Old English Grammar. Nominal Parts of Speech.

 

 

Part 1: Get ready for a test on the theme: “Old English Phonology. Main

Features and Changes” (materials from the previous seminar).

 

A sample of the test:

Task 1. Explain the correspondences of sounds in the following pairs of words (in every set the process is the same):

1. OE beor3an - Goth gebairgan

2. OE seolf - Goth silba

3. OE deork - Goth dark

1. Goth * scamu - OE sceamu

2. L castra - OE ceaster

3. OHG jar - OE 3ear

1. OHG swestar - OE sweostor

2. OE þestru - OE peostru

3. OE sero - OE searo

Task 2. Explain the origin of the sound 'y' in OE.

 

Part 2: Old English Grammar. Nominal Parts of Speech.

 

The Outline of Seminar 3

Points for discussion:

1. General Characteristics of OE Grammar.

2. The Noun. Its Grammatical Categories: gender; number; case.

3. Noun Declensions: vowel - consonantal; strong - weak; root declension.

4. Morphological Categories of the Adjective: case; number; gender.

5. Strong and Weak Declensions of Adjectives. Degrees of Comparison.

6. The Pronoun in OE. Personal Pronouns and Their Categories. Demonstrative Pronouns: their groups and categories. Other Classes of Pronouns in OE.

7. The Numeral. Kinds of Numerals and Ways of Their Formation.

 

 

Recommended Literature

Obligatory 1. Lectures on the theme.

2. Verba L. History of the English Language.-Nova Knyha,

2004.

P.38-56;58-61.

3. B. Ilyish. History of the English Language.-Л.,1973.

P.63-86.

4. И. П. Иванова и др. Практикум по истории

английского языка.-М.,1985.

TheoryTexts for analysisAssignmentsExercises

Les.3-4, pp.26-40 Text3, p.28 2-8, p.29 1-3,6, p.24-25

12-13, p.32 1-4, p.39 Les.3-4,

5-7, p.36

 

Additional: 1. T. A. Rastorguyeva. History of English.-M.,1983.

P.92-108.

2. G. I. Stoudenets. History of the English Language in

Tables.-K.,1998.

Tables 40-44.

 

Questions for Self-testing:

1. What kinds of form-building means do you know? Which of them existed in OE? Which of them can be found in ModE?

2. What grammatical categories characterize OE nouns?

3. How are case and number forms of nouns expressed in OE - by one and the same or by different grammatical markers?

4. How many cases characterized OE nouns?

5. How many numbers did OE nouns have?

6. How many genders of nouns existed in OE? What was specific about this category in OE? Compare it with ModE.

7. What declensions of nouns existed in OE?

8. What is the difference between strong and weak declensions of nouns in OE?

9. What is the root declension of nouns characterized by?

10. How many of number markers existed in OE?

11. What can you say about the homonymy of forms in OE? What did it bring about in the long run?

12. Analyze the paradigms of OE nouns and find different form-building means.

13. What grammatical categories characterize OE adjectives

14. What declensions of adjectives existed in OE? What principle are their names based upon? Do these classes exist in ModE?

15. What is the difference between the grammatical categories of nouns and those of adjectives, if any?

16. What classes of pronouns exited in OE?

17. What grammatical categories characterize personal pronouns in OE?

18. What groups of demonstrative pronouns existed in OE and what did they differ in?

19. What grammatical categories characterize OE demonstrative pronouns?

 

 

Seminar 4

Old English Grammar. The Verb. Morphological Classes of Verbs. Verb Conjugation. Non-finite Forms in Old English.

 

Part 1: Get ready for a test on the theme: “Old English Grammar. Nominal

Parts Speech”. Use materials to Seminar 3(the previous one).

 

 

A sample of the test:

Task 1. Give the morphological analysis of the nominal parts of

speech: part of speech, declension, case, number(for noun);

part of speech, declension, case, number(for

adjective);class, person/subclass for demonstrative

pronouns; case, number(for pronouns) from text on p.__,

lines__.

 

 

Part 2: Old English Grammar. The Verb. Morphological classes of

The Verbs. Verb Conjugation. Non-Finite Forms in Old

English.

The Outline of Seminar 4

 

 

Points for Discussions:

1. OE Ablaut (compared with IE and CG).

2. Morphological Classification of OE Verbs.

3. Strong Verbs. The First Five Classes of Strong Verbs.

4. The Sixth and the Seventh Classes of Strong Verbs.

5. Weak Verbs in OE. Their Classes.

6. Main Grammatical Categories of OE Verbs.

7. Preterite-Present Verbs in OE. Their Specific Features.

8. Anomalous Verbs in OE. Their Paradigms.

9. Conjugation of Verbs in OE. Basic Forms.

10. Non-finite Forms in OE.

11. The Adverb in OE.

Recommended Literature

Obligatory 1. Lectures on the theme.

2. Verba L. History of the English Language.-Nova Knyha,

2004.

P.61-94.

3. B. Ilyish. History of the English Language.-Л.,1973.

P.87-99;100-110.

4. И. П. Иванова и др. Практикум по истории

английского языка.-М.,1985.

TheoryTexts for analysisAssignmentsExercises

Les.5, pp.40-60 Text6, p.41 1,3,4, p.42 1-10, p.53

Text7, p.49 5-9, p.50

 

Additional: 1. T. A. Rastorguyeva. History of English.-M.,1983.

P.108-124.

2. G. I. Stoudenets. History of the English Language in

Tables.-K.,1998.

Tables 45-53; 103-105.

Questions for Self-testing:

1. What principle are the classes of strong verbs based upon?

2. What does the interchange within the roots of different forms of OE strong verbs go back to?

3. How many classes of strong verbs do you know? What is the difference between the classes based upon?

4. What common features characterize the first five classes of strong verbs? What do classes differ in?

5. What is the sixth class of strong verbs characterized by?

6. What is the seventh class of strong verbs characterized by?

7. How many classes of weak verbs existed in OE? What principle is the difference between the classes based upon?

8. Compare OE classes of verbs with ModE classes. Do such as OE classes of verbs exist in ModE?

9. How many basic forms of strong verbs are distinguished in OE?

10. What categories characterize OE verbs?

11. What are specific features of preterite-present verbs?

12. Are there any remnants of preterite-present verbs in Mod.E? What class do they form?

13. How can you explain the term 'anomalous'?

14. What categories is the conjugation of OE verbs based upon?

15. What is the difference between the paradigms of different classes of verbs?

16. Are there any person distinctions in the plural of OE verbs?

17. What can you say about the category of tense in OE?

18. What is the category of mood of OE verbs characterized by?

19. What can you say about the category of voice in OE?

20. What non-finite forms of the verb existed in OE? Speak about specific features of each of them

Seminar 5