Language Change overtime Edexcel
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- Created on: 06-08-19 15:07
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- Language Change Overtime
- Grammar
- 2nd p. singular pronoun
- you -> today
- thee, thou, thy, thine -> 1400-1700 EME
- 2nd p. plural pronoun
- you (p) today
- ye -> 1400-1700 EME
- ALSO: formal sing. 'you'
- 2nd p. singular
- present tense inflection
- EST
- present tense inflection
- 3rd p sing.
- present tense inflection
- ETH
- present tense inflection
- 2nd p. singular pronoun
- Orthography
- y/i
- varied with dictionaries
- u/v
- v @start of words
- u elswhere
- interchangable
- j/i
- j was an extended form of i
- e.g. Iesus instead of Jesus
- s/?
- 's' @ beginning/end
- ? in medial position of words or verbs and sometimes nouns
- silent 'e'
- to mark a long vowel in preceding syllable
- due to line justification
- y/i
- Orthographic change (ME)
- Loss of ?
- standardised spelling rules
- dictionaries
- schooling
- Loss of final e
- reason: confusion RE pronunciation
- Punctuation
- Pre 1700
- uppercase letters
- Pre 1500
- / is a virule = . or ,
- Post 1500
- .=,
- ;:""= ME period
- M.E.
- Greek based suffixes
- IZE
- ISM
- . restricted to end of sentence
- ; began to be used as well as :
- "" for direct speech
- Capital letters: start of sentences; proper nouns; important nouns
- Commas: link extended clauses; full stops relaced by ,
- Apostrophes: possession; missing letters
- Contraction of words
- Greek based suffixes
- Pre 1700
- Negation
- auxiliary operator 'do' was not used
- OLD: I know not
- MODERN: I DO not know
- WHY: Grammar books= standardised rules
- auxiliary operator 'do' was not used
- Views / Theories
- Damp spoon syndrome
- language deteriorates with human laziness
- Crumbling castle view
- Language was once perfect but if it is not taken care of it deteriorates
- infectious
- social contact spreads new usage
- Prescriptivists
- language should have a set of rules and not be deviated from
- Descriptivist
- Looks at how/why language changes and believe this to be the natural course
- Determinism
- human thought is only possible through language
- we can only think things we have the language to articulate
- BUT Doesn't explain how new words/ changes occur
- we can only think things we have the language to articulate
- human thought is only possible through language
- Damp spoon syndrome
- Grammar
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