Session | Date | Topic |
Course Book: Hughes (2000) |
1. | 18.4. |
Structure of the Seminar; Introduction |
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2. | 25.4. |
Presentation: Where Do English Words Come From?; Historical Survey, Introduction to OED |
text collection, pp. 21-47 |
3. | 2.5. |
Presentation: History in the Language: The Vocabulary as a Historical Repository I; Basics of Historical Lexicology |
Chapter 1, pp. 1-33 |
4. | 9.5. |
Presentation: History in the Language: The Vocabulary as a Historical Repository II; Basics of Historical Lexicology |
Chapter 1, pp. 33-64 |
5. | 23.5. |
Presentation: The Foundations of English and the Formation of the Base Register I; Old English Vocabulary |
Chapter 2, pp. 65-86 |
6. | 30.5. |
Presentation: The Foundations of English and the Formation of the Base Register II; Old English Vocabulary |
Chapter 2, pp. 86-108 |
7. | 6.6. |
Presentation: The Norman Elite and the New Language of Power I; Middle English Vocabulary |
Chapter 3, pp. 109-25 |
8. | 13.6. |
Presentation: The Norman Elite and the New Language of Power II; Middle English Vocabulary |
Chapter 3, pp. 125-45 |
9. | 20.6. |
Presentation: The Lexical Expansion of the Renaissance: Exuberance and Restraint I; Early Modern English Vocabulary |
Chapter 4, pp. 146-76 + 212-22 |
10. | 27.6. |
Presentation: The Lexical Expansion of the Renaissance: Exuberance and Restraint II; Early Modern English Vocabulary |
Chapter 4, pp. 176-212 |
11. | 4.7. |
Presentation: Licentiousness, Decorum and Lexicographical Order; Modern English Vocabulary |
Chapter 5, pp. 223-76 |
12. | 11.7. |
Presentation: The Lexical Interchange of Imperialism; Modern English Vocabulary |
Chapter 6, pp. 277-314 |
13. | 18.7. |
Preparation for Coursework; Choice of Topics |
handout |