GEOLOGY 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Early Modern English, Modern English, Mutual Intelligibility
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Historical linguistics: study of change in individual language and language in general. History of english: socio-cultural history of english, its speakers and speech communities; linguistic development. Diachronic: through time ; study of changes in languages over time. Synchronic: with time ; study of language at a particular moment in time (usually refers to contemporary states) Early modern english emode: 450 1100, 1100 1500, 1500 1750. Linguistic (internal): major changes to lexicon, morphology, phonology, typological shifts: synthetic analytic. Germanic invasion (c. 450: angles, saxons, jutes brought mutually intelligible dialects. Viking invasions (c. 800: old norse: they, sky, ugly, place names ending in -by, -thorpe, -wick. Synthetic morphosyntax, i. e. rich case system, inflectional morphology, flexible word order. Dialectal variation (northumbria, west saxon, mercian, kent) After norman invasion: (norman) french language of aristocracy. Example: geoffrey chaucer canterbury tales (c. 1400) Morphosyntactic changes (started in late oe) continue at astonishing rate. Almost entire loss of inflections (synthetic analytic)
