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1. History of English language and its subject. Aims and objectives of the subject.
Characteristics of historical-comparative method.
1. What was a principal cause of various changes in phonetic system of English language?
2. What linguistic and extra linguistic changes you could find out?
3. What historical events have influenced on occurrence of loan words in English Word Stock?
4. What facts prove the relations between history of English language and the other subjects such as
phonetics, grammar linguistics, and lexicology?
5. Why did Germanic tribes speak in primitive language?
6. What kind of features you can note from Runic alphabet?
7. In what sequence the German tribes used alphabets?
8. The most ancient historical data about the Germanic tribes and their social order. Culture and writing
of ancient Germanic tribes: Runic, Gothic, and Latin alphabet.
9. Characteristics of historical-comparative method. Old Germanic languages and their distribution.
Evolution of East - North-and West - Germanic languages.
10. Modern German languages and their distribution. History of spreading English language in the
world.
2.Characteristic features of Germanic languages
11. Distinctive features in phonetics: 1.Grimm’s Law; 2.Verner’s Law
12. What discoveries were made by Grimm?
13. What were the Verner’s corrections in the Grimm’s law?
14. Why was Grimm’s law important?
3. The main historical events in Old English period. The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of Britain.
15.Settlement of Angles, Jutes, Saxons in Britain (5th c A.D.) and occurrence of Anglo-Saxon states
(kingdoms) (6-7 A.D.)
16. Formation of Old English dialects. The role of Wessex dialect in IX - XI centuries
17. Scandinavian conquest and its influence.
18. The main three periods of history of English.
19.Old English written monuments.
20.Criteria of periodisation of English language: Old English(V-XI c); Middle English (XI-XV c);
Modern English (beginning from XV c);
21..Runic monuments. Written monuments of Wessex dialct, Alfred The Great and its schools. (XI c)