Modern regular and irregular noun and verb forms
Seminar 1. Old English period.
1. Old English historical background (Germanic settlement, West Germanic tribes and Old English dialects).
2. Old English alphabet and pronunciation.
3.Old English written records: runic inscription, religious works, Anglo-Saxon chronicles.
4.The system of Old English vowels and their origin.
5.Assimilative changes of vowels (breaking, palatal mutation).
6.The system of Old English consonants and their origin.
7.Grimm’s law. Verner’s law (voicing, devoicing, hardening and rhotacism in Old English).
Seminars 2. Old English Grammar.
1. Old English nominal system. Means of form-building.
2. Grammatical categories of nouns, adjectives and pronouns.
3. Morphological classification of Old English nouns (types of declensions).
4. Traces of the Old English declensions in Modern English.
5. Degrees of comparison of adjectives in Old English and their further history.
6. Old English verbal system. Means of form-building.
7. Grammatical categories of finite and non-finite forms of the verb.
8. Morphological classification of Old English verbs.
9. Traces of the Old English verb conjugation in Modern English.
Seminar 3. Middle English period.
1. Historical events affecting the English language (the Scandinavian invasion and the Norman Conquest).
2. Changes in Middle English word-stock as compared with Old English.
3. Innovations in spelling in Middle English as compared with Old English.
4. Middle English written records.
5. Qualitative changes of long and short vowels in Middle English.
6. Quantitative changes of vowels in Middle English lengthening and shortening.
7. Consonant changes in Middle English. The rise of sibilants and affricates.
8. Development if diphthongs due to vocalisation of consonants.
9. Simplification of the case system and types of declension in Muddle English.
10. Means of form-building in Middle English.
11. Rise of the article.
12. Historical changes in the verbal system. History of the Old English categories of tense, number, mood and person.
13. Development of analytical forms and new grammatical categories in Middle English.
Seminar 4. General characteristics of the New English period.
New English Phonetics.
1. Formation of the British nation and the English national language in the Early new English period.
2. Expansion of English overseas. Contacts with other languages.
3. Early New English vocabulary. New means of word-formation (conversion).
4. Influence of Latin and other languages in the New English period. Etymological doublets.
5. New English spelling. Principal ways of indicating the sounds in Modern English.
6. Quantitative and qualitative changes of vowels in early new English.
7. The Great vowel shift and other New English vowel changes; their effect on Modern English.
8. Early New English consonants changes.
9. The rise of sibilants and affricates in early New English.
Seminar 5. New English Grammar.
1. Historical changes in the nominal system. History of the Old English categories of case, number and gender.
2. Origin of modern categorial forms.
3. Development of personal and demonstrative pronouns.
4. Historical changes in the verbal system. History of the Old English categories of tense, number, mood and person.
5. Development of analytical forms and new grammatical categories in early new English.
6. Origin of the main groups of standard and non-standard verb-forms.
Seminar 6. English wordstock. Vocabulary layers.
Modern regular and irregular noun and verb forms.
1. Historical changes in English wordstock.
2. Geographical expansion of English in the course of history.
3. Etymological strata in new English vocabulary and their historical explanation.
4. Influence of Latin on English in different periods.
5. Influence of the French language on English in different periods.
6. Latin and French word-building elements in English.
7. Origin of new English irregular noun forms.
8. Group of modern non-standard verbs descending from Old English weak verbs.
9. Group of modern non-standard verbs descending from Old English strong verbs.
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