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05 15 11 Ensk málsaga - History of English Course Schedule, Spring 2007

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	2007	Topics		Baugh* Chapters
Week 1	15 Jan	Language Change How do languages change? What makes them change?		1	Video1     Video 2
					Potted history Language change
Week 2	22 Jan	Indo-European Early Germanic		2	-Lecture cancelled -
Week 3	29 Jan	Indo-European & Early Germanic The Anglo-Saxons & Old English		3	video 1    video 2
		Indo-European stops Dan Short's Indo-European tree Synthetic and analytic			Synthetic vs analytic      How does language change?
Week 4	5 Feb	Old English: early foreign influences		4	video 1    video 2
		The Neogrammarians Old English Lord's Prayer Cathy Ball's Old English site Old English writing Try Googling - check out "English declension "  in Wikipedia for instance !			The neogrammarians      Indo-European languages today Old English Lord's Prayer
Week 5	12 Feb	The Nordic Invasins		4	video 1   video 2
		Where do English words come from?   Loanwords   Weak and strong Adjectives  Old English Cases			Indo-European to Germanic Where do English words come from? The Norse invasions
Week 6	19 Feb	The Normans: early French loans		5	video 1  (screen recording) video 2  (the video crashed, but this is a recording of the same material from last year's course)
		Essential dates Differences between OE and ON OE/ON endings    OE/ON pronoun Loss of 'standard' Old English			Old English and Norse verbs Transiition: OE to Middle English
Week 7	26 Feb	Study Week (no formal class)WORKSHOP 1 - answers WORKSHOP 2 - answers Remember the texts: you should have covered the first FOUR by now			Here's a link to Douglas Harper’s webpage, Etymonline  at http://www.etymonline.com
Week 8	5 Mar	French or English?		6	video 1  (the video failed again. This is a recording of some of the same material from last year.) video 2  (screen recording)
		French in England Middle English: changes from OE			The French in England Changes in spelling - Ol to Middle English
Week 9	12 Mar	Middle English		7	video 1    video 2
		Middle English Dialects texts: Robert of Gloucester and John Trevisa. See texts			Continuity of English Middle English Dialects Some Middle English Texts Alliteration
Week 10	19 Mar	Later French Loans Early and late Latin loans		8	the Great Vowel Shift Class assignment (20%) (Due date 16 Apr). Grades for class assignment
					"Enrichment" Latin loans
Week 11	26 Mar	From ME to Early Modern English			video 1  - Term assignment  video 2  - Great Vowel Shift
		the Great Vowel Shift			Slide on term assignment Great Vowel Shift
Week 12	2 Apr	Early Modern English.		9	video 1    video 2
					Later changes: pronunciation Later changes: structure
- EASTER -
Week 13	16 Apr		Standardization and prescription Review Preview of examination		video 1    video 2
		Class assignment due Tues 17 Apr at 6 o'clock DL students: last posting date for  this assignment is midnight Tues 17 Apr. Please note that it is NOT POSSIBLE to grant extensions. GRADES for 20% assignment			Notes on class assignment Stratification of vocabulary Standardization and Prescription Notes on exam Final list of study questions:
		FINAL GRADES

* Main text: Albert C Baugh and Thomas Cable: A History of the English Language. Routledge.

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