история языка / questions

Please. Take notes on each of these questions for your credit. All your notes are expected to be hand-written. Thank you! Please, consult my lectures and “History of the English Language” by Rastorgueva.

1. Historical Linguistics. The Comparative method.

2. The Concept of Proto-Germanic (PG)

3. Grimm’s Law. Verner’s Law.

4. Periods in the History of English.

5. OE Heptarchy. OE Dialects.

6. Christianity and writing

7. Anglo-Saxon Literature

8. Mechanisms of linguistic change

9. OE vowel system: Qualitative changes and Quantitative changes

10. OE consonant system

• West Germanic germination of consonants

• Palatalisation and assibilation

• Voicing and devoicing of fricatives

• Metathesis

• Loss of consonants in some positions

11. The Noun: Grammatical categories of OE Nouns.

12. Noun declensions in OE

13. OE Adjective . Grammatical categories.

14. The grammatical categories of the verb

15. Non-Finite forms of the Verb.

16. Morphological classes of the verbs in OE (strong, weak, preterit-presents, irregular)

17. OE Syntax.

18. Main historical events of the ME period.

19. ME dialects. Rise of the London dialect.

20. ME vowel system. General characteristics.

• Ouantitative changes.

• Qualitative changes.

• Levelling of unstressed vowels.

21. ME  consonant system. General characteristics.

22. The Noun in ME

23. The Adjective in ME

24. The ME Verbal System

25. ME Syntax

26. New English Vowel System. The Great Vowel Shift

27. New English Consonant System . Vocalisation of “r”

28. Early Modern English Grammar