ENG G301/D600 : History of the English Language

Spring 2011

Professor Damian Fleming

Class meetings:   TR 3 - 4:15  LA 144
Office hours: T/R 10:30 am – 11:30 am; 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm (and by appointment)
Office: LA149 (formerly "CM"; in English Department)
Office phone: (260)-481-0192
Email: flemingd@ipfw.edu

Syllabus  (print-friendly .pdf)

Syllabus summary (.pdf)


Our Class Wiki
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Class Notes

Etymology Project Sheet

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 previews



Dialect Project Assignment (DRAFT)

Special IPA characters




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