Development of analytical forms. Development of the Continuous aspect.Development of the Continuous aspect. Development of the gerund and gerundial constructions. Fusion of participial and gerundial constructions in New English. Appearance of Subjunctive Formation of the analytical perfect forms. Development of the analytical forms with do.in interrogative constructions. The Great Vowel Shift. Its essence and its consequences. The two stages of the Great Vowel Shift Changes in the system of long vowels The results of these changes: the divergence between English pronunciation and spelling; breaking down of the Latin graphical system. The appearance of the New English alphabet
The main notions of the course. Parent language Common Germanic period Pre-written stage (of the development) Proto-Germanic Germanic tribes Tribal dialects Local dialects The Angles The Saxons The Jutes The Frisians Germanic settlement of Britain To undergo some changes To cause some changes A synthetic language An analytical language An inflectional system Mutation Splitting Breaking Diphthongisation (narrowing) of simple vowels (sound) shift Declension (a-stem declension) Conjugation Strong verbs Weak verbs Breaking down of the inflectional system Palatalisation (of sounds)
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