Title | Old English Declensions in Reference to Contemporary German Declensions |
Author | Miroslav Hradel |
Mentor(s) | Lidija Štrmelj (thesis advisor)
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Abstract | The starting point for the paper is the assumption that Old English and contemporary German share many grammatical similarities. English and German are historically closely related, which is reflected in the fact that both languages are classified into the West Germanic group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. The main aim of the paper is to find and describe the similarities and differences between these two languages, that is between the two phases in their respective historical development. A combination of the diachronic, comparative and contrastive methods is used to do so. The paper compares and contrasts pronouns, articles, nouns and adjectives, that is their properties that are typical of both Old English and contemporary German. The introductory chapter describes some of the phonological changes that are necessary for understanding the similarities and differences in pronunciation. It has been included in the paper based on the conclusion that there is a significant level of correlation between certain phonemes and the choice of inflectional suffixes in both languages. Due to the vast temporal gap between the two phases in the respective historical development of English and German, the paper ignores the influence of the Norman Conquest of 1066 on the historical development of the English language, except for the fact that it does attempt to describe which of the typically Germanic, or West Germanic, grammatical features it lacks in its contemporary form. |
Parallel title (Croatian) | Staroengleska sklonidba u odnosu na suvremenu njemačku sklonidbu |
Committee Members | Ivo Fabijanić (committee chairperson) Anita Pavić Pintarić (committee member) Lidija Štrmelj (committee member)
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Granter | University of Zadar |
Lower level organizational units | Department of English |
Place | Zadar |
State | Croatia |
Scientific field, discipline, subdiscipline | HUMANISTIC SCIENCES Philology Anglistics
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Study programme type | university |
Study level | undergraduate |
Study programme | English Language and Literature (double major) |
Academic title abbreviation | univ. bacc. philol. angl. |
Genre | undergraduate thesis |
Language | English |
Defense date | 2018-07-05 |
Parallel abstract (Croatian) | Ovaj rad polazi od pretpostavke da su staroengleski i suvremeni njemački jezik gramatički vrlo slični. Engleski i njemački jezik povijesno su usko povezani, što se očituje i u činjenici da ih se zajedno svrstava u zapadnu skupinu germanskih jezika unutar indoeuropske jezične porodice. Glavni je cilj ovoga rada uporabom kombinacije dijakronijske, komparativne i
kontrastivne metode pronaći i opisati sličnosti i razlike u padežnim sustavima tih dvaju jezika, odnosno tih dviju faza u povijesnome razvoju engleskoga i njemačkoga jezika. U sklopu rada uspoređuju se zamjenice, članovi, imenice i pridjevi, to jest njihova svojstva koja su tipična za staroengleski i suvremeni njemački jezik. Uvodno poglavlje opisuje fonološke promjene koje su neophodne za razumijevanje sličnosti i razlika u izgovoru, a uklopljeno je u rad na temelju zaključka da u uspoređenim fazama razvoja engleskoga i njemačkoga jezika postoji značajna korelacija između pojedinih fonema i odabira padežnih sufikasa. Zbog značajnoga vremenskoga razmaka između uspoređivanih varijanata dotičnih jezika rad se ne bavi utjecajem normanskoga osvajanja Engleske u Bitci kod Hastingsa 1066. godine na povijesni razvoj engleskoga jezika, osim što nastoji opisati koja tipično germanska odnosno zapadnogermanska gramatička svojstva nisu vidljiva u njegovu sadašnjem obliku. |
Parallel keywords (Croatian) | Old English language English language German language Germanic languages historical linguistics grammar declension comparison staroengleski jezik engleski jezik njemački jezik germanski jezici povijest jezika gramatika sklonidba usporedba |
Resource type | text |
Access condition | Open access |
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URN:NBN | https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:162:269161 |