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Variant VPart I.
Subject: The Indo-European Family of Languages. Germanic languages. Instructions: Basing on the Grimm’s law, explain the correspondences of underlined sounds in the following words of the common root from Germanic and non-Germanic Indo-European languages.
Part II. Subject: The Old English Period Instructions: Provide grammatical analysis of the suggested elements from the sentence below: o Nouns — define the declension type (strong or weak), number, case. o Adjectives — define the declension type (strong or weak), number, case, gender, degree of comparison. o Verbs — strong or weak type, define tense, aspect, mood, person, number. o Pronouns — class, if possible, person, number, case. Translate the sentence in Modern English.
secgan - (verb) say sum – (pronoun) a certain æt – (prepos. with dat. or acc.) at ċirr – (noun, masc.) occasion. willan – (anomalous verb) wish fandian – (verb, usually with gen. object) discover hū – (adv.) how longe– (adv.) long land– (noun, neuter) land norþryhte– (adv.) northwards. licgan- (verb) lie oððe – (conj.) or hwæðer – (conj.) whether. ǣniġ – (adj.) any man, mon – (noun, masculine consonantal) man benorðan – (prep.)to the north of wēsten – (noun, neuter) wilderness būan – (anomalous verb with strong pres. and past part. and weak past) dwell; inhabit
Part III. Subject: The Middle English period Instructions: Read the passage in Middle English, analyze the part in bold and do the tasks below.
From The Canterbury Tales: The Clerk's Prologue lines 1-14: The Host asks the Clerk to tell a tale
About The Clerk's Prologue and Tale: The Host asks the Clerk of Oxford to narrate a tale in plain style. The Clerk announces a tale that he has learned from another clerk. The Clerk's tale is about a marquis called Walter. Lord Walter is a bachelor who is asked by his subjects to marry in order to provide a heir. Lord Walter assents and marries a poor girl called Griselda. After some time, Walter starts testing Griselda's patience. Ultimately, the clerk's tale is about unconditional female submissiveness.
Heere folweth the Prologe of the Clerkes Tale of Oxenford.
trowe verb think, suppose moot verb must fey noun faith
Explain the development of the following words from OE to MidE:
Task IV. Subject: The Early Modern English period Instructions: Read the following extract from the Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare and do the tasks below.
2.M. Dost thou loue pictures? we wil fetch thee strait 202: Adonis painted by a running brooke, 203: And Citherea all in sedges hid, 204: Which seeme to moue and wanton with her breath, 205: Euen as the wauing sedges play with winde. 206: Lord. Wee'l shew thee Io, as she was a Maid, 207: And how she was beguiled and surpriz'd, 208: As liuelie painted, as the deede was done.
Date: 2015-01-29; view: 1804
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