EN372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Caesura, Social Class, Literal And Figurative Language
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Stones of stenness, skara brae, broch of mousa. Roman invasion of britain in 55 ad, the saxons, jutes, angles (and some other tribes) are invading england approx. 300ad-700ad, the last roman leaves britain 410ad, old english is fully-formed as a language 700 ad, alfred the great rules wessex, and then england 871-899. Ad, and the end of old english 1100 ad (normal conquest 1600) Anglo-saxon sources: traditional end of roman britain 400ad, gildas writes on the ruin and conquest of britain 540 . Changeover time- what we understand today may be different. Represents so many different aspects of the globe. 2-7. one of the most important changes from old english is the change from synthetic to an analytic language (inflected and affixes). Analytical (modern) word order and function are primary indicators of grammatical meaning. Of the dog (analytical) vs the dog"s (inflected) Old is inflected and new focuses on words. Ending of words change as opposed to order.
