Portál:Anglistika-amerikanistika/HEL I

Lecture Topics

• 1. Introduction: Welcome to HEL
• 2. Variation and change: profile and parameters
• 3. Historical Background
• 4. Linguistic Typology
• 5. English as a Germanic Language & Structural Innovations
• 6. Word-formation and the change of language type in the history of English
• 7. Old English Lexicon
• 8. Old English Morphology
• 9. Old English Syntax
• 10. Introduction into Middle English

Seminar / Home-reading Topics

• 1. Studying the History of English
• 3. Causes and Mechanisms of Language Change
• 4. The Indo-European Language Family and Proto-Indo-European
• 5. Germanic and the Development of Old English
• 6. The Words and Sounds of Old English
• 7. The Grammar of Old English
• 8. The Rise of Middle English: Words and Sounds
• 10. The Words, Sounds, and Inflections of Early Modern English
• 11. The Early Modern English Verbal Constructions and 18th Century Prescriptivism
• 12. Modern English

Archive

• • The origins of English
  • Old English: Early Germanic Britain
  • Praguian Typology of Languages
  • Old English: The Viking invasions and their consequences
  • Middle English: the non-standard period
  • Middle English: the emergence of Standard English
  • The Early Modern English Period
  • The spread of English since the late 16th century
  • English in Great Britain since 1700
  • Sound Change
  • Analogy