Date
Subject
Preparation
17.10.03 Intro: general discussion, aims, tasks
24.10.03 Some basic concepts and terms, e.g. typology, types of languages, morphology
general reference
31.10.03 Language change: what, how, why?
general reference
07.11.03 Understanding morphological change
McMahon 69-106, 138-173
14.11.03 Designing an analysis: structural patterns
data exploration
21.11.03 Pattern 1: Nominal inflection
analysis of data
28.11.03 Pattern 2: Verbal inflection
analysis of data
05.12.03 Pattern 3: Word Order
analysis of data
12.12.03 Views of the typological change in the histo- Barber 116-118, 157-160, Lass 91-147, Leith
ry of the English language
87-113, Strang 259-281
19.12.03 Preliminary results: General discussion
09.01.04 Codification and morphological change
data: Leonard
16.01.04 Campbell’s Canons of Usage
Campbell (master)
23.01.04 Lowth & Co. and morphological variation
Priestley, Lowth, Buchanan, Murray
30.01.04 The Doctrine of Correctness
Baugh, Bailey, Leonard
06.02.04 Results: general discussion
Reading list:
Bailey, Richard W. (1992). Images of English: a social history of the language. Cambridge UP.
Barber, Charles (1993). The English language: a historical introduction. Cambridge Approaches to
Linguistics. Cambridge UP.
Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable (1993). A history of the English language. 4th edition. London:
Routledge.
Blake, Norman (ed., 1992). The Cambridge history of the English language, volume II: 1066-1476.
Cambridge UP.
Buchanan, James (1762). The British grammar. London.
Campbell, George (1776). The Philosophy of Rhetoric. London.
Lass, Roger (1992). „Phonology and morphology“, pp. 23-155 in Blake 1992.
Leith, Dick (1983). A social history of English. London: Routledge.
Leonard, Sterling Angus (1929). The doctrine of correctness in English usage, 1700-1800. Madison.
Lowth, Robert (1762). A short introduction to English grammar. London.
McMahon, April M.S. 1994). Understanding language change. Cambridge UP.
Milroy, James and Lesley (1991). Authority in language: investigating language prescription &
standardisation. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.
Murray, Lindley (1795). English grammar. York.
Priestley, Joseph (1761). The rudiments of English grammar. London.
Strang, Barbara (1970). A history of English. London: Methuen.
Thomas, George (1991). Linguistic purism. Studies in Language and Linguistics. London: Longman.