ENGL 2105 Lecture Notes - Great Vowel Shift, Semantic Change, Musicology
26 Feb 2014
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Song that may be monolingual speakers of english who could not write down english. Some educated person interested in writing down the melody also wrote down music. The word to blow used to mean to bloom (lexical discount) From nu to now cu to cow /u/ to /au/ Sed to seed or med to mead ye to ye /e/ to /i/ Vowels tend to shift up in terms of phonology. What aspects of this short, simple passage continue into emode th=third person, singular subject. Should know what dates text is from mode, eme olde. More books circulating in this period because of printing press. More people can write, more evidence survived b/c more texts. Caxton had to pick what form of eng to use for press. Borrowed from greek and latin to describe renaissance. Printed english fossilizes great vowel shift while still in progress. No one was sure what norm should be in printed text.
