02 Introduction to Linguistics 24/10/2007

SUMMARY OF LECTURE:

I am not going to spend another hour summarizing my notes for this lecture as I have just done for ‘How to make a Dictionary’. I am merely going to do homework and glossary sections. The rest can be read in the slides as usual:

http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/gibbon/Classes/Classes2007WS/ITL/02-HistoryOfEnglish-FromPIEtoModE.pdf

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

HOMEWORK:

Where did the Celts originate? Europe and Asia Minor in pre-Roman times. Dev

● Name 3 Celtic town names in the area of modern

Germany and give their meanings

1. Halle: salt
2. Remagen: King’s Field
3. Tuebingen: (dubo) dark, black

● Where do the Celts live now? Irish, Highland Scottish, Manx, Cornish, Welsh.

● What is their significance for English studies? –

– historically: Origin of Language and People migration

– currently: agr I cant stand this question, because it is too broad!

Find examples for each of these concepts:

Grimms Law (pàf) pedis(latin)àfuss, foot, fod(Danish)

Verners Law Faber à Brober (fàb)(pàd)(sàz)(xàg)

High German Sound Shift Appel/Apfel, Dorp/Dorf

Great Vowel Shift make, feet, mice, boot, mouse

GLOSSARY:

Etmology history of words

LINKS

TRIVIA: sasnach = Scottish word for the ‘british’