of Middle English.

3. Principal Written Documents of Middle English.

 

II. Middle English Vocabulary.

1. Scandinavian Influence on the Middle English Vocabulary.

2. French Influence on the Middle English Vocabulary.

3. Word Building in Middle English.

 

III. Phonetic Changes in Middle English.

1. Vowels in Middle English.

2. Consonants 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.

Modern English: Vocabulary and Grammar

 

I. Formation of the National Language

1. Spread of London Dialect in the 15th Century.

2. Development of the Literary Language.

3. Expansion of English.

4. The English Language outside Europe.

5. The English Language in America.

 

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