3 Семестр

1. The main branches of Linguistics

2. History of the English Language

3. Proto-English

4. A Brief History of the English Language

5. Indo-European and Germanic Influences

6. Old English

7. Middle English

8. Early Modern English

9. Adoption foreign words by English

10. The Great Vowel Shift

11. Resembling the first stage of The Great Vowel Shift

12. The values of the long vowels of English

13. Features for the separation of Middle and Modern English

14. Grammatical changes in Modern English

15. Evolution of English pronouns

16. Late Modern English.

17. Theoretical phonetics. Aims, tasks, connections with other branches of linguistics and science.

18. Phonostylistics. The main tasks of phonostylistics.

19. Phonetic characteristics of speech.

20. Syllabic structure of English words. Theories of syllables.

21. Accentual structure of English words. Accentual types. Prominence.

22. Territorial varieties of the English language.

23. Phonemes. Allophones.

24. Different approaches to phoneme theory.

25. The main aspects of the language and the main branches of linguistics.

26. Phonemes. Allophones. Classification of phonemes