Anthropology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Apocope, Sound Change, Language Change
5 Apr 2015
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Language change: all living languages are changing, change does not mean degeneration or decay, areas of language change, sounds, morphology, syntax, semantics. Types of change: synchronic: change in different places or in different populations, describes language at a given point in time, diachronic: change within a language over time. Proto indo-european > germanic >english, frisian, german, flemish, Dutch : models representing relations among languages, family tree, wave. 3 major periods: old english: 450-1100, middle english: 1100-1500, modern english: 1500-present. We of the spear-danes in days of yore. Of those folk-kings the glory have heard, hu a elingas ellen fremedon. How those noblemen brave-things did: oft scyld scefing scea ena reatum, Often scyld, son of scef, from enemy hosts. Early modern eng. stanas [a] nama [a] stones [ name : weakening, degemination (tt>t): stones [ ] name [ ] Italian: giovane [d ] (young: insertion (epenthesis) Mptig (empty: modern english: [ words like: new, due.
