ENG367Y (History of the English Language): Second term schedule

This schedule will be online and will be updated with relevant links (i.e. to tools for learning/reviewing OE). Please check the home page frequently.

Required readings for this term are from Crystal’s Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English language and from Millward’s Biography of the English language, 2^nd edition.

Please bring Rigg’s The English language: a historical reader to each class.

Week of 7 January: Review of Early Modern English

Extracts: Shakespeare, Hamlet; Milton, Paradise Lost

Week of 14 January: English as an Indo-European and Germanic language

Millward chapter 4.

• Internet links: Germanic (including linguistic features, maps of marauding, etc.)

Week of 21 January:

Recognizing Old English (OE) words: OE writing and spelling

OE syntax: syntax within clauses

Crystal chapter 3.

Millward chapter 5: 76-82, 89-93, 110-111.

Study linked pages from Murray McGillivray’s course: OE pronunciation 1 and OE pronunciation 2. “OE syntax”.

Procrastinate with an online Mr Potato Head

Extract for discussion: Rigg No.9.

• Now that we've sketched out the concept in class, have a look at the paradigms for the 3rd person personal pronouns

Week of 28 January:

OE grammar: the noun phrase (nouns, pronouns, demonstratives)

OE grammar: uninflected word classes

OE irregular verbs: be, will, do, go

Crystal 20-21.

Millward 94-101, 105-106

Read and study “Old English as an inflected language” and “present of the verb beon and the personal pronouns”, the OE case system (strong masculine and neuter nouns)”, Table with strong and masculine nouns, OE weak nouns.

• After we've learned se Haelend/he, þone Haelend/hine, try reinforcing the concept with an online quiz (U of Calgary)
• Once you're confident that you understand the concept of case and have studied the strong masculine and strong neuter nouns, try reviewing the concept with flashcards (U of Calgary)

Extract for discussion: Rigg No. 1.

Week of 4 February:

OE grammar: verb endings, weak verbs

OE phonology

Crystal 18-21.

Millward 82-89, 101-105.

Read and study “OE weak verbs”. Once you're confident you understand the concept, try reinforcing it with flash card!

Extract for discussion: Rigg No. 2.

Week of 11 February:

OE grammar: strong verbs, preterite-present verbs

Millward 102-105

Read and study “OE strong verbs: singan”

Extracts for discussion: Rigg No. 3; an OE poem (handout).

-> Optional MAKE-UP FOR PART “C” of the test: parallel PDE, Early Modern English, Creole. [You must resubmit your original test when you do the makeup: you’ll get both back.]

Week of 18 February: READING WEEK

Week of 25 February: OE vocabulary, OE syntax 2

Crystal 22-27.

Millward 115-143, 107-115.

Extract for discussion: Rigg Nos. 10 and 11; the OE poem (handout).

Week of 4 March: Middle English (ME) background: vocabulary, dialects

Crystal chapter 4. esp 30ff and 46-53.

Millward chapter 6, esp. 142-146, 195-216.

Extracts for discussion: Rigg Nos. 5-6, 9.

A Middle English lyric or two (handout).

-> OLD ENGLISH TRANSLITERATION ASSIGNMENT DUE March 5^th, 6pm.

*deadline extended by a week

Week of 11 March: ME spelling and phonology

Crystal 40-43

Millward 146-162

Extracts for discussion: Rigg Nos. 1-2; Peterborough Chronicle (handout).

Week of 18 March: ME noun phrase

Crystal 44-45.

Millward 162-174.

Extracts for discussion: Rigg Nos. 3-4.

Week of 25 March: ME verb phrase

Crystal 44-45.

Millward 174-181.

Extracts for discussion: Rigg Nos. 10-11.

Week of 1 April: ME syntax

Crystal 44-45.

Millward 181-195.

Extracts for discussion: Rigg No. 12.

-> RESEARCH PAPERS DUE THURSDAY APRIL 4^th.

-> RECEIVE TAKE-HOME TESTS IN CLASS ON THURSDAY APRIL 4^th.

Week of 8 April: Chaucer's Miller's Tale; the C15th, printing and standardization

Text for Tuesday: "The Miller's Prologue and Tale" from The Canterbury Tales

Crystal 54-57.

-> TAKE-HOME TEST DUE 12^th April, 6 pm. Hard copy only!