Task IV.

Subject: The Early Modern English period

Instructions: Read the following extract from the Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare and do the tasks below.

2.M.

Dost thou loue pictures? we wil fetch thee strait

202: Adonis painted by a running brooke,

203: And Citherea all in sedges hid,

204: Which seeme to moue and wanton with her breath,

205: Euen as the wauing sedges play with winde.

206:

Lord.

Wee'l shew thee Io, as she was a Maid,

207: And how she was beguiled and surpriz'd,

208: As liuelie painted, as the deede was done.

Find the present tense finite verbs define their form (person, number).
Find personal pronouns; define their form (person, number).
Find the words where the letter u is used for the sound v.
Provide word-for-word translation of characters’ statements in Modern English.

Related reading

1. Иванова И. П., Чахоян Л. П. История английского языка. – СПб., 2000.

2. Иванова И. П., Чахоян Л. П. Практикум по истории английского языка. – СПб., 2000.

3. Смирницкий А. И. История английского языка. – М., 1965.

4. Blake N. F. A History of the English Language. – Macmillan Press, 1996.

5. Lass R. Old English. – Cambridge University Press, 1994.

6. Rastorgueva T. A. A History of English. – M., 2000.

7. Thomas Cable, Albert C. Baugh, A History of the English Language. – Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd., 2002.

Internet resources

1. 1. http://www.ancientscripts.com/index.html A compendium of world-wide writing systems from prehistory to today

2. http://asstudents.unco.edu/faculty/tbredehoft/UNCclasses/ENG419/GVS.htm The Great Vowel Shift

3. http://www.britannia.com/history/ History of England

4. http://www.britainexpress.com/History/index.htm History of England

5. http://www.duerinck.com/tribes1.html Duerinck’s Germanic Tribes Portal

6. http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html History of the English Language

7. http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/m/med/med_quot_search.html Middle English dictionary

8. http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/oe/old_english.html Old English Pages (Electronic texts, translations & manuscript images, art, coins, history, language etc.)

9. http://www2.kenyon.edu/AngloSaxonRiddles/texts.htm The Riddles in the Exeter Book

10. http://www.mun.ca/Ansaxdat/vocab/wordlist.html Modern English to

11. http://www.tarahill.com/runes/ The Runic Journey

12. Old English Vocabulary

13. http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/Old English at the University of Calgary

14. http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MA/GERMANS.HTM European Middle Ages

Г. А. Васильцова история английского языка и введение в специальную филологию

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