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    Seminar 2.

    General information about Germanic languages


    Their Origin, Main Features
    Questions for discussion
    1. Origin of Germanic languages.
    2. Old Germanic tribes and languages. Their classifications.
    3. Modern Germanic languages: their classification and common linguistic
    features.
    4. Proto-Germanic: origin, phonetic and morphological features.
    5. Phonetic peculiarities of Old Germanic languages.
    6. Basic morphological features of Old Germanic languages:
    a. Noun;
    b. Adjective;
    c. Verb.
    7. Vocabulary of Old Germanic languages.
    Assignments
    1. Explain the sound correspondence in the following parallels from Germanic
    and non-Germanic languages.
    • R десять — OE ffen, NE t en;
    • L tres — Gth Preis;
    • Fr deux — OE twa;
    • R болото — OHG pfuol, G Pfuhl;
    • L pater, R папа — NE father, G Vater, Sw fader.
    2. Explain the correlation of root-vowels in the following exam¬ples.
    • Gth quiPan; OE cwePan; OHG quedan — “to say, to speak”.
    • Gth hilpan; OE helpan; OHG helfan — “to help”.
    3. Define weak and strong verbs (using the form of past tense in brackets).
    • Gth satjan (satida) “сажать”;
    • Gth slahan (sloh) “бить”;
    • Gth niman (nam) “брать”;
    • Gth bindan (band) “связывать”;
    • Gth fiskon (fiskoda) “рыбачить”;
    • Gth qui’an (quab) “сказать”.
    4. Give several examples of n-stem nouns in Old Germanic lan¬guages.
    Test
    1. Which language out of these four does not belong to the Indo-European
    family?
    a) English
    b) Urdu
    c) Finnish
    d) Lithuanian
    2. Which phenomenon is shared by all Indo-European languages (including
    English)?
    a) Ablaut
    b) I-mutation
    c) Great Vowel shift
    d) Fixed stress
    3. English belongs to the .
    a) East Germanic branch
    b) West Germanic branch
    c) North Germanic branch
    d) South Germanic branch
    4. What is another name of the First Germanic Consonant Shift?
    a) Verner’s law
    b) Grimm’s law
    c) Common Germanic fracture
    d) Ingweon loss of consonants
    5. The linguistic ancestor of English as well as other Germanic languages is ...
    language.
    6. Which languages below are Germanic?
    a) Afrikaans
    b) Dutch
    c) Hindi
    d) Sweden
    e) Yiddish
    f) Latvian
    7. Which consonant correlation is not an illustration of the First Germanic
    Consonant Shift (IE-G)?
    a) p-f
    b) g-k
    c) k-g
    d) b-p
    8. The type of word stress in Old Germanic languages

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