English Morphology
- Arts
- 200 level
- 3 credit units
- 298 pages
- 32 units
What you'll read
The real module and unit structure of ENG226, taken from the course material NOUN publishes.
Module 1
- UNIT 1 ENGLISH LANGUAGE: THE ROOTS; THE LANGUAGE SITUATION IN ENGLAND BEFORE ENGLISH; THE ROMAN CONQUEST
- UNIT 2 ANGLO-SAXON CONQUEST; THE ORIGIN AND STATUS OF OLD ENGLISH; SOME FEATURES OF THE OLD ENGLISH
- UNIT 3 INFLUENCES ON THE OLD ENGLISH: RELIGION, THE DANISH INVASION AND THE AGE OF THE VIKINGS
- UNIT 4 MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD: THE NORMAN CONQUEST (1066-1200); THE ASCENDANCY OF FRENCH; THE FUSION OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH; RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF ENGLISH
- UNIT 5 ENGLISH AND FRENCH IN THE 13TH CENTURY; THE DECLINE OF FRENCH; THE RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS; GENERAL ADOPTION OF ENGLISH
- UNIT 1 DEFINITION AND NATURE OF MORPHOLOGY
- UNIT 2 TYPES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF MORPHEMES
- UNIT 3 MORPHEMES AND OTHER GRAMMATICAL UNITS
- UNIT 4 MORPHEME AND WORD
- UNIT 5 MORPHEME AND LEXIS, VOCABULARY AND LEXEME
Module 2
- UNIT 1: SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF MIDDLE ENGLISH: GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY, SPELLING AND SPEECH SOUNDS
- UNIT 2 THE RISE OF STANDARD ENGLISH; THE SPREAD OF THE LONDON DIALECT
- UNIT 3 EARLY MODERN PERIODS (1500-1750): SOME CHARACTERISTICS; THE RENAISSANCE ENGLISH; CHANGES IN GRAMMAR
- UNIT 4 THE PROBLEM OF SPELLING; THE INKHORN CONTROVERSY; FUTHER ENRICHMENT OF VOCABULARY
- UNIT 5 THE EMERGENCE OF DICTIONARIES; SHAKESPEARE AND THE WORLD OF WORDS; THE KING JAMES BIBLE
- UNIT 1 MORPHOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTS
- UNIT 2 MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX
- UNIT 3: THE QUESTION OF WORD AND LEXICAL MEANING
- UNIT 4 CLASSIFYING ENGLISH LEXIS INTO TYPES
- UNIT 5 MORPHOLOGICAL PARSING AND THE LEXICON
Module 3
- UNIT 1 CHANGES IN PRONUNCIATION; THE GREAT VOWEL SHIFT; SOME FEATURES OF GRAMMAR
- UNIT 2 THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE 18TH CENTURY: AN ENGLISH ACADEMY AND JOHNSON’S DICTIONARY
- UNIT 3 THE 18TH CENTURY GRAMMARIANS; THE RISE OF PRESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR
- UNIT 4 ENGLISH SINCE 1900
- UNIT 5 SOURCES OF NEW WORDS; THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY; SPELLING REFORM; FUNCTIONAL VARIETIES OF ENGLISH
- UNIT 1 CLIPPING, AFFIXATION, BORROWING, BLENDING AND STRESS SHIFT
- UNIT 2 CONVERSION, COMPOUNDING, BACK FORMATION, REDUPLICATION, NOMINALIZATION, ACRONYM AND COINAGE
One paragraph, so you can see how it reads
ENG226 · UNIT 2 ANGLO-SAXON CONQUEST; THE ORIGIN AND STATUS OF OLD ENGLISH; SOME FEATURES OF THE OLD ENGLISH
On frymthe waes Word, and thaet Word waes mid Gode and God waes thaet Word. That waes on fruman mid Gode. Ealle thing waeron geworhte thurh hyre; and nan thing naes geworht butan him.
Questions students ask about this course
How many units does ENG226 have?
ENG226, English Morphology, has 32 units across 4 modules, over 298 pages of course material. You can read it one unit at a time.
How many credit units is ENG226?
ENG226 carries 3 credit units, at 200 level in Arts.