FORMATION OF THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE.

1. Spreading of London dialect in the 15^th century.

2 .Phonetic Changes. Vowels (Changes):

*Great Vowel Shift *Influence of -“r” *Special cases [u:],[I:],[ :];

3. Phonetic Changes.Consonants:

*Development of [h] *Loss of [L] before [k,m,f,v] *[J] Merged with

*Preceding Consonant.

Practical task a. Analyze Prologue in accordance with the models.

No	ME	NE analyses, notes
1 3. 5 8 9 10 10. 10. 11. 12.	that \|a:\| bathed \|a:\| swete \|e:\| fowel \|u:\| nyght \|i:\| slepen \|e:\| al \|al open \|כֿ:\| nature \|na’tju:r\| seken \|e:\|	that \|a\|>\|æ\| broadening bathed \|a:\|>\|ei\| G.V.Sh. sweet \|e:\|> \| : \| G.V.Sh. fowl \|u: \|>\|au\| night \|i: \|>\|ai\| sleep \|ε: \|>\|e: \|>\|i: \| \|al\|>\|aul\|>\|o:l\| G.V.Sh.. open \|ou\| G.V.Sh. nature \|neit∫ \| \|tj\|>\|t \| seek \|e:\|> \|i:\| G.V.Sh.

b. Give the historical background for the following variants.

verdue |υә:dju| – |’υә:d|

tissue |’ti∫u: | – |ti∫(j)u: |

vitue |υi'rtu: |–|υә:tju:|

BE |gla:s| AE |glæ:s’|

BE |ha:d| AE| |hard|

Seminar No 6

THE NOUN. THE EVOLUTION OF ITS MORPHOLOGICAL SYSTEM IN THE OLD ENGLISH, MIDDLE ENGLISH AND NEW ENGLISH PERIODS.

I. Old English Period. Nouns.

1. Preliminary remarks.

2. The Categories of OE nouns.

3. The Category of Declension:

a) Strong (vocalic) declension; peculiarities

b) Weak (consonant) declension; peculiarities

c) Root declension ; peculiarities

4. The System of Cases in OE period.

II. The most important changes in the system of nouns in ME period.

III. Case system of New English period.

Practical tasks: Decline the following OE nouns.

1) lar n.f.o.-teaching 7) mil n.f.o.-mile

2) hors n.n.a.-horse 8) wita n.m.n.-a wise man

3) scip n.n.a.-ship 9) eaze n.n.n.-eye

4) word n.n.a.-word 10) heorte n.n.n.-heart

5) hring n.m.a.-ring 11) maza n.m.n.-son, man

6) man n.m.cons 12)niht (n.f.cons.)-night

IV Prepositions .Grammatical and lexical meaning.

Seminar No 7

EVOLUTION OF THE MORPHOLOGICAL SYSTEM OF THE VERB IN OLD ENGLISH, MIDDLE ENGLISH AND EARLY NEW ENGLISH PERIODS.

1. Morphological categories of the verb

2. Strong verbs

3. Weak verbs

4. Miner group of O.E. verbs:

a) preterite – present verbs

b) suppletive verbs

c) mixed verbs

5. Conjugation of O.E. verbs

Practical tasks: I.Make the morphological analysis of the O.E. verbs according to the following model:

S.	Word from the text	Analysis	N.E.
1. 2. 3. 4. 8.	sæde būde sie fandian læze bēaz	3^rd p.sn., Past. Ind., inf. seczan, 3w. 3^rd p.sn., Past. Ind., inf. būan, mix 3^rd p.sg., Pres. Sub., inf. beon, sup inf; 1w 3^rd p.sng., Pres. Indef., inf. liezan, 5str.	said stayed, dwelled is (was) search out, try lay

II. Give 4 main forms of the following OE verbs:

Risan (sv.I), drosan(sv.II), settan(wv-I), bidan(sv-I), freosan(sv-II),

sprengan(wv-I),glidan (sv-I),drepan (sv-II),wundrian(wv-II),

writan (sv-I),winnan(sv-III),wician (wv-I), scinan(sv-I),metan(sv-V)

Seminar No 8

EVOLUTION OF THE PRONOUNS AND ADJECTIVES IN OLD ENGLISH, MIDDLE ENGLISH AND NEW ENGLISH PERIODS.

1. Declension of O.E. Personal Pronouns.

2. Declension of O.E. Demonstrative Pronouns.

3. Declension of O.E. Possessive Pronouns.

4. O.E. interrogative Pronouns.

5. M.E. Pronouns.

6. O.E. Adjectives. Degree of Comparison, in O.E. and M.E.

Practical task : Analyze O.E. text paying attention to nominal parts of speech: nouns, pronouns and adjectives. Model of the analysis:

Words as used In the text	Notes, analysis	NE correspondence or translation
his	Pron., personal, Gen. of he,	His
hlaford	3d. p., sing., m. (or pose case) noun, Dat., S., of hlaford, a-stem	lord
cyning	Noun, Dat., S., of cyning	king
pæm	Pron., dem., S., Dat.	the
lande	Noun, a-stem, Dat., S.	land
ealra	Pron., indef., Gen. pl.	all
Northmonna	Noun, root d., Gen. pl.	Northman
westsæ	N., prop., Acc., S. of westsæ, i-stem	West sea (the Atlantic Ocean)
land	Adj., nom., S., str.	long