Syllabus
PROGRAMME:
Week 1 (1 Oct)
Introduction.
Text 1: Nevalainen, Terttu – Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid, “Standardisation in the History of English” (in: Hogg – Denison; pp. 271-311)
Respondents: all
Week 2 (8 Oct):
Text 2: Nevalainen, Terttu, “Historical Sociolinguistics and Language Change” (in: van Kemenade – Los, pp. 1-26)
Respondents: all
Presentation 1: Timofeeva, Olga. 2017. Lexical Loans and Their Diffusion in Old English: of ‘gospels’, ‘martyrs’, and ‘teachers’. Studia Neophilologica 89(3), 1-23
Presenter:
Week 3 (15 Oct)
Text 3: Terttu Nevalainen, Tanja Säily, Turo Vartiainen, Aatu Liimatta and Jefrey Lijffijt: History of English as punctuated equilibria? A meta-analysis of the rate of linguistic change in Middle English.
Respondents: all
Presentation 2: Timofeeva, Olga. 2018. Mid ðare soðe luue ðe is icleped karite: Pastoral care and lexical innovation in the thirteenth century. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM) 23, 55–85.
Presenter:
Week 4 (22 Oct):
Text 4: Townend, Matthew, “Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse and French” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 61-86)
Respondent:
Presentation 3: Ingham, Richard. 2018. The diffusion of higher-status lexis in medieval England: the role of the clergy. English Language & Linguistics 22, Special Issue 2: Mechanisms of French contact influence in Middle English: diffusion and maintenance, pp. 207-224.
Presenter:
Week 5 (29 Oct)
Text 5: Corrie, Marilyn, “Middle English – Dialects and Diversity” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 86-120)
Respondent:
Presentation 4: Ingham, Richard. 2009. Mixing languages on the manor. Medium Ævum 78, 80–97.
Presenter:
TEST 1
Week 6 (5 Nov)
Text 6: Smith, Jeremy J., “From Middle to Early Modern English” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 120-147)
Respondent:
Presentation 5: Evans, Mel. "‘The vsuall speach of the Court’? Investigating language change in the Tudor family network (1544–1556)" Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, vol. 1, no. 2, 2015, pp. 153-188. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2015-0011
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Week 7 (12 Nov)
Presentation 6: Nevalainen, Terttu. 2009. Grasshoppers and blind beetles. Caregiver language in Early Modern English correspondence. In: Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala, Minna Palander-Collin (eds). The language of daily life in England (1400-1800), Benjamins, 137-164.
Presenter:
Text 7: Blank, Paula, “The Babel of Renaissance English” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 212-240)
Respondent:
Week 8 (19 Nov)
Presentation 7: Gotti, Maurizio. 2002. The origin of 17th century canting terms. In: Diaz Vera, J. E. (ed.) A Changing World of Words. Studies in English Historical Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 163–196.
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Presentation 8: But, Roxanne. "“He said he was going on the scamp”: Thieves’ cant, enregisterment and the representation of the social margins in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers", Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, vol. 3, no. 2, 2017, pp. 151-171. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2017-1001
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TEST 2
Week 9 (26 Nov)
Text 8: Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid, “English at the Onset of the Normative Tradition” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 240-274)
Respondent:
Presentation 9: Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 2010. Eighteenth-century women and their norms of correctness. In: Hickey, Raymond (ed.), Eighteenth Century English. Ideology and Change. Cambridge University Press, 59–72.
Presenter:
Week 10 (3 Dec):
Text 9: Mugglestone, Lynda, “English in the Nineteenth Century” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 274-304)
Respondent:
Test 3
Week 11 (10 Dec):
Text 10: Upton, Clive: „Modern Regional English in the British Isles“ (in: Mugglestone, pp. 305-333)
Respondent:
Presentation 10: Trudgill, Peter: “Standard English: What It Isnʼt” (in: Bex & Watts, pp. 117-128)
Week 12 (17 Dec)
Text 11: Bailey, Richard W.: „English Among the Languages“ (in: Mugglestone, pp. 334-359)
Presentation 11: Romaine, Suzanne. 2006. Global English: From Island Tongue to World Language. In: van Kemenade, Ans and Bettelou Los (eds), The Handbook of the History of English, Oxford: Blackwell, 589–608.
Week 13 (7 Jan)
Wrap-up.
Test 4
NOTE:
All relevant primary and secondary materials will be available from Moodle.
Annotation
The two-semester course is designed as an expansion on the B.A. level lecture and seminar on the history of English (History of English I).
Presentations of relevant linguistic essays, text analyses and exercises related to a variety of topics in English historical word-formation, syntax, lexical history and sociolinguistics will help the student develop a deeper understanding of the major historical forces shaping the development of English.
N.B. Courses in "English Historical Linguistics A" and "English Historical Linguistics B" work in conjunction, focusing on structural and sociolinguistic aspects of language change, respectively, but neither is to be considered a prerequisite for the other one.
