Week & Session | |
1a | Overview of the Indo-European family and the Germanic subfamily. |
1b | Sketch of PIE grammar: sounds and morphological categories. |
2a | Sketch of PIE grammar: inflection; Wackernagel's Law. |
2b | The development to Proto-Germanic: sound shifts and simplification of inflection. |
3a | Sketch of PGmc. grammar: sounds and the nominal system. |
3b | Sketch of PGmc. grammar: the verb system and derivational morphology. |
4a | The diversification of Germanic. |
4b | The development to Old English: sound changes. |
5a | The development to Old English: syncretism and reduction of lexical classes. |
5b | The development to Old English: syntax and the V2 constraint. |
6a | Syntactic change over the history of Old English. |
6b | Sketch of OE grammar: sounds and morphological categories. |
7a | The dialect situation in OE. |
7b | The transition to Middle English: the origin of Modern English vowel alternation rules. |
8a | The transition to Middle English: the collapse of the West Saxon chancery tradition and the emergence of dialect writing. |
8b | The transition to Middle English: the Norse factor. |
9a | Syntactic variation and change in Middle English. |
9b | A snapshot of Middle English: comparative early 13th-century texts. |
10a | A snapshot of Middle English: comparative late 14th-century texts. |
10b | The Great Vowel Shift. |
11a | Do-support and restructuring in 16th-century English. |
11b | English in 1750: the latest common denominator. |
12a | The 19th century: Received Pronunciation and rural dialect in England. |
12b | The 19th century: urban dialects in northeastern North America. |
13a | Contemporary dialect developments: variation and change in progress. |
13b | [To be announced.] |