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WEEK 2 Phonology & Closed-Class Words

M 13 Sept.

• Sweet (hereafter SW), pages 1–8(only §§ [sections] 1–7) due.
• King Alfred's Grammar (hereafter kA), chs. 1-4 and "Pronouncing Old English"
• You can browse Professor Murray McGillivray's site--he has a sound file of Abraham and Isaac, read in Old English here. Also, Mike Drout has read the entire poetic corpus of OE onto the web (and podcast); that's here.

W 15 Sept.

• Personal pronouns.
• SW, Pronouns, pp. 22–23, §§ 42–48.
• Try Old English Aerobics, sections 2, 3, 4, and 5.
• Try some exercises in OE pronouns. Make some charts (e.g., in notes).

F 17 Sept.

• Personal pronouns again.
• Read Graham Robb on 19th-century France.

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Useful Background Reading:

Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature (hereafter CC), ch. 2, Helmut Gneuss, "The Old English Language"; chapter 1, Patrick Wormald, "Anglo-Saxon Society and its Literature."