The history of the language lecture 1 The problem of periodization of the History of the English language

THE HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE LECTURE 1 The problem of periodization of the History of the English language.

№#3№	The topics and the hours given for lectures:	Hours
1	The problem of periodization of the History of the English language.	2
2	Phonetic peculiarities of Germanic languages. Morphology of the Noun. Adjective, Pronoun and Numeral in Old English.	2
3	The verb in Old English	2
4	Old English Syntax.	2
5	Old English Vocabulary.	2
6	Middle English Period. Early New English phonetic changes.	2
7	The Great Vowel Shift in the History of the English language.	2
	Total	14

“History of the English language” – deals with the problem of working out common features of the Germanic group of languages related to each other by the links of common origin. We’ll speak about the modern status of each member of the Germanic group of languages in the modern world.

These are the following aspects: structural, functional, historical, typological, quantitative, geographical, genetical, sociolinguistic, psychological and others. Let’s consider some notions denoted by the above mentioned terms . Genetically languages can be: a) related languages: English – German etc.; b) non-related: English, Uzbek – Russian etc.