Università Roma Tre

The course retraces some of the topics dealt with in Germanic Philology 1, analysing in greater depth the evolution from Indo-European to Old English at a phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical level, taking into account also other Germanic languages; texts written in other medieval Germanic languages will be read and analyzed.
The course will furthermore consider the development of Historical Linguistics as a discipline, focussing on the Neogrammarians and the Structuralists, as well as the development of the notion of linguistic change.

NOTE: Students intending to take part in the course are invited to contact the lecturer before the beginning of the course (during the month of September therefore) so that the course may be organized adequately (timetable, preliminary reading, etc.)

There is single set text for the course. Students will be regularly referred to chapters and / or paragraphs in the bibliography given below.
Additional material will furthermore be provided by the lecturer:

Bibliography:
Hogg, R. M., A Grammar of Old English (Volume 1: Phonology; Volume 2: Morphology), Wiley-Blacwell, Oxford UK- Cambridge (MA) USA, 1992-2011
Lass, R., Old English - A historical linguistic companion, Cambridge Univesity Press, Cambridge, 1994
Ringe, D., A Linguistic History of English, Volume 1: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic, Oxford University Press, 2006
Saibene, M.G. - Buzzoni, M., Manuale di linguistica germanica, Cisalpino, Milano 2006
Bynon, Theodora, Historical LInguistics, Cambridge 1977
Lepschy, Giulio C., Storia della Linguistica, vol. III, Bologna, 1994

P.S. The texts are available for reference in the faculty library