History of English Seminar 3

(based on Lecture 3)

1. Talk about the general linguistic features of Old English (with examples).
Where does it belong in the Indo-European family tree? What languages are its
closest relatives?
2. Talk about changes in Old English alphabet. What was the earliest writing
system? How was the Latin alphabet adopted? What special letters were
introduced? Are they used in present day English?
3. Talk about Old English phonetics. What consonants and vowels did Old
English have? Which ones of them are different from present day English?
4. Talk about Old English word stock. How much of it survived to the present
day? What changed in the Old English vocabulary during the Old English
period? Give examples.
5. Talk about Old English morphology and morphological categories (nouns,
pronouns, adjectives, verbs etc.). What is different from present day English?
Give examples.
6. Talk about Old English sentence structure. How was it different from present
day English? Give examples.

Practical tasks

Find any Old English text with a Modern English translation. Analyze 10-12
lines of it from the point of view of phonetics, vocabulary, morphology and syntax
(like in Lecture 3). Point out several differences from present day English.

Основна література:

1. Baugh C. Albert, Cable Thomas. A History of the English Language. URL:

http://docenti.unimc.it/carla.cucina/teaching/2018/19046/files/baugh-a-
history-of-the-english-language
2. Верба Л.Г. Історія англійської мови. URL:
https://books.google.com.ua/books?
id=qZTaCQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&c
ad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Допоміжна література:

1. Студенець Г.І. Історія англійської мови в таблицях. Навчальний

посібник для студентів філологічних факультетів університетів за
спеціальністю "Мова і література"(англійська мова). КНЛУ, Київ,
1998. 118 стр.
2. Костюченко Ю.П. Історія англійської мови. К.: 1963. 426 стр.

Додаткові джерела:
1. History of English in Ten Minutes. URL:
https://youtu.be/H3r9bOkYW9s
2. The History of English. URL: https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/
3. History of English Podcast. URL:
https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
4. History Extra. URL: https://www.historyextra.com/period/