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1. This document outlines some of the major linguistic changes that occurred in English during the Early Modern English period from 1509-1788. It discusses changes in pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and the sociocultural contexts that influenced the development of the English language during this time. 2. Key events mentioned include the King James Bible being published in 1611, the establishment of the first English colonies like Jamestown in 1607, and Samuel Johnson publishing the first English dictionary in 1755. The document also describes sound changes like the Great Vowel Shift and the loss of certain consonants. 3. Vocabulary expansion occurred due to contact with other languages and cultures through colonialism, trade, and scholarship
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Préstamos a la lengua de base anglosajona, procedentes de otras lenguas, hasta conformar la lengua que hoy en día conocemos como inglés. Estos préstamos se instalaron e influyeron en la creación del inglés. en función de la importancia que tuviera la cultura de la que provenían. Estos préstamos son de origen: celta, escandinavo, griego, del latín y por supuesto del francés. En un fenómeno que no deja de estar vivo, encontramos influencias, del americano, del japonés,del árabe, lenguas asiáticas...
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2. French (the language of the Norman conquerors) — over 3500 words (government, army, battle, etc.). Though the number of the French words is greater, all the Scandinavian words — common, colloquial, everyday, indispensable — entered the very core of the language, and their influence is very great. The French words are generally terms indispensable only in certain official spheres, but not colloquial.
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1) English originated from Old English spoken by Germanic tribes who invaded Britain in the 5th century and displaced the native Celtic languages.
2) Over centuries, English evolved and was influenced by other languages like Norse and French, undergoing sound changes and losing inflectional endings.
3) By the 15th century, a standardized form of English began emerging and gained prominence through Geoffrey Chaucer's works and the clerks of the Chancery court in London. This helped establish Early Modern English.
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2) Middle English lasted from 1100-1500 and saw influence from Old Norse and Norman French after the conquest. Chaucer's works exemplified Middle English.
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- 1. 1 LING 2301 Early Modern English (p. 135). 1509 Henry VIII 1534 Act of Supremacy (Henry’s succession from the Catholic Church and influence of Latin) 1536 Monasteries dissolved and England becomes a Protestant country Statutes incorporates all of Wales with England 1539 English translation of the Bible in every church 1574 First company of Actors and the building of theatres (time period of William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616) 1584 Colonist at Roanoke 1600 English E. India Co. Formed
- 2. 2 LING 2301 Early Modern English (p. 135). 1603 James I in Power 1607 Colony planted by London Co. at Jamestown 1611 King James Bible published "To provide a politically more acceptable alternative to the Geneva Bible and to shore up the position of the king, while at the same time criticizing the clergy and casting aspersions on 'Popish persons'." Later became "the Authorized Version" used overwhelmingly in Britain until 1960's 1616 John Bullokar publishes An English Exposition (English dictionary) 1640 approximately 20,000 book titles available in English 1755 Samuel Johnson publishes a 2 volume set comprising of 2300 pages and 40,000 entries A Dictionary of the English Language (The original purpose was “to 'fix' the language and establish a standard for the use of words and their spellings”) 1775-1783 American war of Independence 1788 Penal Colonies established in Australia
- 3. 3 LING 2301 EME Change in Consonants: Loss of /l/ after low back vowels and before labial or velar consonants almond, folk, palm but not after other vowels film, hulk… Loss of /t/ or /d/ in consonant clusters with /s/ castle, hasten, handsome, landscape loss of initial /k/ and /g/ before /n/ knock,knee, knight, gnome,… Loss of /w/ before /r/ wreak, wrong … Loss of /r/ before /s/ ME bares bass (a type of fish) In 18th century /r/ was lost in standard English before a consonant and word finally.
- 4. 4 LING 2301 EME Changes in Vowels: Unstressed vowels were reduced to [ɪ] or [ə] in ME and continued in EME The Great Vowel Shift http://facweb.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/seehear.htm http://facweb.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/what.htm http://courses.fas.harvard.edu/%7Echaucer/vowels.html (see other ppt and handout on language change Clark Language… p 250, 337
- 5. 5 LING 2301 EME Pronouns: Main Significant change in Early Modern English was the shift to using you for 2nd person over other choices of 2nd person pronouns
- 6. 6 LING 2301 EME Verbs: 100+ of around 300 previously strong verbs {those irregular forms like ride/rode/(has) ridden or sink/sank/(has) sunk} have been made weak {jump/jumped}. For Example: help, brew, climb, bide (from bide/bided instead of bode/bided/bidden), crow, flay, mow (mow mowed mowed/mown), dread, wade verbs that are still irregular (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_irregular_verbs)
- 7. 7 LING 2301 EME Nouns: Possessives based on a contraction of the possessive pronoun (e.g. his) The King his crown the King's crown But was attached to the head noun as in "The King's Crown of England" (maybe would have been like The King his Majesty of England) Rather than our modern day "The King of England's crown".
- 8. 8 LING 2301 EME Vocabulary: Due to increased communication and the expansion and new experience due to colonialism English speakers were coming into contact with ideas and phenomena that they had not encountered before. The vocabulary had to adjust to this. Many new words (in many cases illustrated by the vocabulary of Shakespeare) are coming into the lexicon. agile, critical, demonstrate, emphasis, horrid, impertinency, modest, prodigious, accommodation, apostrophe, assassination, dexterously, frugal, obscene, pedant, premeditated, reliance, vast… Other words at this time coming in via the Renaissance: Ambuscade, armada, barricade, bastinado, cavalier, mutiny, palisade, pell-mell, renegade…
- 9. 9 LING 2301 Latin and Greek (the Renaissance) Again Latin and Greek were seen as scholarly languages – as the crusaders started to learn about the science of the Arabs who had translated many of the works from Latin and Greek. Many modern languages were being advocated as a medium of learning. While English eventually became accepted by the academe many of the Science and Literary authors such as Sir Francis Bacon, John Milton, and Sir Isaac Newton wrote their major works in Latin. Eventually the use of Latin declined, but the vocabulary was brought into English to "fill the gaps" Some words were borrowed from Greek via Latin or French: anachronism, climax, pathetic, system, & antithesis