Filologia 2010-2011 - Gredos - Universidad de Salamanca

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Guía Académica 2010-2011 Facultad de Filología
Universidad de Salamanca
OUTLINE OF PROGRAMME
Unit 1. Historical Linguistics and Language Change. Types of language change. Bredsdorff.
Unit 2. The Indo-European Family of languages. Centum and Satem languages.
Unit 3. The Indo-European Phonemic System.
Unit 4. From IndoEuropean to Germanic: Grimm’s & Verner’s Laws. Other Germanic features.
Unit 5. The Germanic Languages: The Branches of Germanic.
Unit 6. The Ancestry of English.
6.1. From Germanic to Old English.
6.2. Phonological changes of the period: i-mutation, breaking and other changes.
Unit 7. Old English Socio-Historical Background. The Celts. The Roman Conquest. The Germanic invasions: Anglos, Saxons and Jutes.
Unit 8. Introduction to Old English.
8.1. Revision of basic grammatical concepts.
8.2. The Writing System of the Anglo-Saxons. Old English Spelling. Its correspondences.
Unit 9. Old English phonological processes.
Unit 10. Old English Morphology I: Inflected Words.
10.1. Strong and weak nouns and adjectives.
10.2. Determiners and pronouns.
Unit 11. Old English Morphology II: Types of verbs and their conjugations.
11.1. Strong verbs.
11.2. Weak Verbs.
Unit 12. Old English Syntax: word-order.
Unit 13. Old English lexicon: loan words, word formation.
Unit 14. Scandinavian Invasion. The Dane Law. Linguistic Consequencies.
Unit 15. The Dialects of Old English.
15.1. Dialectal features.
15.2. Surviving text.
PRACTICAL
– Revision of the most important phonetic, lexical and semantic processes.
– Practical exercises related to the contents of the syllabus:
– exercises on the development of the Germanic languages: Grimm’s law, Verner’s law examples through words.
– Examples and development of ablaut.
– Exercises on breaking and umlaut. Their influence on present-day English.
– Spelling and phonological patterns of change from OE to PdE.
– Translation of a variety of representative texts of the period: fragments from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, from the Old Testament, Aelfric’s
and Bede’s works.
– Analyses of the Old English texts previously translated from the morphological, syntactical and phonological perspectives.
SET BOOK
BAKER, P. S. 2007 2 [2003]. Introduction to Old English. Oxford: Blackwell.
MUGGLESTONE, L. (ed.) 2006. The Oxford History of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.