PdF:AJc305 Historical Development of Engl - Course Information
AJc305 Historical Development of English Language
Faculty of EducationSpring 2021
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Radek Vogel, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Světlana Hanušová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - Timetable
- Fri 5. 3. 12:00–13:50 učebna 12, Fri 19. 3. 12:00–13:50 učebna 12, Fri 9. 4. 12:00–13:50 učebna 12, Fri 23. 4. 12:00–13:50 učebna 12, Fri 7. 5. 12:00–13:50 učebna 12, Fri 21. 5. 12:00–13:50 učebna 12
- Prerequisites
- No prerequisites.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- English Language Teacher Education for Secondary Schools (programme PdF, C-CV)
- Course objectives
- The course gives the phonological development from Indo-European into Modern English, with occasional examples from Czech. Old English and Middle English are taught synchronically, as foreign languages, with a few diachronic excursions. The grammatical system of Old English is then compared with that of Modern English and Modern Czech. A similar pattern is applied on lexis, mentioning the Latin, Scandinavian and Norman/French influences. The core of the work in the seminars is in the reading of texts: after a few Old English texts the main attention is paid to Middle English, to "Canterbury Tales" by Chaucer. A specimen of Shakespearan English is included.
The main objectives of the course are to familiarise students with the development of English from the original synthetic to the present-day analytic language, to make them realise the sources of its lexical heterogeneity, and to understand the complex processes leading to its current phonological system. - Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, students will be able to:
understand and describe the development of English from the original synthetic to the present-day analytic language,
identify the phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical phenomena that were typical of the individual historical stages of English;
understand the complex processes leading to the New English phonological system. - Syllabus
- 1. Grimm s laws.
- 2. Indo-European vowels.
- 3. Vowel changes in Old English.
- 4. Lengthening and shortening of stressed vowels.
- 5. The formation of new diphthongs.
- 6. The Great Vowel Shift.
- 7. Foreign influences on English: Norman French, Scandinavian, Latin.
- 8. Old English syntax.
- 9. Middle English and Early New English syntax.
- 10. Analysis of three Old English texts.
- 11. 200 lines of "Canterbury Tales".
- 12. William Shakespeare, an extract from "As You Like It".
- Literature
- required literature
- HLADKÝ, Josef. An Old English, Middle English, and Early-New English reader. 4. opr. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, 286 s. ISBN 8021018550. info
- recommended literature
- CRYSTAL, David. The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, vii, 499. ISBN 0521530334. info
- VACHEK, Josef. Historický vývoj angličtiny. Edited by Jan Firbas. 8. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1994, 276 s. ISBN 8021004878. info
- BAUGH, A. C. and Thomas CABLE. A history of the English language. 4th ed. London: Routledge, 1993, xiv, 444. ISBN 0415093791. info
- Teaching methods
- Explanation and seminar discussion; reading and analysis of OE, ME and ENE texts in class; set reading.
- Assessment methods
- Completion prerequisites:
- attendance at seminars (minimum 80%);
- homework (assigned at seminars and via Moodlinka);
- final test (to pass: min. 65%) and oral colloquy (if the test score is below 70%). - Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 24 hodin. - Teacher's information
- http://moodlinka.ics.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=2635
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2021, recent)
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