Departamento de Filologas Inglesa y Alemana

LICENCIATURA EN FILOLOGA INGLESA

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NOMBRE DE ASIGNATURA
HISTORIA DE LA LENGUA INGLESA
Estudio diacrnico de la lengua inglesa y de sus sincronas histricas

Nombre/Name: JOS LUIS MARTNEZ-DUEAS ESPEJO y

CRISTOBAL LOZANO POZO
Email: jlespejo@ugr.es / cristoballozano@ugr.es
Tfn./Tel.: 958.240.000 ext. 20130 (Martnez-Dueas) / ext. 20252 (Lozano)
Web/web page:
Despacho/Office: n 3 (Martnez-Dueas), n 29 (Lozano)
Tutoras/Office hours:
(Primer cuatrimestre) l.x.v: 11.30.13.30; 18.30. 20.00
(Segundo cuatrimestre) l.x: 11:30-13:00; 16:30-17:00; 20:00-21:00
Curso acadmico / Year of study: 4
Tipo de asignatura / Course type:
Troncal/Core
Obligatoria/Core
Optativa/Elective
Libre configuracin/Elective
Calendario / Calendar:
Anual / Year
Cuatrimestral / Semester 1

Requisitos y
recomendaciones/
Prerequisites
Crditos ECTS/
ECTS credits

Total ECTS tericos / theory:

Total ECTS prcticos / practice:
Desglose de crditos ECTS / ECTS breakdown:
Crditos LRU: 12 crditos
(Equivalencia LRU y ECTS: 12 ECTS = 12 LRU x 25 horas = 300 horas)
N
Horas
Total hr
"Lecture"
13 clases
x 1,5
=
19,5
Ejercicios
5 clases
x 1,5
=
7,5
Anlisis texto
4 clases
x 1,5
=
6
Proyecciones video
2 clases
x 1,5
=
3
Laboratorio informtica
4 clases
x 1,5
=
6
NO PRESENCIAL ESTUDIO
Clases teora
13
x 3
=
39
Clases prcticas
10
x 1
=
10
Ejercicios
5 clases
x 1
=
5
TRABAJOS
10 hr por trabajo
1 trabajo x 10
=
10
LECTURAS
2 hr por clase terica
13 clases
x 2
=
26
TUTORAS
Tutora individual
5 tutoras x 0,5
=
2,5
Tutora grupo
3 tutoras x 1
=
3
Tutora virtual
5 tutoras x 0,1
=
0,5
INTERNET
Corpus, OED, bsquedas
1 internet x 6
=
6
EVALUACIN parcial
2 parciales x 2
=
4
final
1 final
x 2
=
2
TOTAL HORAS POR CUATRIMESTRE....
150
x2
PRESENCIAL

TEORA
PRCTICA

TOTAL HORAS ANUAL........

300

Descriptores/
Course keywords
Objetivos /

ENGLISH LANGUAGE. HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS. HISTORICAL GRAMMAR.

LANGUAGE CHANGES. LANGUAGE VARIETIES.

The course is meant to give the student of English a sound introduction into the
consideration of philological and linguistic questions and to offer a survey of the study of

Objectives of the
course

Contenidos/
Syllabus

both historical linguistics and the causes of language change.

The main idea is to consider the different stages in the development of the English language
and to familiarize the student with the understanding of texts and linguistic issues central to
the study of this development.

At the same time there will be a critical reflection upon the different concepts that have
made scholars construct a history of the English language.

Finally, upon completion of the course, students will be able to understand how the
diachrony of the English language helps in our understanding of Present-Day English.
12. Temario:

1.

INTRODUCTION:
a. 1.1. Language, history, and society.
b. 1.2. Indoeuropean languages: fragmentation and groups.
c. 1.3. Germanic languages: groups and expansion.
d. 1.4. The laws of Grimm and Verner.
e. 1.5. The linguistic situation of the British Isles before the Anglo-Saxon period.

2.

OLD ENGLISH:
a. 2.1. Phonology: the systems of vowel sounds and consonant sounds.
b. 2.2. Morphology: declensions of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs.
c.
2.3. The Old English verb system: classification and conjugations.
d. 2.4. Foreign Influence on Old English Vocabulary.
e. 2.5. Old English Syntax.
f.
2.6. The dialectal map of the Old English period.
g. 2.7. Old English written records: texts and samples.

3.

MIDDLE ENGLISH:
a. 3.1. The Norman Invasion and the new linguistic situation: the imposition of French:
Norman French, Central French and new graphological systems.
b. 3.2. Main (socio)linguistic changes: phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary.
c. 3.3. The dialectal map of the Middle English period.
d. 3.4. Middle English written records: texts and samples.
e. 3.5. The rise of a standard and the imposition of a dialect.

4.

EARLY MODERN ENGLISH:

a. Introduction: Changing conditions; external influences; Vernaculars
b. Orthography
c. Lexicon: inkhorn terms dispute; early dictionaries
d. Phonology: consonants; short vowels; long vowels; Great Vowel Shift
e. Morphology
f.
Syntax

5.

MODERN ENGLISH:
a. Introduction: External influences; Rules, refinement, and fixing of the language; An
English Academy; Dictionaries; Grammarbooks and prescriptive grammars
b. Spelling
c. Phonology
d. Lexicon: Source languages; Sources of new words; Semantic change
e. Morphology and syntax

6.

AMERICAN ENGLISH
a. Introduction
b. AmE vs BrE
c. Noah Webster and his influence on AmE spelling
d. Main dialects of AmE

7.

ENGLISH
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.

8.

EXPLAINING LINGUISTIC CHANGE

a. Sociolinguistic causes: social class; hypercorrection; social need (borrowings);
emphasis; politeness.
b. Psycholinguistic causes: Physical and psychological causes; Symmetry; Analogy

9.

TEXT ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER LAB

AROUND THE WORLD: VARIETIES

Social and regional variation
Social class and pronunciation
English dialects
Received Pronunciation
Cockney English
Estuary English
Pidgins and Creoles
World Englishes

a.

b.

Texts
i. Caxton
ii. Thomas Elyot
iii. John Hart
iv. Richard Mulcaster
v. Historical comparison of the Bible
Computer lab
i. Oxford English Dictionary Online
ii. Corpus analysis of EME texts

Mtodos docentes/
Teaching methods

Classes will be a combination of the following teaching methods:

Lecture: Mainly a theoretical class, though there will be questions in class to promote
students active participation.
Seminar: A practical class devoted to do exercises based on the lectures. There will also be
other types of seminars, in particular:
Text analysis: A practical class devoted to analyse and comment a text.
Computer lab: A practical class in the computer laboratory to work with corpora
and online etymological dictionaries.
Video projection: We will watch a video related to linguistic issues, usually
followed by a short seminar devoted to answer questions from the listening to
consolidate what we have learnt during the lectures.
Listening: At some point in the class, we will listen to texts / phonemes as they
used to be pronounced in the different stages or as they are pronounced in some
current varieties of English.

Evaluacin/
Assessment

Criterios de evaluacin / Assessment criteria:

ATTENDANCE: Students will need to attend lectures.

PARTICIPATION: Students are expected to participate and engage actively in class. Note
that class attendance per se does not count as active participation.

PAPERS: originality in use of bibliographical references: accurate writing and reasoned

argumentation of concepts. Clear analysis of texts and their grammatical components.

Procedimientos de evaluacin / Assessment procedures:

Idioma usado en clase

y exmenes/
Language of
instruction
Bibliografa y
recursos/
Recommended
reading

Exams: There will be two exams at the end of each semester, and a final exam in June.
The exams will consist of questions on the syllabus and text analysis and commentary.

Assignments: Two papers (one in each term) will be required throughout the year to be
presented before the exams. Information relevant to the papers will be given in class.

Final mark. The final mark will be the sum total of the following:
o 2 exams (70%)
o 2 papers (25%)
o Active participation (5%)

ENGLISH
Bibliografa Obligatoria / Compulsory Reading
Compulsory textbook:
van Gelderen, Elly (2006). A History of the English Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

[All chapters of van Gelderen; see online companion: www.historyofenglish.net ]

Baugh, A.C. and T. Cable 2002, A history of the English language (5th edition), London:Routledge

[Selected chapters of Baugh & Cable, particularly external history chapters]

Schendel, H. 2001. Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bibliografa Bsica / Recommended reading

Aitchison, J., 2001. Language Change: Progress or Decay? (3rd edition). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Fennel, B.A., 2001. A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach. Oxford: Blackwell.
Fernndez, F. 1982, Historia de la lengua inglesa, Madrid: Gredos
Freeborn, D. 2006, From Old English to Standard English (3rd edition), Houndsmill: Palgrave/Macmillan

Bibliografa Adicional / Further reading

A) Diccionarios
- Bosworth, J. Anglo-Saxon dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press,

1976
Bradley, H., ed., Stratmans Middle English dictionary, Oxford: Oxford
University Pres
Ekwall, E., The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names,
Oxford: Oxford University Pres, 1936
Hall, J.C., A concise Anglo-Saxon dictionary, Cambridge : Cambridge
University Press
Johnson, S., A dictionary of the English language, London: Longman,
1818, 4 vols.
Klein, A., Comprehensive etymological dictionary of English
etymology, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1985, 2 vols.
Onions, C.T., The Oxford dictionary of English etymology, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1966
The Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 12
vols, 1978, 1 vol Supplement, 1978, 4 vols. Supplements 1984-1986
Wright, J., The English dialect dictionary, Oxford. Oxford University
Press, 1970
University of Chicago, A dictionary of American English, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1960, 4 vols.

B. Revistas
- American Speech (1933- )
- Anglia: Zeitschrift fr Englische Philologie (1981- )
- English Studies (1919- )
- Historiographia linguistica, (1974- )
- Journal of Pidgin and Creole languages, (1986- )
- Language Variation and Change (1989- )
- LILI: Zeitschrift fr Literaturwissenchaft und Linguistik (1971- )
- Studia Neophilologica, (1943- )
- Transactions of the Philological Society
C. Monografas
- Bammersberger, A., English linguistics, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1989
- Barber, C., The English language. A historical introduction, Cambridge, Cambridge
University press, 1993
- Cruz Cabanillas, I. de la, Francisco Javuer Martn Arista (eds.), Lingstica histrica
inglesa, Barcelona: Ariel 2001
- Cruz, J. de la, A. Caete, A. Miranda, Introduccin histrica a la lengua inglesa,
Mlaga;: gora, 1995
- Cruz, J.de la, P. J. Marcos, A. Caete, Ingls antiguo. Base de la Filologa Inglesa. Una
visin comprensiva desde la historia hasta la lectura bilinge de los textos anglosajones,
Madrid: UNED, 2002
- Cruz, J. de la, P.J. Marcos, A. Caete, Grandes poemas ingleses de los siglos XIII y XIV
en edicin bilinge, Madrdi: UNED 2002
- Fennell, B. , A history of English: a sociolinguistic approach, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001
- Grlach, M., The linguistic history of English, London: Macmillan 1997
- Hogg, R.M. (General editor) The Cambridge history of the English language,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1992-2002 ) 6 vols.
Vol. I. The beginnings to 1066, ed. by R. Hogg, 1992
Vol. II 1066-1447, ed. by Norman Blake, 1992
Vol. III 1476-1766, ed. by Roger Lass, 1999
Vol. IV 1776-1997, ed. by Suzanne Romaine, 1998
Vol. V. English in North America, ed. By John Algeo, 2002
Vol. VI English in Britain and overseas. Origins and development, ed. by Robert
Burchfield, 1999
- Hughes, G. 2000, A history of English words, Oxford: Blackwell
- Lass, R., The shape of English: structure and history, London: Dent, 1987
- Leith, D, A social history of English, London: Routledge, 1983, 2nd. ed. 1997
- Montes, C., M.P. Fernndez lvarez, Gudelia Rodrguez, El ingls antiguo en el marco
de las lenguas germnicas occidentales, Madrid: C.S.I.C, 1995
- Pyles, T. and J. Algeo, The origins and developments of the English language, London:
Harcourt, 4th ed., 1993

- Schendl, H., Historical linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001

Otros recursos / Other resources
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
The best etymological dictionary. Freely available from within UGR.
http://dictionary.oed.com
Great Vowel Shift, by Melinda J. Menzer
Excellent webpage with simulations of the GVS phonological shifts from
ME to EME, including dialogues at different diachronic points in time.
http://facweb.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/
HELL (History of the English Language)
Info and resources about all periods (OE, ME, EME, PDE)
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/hell/
LEME (Lexicons of Early Modern English)
Good for looking up the original word. It gives you the date when the word
is recorded.
http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/
Merrian-Webster dictionary online:
PDE dictionary with the Latin, OE and ME etymology. You can type in the
word in its original spelling and the dictionary can normally guess the
PDE word.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
Online Etymology Dictionary
Good to find the different spellings and etymology of any given PDE word.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php
Varities of English, Univ Arizona:
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/
British Library: Sounds familiar: Accents and dialects of the UK
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html
British Library Collect Britain: images and sounds from UK
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/
BBC Radio 4, The routes of English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/
British varieties: Wikipedia entries for RP, Cockney, EE, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org