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The Origins and Development of the English Language
Chapter 4: The Backgrounds of English
John Algeo and Thomas Pyles
Michael Cheng National Chengchi University
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Similarities between languages
English:
mom
miaow-miaow
me
pistachio
choose
glide
Welsh mam
Chinese mi-mi
Swahili mimi
Italian pistacchio
French choisir
Swedish glida
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One original language?
Some languages share many common featuresLanguage familyCognates – languages within a language familyNot a biological family – languages don’t get born and die at specific times, or separate creatures from their parents
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Models of languages
Family tree
Wave model
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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/226/472574816_7a659b8d85.jpghttp://www.answers.com/topic/wave-model
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English – fatherGerman – VaterDutch – vaderIcelandic – faðerNorwegian – fader
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The language spoken in England is related to the language spoken in India
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The language in the Bible is related to the language in the Rig Veda
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William Jones (September 28, 1746 – April 27, 1794)
Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Chinese
Knew 13 languages; familiar with 28
1768 Oxford
1773 law degree
1783 Supreme Court judge in Calcutta
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Indian culture was a new subject for European scholarship1786 – Sanskrit bore a resemblance to Greek, Latin, Gothic, Celtic, and possibly PersianSanskrit: pitar Greek: patēr Latin: paterSuggested a common root language that no longer exists
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Languages from Iceland to India are related to a common languageBased on the geographic locations of these languages, we now call the language that Jones hypothesized Proto Indo-European
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Jones’ philologer passage, 1786
His third annual discourse before the Asiatic Society on the history and culture of the Hindus (delivered on February 2, 1786 and published in 1788) with the famed "philologer" passage is often cited as the beginning of comparative linguistics and Indo-European studies. This is Jones' most quoted passage, establishing his tremendous find in the history of linguistics:
The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists; there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit; and the old Persian might be added to the same family.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(philologist)
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The Proto Indo-European people
Who were the people who spoke Proto Indo-European and where did they come from?
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PIE dispersion hypotheses
Kurgan Migration
Anatolian Farmer
Balkan
Black Sea Flood
Paleolithic Continuity Theory
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Kurgan Migration--Gimbutas
Cognates for:– Alder, apple, ash, beech, birch, elm, hazel,
linden, oak, willow, yew– Wolf, bear, lox
No common words for:– Olive, cypress, palm– Ocean
Suggests inland culture in temperate zone
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Kurgan Culture
Herded domesticated animals
Mobile – used wagons
Warrior nobility
Worshipped sky god associated with thunder
Sun, horse, boar, snake
Elaborate burials in mounds (kurgans)
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Zeus pater
Jupitar
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5000 BCE
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Kurgans 4000 BCE
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3000 BCE Anatolian
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Expansion 2000 BCE
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Evolution 500 BCE
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500 CE Huns invade from East
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Medieval 1500 CE Turks invade
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Indo-European languages today
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World Language families
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Official Indo-European languages today
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Armenian homeland
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Features of Proto Indo-European
Types of languages: Isolating, Agglutinative, InflectiveIsolating– Every morpheme forms a different word– Chinese
Agglutinative (Incorporative)– Combine grammatical morphemes with a lexical stem– Grammatical morphemes are discrete & don’t change– Strung onto the lexical stem– Swahili, Turkish
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Agglutinative example
SwahiliI will like you: nitakupenda– ni – ta – ku – penda– (I) (future) (2nd person object) (verb stem: like)
I liked you: nilakupenda– ni – la – ku – penda– (I) (past) (2nd person object) (verb stem: like)
I like him: nitampenda– ni – ta – m – penda– (I) (future) (him as object) (verb stem: like)
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Inflective languages
Inflective– Inseparable inflections are fused to the lexical
stem– Greek, Latin– I love: Amo– Am – o– (love) (first person, singular, present tense,
indicative)
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What kind of language is English?
says– inflective
unfriendliness– agglutinative
the, for, to, by, no– isolating
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PIE Morphology
Parts of speech– Nouns/Adjectives– Pronouns– Verbs– Prepositions
Nouns/Adjectives and Pronouns were inflected for Case, Number, and Gender
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Noun/Adj Infections: 8 cases
Nominative: They saw me. (subject)
Vocative: Officer, I need help. (person addressed)
Accusative: They saw me. (direct object)
Genitive: Shakespeare’s play. (possessor or source)
Dative: Give her a hand. (indirect object, recipient)
Ablative: He abstained from it. (what is separated)
Locative: We stayed home. (place, where)
Instrumental: She ate with chopsticks. (means, instrument)
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Germanic cases
Nominative: They saw me. (subject)
– Vocative: Officer, I need help. (person addressed)
Accusative: They saw me. (direct object)
Genitive: Shakespeare’s play. (possessor or source)
Dative: Give her a hand. (indirect object, recipient)• Ablative: He abstained from it. (what is separated)
• Locative: We stayed home. (place, where)
– Instrumental: She ate with chopsticks. (means, instrument)
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Noun/Adj Number and Gender
Number: singular, plural, dual
Gender: male, female, neuter
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Proto Indo-European Nouns
Singular
Nom.
Voc.
Acc.
Gen.
Dat.
Abl.
Loc.
Ins.
*ekwos
*ekwe
*ekwom
*ekwoso
*ekwōy
*ekwōd
*ekwoy
*ekwō
Plural
Nom/Voc
Acc.
Gen.
Dat./Abl.
Loc.
Ins.
*ekwōs
*ekwons
*ekwōm
*ekwobhyos
*ekwoysu
*ekwōys
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Pronouns
Cases (3)
Number (3)
Gender (3)
Person: first, second, third
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Verb Inflections
Person
Number
Aspect (kind of like tense): Completion, duration, repetition of action
Voice
Mood
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IE Verb Aspect
Present: continuing action in progressImperfect: continuing action in the pastAorist: momentary action in pastPerfect: completed actionPluperfect: completed action in the pastFuture: actions to come(Evolved into only present and past tense in Germanic languages)
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IE Voice
Active
Passive
Middle (reflexive)
Germanic lost the passive and middle voices and expressed these notions by phrases rather than inflections
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IE Mood
Indicative: statements or questions of fact
Imperative: expressing commands
Optative: expressive wishes
Subjunctive: expressing will
Injunctive: expressing unreality
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IE Mood evolution into Germanic
Indicative: statements or questions of fact– Imperative: expressing commands
Optative(Subjunctive): expressive wishes• Subjunctive: expressing will
• Injunctive: expressing unreality
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Proto Indo-European was an inflective language: Verb inflectionsEnglish Sanskrit Greek Latin I-EI bear
you bear
he bears
we bear
you bear
they bear
bharā-mi
bhara-si
bhara-ti
bharā-mas
bhara-tha
bhara-nti
pherōpherei-s
pherei
phero-mes
phere-te
phero-nti
ferōfer-s
fer-t
feri-mus
fer-tis
feru-nt
*bherō*bheresi
*bhereti
*bheromes
*bherete
*bheronti
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Word Order
Greenburg (Some Universals of Grammar)SVO languages:– verb + object: The workman made a horn.– noun + modifier: the size of the building– conjunction + noun: the Senate and the House– preposition + object: Harold fought with him.
SOV languages usually reverse these features
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Word Order
Most Indo-European languages are SVOProto Indo-European was SOVProto-Germanic had more SOV characteristics than modern GermanEnglish is evolving to being more SVO in characteristics– 10th century 84.4% of possessives before nouns– 14th century 15.6% of possessives before nouns– the building’s size vs. the size of the building
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PIE Phonology
Prosody: – Accent (stress) based on pitch differences– Free accent: could occur on different syllables
depending on the form of the word Germanic Prosody– Word stress based on loudness not pitch– Primary stress on root syllable– Weak stress on other syllables– Intermediate stress on secondary root or prefix
Later Germanic word stress became fixed on first syllable
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PIE Consonants
Stops, Fricative, Resonants, Laryngeal
Fricative [s]
Resonants [m, n, l, r, j, w]
Stops:
Bilabial Dental Velar Labiovelar
Voiceless p t k kw
Voiced b d g gw
Voiced Aspirated
bh dh gh ghw
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First Sound Shift – Grimm’s Law
In the first millennium BCE IE stops transformed into different stops in Germanic languages
Probably took several centuries to complete the change
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Voiced aspirated stops
Indo-Euro bh
bhrāter
dh
dhug(h)tēr
gh
ghosti
Latin f-/-b-
frāter
f-/-b- h-/-d-/-g-
hostis
Greek ph th
thugatēr
kh
Germanic b
brother
d
daughter
g
guest
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Voiceless stops
Indo-Euro p
pətēr
t
treyes
k
krn-
Latin p
pater
t
tres
k
cornu-
Greek p t k
Germanic f
father
θthree
h
horn
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Voiced stops
Indo-Euro b
treb/abel-
d
dwō/drew
g
genu-/gwen-
Latin b
trabs
d
duo
g
genu
b (Russian)
jabloko
d (Greek)
drūs (oak)
g (Greek)
gunē
Germanic p
thorp/apple
t
two/tree
k
knee/queen
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Exceptions
After s– spuo – spit– stella – star
After voiceless stop– octo – eahta– capto - hafta
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More Exceptions
PIE – pətēr
Latin – pater
Greek – patēr
English – father
Gothic – fadar [faðar]
Icelandic faðir
Old English – fæder [fæðer]
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Verner’s Law: Surrounded by voiced sounds after unstressed syllable
IE voiceless stops
Germanic Verner’s Law
Exception
p f β b
t θ ð d
k x/h γ g
s z r
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Examples of Verner’s Law
was – were
exert, exist vs. exercise, exigent
OE: leosan “to lose” vs. -loren “lost” (lovelorn)
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http://www.danshort.com/ie/iecentum.htm
http://www.danshort.com/ie/iesatem.htm
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Colin Renfrew’s tree
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Major Changes from PIE to Germanic
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West Germanic Languages