English German Latin

The Subject of the History of the English Language. Analysis of Development of Languages. The Comparative Historical Method

Theoretical questions (for the test and discussion)

The Subject matter of The History of the English Languages.

2) The Comparative Historic Method: its principles, stages of operation and weak points.

W. Jones and the idea of the Proto-Language.

4) Germanic philologists contributing to development of Comparative Linguistics: A. Schleicher, F.Shmidt, Franz Bopp, J. Grimm, K. Verner

2. Reports:

Causes of language evolution

A. Schleicher (the theory of language tree), F.Shmidt (the theory of waves) and their idea of language relations.

Franz Bopp, Rasmus Rask and their contribution to comparative philology.

Jacob Grimm, Karl Verner and their contribution to sound laws.

3. Practical task - to be done in written form and submitted at the end of the lesson:

Sample of the work (A4 Format)

Establish some regular sound correspondence between English, German and Latin, supporting it with a number of words, e.g.

t [t] -- z [ts] -- d [d]

English German Latin

Two zwei duo

Ten zehn decem

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