Pensum/l?ringskrav

Pensum

Textbook:

Pyles, T. & J. Algeo. 2005 (5th ed.). The Origins and Development of the English Language. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth.

Booklet with articles and texts:

Primary texts:

‘The Battle of Ashdown’ (extract)

‘The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfst?n (extract)

‘The Orrmulum’ (extract)

Chaucer: ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’ (extract)

(‘The Nativity of Christ’; OE, ME, & eModE versions)

Various eModE texts, to be specified

Notes:

Note on OE letters and sounds

Note on prehistoric sound changes

Notes on OE morphology and syntax

Note on ME phonology, morphology, and syntax

Note on the Great Vowel Shift

Note on OE lexicon in post-OE

Articles:

Bennett & Smithers (eds.). 1966. ‘Early Middle English’; pp. xviii-lviii. In: Early Middle English Verse and Prose; Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Cameron, K. 1996. ‘Ch. 6: Scandinavian place-names’; pp. 73-87. In: English place names. London: BT Batsford.

For reference:

Quirk, R. & C.L. Wrenn.1990. An Old English Grammar. London: Routledge.

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