11.languageChange.ppt

Review Questions;?lfred kyning hatee gretan W?rfere biscep his wordum luflice ond freondlice ondee cyean hate, e?t me com swiee oft on gemynd, hwelce wiotan iu w?ron giond Angelcynn ?geer ge godcundra hada ge woruldcundra, ond hu ges?lilica tida ea w?ron giond Angelcynn. Historical Linguistics, by Herbert Schendl;Excerpt from “Canterbury Tales”;Language Change;TEM8 Sample Test ;Three periods of the English Language;Beowulf , written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century.;Geoffrey Chaucer (born 1340/44, died 1400) is remembered as the author of The Canterbury Tales, which ranks as one of the greatest epic works of world literature. Chaucer made a crucial contribution to English literature in using English at a time when much court poetry was still written in Anglo-Norman or Latin. ;William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a playwright in England. ;All languages change with time;Sound Change;It is possible to see a regular pattern of pronunciation change throughout the history of the English language;Morphological and syntactic change;Addition of affixes;Loss of affixes;Change of word order;Change in negation rule;Addition of new words;Addition of new words;Blending;Addition of new words;;Borrowing ;Loss of words;Semantic changes;Changes in the word meaning;Moving towards greater informality;The influence of American English;The influence of science and technology;Some recent trends ;The causes of Language Change;Social and scientific development;Influence of major social events ;Generation difference;Summary ;Key points;Homework ;What kind of words are these?