ACCT 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Modern English, English Language In England, Supermarine S.4

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• Course: ACCT 002
• Professor: Chaojibai

Document Summary

William the conqueror (duke of nornany) defeats king harold. Normans in total control of the country. Norman-french dialect developed in england into anglo-norman. French: language of the governing classes in. Gap of 100-150 years in the written text corpora for english. Changes in vocabulary: loss of a large part of oe word stock, addition of thousands of words from french & Changes in spelling conventions: influence of french spelling rules. Beginnings of the great vowel shift loss of unaccented inflectional endings. Changes in grammar: from a highly inflected language to an extremely analytic one. 1100: the language looks like a foreign language to modern native speaker of english. 1500: the language looks like present day english. Loss of a large part of the oe word stock; often impossible to tell whether a word is of. Earlier stage: borrowing for need (much less numerous, ca. Upper classes accustomed to speak french were switching to english, using common french words.