Main Periods of English
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- Main Periods of English
- Middle English (1100-1450)
- Chaucer!
- 1066 invasion
- linguistic class divide (French = upper class)
- French words in law + medicine
- 14th century = English dominant again
- Early Modern English (1450-1700)
- initially no standardisation
- linguistic chaos + inkhorn terms
- Caxton, 1476, printing press
- standardisation
- East Midlands + London dialects impacted standardisation
- Great Vowel Shift
- 18th century English (1700-1800)
- grammar books + dictionaries
- prescriptivism
- colonisation
- English as a Lingua Franca
- Modern English (1800-Present)
- increased informalisation
- descriptivism
- growth of technology
- rise of global variants
- Old English (450-1100)
- influenced by Anglo Saxon
- possibly influenced by Celtic language
- Norse settlers arrived from the 9th century
- Middle English (1100-1450)
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