SEMINAR 1
ENGLISH AS A GERMANIC LANGUAGE
SPECIFIC FEATURES OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES
Points For Discussion
- Place of Germanic languages among other IE Languages and their classification.
- The Comparative method. Its founders and basic notions. The concept of PG.
Old Germanic languages. Pliny’s classification of the Germanic tribes. *
- Specific features of Germanic languages.
a/ Word stress;
b/ Changes in PG phonology.
– Changes within the system of PG consonants: Grimm’s Law, Verner’s Law;
– Changes within the system of PG vowels: the Germanic Vowel Shift.
Germanic Fracture.
c/ Morphological structure of the PG word.
d/ Changes in PG morphology.
– Noun Declensions;
– Strong and Weak Declensions of Adjectives;
– Strong and Weak Verbs.
e/ PG Vocabulary.
The points marked by asterisks “*” are designed for individual work and may be included in a Quiz as the rest items of the seminar.
Practical Assignment:
- Exercises in PG Phonology to Seminar 1.*
- Иванова И.П. и др. Практикум по истории английского языка. – М.: Просвещение, 1985.
Do Assignments 5, 6, p. 8; 7 p.21; 13 p23.
Recommended Literature
Иванова И.П. и др. Практикум по истории английского языка. – М.: Просвещение, 1985. С. 8, 10, 12.
Ильиш Б.А. История английского языка (На англ. яз). – Л.: Просвещение, 1973. С. 9-40.
Расторгуева Т.А. История английского языка (На англ. яз). – М.: Высш.шк., 1983. С. 24-63.
Студенець Г.I. Iсторiя англiйської мови в таблицях. – К.: КДЛУ.- 1998. С. 5-33.
Сабо O.A. Introduction to Germanic Linguistics in Tables. Kyiv –2007. Tables 2, 3, 7-9, 12, 41-43, 45, 46, 50-55, 88-90, p. 9-20, p. 49-54, p. 58-64, p. 101-103.