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6. Дженкинс С. Краткая история

Англии/Саймон Дженкинс: пер. с англ. И.
Мельницкой – М.: КоЛибри, Азбука-Аттикус,
2016.
1. Политическая и социальная ситуация
Political and social situation
2. Образ жизни, культура и мышление
Life, culture and thought
3. Языковая ситуация
Linguistic situation
4. Письменные памятники и литература
Written records and literature
5. Этимологический состав лексики и
словопроизводство.
Lexis: etymology and word-building
Ōhthere sǣde
his hlāforde, Ælfrēde
cyninʒe,
þæt hē ealra Norðmonna
norþmest būde.
1. a description of the historic
evolution of the English language
during 15 centuries of its
development
to provide explanation for the
essential features and some
specific peculiarities of Modern
English,
i.e. to explain the features of
Modern English through its history.
to demonstrate
•how English has developed over the
centuries
•how its internal history fits in with
its external history, i.e.
 with the political, social, economic
and cultural history of the English
people.
 The primary topics
of our today’s discussion
1. Linguistic and cultural foundations of the El
development:
subjects under investigation and the aims set.
2. Classification of Germanic languages: old and
new.
3. Periodization of the history of English.
4. A brief account of the three main historical
periods (outer and inner history).
NORTH GERMANIC

Old
Danish
• Gothic
• Burgundian
• Vandalic
1. Early OE period
Pre-historic or Pre-written
c. 450 – c. 700
2. OE period
Written OE
c. 700 – 1066
1. Early ME
1066 – c. 1350
2. ME
Classical ME
c. 1350 – 1475
• a genuine Old Germanic
language
• The rate of linguistic changes –
relatively stable with few and
slow changes especially at the
beginning
• mostly words of Germanic origin
• very few borrowings from Latin
and Celtic
a typical Germanic stress
fixed on the root syllable
• The OE sound system was close
to that of Common Germanic
and the Old Germanic dialects
• Some vowels and consonants
resulted from independent and
assimilative changes of the
Prehistoric period
a period of full endings
H. Sweet
 a synthetic
(highly inflected) language

an analytical language
a period of levelled endings
H. Sweet
formation of the English
national and literary language
codification of the norm in
grammar, spelling and
pronunciation
 Geographical expansion of English
overseas and contacts with other
countries
many borrowings into English
from European languages and those
of Middle and East Asia, Africa,
America and Australia
Important phonetic changes
contributed to the
accomplishment of the
Modern English phonetic
system.
a period of lost endings
H. Sweet