HOTEL-DOWNLOAD PAGE

Below you find the explicit syllabus for the course, to be updated with changes as we go along. (See the NEWS-PAGE for recent additions and the READINGS-PAGE for additional links.)

• each class title is clickable for download of the class handout (if title is not linked, the handout is not yet available)
• [TRANSP] after date & class info links to the download of transparancies used in that class and/or the handout (one file)
• other abbreviations point to different files and unlinked [X] refers to transparencies that are only available as hardcopy
• a star * after the class indicates that the handout is the same as for the previous class (same goes for transparencies)

 

All downloadable material is in PDF-format for which you may need Adobe Acrobat or the free Adobe Reader (as single pages 1-up – if you want to reduce them to 2-on-1 as I do in class, you have to set your printer options).

Please see my Sources page for copyright disclaimers and additional information about the assembly of all handouts.

You can also download:

• COURSE INFORMATION (basically, the HOTEL main page with all course info)
• PRESENTATION & PAPER DETAILS (instructions & topic suggestions)
• COURSE SYLLABUS (the class-by-class schedule reproduced below)
  – UPDATED: MAR 28 –

 

Further downloads:

• "The Role of Cheese in the Acquisition of Abstract Lexical Items" (a hunmourous illustration how a good paper is structured by Andrew Carnie)
• HOTEL-Humour (a funny short history of English; in HTML)
• listen to the Final Continuation of the Peterborough Chronicles
• see and hear the Great Vowel Shift (supercool!)

 

The two download sites for your own browsing :

• handouts
• materials

 

SYLLABUS  (ENG 590 History of the English Language, spring 2005, UCY; K. Grohmann)

January 24: CLASS 1 [TRANSP] Course Overview & Historical Linguistics requirements, formalia, etc. — course introduction	January 27: CLASS 2* The External History of English 7000 years of language, definitions, typology
January 31: CLASS 3 [TRANSP NM VM] The Pre-History of English From Indo-European to Proto-Germanic	February 3: CLASS 4 [TRANSP ToB ER] The Emergence of English Arrival of Germanic Tribes on the British Isles
February 7: CLASS 5 [TRANSP MP] Properties of Old English Grammar OE writing, phonology, and morphology	February 10: CLASS 6 [TRANSP] Syntactic Features of Old English word order, verb final/second, negation, etc.
February 14: CLASS 7 [TRANSP X] Old English Varieties vocabulary and dialects	February 17: CLASS 8 CLASS PRESENTATIONS I-II
February 21: CLASS POSTPONED CLASS PRESENTATIONS [APRIL 20]	February 24: CLASS POSTPONED CLASS PRESENTATIONS [APRIL 20]
February 28: CLASS 9 [TRANSP] Breakdown of the Inflectional System OE morphological paradigms, changes in ME/LME	March 3: CLASS 10 [TRANSP X] Properties of Middle English Grammar ME p honology, morphology, and syntax
March 7: CLASS 11 [TRANSP] Syntactic Features of Early English impersonals, auxiliaries, negation, verb second, etc.	March 10: CLASS 12 [TRANSP] Word Order Changes in Middle English OE word order patterns and changes in ME
March 14: NO CLASS GREEN MONDAY	March 17: CLASS 13 CLASS PRESENTATIONS III-IV
March 21: CLASS 14 Introduction to Corpus Linguistics [guest lecture by SOCRATES exchange professor]	March 24: CLASS 15 Historical Morphology [guest lecture by SOCRATES exchange professor]
March 28: CLASS 16 [TRANSP] Approaches to Word Order Changes typological and generative explanations	March 31: CLASS 17 [TRANSP X] Great Vowel Shift & Early Modern English from LME to ENE, orthography, sound change
April 4: CLASS 18 [TRANSP X] Syntactic Features of Early Modern English ENE morpho-syntax: verb raising & inversion et al.	April 7: CLASS 19 CLASS PRESENTATIONS V-VI
April 11: CLASS 20 [TRANSP X] The Grammar of Creoles syntax and morphology	April 14: CLASS POSTPONED CLASS PRESENTATIONS [APRIL 20]
April 18: CLASS 21 [TRANSP] Accents, Dialects, and English in Cyprus NE varieties around the world	April 20: CLASS 22-24 [WEDNESDAY] CLASS PRESENTATIONS VII-X
April 21: CLASS 25 Presentation Recap discussion of handouts	May 23: 10am OFFICE / EMAIL HAND IN YOUR PAPER !

 

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