LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Early Modern English, Psalm 23, Feral Child
14 Sep 2015
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23rd psalm: old english (449 1100) Drihten me ract, ne byth me nanes godes wan. And he me geset on swythe good feoland. And fedde me be waetera stathum: middle english (1100 1500) Our lord gouerneth me, and nothing shal defailen to me. In the sted of pastur he sett me ther. He norissed me upon water of fyllyng: early modern english (1500 1710) The lord is my shepherd, i shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadth me beside the still waters: modern english. The lord is my shepherd, i lack nothing. He lets me lie down in green pastures. Beauty/cute/fume yod: americans more likely to drop yod, british tend to keep it. Suppletion (unrelated forms combining in to one - mongrel verbs; ie. go - went: beon: to become, wesan: to dwell, es- : to exist (er - : to arise?)
