Самостійна робота студентів

1. Вивчення генеалогічної класифікації германських мов – 5 балів (Lecture 1).

2. Вивчення періодизації розвитку англійської мови – 5 балів (Lecture 2).

Модульний контроль

Форма – письмовий тест множинного вибору – 5 балів

Для виконання тесту слід орієнтуватися в таких питаннях:

1. Linguistic changes. Their rate and mechanism.

2. Germanic languages in past and present.

3. Principal linguistic features of Germanic languages.

4. Word stress in Proto-Germanic.

5. Vowels in Proto-Germanic.

6. Consonants in Proto-Germanic: Grimm’s Law.

7. Verner’s Law (voicing of fricatives).

8. Historical background of Old English.

9. Celts.

10. Roman conquest.

11. Ancient Germans.

12. Early OE. Events of history between the 5^th-11^th c.

13. Periods of the history of English.

14. Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Its role for the Anglo-Saxons.

15. OE alphabet and pronunciation.

16. OE written records.

17. OE dialects.

18. Origin of English vowels.

19. Changes of stressed vowels in early OE (independent: development of monophthongs, development of diphthongs).

20. Assimilative vowel changes: breaking and diphthongisation, palatal mutation.

21. Changes of unstressed vowels in Early OE.

22. Old English consonant changes.

23. Danish raids on Britain. Danish invasion in Britain.

24. Unification of Anglo-Saxon Kingdom.

25. Rein of King Alfred (the Great) (871-899).

26. OE morphology. Parts of speech.

27. OE nouns.

28. OE pronouns.

29. OE adjectives.

30. OE adverbs and numerals.

31. Grammatical categories of finite verbs.

32. Morphological classification of OE verbs.

33. Strong verbs.

34. Weak verbs and minor groups of verbs.

35. Word order in OE sentence. Connectives.

36. OE vocabulary.

Module 2.

Middle English and New English.

Seminar 4.

Spelling Changes in ME.

Rules of Reading.

Evolution of the Sound system from the 11^th to 18^th c.

1. Spelling Changes in ME. Rules of Reading.

2. Evolution of the Sound System from the 11^th to 18^th c.:

a) World Stress in ME and Early NE;

b) Vowels Changes in ME and Early NE:

- Unstressed Vowels;

- Main Trends in the Changes of Stressed Vowels.

c) Quantitative Vowel Changes in Early ME;

d) Qualitative Vowel Changes in Early ME:

- Development of Monophthongs;

- Development of Diphthongs;

- System of Vowels in Late ME;

- The Great Vowel Shift;

- Some Interpretations of the Great Vowel Shift;

- Changes of Short Vowels in Early NE;

- Growth of Long Monophthongs and Diphthongs in Early NE due to Vocalisation of Consonants.

e) Quantitative Vowel Changes in Early NE. Principal Changes of Vowels in ME and Early NE;

f) Evolution of Consonants in ME and Early NE:

- Growth of Sibilants and Affricates;

- Treatment of Fricative Consonants in ME and Early NE;

- Loss of Consonants;

g) Historical Foundations of Modern English Spelling.

LITERATURE

A) Principal:

1. Rastorgueva T.A. A History of English. – M., 1983. – Chapter XIII (P. 184-188), Chapter XIV (P.188-219).

B) Supplementary:

1. Залесская Л.Д. Пособие по истории английского языкадля заочных отделений факультетов английского языка педагогических институтов. – М., 1984.–С.62-66, 83-86.

2. Иванова И.П., Чахоян Л.П., Беляева Т.М. История английского языка. –СПб., 1999.–С.69-97.

PRACTICE ASSIGNMENT

1. Explain the following changes: OE ūt – ME out [u:t] (NE out), OE þæt > ME that [θat] (NE that), OE rēad – ME reed [rε:d] (NE red), OE bæc – ME back [bak] (NE back), OE bo3a – ME bowe ['bou∂] (NE bow).

2. Try to read the words as they were pronounced in ME before the Great Vowel Shift: time, nama, findan, tale, cause, mous, stone, street, make.

3. Reread “Grimm’s tale” by Michelle Girard from Seminar 1. Comment on the changes of the words: PIE men-s – PG menon – OE mona – ME mone – NE moon, PIE bhrater – PG broþar – OE broþor – ME brother – NE brother, PIE bero – PG bera – OE bere – ME bere – NE bear, PIE dont – PG tanthuz – OE toþ - teþ – ME tethe – NE teeth, PIE wlpo – PG wulfas, wǘlf – OE wolf – ME wolf – NE wolf, PIE gre-no – PG gruoni – OE 3rēne – ME grene, green – NE green, PIE nokwt – PG naht – OE niht – ME ni3t, night – NE night, PIE petər – PG fadar – OE fæder – ME fader – NE father, PIE sunuz – PG sunus – OE sunu – ME sune, sone – NE son, PIE kerd – PG herton, heorte – OE heort(e) – ME heorte, herte – NE heart, PIE swesor – PG swestar – OE sweostor, swustor, swistor – ME suster, soster– NE sister, PIE kornam – PG korn, corn – OE corn – ME corn – NE corn, PIE medwo – PG mædwe – OE mædwe – ME medwe – NE meadow, PIE dhughetər – PG tohter, tochter – OE dohtor – ME doghter, doughter – NE daughter in the diachronic aspect.