Kód IS: 

AAA300108 (jednoobor)

AAA400108 (dvouobor)

AAA500108 (navazující)

OBJECTIVE

The seminar, focused this semester on Old and Early Middle English, is designed as an expansion on the core-course lecture and seminar on the history of English. Presentations of relevant linguistic essays, text analyses and exercises related to the topics mentioned below will help the student develop a deeper un­derstanding of the major historical forces shaping
the deve­lopment of English.

Prerequisite: designed for all students who have passed the exam in the History of the English Language

Note
Working knowledge of Czech, Old and Middle English is a prerequisite.

Sylabus

Programme of the winter semester: Linguistic typology, with special reference to English

Week 1 : Introductory

Week 2
Primary text 1 due: The Fall of Adam and Eve (Gen 3,1-19):
Old English: <http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/anthology/fall.html>
Middle English: <http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/wycliffe/Gen.txt>
Early Modern English: <http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/KjvGene.html>
Modern English: <http://www.ibs.org/niv/index.php>

Secondary text 1 due:
Popela, Jaroslav, Skali?kova jazyková typologie, vyd. B. Vykyp?l a V. Bo?ek, Brno 2006 (I: pp. 1-19) (viz <http://zoul.davi.cz/typologie.pdf>)

Week 3
Secondary text 2 due:
Popela, Jaroslav, Skali?kova jazyková typologie, vyd. B. Vykyp?l a V. Bo?ek, Brno 2006 (II: pp. 19-29)

Week 4
Secondary text 3 due:
Popela, Jaroslav, Skali?kova jazyková typologie, vyd. B. Vykyp?l a V. Bo?ek, Brno 2006 (III: pp. 29-39)

Week 5
Secondary text 4 due:
Sgall, Petr, 'Typology and development of the Indo-European Languages', Actes du dixičme Congres international des linguists 3, 1967, pp. 505-511

Week 6
Secondary text 5 due:
Čermák, František, 'Typology of the Germanic Languages with Special Reference to Dutch', Folia Linguistica XII:1/2, pp. 65-106

Week 7
Secondary text 6 due:
Trnka, Bohumil: 'Analysis and Synthesis in English', English Studies 10, 1928, 138-144, or in: Trnka, Bohumil, Selected Papers in Structural Linguistics, ed. by Vilém Fried, Janua Linguarum, Series Maior 88, Mouton: Berlin and Amsterdam, 1982, pp. 287-295

Week 8
Secondary text 7 due:
Vachek, Josef, 'Morphonological Signals in Linguistic Typology', Folia Linguistica Historica II/1, 1981, s. 99-114

Week 9
Secondary text 8 due:
Trnka, Bohumil: 'Odvozování slov v morfologické struktu?e angli?tiny', in: B. T., Kapitoly z funk?ní jazykov?dy/Studies in Functional Linguistics, Acta Universitatis Carolinae, 1988, pp. 154-169

Week 10
Secondary text 9 due:
Trnka, Bohumil: 'Dlouhá slova v angli?tin?', in: B. T., Kapitoly z funk?ní jazykov?dy/Studies in Functional Linguistics, Acta Universitatis Carolinae, 1988, pp. 169-192

Week 11
Secondary text 10 due:
Vachek, Josef: 'Some Less Familiar Aspects Of The Analytical Trend Of English', Brno Studies in English 3, 1961, 9-78 <http://www.phil.muni.cz/angl/bse/archive/BSE_03_01.pdf>, pp. 1-44 ONLY

Week 12
Secondary text 11 due:
Vachek, Josef: 'Some Less Familiar Aspects Of The Analytical Trend Of English', Brno Studies in English 3, 1961, 9-78 <http://www.phil.muni.cz/angl/bse/archive/BSE_03_01.pdf>, pp. 44-71 ONLY

Week 13
Concluding discussion and test

Programme of the spring semester

Week 1
Ondřej Tichý
Expressing Possessivity - The diachronic survey of analytic, synthetic and adjectival means of expressing possession and their synchronic comparison in English and Czech

Week 2
Ondřej Tichý
Expressing Possessivity (cont.)

Week 3
Verbal obsolescence
Texts:
Prins, A. A. (1941, 1942): "On the Loss and Substitution of Words in Middle English".
Neophilologus 26, pp. 280-298; Neophilologus 27, pp. 49-59
Visser, F.T., Some Causes of Verbal Obsolescence, Nijmegen 1946
Dekyeser, X. - Pauwels, L., "The Demise of the Old English Heritage and lexical innovation in Middle English: two intertwined developments", Dutch Working Papers in English Language and Linguistics 15, 1989, 1-21

Week 4
Corrie, Marilyn, "Middle English - Dialects and Diversity", in: Mugglestone, pp. 86-120

Week 5
Smith, Jeremy J., "From Middle to Early Modern English", in: Mugglestone, pp. 120-147

Week 6
Nevalainen, Terttu, "Mapping Change in Tudor English", in: Mugglestone, pp. 178-212

Week 7
Ondřej Tichý
Pronominal System of Early Modern English: a sociolinguistic perspective on the major changes in the English pronominal system with special attention to the loss of number distinction in the 2nd person sg. of the personal pronouns

Week 8
Blank, Paula, "The Babel of Renaissance English", in: Mugglestone, pp. 212-240

Week 9
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid, "English at the Onset of the Normative Tradition", in: Mugglestone, pp. 240-274

Week 10
Mugglestone, L., "English in the Nineteenth Century", in: Mugglestone, pp. 274-305

Week 11
No class.

Week 12
No class.

Week 13
Lexical change in Present-day English
texts:
Bauer, Laurie, "Lexical Change", in: Bauer, L. (1994) Watching English Change, Longman, pp. 29-49
Hickey, Raymond, "Tracking lexical change in present-day English", in: Wilson, A., Rayson, P. and McEnery, T. (eds.) (2003), Corpus Linguistics by the Lune. A Festschrift for Geoffrey Leech, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp. 93-105.

Each presentation will be complemented by analysis of linguistic material.

Extra term
Concluding test.

Literature
see syllabus