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“THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE”
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Language Human faculty
-Creative expression-Face to face communication-Scientific inquiry--Many other purposes
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The origins and history of English
Its origin
History
English can be defined through
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History
Celtic Languages
influence
-Irish English-
Scotish English
Roman
Empire
Latin
Words such as
wall, kitchen, wine, mile and
street were
borrowed
from Latin into
Germanic and throuh Germanic into English
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English officially starts when the Germanic tribes and their languages reach the British Isles
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Even though it is a Germanic language, English has adopted a large number of words from other languages.Borrowings Euphemisms
Half of vocabularycomes from French and Latin
Make things better than they are.Ex. Filing a property irregularity report means having to tell an airline that it lost your bags.
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Modern English compared to earlier English and other languages
Old English Modern English
Has 13 to 14 vowels
At least 25 consonants
English syllable structure
is complex –> many
consonants together
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To make sense, sounds need to be combined into words and words into sentences
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Language
One of
the
majo
r
funct
ions o
f lan
guage
is to
indica
te w
ho
does t
hat to
whom
.
Languages differ in
how they mark these
functions through
endings of the verbs
and nouns or through
word order and
grammatical words
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One of the major changes that occurred between
Old and Modern English is the change from
synthetic to analytic
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SociolinguisticsSociolinguistics
The branch of linguistics that is particularly interested in varieties
region Social class Register or level of formality
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External and Internal change
External changes
•Are brought about by language contact, or innovations by speakers, or issues of political or social identity
Internal changes
•Occur when, for instance, speakers stop using endings and start to rely on words such as of, for, the and have.
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Periods of English