ENGL 2105 Lecture Notes - Great Vowel Shift, Velar Nasal, Old Norse
26 Feb 2014
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Pick kinds of evidence you would like to discuss. List of 20 features of earlier form of eng. Pick is old e, mod e, all of the above. Don"t really need the evidenve b/c if about word order, know talking about syntax. Use evidence where useful for you, but can rely on own knowledge. Where do borrowings come from external history of language. Olde old norse borrowings, middle french, eme latin/greek->inkhorn terms means too geeky/unnecessary. Interdental fricatives=allophones of same phoneme. became separate phonemes. Think of context of sounds, ex ja=palatization, f and v sounds, in old e, pretty predictive when these would happen. Some feats early orthography, long s stayed same. Runic letters in old e, replaced by digraphs by normans after 1066. Thorn squashed into y shape but sticks around. Semantic change on case by case basis. talking about change of meaning. Morphology/syntax. olde is heavily inflected form of the language.
