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Mapa Mental por poeticjustice, actualizado hace más de 1 año
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" Alarm over the Decay of English" &
"Surprises in the Ancestry of Old English"
- In English we think of it as very natural to
say "Do you walk?", however if we were to
learn any other language we would have
to unlearn the do, as they say "walk you?
- Earlier forms of English used "walk
you?" or the negative "you walk
not?"... Modern English uses the
delexical do
- Earlier forms of English used "walk
you?" or the negative "you walk
not?"... Modern English uses the
delexical do
- Many things in English arose illogically.
- For example, In Old English there was a time when the
2nd person singular subject pronoun was 'Thou' and the
plural was 'you'. Now singular 'you' seems fine to us.
- For example, In Old English there was a time when the
2nd person singular subject pronoun was 'Thou' and the
plural was 'you'. Now singular 'you' seems fine to us.
- Modern English is a product of
change
- Descriptivists - Describe language
- Prescriptivist- prescribe language
- Prescriptivist- prescribe language
- Old English- The first recorded form of English, known
from the 5th Cen A.D and spoken until the end of the
11th Century; the language of Beowulf
- Also known as Anglo-Saxon, it was named after
the largest two groups among those traditionally
thought to have migrated across the North sea to
Britain after the retreat of the Romans.
- Also known as Anglo-Saxon, it was named after
the largest two groups among those traditionally
thought to have migrated across the North sea to
Britain after the retreat of the Romans.
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