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SCHOOL OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGE HISTORY

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The History Of English: An Introduction

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Introduction
1) From Germanic to Old English
2) Pronunciation of Old English
3) Old English Nouns, Adjectives and Adverbs
4) Old English Pronouns
5) Old English Verbs
6) Old English Dialects
7) Old English Texts
8) Borrowings in the Old English period
9) Preterite-Present Verbs
10) Old English to Middle English
11) The Reascendancy of English
12) The Scandinavian Element in Middle English Vocabulary
13) Middle English Spelling and Pronunciation
14) The Levelling of Unstressed Vowels
15) Middle English Grammar
16) Use of the Possessive –s
17) The Influence of French on English Vocabulary
18) Middle English Dialects
19) The Rise of Standard English
20) The Origins of the Progressive Tenses
22) Phonology
23) Caxton and the Introduction of Printing
24) Grammatical Changes in Early Modern English
26) Vocabulary
27) Grammar: The Switch from Thou to You and Other Pronouns
28) The Spread of 3rd Singular –s and Other Person/Number Endings
29) Periphrastic ‘do’
30) Various texts 1550-1700
31) Developments in the 18th Century
32) Vocabulary
33) Other 18th Century Texts
34) Developments in the 19th Century
35) Grammar in the 19th Century
36) Vocabulary
37) The Development of English as a World Language
38) Other Post 1800 Texts
Appendix 1 — Indo-European to Germanic
Appendix 2 — The Origins of the Forms in Old Norse
Appendix 3 — Answers to Exercises