ВВЕДЕНИЕ В СПЕЦФИЛОЛОГИЮ

ОИИЯ

2013 год

Группа 3А1

 

ВВЕДЕНИЕ В СПЕЦФИЛОЛОГИЮ

Lecture 1

Theoretical aspects of the history of the English language.

Plan: 1. Subject and aims of the history of the English language. 2. Inner and outer history of the language.

Lecture 2.

Germanic languages.

Plan: 1) Modern Germanic languages. 2) The earliest period of Germanic history. Protogermanic.

Lecture 3.

Historical background and linguistic features.

When the first people arrived to Britain 50000 BC it was still part of the continent. Later 5000 BC at the end of the ice age Britain became an… The next to come were the Celts. They arrived in 7000BC from the territory of… Romans. In 55 century BC Gulius Caesar attacked Britain. Reason was economic (tin ore, corn, slaves) and political.…

Lecture 4.

Linguistic features of Germanic languages. Grammatical features.

The Proto-Germanic and the old Germanic languages were synthetic languages (the relationships between the parts of the sentence were shown by the… The Germanic nouns had a well-developed case system with 4 cases: nominative,… Germanic adjectives had two types of declination: weak and strong. They also had degrees of comparison.

Lecture 5.

Periodization of the English language.

The historical development of a language is a continuously uninterrupted process without sudden brakes or rapid transformations. The commonly… Old English – 5th-11th century Middle English – 11th – 15th century