Рекомендації до виконання індивідуальної роботи та індивідуальні завдання

1. The scheme of Gothic text analysis (for Gothic texts see Zhluktenko, Yavorska 1986). Read and analyze 2-3 sentences according to the scheme.

Форма лексе-ми в тексті	Початкова форма (для частин мови, що змінюються)	Відповід-ники в інших гeрмaн-ських мовах	Відповід-ники в інших індоєвропей-ських мовах	Примітки (вказівки щодо грам. форм)

2. Topics of reports (3-4 printed pages, for 5-7 minutes).

1. W.Jones’s contribution to the rise of historical linguistics

2. Schlegel’s contribution to the rise of historical linguistic

3. Rasmus Rask’s contribution to the rise of historical linguistics

4. Herman Paul’s Principles of language History

5. Neogrammarian lawmakers: Eduard Sievers

6. Neogrammarian lawmakers: Karl Verner

7. Neogrammarian lawmakers: Karl Brugmann and Herman Osthoff

8. Principles of diachronic reconstruction (Ferdinand de Saussure)

9. Principles of dichotomies (de Saussure)

10. Ways of reconstructing Early Germanic and Late Germanic

11. Types of reconstruction

12. Principles of genealogical classification of Germanic languages

13. Principles of typological and areal classification of Germanic languages

14. Modern approaches to the historical classification of Germanic languages

15. Principles of historical phonology (Jakobson, Stepanovicius)

16. Interpretation of consonant shifts

17. The Rhenish fan (linguistic geography on the second consonant shift)

18. The rise of article in Scandinavian languages

19. The development of one-article system in Old Germanic languages

20. On the origin of older runes

21. On the origin of younger runes

22. Runes as old Germanic alphabet

23. The history of the Ostrogoths

24. The history of the Visigoths

25. East Germanic migrations

26. Wulfila, the inventor of the Gothic alphabet

27. Wulfilian Gothic

28. Icelandic – a language or a dialect

29. The history of Danish: chronological survey

30. The History of Swedish

31. The rise of Swedish

32. Faroese ballads

33. The history of Frisian

34. The history of Dutch

35. The history of Afrikaans

36. The history of Norwegian

37. Histories of Scandinavian languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese

38. Old Germanic alliterative verse

39. Written records in Old Germanic dialects

40. Peculiarities of the East Germanic subgroup

41. Peculiarities of the West Germanic subgroup

42. Peculiarities of the North Germanic subgroup

43. Old Germanic vocabulary

44. Common sources of Germanic vocabulary

45. Borrowings in Old Germanic languages (in Old English)

46. Word-building processes in Old Germanic languages

47. Word-composition and its role in Old Germanic vocabulary enrichment

48. Conversion as a means of word-building in Old Germanic. Was it used or not?

49. The principles of language evolution on different language levels

50. The factors of language change

51. The laws of semantic change

3. Solve the following etymological tasks:

1. There are Engl. find, Germ. findan, Goth. finþan, Lat. pons, pontis ‘bridge’, Gk. pontos ‘way through the sea’, Russ. путь. Prove their relatedness, explain the correspondences and reconstruct IE root.

2. There are Russ. вертеть, Lat. vertere, Germ. warden, OE weorþan, Goth. wairþan. Reconstruct the correspondent variants of IE root which the abovementioned words derive from.

3. There are Germ. Holz ‘wood, timber’, OHG holz, Engl. holt, OE holt, Russ. колода. Reconstruct IE root.

4. There are Engl. grim, Germ. Grimm ‘fury’, Russ. гром, греметь, Ukr. грім. Reconstruct IE root and explain the sound correspondences.

5. There Engl. yellow, Germ. gelb ‘yellow’, OHG gelo, Russ. зеленый, Lat. helvus ‘yellow as honey’. Prove the relatedness, explain the correspondences, reconstruct IE root.

6. Can Engl. blue, Germ. blau and Lat. flavus be related?

7. Can Engl. sheep, Germ. Schaf, Lith. skapas be related?

8. There are Lith. buti, Lat. fu-i, OE buan. Find English, Ukrainian and Russian correspondent verbs.

9. There are Engl. tooth, OE toð, OHG zant, Goth. tunþus, Lath. dens (dentis). Prove the relatedness, explain correspondences and the absence of [n] in English, reconstruct IE root.

10. Prove the genetic relatedness of Engl. breast, Germ. Brust, Goth. brust, Russ. брюхо. Reconstruct IE consonants.

11. Prove the genetic relatedness of Germ. Berg, Russ. берег. Reconstruct IE consonants.

12. There is Ukr. долина. Reconstruct Gothic, English and German roots.

13. There are Engl. tilt, OE teld, Germ. Zelt. Reconstruct consonants of IE root.

14. There are Ukr. беру, Russ. беру, Lat. fero ‘I carry’. Which English and German correspondences they have?

15. prove the genetic relatedness of Lith. kaimas ‘village’, Goth. haims ‘village’, Germ. Heim, Engl. home. Reconstruct IE root.

16. There are Ukr. багаття, Gk. phogo ‘I roast’, OHG bahhan, Germ. backen. Find English cognate word. Prove their relatedness, reconstruct IE root.

17. There are Gk. kratys ‘strong’, Goth. hardus ‘strict, strong’, Engl. hard, Germ. hart. Prove their relatedness, reconstruct consonants in IE root.

18. There are Ukr. борщ, Engl. bristle, Germ. Borste. Are they related? Prove. Reconstruct IE root.

19. There is IE *melg-, Goth. miluks, OE milc, Engl. milk. Find German correspondence. Explain the sound correspondences, explain change e>i.

20. There are Engl. clothe, sheath, south, shape, help, sit. Fill in the blank letters in German words: Klei_, Schei_e, Sü_en, scha_en, hel_en, si_en.

21. Find English correspondences for German kaufen, Zunge, Kessel, Straße, Wasser, Minze, Koch,Ding, Traum, durch, trinken. Explain the correspondences.

22. Are Germ. kurz and Ukr. короткий and Engl. short related? Prove.

23. Find English cognates for Ukrainian бути, болото, долина, дякувати, золотий, зелений, око, їсти, сіяти, радити, дрімати, брехати, лежати, рудий, гадати. Explain the sound correspondences.

24. Explain the correspondence: Lat. septem, Engl. seven, Germ. sieben.

25. There is Goth. badi, OE bedd, Engl. Bed, Germ. Bett. Prove relatedness, explain sound correspondences (vowel and consonant). Enumerate all phonetic changes these words illustrate.

26. Find Germanic and Indo-European correspondences for the following Gothic words: dauhtar, twai, bihlahjan, qiman, ubil. Reconstruct IE root and explain the correspondences between cognates.

27. Find the cognates in other Old Germanic languages for the following Gothic ones: nu, ains, qiman, wintrus, attekan, gaswiltan, sunus, slepan, ut, merjan, lamb, baurgs, wairþan. Explain vowel and consonant correspondences.