- •Міністерство освіти і науки україни Київський національний лінгвістичний університет
- •Syllabus changes / approval
- •Subject description
- •Explanatory Note
- •Requirements to students' abilities and skills:
- •II. Thematic Module Distribution
- •Ііі. Subject Curricular Chart
- •Plans of Seminars Seminar 1
- •Seminar 2
- •Seminar 3
- •(Ene) period
- •Іv. Self-study assignments samples Self-Study Work Topics
- •V. Rating assessment system
- •VI . Module Control Work and its assessment
- •6.1. Module Control Work. The Scheme
- •VII. Final assessment
- •The structure of the examination and the assessment criteria
- •7.2. Sample of the examination materials Sample of examination card
- •An example of the practical assignment card №...
- •7.3. Examination questions
- •VIII. Recommended literature Obligatory literature
- •Additional literature
Plans of Seminars Seminar 1
Phonetic and Grammatical Peculiarities of Old English
The Outline of Seminar 1
1. Main features of Germanic Languages (word stress; system of consonants; Grimm's Law; Werner's Law; rhotacism; system of vowels; Common Germanic vowelshift; Common Germanic fracture; morphological structure of the word; noun declensions; strong and weak declensions of verbs).
2. Old English (OE) phonology.
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Common Germanic fracture of OE.
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Development of stressed vowels in OE. The main processes: i-umlaut, breaking, diphthongization due to initial palatal consonants, back mutation (umlaut), contraction.
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Development of consonants in OE: splitting of velar consonants; loss of consonants, metatheses, shortening of consonants.
3. Old English Grammar.
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The Noun. Its grammatical categories (gender, number, case; noun declensions).
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The Adjective. Its grammatical categories.
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The Pronoun. Its groups and grammatical categories.
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The Verb. Old English Ablaut. Morphological classes of verbs (strong, weak, preterite-present, anomalous).
Recommended Literature
Obligatory:
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Verba L. "History of the English Language".-„Nova Knyha", 2006. Pp. 25-56; 61-86.
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И. П. Иванова и др. «Практикум по истории английского язьїка». -М., 1985.
Theory Урок1, р.4-16; Урок2, р.17-25; УрокЗ, р.26-34; Урок4, р.35-40;
Урок5, р.40-48; Урок6, р.48-53; Урок7, р.54-60 Texts for analysis Textl (p.8); Text2 (p.19); Text3 (p.2.8); Text ynp.4 (p.39);
Text 6 (p.41); Text7 (p.49); TextlO
Assignments 1-4 (p.7); 8-9 (p.8); 13-15 (p.14-15); 1-5 (p.19); 2-8 (p.29); 12-13
(p.32); 5-7 (p.36); 1, 3, 4 (p.42); 5-9 (p.50); 1-4 (p.61); 5-8 (p.62);
21-22, 26 (p.63-64)
Exercises 3, p.15; 1-11 (p.24-25); 1-3, 6 (p.34); 1-Ю (p.53); 1-3, 5,6 (p.65)
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B. Ilyish. "History of the English Language' Pp.12-16; 20-M., 1973. 22; 44-53; 63-82; 87-105.
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Lectures on the material.
Additional:
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G. I. Stoudenets. "History of the English Language in Tables". -K., 1998. Tables 13-24; 25-55.
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T. A. Rastorguyeva. "History of English".-M., 1983. Pp.34-40; 42-49; 92-123.
Questions for Self-Testing:
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What can you say about the the Common Germanic word accent (stress)?
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What kind of process is the the Common Germanic fracture?
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What kind of process is the the Common Germanic vowelshift?
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What's the essence of Grimm's Law?
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What's the essence of Verner's Law?
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What's the difference between Common Germanic and Old English systems of vowels?
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What new diphthongs appeared in OE? What processes promoted their appearance?
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What kinds of form-building means do you know and which of them were used in building different forms of words in OE?
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What grammatical categories characterize OE nouns?
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What declensions of nouns existed in OE?
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What categories characterize OE pronouns? What declensions of adjectives existed in OE?
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Whatcl asses of pronouns existed in OE and what grammatical categories characterize each of the group?
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What morphological classes of verbs existed in OE?
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What are the characteristic features of each of the class?
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What's Ablaut? How did it change in Common Germanic and OE?
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What categories characterize OE verbs? Which endings of the verbs reflect these categories?
17.What are specific features of preterit-present verbs?