Task 1: Words in bold type are for phonetic analysis

LITERATURE:

1. Zaitseva S.D. Early Britain M.,1975
2. Rastorguyeva T.A. A History of English M., 1983
3. Ilyish S. History of the English language, L.,1973
4. Schlauch M. Madieval English Literature and its Social Foundation, Warszawa 1956
5. Иванова И.П., Чахоян Л.П. История английского языка М., 1976
6. Аракин В.Д. Очерки по истории английского языка М.,1955
7. Смирницкий А.И. Хрестоматия по истории английского языка М., 1957
8. Штокмар В.В. История Англии в середине века Л.,1973
9. Мельникова Е.А. 1987
10. Алексеев М.П. Литература средневековой Англии и Шотландии М.,1984
11. Seth Lerer. Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language. Columbia University Press, 2007

SUBTHEME 2: The development of English vocabulary

QUESTIONS:

1. Etymological characteristics of English vocabulary.
2. Characteristics of the English Basic Word Stock (Indo-European, Common Germanic, Specifically OE words)
3. The evolution of word-compounding (primary and secondary)
4. The evolution of word-derivation (prefixation and suffixation)
5. Other ways of vocabulary development (sound interchange, conversion, change of meaning)

WRITTEN TASK:

1. Prepare tables of the Basic Word Stock and the development of word-compounding and word-derivation.

CASE STUDY 2

Translation of “The prologue” (“Canterbury Tales”) into Modern English: (by Coghill) from the case study 1, translations are poetic translations, not word for word.

When in April the sweet showers fall

And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all

The veins are bathed in liquor of such power

As brings about the engendering of the flower,

When also Zephyrus with his sweet breath

Exhales an air in every grove and heath

Upon the tender shoots, and the young sun

His half course in the sign of the Ram has run

And the small fowl are making melody

That sleep away the night with open eye,

(So nature pricks them and their heart engages)

Then folk long to go on pilgrimages,

And palmers long to seek the stranger strands

Of far off saints, hallowed in sundry lands,

Task: The original text was written in a dialect associated with London and spellings associated with the then-emergent Chancery Standard.

*Decide which words refer to basic word stock

* Decide which words did not undergo much changes

LITERATURE:

1. Rastorguyeva T.A. A History of English M., 1983 p. 132-134, 139-146, 296-298, 313-329
2. Seth Lerer. Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language. Columbia University Press, 2007
3. Бруниер К. История английского языка М.,1955 часть 1, стр. 109-129
4. Иванова И.П., Чахоян Л.П. История английского языка М., 1976

стр.10-16, 20-21

1. Аракин В.Д. Очерки по истории английского языка М.,1955 стр. 250-267
2. Залесская Л.Д., Матвеева Д.А. Пособие по истории английского языка М.,1984 стр.40-45, 47-48, 76-77