ENGL 2105 Lecture Notes - Reborrowing, Geoffrey Chaucer, Yogh
26 Feb 2014
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Past tense allomorph: /d/ sound add an ed to form past tense/ add dental suffix to help with weak words. Old english riddle about one eyed garlic seller. Orthography (writing/spelling), phonology (sound) *written down vs pronounced* Semantics (how meaning changes), lexicon (vocab) *go back to origins* Board now refers to any flat wooden surface. Can"t use pronouns as ex of lexical continuity. When start talking about form, talking of morphology. French speaking noblemen most important event of the english language. When vikings came to eng, also went to normandy. Spoke old norse in eng, began to speak eng, spoke french in france. Friends from childhood argued they were promised throne. William moved capital from winchester (west saxon dialect) to london (kendish dialect area) Throughout olde, literate people (in church) were all replaced by french speakers. French latin and all important in eng at this time.
