We meet every Tuesday 5:00 pm – 7:10 pm in B121.

WEEK 2 Phonology & Closed-Class Words

T 10 Sept.

• Baker (hereafter B), Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 due. (Read as much as you can; we will go over these chapters again during September)
• Proto-Indo-European to Old English (see handout)
• Again, the grammar chart and the translation template.

For extra help:

• 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.
• Try Old English Aerobics, sections 2, 3, 4, and 5.
• Try some exercises in OE pronouns. Make some charts (e.g., in notes).
• Here are Old English Flash Cards.

Second Half:

• Read Graham Robb on 19th-century France.
• Word Exchange (Hereafter Wx), "Gifts of Men" (pp. 223–229); "Fortunes of Men" (pp. 283-289); and "The Order of the World (pp. 239–245).

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Useful Background Reading:

Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature (hereafter CIASL), ch. 1, "Approaching A-S Lit."