Educational guide 2015_16 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Studying the history of English.	Historical linguistics. Methods, materials and limitations. Historical background. Language change. Transition from OE to ME.
2. Orthography in Old and Middle English.	OE spelling and sounds. ME spelling and sounds. Notes on handwriting.
3. Language contact in Old and Middle English.	Derivation and compounding. Latin. French. Scandinavian.
4. Morphology in Old and Middle English.	Nouns. Adjectives. Pronouns. Verbs.
5. Syntax in Old and Middle English.	Word order. Relatives. Negation. Noun Phrase. Verb Phrase.
6. The emergence of standard English.	Chancery English. Attitudes.
7. Dialects in Old and Middle English.	OE dialects. ME dialectal variation: orthography, phonology, morphology.
8. Phonology from Old to early Modern English.	From OE to ME. Vowels. Consonants. Great Vowel Shift. Evidence of early phonology.
9. Early and late Modern English I.	Main changes. Socio-historical context. Spelling and punctuation.
10. Early and late Modern English II.	Morphology. Syntax.
11. Early and late Modern English III.	Lexicon. Early dictionaries.