- •1. The importance of the English language.
- •2. English as a Germanic language. Classification of Germanic languages.
- •3. Characteristics of Germanic languages.
- •Lecture 2. An outline of the history of english. The old english period
- •Check yourself test 2
- •Recommended literature
- •Declension of oe nouns man(n) and fot
- •Conjugative terminations of oe verbs
- •The system of oe consonants (compared with that of MnE)
- •Check yourself test 3
- •Recommended literature
- •Check yourself test 4
- •Recommended literature
- •Check yourself test 5
- •Recommended literature
- •The Mare's Egg
- •The Boogies an' the Salt-Box*
- •The Wal at the Warld's End (an extract)
- •Check yourself test 6
- •Recommended literature
Check yourself test 6
1. Define the notion 'dialect'. Is there any difference between a dialect and a variant of a language?
2. How many regional dialects represent Modern English on the British Isles today? Name them.
3. Where is the Scottish dialect spoken? What historical events predetermined the formation of the Scottish dialect?
4. What is the Midland dialect subdivided into? Where is it spoken?
5. Return to the above given sample of the Midland dialect and point out the peculiar features of the dialect.
6. Dwell upon the geography and linguistic peculiarities of the Southern dialect.
7. How many languages are there in the world? In what respect do a language and a language variant differ one from the other?
8. Name the main variants of the English language in the world. Where are they spoken?
9. Dwell upon the specific features of AmE in pronunciation, punctuation, and spelling.
10. Draw lexical and grammar parallels in AmE and BrE.
11. What is 'a pidgin'? creole? What is the mechanism of their appearance?
12. Speak of the English language in the West Indies.
13. Outline the historical background for the spread of English in Canada.
14. Dwell upon linguistic peculiarities of Canadian English.
15. Supply, in brief, historical information about the spread of English in Australia. Give examples of Australianisms.
Recommended literature
1. Иванова И. П., Чахоян Л. П., Беляева Т. М. История английского языка. Учебник. Хрестоматия. Словарь. – СПб.: Лань, 1999.
2. Матюшеников В. С. Англо-русский словарь особенностей английского язика в Северной Америке, Великобритании и Австралии. – М.: Флинта; Наука, 2002.
3. Народные сказки Британских островов. Сборник / Сост. Джеймс Риордан. – М.; Радуга, 1987. – На англ. яз.
4. Скибина В. И. Распространение национального языка и проблемы лексикографи (на материале английского языка). – Дисс. …д-ра філол.. наук: 10.02.04. – Запорожье, 1998.
5. Этнические и языковые самосознания. – М., 1995.
6. Языки мира: Германские языки. Кельтские языки. – М., 2000.
7. Crystal, David. The Stories of English. - Ldn.: Penguin Books, 2005.
8. Cummings, D. W. American English Spelling: An Informal Description. - Baltimore: John Hopkins Univ.Press, 1988.
9. Eastwood, John. Oxford Learner's Grammar Finder. - Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
Greenbaum, Sydney. The Oxford English Grammar. - Oxford: Oxford Univ.Press, 1996.
McArthur, Tom (ed.). The English Languages. - Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.Press, 1998.
Meyer, Charles F. A Linguistic Study of American Punctuation. - N.Y.: Peter Lang, 1987.
Milroy, James, and Lesley Milroy (Eds.). Real English: The Grammar of English Dialects in the British Isles. - Ldn: Longman, 1993.
Nesterchuk G. V, Ivanova V. M. The USA and Americans. - Minsk, 1997.
New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus of the English Language. - Danbury, CT: Lexicon Publications, Inc., 1993.
Nunberg, Geoffrey. The Linguistics of Punctuation – Stanford Univ., Calif.: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1990.
Todd, Loreto. Modern Englishes: Pidgins and Creoles. – Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984.
Trudgill, Peter. The Dialects of England. - Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.
Trudgill, Peter, and J.K. Chambers (Eds.). Dialects of English: Studies in Grammatical Variation. - Ldn: Longman, 1991.
20. Wells, J. C. Accents of English. - Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.Press, 1982.