Temas Subtemas
Introduction:
The Place of English in Germanic and Indo-European.
The old English Period:
The Middle English Period:

The Modern English Period to 1800:



 Phonology and Morphology
Semantics and Vocabulary: -Foreign influence.
-The stratification of the Old english vocabuary.
-Syntax and word order.
-Old English Dialects.

The Spread of French and English.
-The decline of French in England.
-The Linguistic Influence of the Conquest.
-The Rise of a London Standard.
-Phonology and Morphology.
-Semantics and Vocabulary.
-Syntax and Word Order.
-Loan words and word formation.
-The study of geographical variation in Middle English.

-Varieties of Early Modern English.
-Attitudes to English.
-Sounds and spellings: The Great Vowel Shift.
-Loan words and word formation.