English Language 2B

This document covers the English Language 2B course "Early Modern English", which covers the context of the period, borrowing, inkhorn terms, politeness, semantic change, spelling, orthographic features, pronunciation, the Great Vowel Shift, grammar and syntax.

This document covers the English Language 2B course "Phonetics", which covers intonation and pitch, how to analyse intonation, rhythm, whether speech has rhythm, isochrony and voice quality.

This document covers the English Language 2B course "Names", which covers personal names in Scotland and England, the sources of first names and surnames, types of surnames, place name histories, types and sources of place names, languages of place names and Old English words for 'hill' (with descriptive pictures!).

This document covers the English Language 2B course "Modern English Grammar", which covers the morphology of nouns, structure of Noun Phrases, pre- and post-modification of nouns, verb inflectional morphology, verb classification and verb phrase structure.

This document covers the English Language 2B course "Linguistic Anthropology", which covers the basics of analysing communicative events, participant observation, ethnographic methods and code-switching.