7.2. Sample of the examination materials Sample of examination card

КНЛУ \назва вищого навчального закладу\ Спеціальність переклад Курс ІІІ, Семестр VІ

Навчальна дисципліна історія англійської мови

Екзаменаційний білет №

The Morphological Classification of the OE Verbs. French Borrowings in ME. Practical assignment.

Затверджено на засіданні кафедри англійської мови і перекладу

протокол № від р.

Зав. кафедри \підпис\ \прізвище, ім’я, по батькові\ Екзаменатор \підпис\ \прізвище, ім’я, по батькові\

An example of the practical assignment card №...

Make a phonological, grammatical and lexicological analysis of the underlined linguistic units from the extract of the texts.

… (he siglde ða east be lande , swa-swa he meahte on feower dagum gesiglan)

(King Alfred’s insertions into his translation of Orosius World History)

/… he sailed then west of that land as far as he could get during four days./

7.3. Examination questions

1. English as a Germanic Language, its place among other languages of the world.

2. Principal Features of Germanic Languages.

3. Word stress in Indo-European and Common Germanic and its influence upon the morphological system of English.

4. Verner’s Law. Rhotacism.

5. Grimm’s Law.

6. Common Germanic Vowel Shift. Common Germanic Fracture.

7. Periods in the History of the English language.

8. The structure of the word in Old English, its previous and subsequent stages.

9. Development of vowels in Old English

10. Assimilative processes within the system of Old English vowels and their traces in Mod E.

11. The Old English vowel system. Phonological processes in Old English and their traces in Mod. English (OE Breaking, Velar Umlaut, i – Umlaut, Palatal Diphthongization).

12. The origin and status of short diphthongs in Old English.

13. Old English system of vowels.

14. Lengthening of vowels in Old English.

15. Development of vowels in unstressed syllables in Old English.

16. The Old English Consonant System.

17. Development of consonants in Old English.

18. The Old English vowel system.

19. Nominal grammatical categories in Old English and their historical development.

20. Grammatical categories of the Noun in Old English.

21. The declensions of the Noun in Old English. Types of stems.

22. The categories of the Old English Adjective and their further development.

23. The Adjective in Old English.

24. The Pronoun in Old English.

25. Strong, weak, preterite-present and anomalous verbs in Old English.

26. Verbal grammatical categories in Old English.

27. Strong verbs in Old English.

28. Weak verbs in Old English

29. Preterite-present verbs in Old English and their further development.

30. The non-finite forms of the verb in Old English.

31. The morphological classification of the Old English verbs.

32. The non-finite forms of the verb in Old English and their further development.

33. Principal Features of Old English Syntax.

34. Old English Vocabulary.

35. The peculiarities of the complex sentence. structure in Old English and its historical development.

36. The structure of the simple sentence in Old English.

37. Principal features of Old English vocabulary.

38. The word formation in Old English.

39. Changes within the consonant system in Middle English.

40. Middle English vowels: qualitative changes.

41. Reduction of vowels in final unstressed syllables in Middle English..

42. Middle English vowels: quantitative changes.

43. Changes within the system of vowels in Middle English.

44. Sources of new Middle English diphthongs.

45. Formation of new diphthongs in Middle English.

46. Changes within the noun system in Middle English.

47. Changes within the adjective system in Middle English.

48. Changes within the pronoun system in Middle English.

49. Rise of the article system in Middle English.

50. Changes within the system of strong and weak verbs in Middle English.

51. Categories of the Verb in Middle English.

52. Development of Future and Passive in English.

53. Development of Continuous Aspect in English.

54. Development of Perfect Forms in English.

55. Middle English dialects.

56. The linguistic consequences of the Normal conquest.

57. The linguistic consequences of the Scandinavian invasion.

58. Middle English dialects. Development of monophthongs in different dialects.

59. General characteristics of Middle English grammar.

60. Scandinavian borrowings in Middle English.

61. French borrowings in Middle English.

62. The development of the complex sentence structure in Middle English and Early New English.

63. Vocabulary in Middle English.

64. Changes in orthography in Middle English.

65. Formation of the national literary English language.

66. The Great Vowel Shift.

67. Formation of new long vowels in Modern English.

68. Formation of sibilants and affricates in Modern English. Voicing of voiceless fricatives in Modern English.

69. Formation of new diphthongs and diphthongs in Early Modern English.

70. Formation of new short vowels in Early Modern English.

71. Changes within the Consonant System in Early New English.

72. Simplification of consonant clusters in Modern English.

73. Changes within the verb system in Early Modern English.

74. Development of vocabulary in Modern English.

75. Latin borrowings throughout the history of the English Language.

76. Historical Development of analytical forms of the verb in English.

77. Development of vowels in unstressed syllables in Old English, Middle English and Early New English.

78. Development of non-finite forms of the verb in the English language.

79. Latin development of vocabulary in Modern.English

80. The development of unstressed Vowels and its influence on the development of the morphological structure of the English language.