ENG G301/D600 : History of the English Language

Spring 2016

Professor Damian Fleming

Class meetings:   TR 3:00 - 4:15  LA 136
Office hours: TWR 1:30-3:00 (and by appointment)
Office: LA 149
Office phone: (260)-481-0192
Email: flemingd@ipfw.edu

Syllabus

Slips


Required Texts (Available at the IPFW bookstore [among other places])
  • The English Language: A Historical Introduction, Second Edition by Charles Barber, Joan Beal and Philip Shaw (Cambridge University Press, 2009) ISBN: 9780521670012
Our Class Wiki
Where we will submit our two research projects and share thoughts on readings
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Class Notes

Etymology Project Sheet (in progress)

Etymology Bibilography

Etymology Evaluation Assignment Sheet

Off-campus access to the OED (Oxford English Dictionary)

You'll be ask to provide your IPFW log-in info.  Let me know if you have any trouble.

Quiz Zone

Dialect Project (in progress)





Dialect Project Assignment (DRAFT)

Special IPA characters


The birth of Comparative Philology

Help from youtube:

Verner’s Law!
  Part 2
  Part 3


Links

Characteristics of all languages

Do You Speak American (PBS homepage)

Curzan PMLA article

Grammatical Terminology Helps:

A.G. Rigg's Traditional Grammatical Terminology

Peter Baker's Intro to Basic Grammar (from Introduction to Old English)

Our Father

Phonology Helps:    


http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/Phonetics.html

See this Place of Articulation chart in particular

Another (Furman)

Brinton and Arnovick's Cononant Chart

Millward, Biography of English Language: Vowels and diphthongs

International Phonetic Alphabet Pages (with Audio!):
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Pronunciation

Another (great for vowels and diphthongs) IPA Page

And another IPA page





My old page