language history
DESCRIPTION
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• The sourse of modern languages in the:
PROTOThe original form of the language
1)•Indi
an Subcontinent
2) •Europe
“PROTO INDO-EUROPEAN”
LANGUAGE HISTORY
THE GREAT GRAND MOTHER
“INDO-EUROPEAN BRANCHES OF THE LANGUGE TREE”
LANGUAGES HAVE A COMMON ANCESTOR
PROTO INDO.EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
Are related
“COGNATES”
ENGLISHMotherFather
GERMANMutterVater
“COMMON FEATURES”(recrds of another
generations)
SANSKRITPitar
Bhratar
LATINPaterFrater
“COGNATES”
Comparative reconstruction
Cheval(french)
Caballo(spanish)
Cavallo
(italian)
[K]
[s]
The original sound
The majority principle
The most natural
development principle
1)Final vowels often disapear
eg:
2) Unvoiced consonants
become voiced between vowels
eg:
3) Stops become fricatives eg:
• Mube• Mupe *(stream)
• mup• Abadi: b=voiced• Apati : p=unvoiced
• Apat : p=unvoiced
The original sound
•Cantare [k]-stop •Cantar [k] =original sound *(sing)•Chanter[s]=fricative
*(horse)
*(rock)
ENGLISH LANGUAGE HISTORY
OLD ENGLISH7th century to the end of the 11th century
Primary sources: Germanic
language spoken by:
Anglo saxons and Jutes
Basic terms in our
language as:
-mann (man)-wif
(woman)-child (child)
Were converted christinity
LATIN VIKINGS
Old norse
Basics terms in our language
as: -give-low-leg-sky
MIDDLE ENGLISH
FROM 1100 TO 1500
New words:army,court,
tax,Prison,faith, defense
Norman Conquest
1066
French, the language for the upper classes
for 200 years
Anglo Norman Culture
Modern English1500
MODERN ENGLISH1500 to present
Internal changes within the historical devolpment of England.
Vowel sounds have
undergone
Disappeared sounds
Metathesis
Epenthesis
Prothesis
Syntactic change
Lexical changes
•Old English: /hu:s/
•Modern English: /haus/
*/u://au/
•Old English: night [nixt]
•Modern english: Night [nait]
*[x]-> has disappeared
•Old English:Frist
•Modern English:First
•Old English:Aemtig
•Modern englishEmpty
•Old English:
Schola
•Modern english:
Escuela
•Old English / Modern EnglishFrde he / he traveled
Verbo sujeto sujeto verbo
Breadening
narrowing
•O.E / M.EHoly day-> Holiday
• O.E / M.E Hund-> hound
“The process of change”
Social changes
-wars-invations
Depends on the historical
context
Transmitted from
generation to generation
Cultural transmissio
n
LANGUAGE
VARIATION IN LAGNUAGE
Diachronically
Synchronicaly
•Historical perspective of change through time.
•Differences within one language in different places and different groups at the same time.
WAYS OF STUDYING LANGUAGE VARIATION