§. Germanic Linguistics:
- Indo-European linguistic heritage, innovations, distinctive features and development of the Germanic languages from the beginnings to the Pre-Modern era (First Germanic Sound Shift – First Grimm’s Law, Verner’s Law, strong stress on the first syllable of the word, vowel qualities, umlaut, the change of /z/ > /r/, alternation between fricatives, High German Consonant Shift – Second Grimm’s Law, strong and weak verbs, strong and weak nouns, adjectives declension).
- Contacts and linguistic interferences of Germanic languages in ancient times and Middle Ages (loanwords and calques from Latin and Celtic language to old Germanic languages, loanwords from French and Old Norse to Middle English, etc.)
- Detailed study on the beginnings of English and German language (first written witnesses, translations in English and German language, peculiar feature of the initial stage of English and German language)
§. Cultural and historical heritage of the Germanic peoples. Germanic peoples from prehistory to nowadays. Historical, epigraphic, literary and linguistic sources; culture, law, religion and mythology of Germanic peoples before and after the contact with the Latin Christian culture.
Early written witnesses, translations, beginnigs of the Germanic languages literatures (Gothic, Old English, Old High German, Old Saxon, Old Norse).
*SINGLE-SUBJECT COURSE* (2CFU)
-Old Norse Saga
