Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
History of the English Language |
Contents |
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Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
Subject | History of the English Language | Code | 613G03038 | |||||||||||
Study programme |
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Fourth | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
Hypotheses on the origin of language | Continuist theories Discontinuist theories Language as an innate faculty Language as a social construct |
Basic concepts | The periods of the history of English |
Language change and language variation |
What is language change? Theoretical frameworks for its study |
The methods of historical linguistics | Comparison Reconstruction |
language diversity and grouping | Cognates Attested forms and languages |
Indoeuropean and its dialects | External history Satem languages and centum languages Sound change in Indoeuropean Indouropean morpology The Indoeuropean lexicon |
The place of English in the Indoeuropean context and the dialects of Common Germanic | Germanic innovations in the lexicon Germanic innovations in phonology: stress, Grimm's and Verner's laws Germanic syntax |
Germanic dialects | Features of East Germanic Features of North Germanic Features of West Germanic |
West Germanic innovations | Phonological innovations Morphologival innovations Lexical innovations |
Old English | External history Old English lexicon: external history and borrowing Spelling and phonology Morphological features Old English syntax Old English dialects |
Middle English | External history Sound change and its consequences The morphological simplification of English Syntax, word-order and analytic processes in Middle English Diatopic variation |
The standard | Theories accounting for the rise of a standard variety |
Early Modern English | External history Attitudes towards English English vs Latin The spread of literacy The enlarging of Vocabulary The language debates The dictionary makers Grammars and prescriptivism The Great Vowels Shift and the spelling reform Diastratic variation The geographical spread of English |
Late Modern English | External history Perfecting English Registers and variation |
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