FF:AJ50003 Historical Development - Course Information
AJ50003 Historical Development of English
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2009
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek - Timetable
- Fri 13:20–14:55 G31
- Prerequisites
- The course is taught in English. It is designed for students with a very good command of the English language who are able to understand scientific texts and lectures dealing with specialized topics in diachronic linguistics. The prerequisite is a good ability of analytical reasoning.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS)
- Course objectives
- The course is taught in English. It follows the history of the English language from the earliest stages of Indo-European and Germanic via the Old, Middle, and New English periods to Modern English. Attention is paid especially to the relationship between changes at the phonological, grammatical, and the lexical levels. Main course objectives: 1. Understanding the relationship between different branches of the Indo-European languages. 2. Understanding the process of the transformation of the Indo-European language into the individual modern Indo-European languages. 3. Understanding the main tendencies in the development of the English language from the Indo-European and Germanic periods through the Old, Middle, and New English periods to Modern English. 4. Understanding the socio-political influence upon the development of language.
- Syllabus
- 1. Classification of IE languages; Germanic comparative historical phonology and morphology 2. Old English phonology; Old English texts 3. Old English morphology and syntax; Old English texts 4. Middle English phonology, morphology, and syntax; Middle English texts 5. Early and late Modern English; Old English, Middle English and Modern English texts.
- Literature
- HLADKÝ, Josef. A GUIDE TO PRE-MODERN ENGLISH. 1st ed. Brno: MU, 2003, 359 pp. ISBN 80-210-3219-7. info
- VACHEK, Josef. Historický vývoj angličtiny. Edited by Jan Firbas. 8. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1994, 276 s. ISBN 8021004878. info
- BAUGH, A. C. and Thomas CABLE. A history of the English language. 4th ed. London: Routledge, 1993, xiv, 444. ISBN 0415093791. info
- HLADKÝ, Josef. An Old English, Middle English, and Early-New English reader. 4. opr. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, 286 s. ISBN 8021018550. info
- SCHENDL, Herbert. Historical linguistics [Schendl, 2001]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, xi, 130 s. ISBN 0-19-437238-3. info
- MCINTYRE, Dan. History of English : a resource book for students. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2009, xiv, 209. ISBN 9780415444293. info
- Teaching methods
- The course makes use of the following teaching and learning methods: lecture, interactive in-class exercise (text translation and analysis, analysis of grammatical categories), out-of class exercise (text analysis and translation, analysis of grammatical categories), homework (reading study materilas).
- Assessment methods
- The subject is closed by a written exam. The focus of the exam are topics dealt with during the whole semester and the contents of selected study sources.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 5x2.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
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