Seminar 3 Phonetic and Morphological Peculiarities of the Language of Early New English (ene) period

The Outline of Seminar 3

1. The English Phonology. The Great Vowel Shift. Its reasons.

2. Changes of unstressed vowels in ENE.

3. Changes within the system of stressed vowels:

   1. changes of short vowels in ENE;

   2. formation of new vowels in ENE;

   3. emerging of new diphthongs and triphthongs.

4. Changes within the system of consonants:

   1. vocalization of consonants;

   2. growth of new sibilants and affricates;

   3. loss of consonants;

   4. simplification of consonant clusters.

5. Historical foundation of Modern English spelling.

6. Early New English Grammar:

   1. the Noun in ENE;

   2. the Pronoun in ENE;

   3. the Adjective in ENE;

   4. the Verb in ENE (standard and non-standard versus strong and weak; modal verbs; further development of analytical forms: perfect, continuous, passive, analytical subjunctive and forms with auxiliary “do”).

Recommended Literature

Obligatory:

1. Verba l. “History of the English Language”.-„Мова книга”, 2004.

Pp.152-188, 244-249. Text “Romeo and Juliet”.

2. И. П. Иванова и др. «Практикум по истории английского языка».

-М., 1985.

Theory Texts for analysis Assignments Exercises

1. Урок14, p.100-104 Text24 (p.100) 1,6,7,9 (p.101) —

19, 20 (p.102)

2. Урок15, p.105-113 Text26 (p.106) 1-4 (p.107)

16 (p.108)

20 (p.109)

22 (p.110)

3. Урок16, 17 p.113-123 Text”Romeo and Juliet” (Pay special attention to the

italicized words and phrases)

3. B. Ilyish. “History of the English Language”.-m., 1973.

Pp.254-272; 273-277.

4. Lectures on the material.

Additional Literature:

1. G. I. Stoudenets. “History of the English Language in Tables”.

-K., 1998.

Tables 85-95; 97-101,103.

Questions for self-testing:

1. What’s the essence of Great Vowel Shift (GVS)? What approaches to its reasons do you know?

2. What are the exceptions to the GVS?

3. How did unstressed vowels develop in ENE?

4. Enumerate the changes which took place within the system of consonants?

5. What new long vowels appeared in ENE?

6. What new short vowels appeared in ENE?

7. How can you explain so great a discrepancy between sounding and spelling of words in Mod. E.?

8. What changes occurred within the system of the Noun in ENE?

9. What changes can you name within the system of the Pronoun in ENE?

10. What were the changes within the system of the Adjective in ENE?

11. How did the system of the Verb change in ENE?