- •II.Lectures Lecture 1
- •I. Origin of English
- •II. Problem of division into periods.
- •III. Early History of British Isles
- •IV. Traces of the Roman Rule in Britain
- •V. The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of Britain
- •VI. Scandinavian conquerors
- •VII. Norman conquest of England
- •Chronological List
- •1. Origin of English.
- •4. Traces of the Roman rule in Britain.
- •Middle English Dialects
- •Vocabulary of Middle English Period.
- •Rising of London dialect.
- •Book printing.
- •Forming national language (15-17 c.)
- •Spreading of English outside England. English in Scotland
- •Phonetic changes. Oe Fracture (Breaking),
- •Borrowings of oe period.
- •I. Middle English Alphabet.
- •II. Changes in Spelling Habits .
- •III. Changes in Consonants.
- •IV. Phonetic Changes. Vowels.
- •V. Types of me Literary Documents
- •I. Spreading of London dialect in the 15th century.
- •II. Phonetic changes
- •1. The Vowel Shift
- •2. Influence of "r"
- •3. Special cases
- •4. Other changes
- •III. Phonetic Changes. Consonants.
- •1. Development of [h]
- •2. Loss of [l] before [k,m,f,V]
- •3. [J] Merged with Preceding Consonant.
- •I. Old English period. Nouns.
- •1. Preliminary remarks
- •2. The categories of oe nouns
- •3. The category of declension
- •4. The System of Cases in oe period and types of Declension
- •II. Middle English Nouns
- •III. Case system in New English period
- •I.Strong Verbs.
- •II. Weak Verbs
- •IV. Categories of verbs in oe.
- •Conjugation of Verbs [kon’dzugei ∫ n]
- •VI. Me Verbs.
- •I. Oe Pronouns.
- •III. Oe Adjectives. Declension.
- •IV. Degrees of Comparison.
- •III. Seminars
- •Origin of English
- •1. Origin of English
- •Scandinavian Conquerors.
- •Additional information The Scandinavian Influence
- •IV. Oe Vocabulary oe vocabulary for
- •V. Tests
- •Variant II.
- •Variant III.
- •Variant IV.
- •VI. List of the examination questions in the English Language History
- •I. Theoretical problems.
- •Origin of English.
- •II. Practical problems.
- •Card № 1
- •Origin of English.
Variant IV.
1. . Old English belonged to the … branch of Indo-European family of languages.
a) Romanic c) Greek
b) Celtic d) Germanic
The earliest inhabitants of Britain were … .
a) Iberians c) Celts
b) Germanic tribes d) Romans
3. The period till the … century is called unwritten period.
a) fifth c) third
b) seventh d) eleventh
4. The borrowings of Old English period mainly include the borrowings from … language.
a) French c) Greek
b) Latin d) Dutch
5. There were … languages in Britain at the beginning of Middle English period.
a) two c)one
b) three d) four
6. Old English vowels were divided into vowels of … and … row.
a) back c) long
b) front d) short
7. The result of Great Vowel Shift was that long sound [e:] changed into … . a) [i:] c) [u:]
b) [ei] d) [ai]
8. The system of flexions was developed in … English period.
a) Middle c) New
b) Old d) modern
9. Another name for nouns of Weak Declension was … Declension.
a) Vocalic system c) Consonant Stem
b) Weak d) Root
10. Weak verbs of Old English period formed their main forms by means of … .
a) vowel gradation c) the complicator
b) the dental suffix d) the stem-forming suffix
11. The language of Old English period was ….
a) syntactical c) mixed
b) analytical d) phonetic
12. English language is more … centuries old.
a) twenty c) fifteen
b) ten d) twenty one
VI. List of the examination questions in the English Language History
I. Theoretical problems.
Origin of English.
The period of the English language history (causes)
Families of languages and English.
Early history of Britain (till the VII cen AD).
Traces of the civilization in the English language. Two layers Latin borrowings.
The anglo – saxon Conquest. Dialects of OE period..
Middle English Period (external and internal events).
Scandinavian Conguest and its influence.
The Norman conguest and its influence.
Old English period (external and internal events).
OE alphabet and ME alphabet.
Long monophthongs of OE period and ME period.
Short and long diphthongs of OE and NE period.
Consonants of OE period and their changes in ME period.
ME period – changes in spelling.
Unstressed vowel – OE, ME and NE period.
Great vowel shift.
Short vowels – OE, ME and NE period.
Vocalization of “R”.
OE letter “z”; ways of reading its forms in ME.
II. Practical problems.
1. Do phonetic analysis of the line 1 and 2 of “The canterbury Tales. Prologue.”
2. Do phonetic analysis of DE period and ME period.
3. Do phonetic analysis of the line 5 and 6 of “The canterbury Tales. Prologue.”
4. Do phonetic analysis of the line 7 and 8 of “The canterbury Tales. Prologue.”
5. Do phonetic analysis of the line 9 and 10 of “The canterbury Tales. Prologue.”
6. Do phonetic analysis of the line 11 and 12 of “The canterbury Tales. Prolo-
gue.”
7. Explain the changes of vowel sounds in the words of ME and NE periods: he,
side, go, food, noun.
8. Explain the changes of diphthongs: caru – cearu; ærm – earm; scort – sceort.
9. Explain the changes of diphthongs: hira – hiora; melcan – meolcan; scacan –
sceocan.
10. Explain changes of vowels: sandian – sendan; nampian – nemnan; cupian –
cypan.
11. Decline the OE noun: corn (n.n.a.) (NE corn). Give 4 forms of the OE verb:
risan (sv.I).
12. Decline the OE noun: ceap (n.m.a. – NE cattle). : Give 4 forms of the OE
verb: drosan (sv.II).
Decline the OE noun: noun – duru (n.f.n.) – NE – door verb – settan (w.v.I) – NE – sitdown.
Decline the OE noun: noun – talu (n.f.o.) – NE tale verb – bidan (sv.I).
Decline the OE noun: noun – dream (n.m.a.) – NE joy verb – breosan (svII).
Decline the OE noun: noun – sunu (n.m.u.) – NE son verb – sprencan (wv.I).
Decline the OE noun: noun – carn (n.m.a.) – NE arm verb – glidan (sv.II).
Decline the OE noun: noun – ham (n.m.a.) – NE home verb – dreban (sv.II).
Decline the OE noun: noun – rod (n.f.o.) – NE road verb – wandrian (w.v.II).
Decline the OE noun: noun – land (m.n.a.) – NE land verb – writan (sv.I).
ІII. Example of the examination card