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History of the English
Language
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Overview: Three Periods of
Linguistic Development
• Old English: circa 450 -1150
• Middle English: circa 1150 – 1500
• Modern English: 1500 - present
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Romano Britain
Old English
Middle English
Modern English
U.S.
43 174 305 436 567 698 829 960 1091 1222 1353 1484 1615 1746 1877 2008
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Indigenous Peoples
• 6500 BCE: the English channel forms around
this time, separating what is now Britain from the
Eurasian landmass.
• Initially, hunter-gatherers. Agricultural cultures
arise around 4,000 BCE.
• The Henge monuments built sometime between
4000 and 1500 BCE. Stonehenge has become
the best known of these and the circle still
stands on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire.
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Indigenous Peoples
• Circa 2000 BCE: the Bell Beaker people arrive and either invade or coexist with native Neolithic peoples. The Bell Beaker people are named for their pottery, which consists of bronze, beaker-shaped vessels
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Indigenous Peoples
• Circa 800 BCE: A culture arises that is called
―Celtic‖ by virtue of linguistic association with
Western and Central European peoples of
the time. Contact between those people
described as Celts and the inhabitants of
Britain through trade, immigration and inter-
marriage led to the spread of a Celtic
language into Britain. These immigrants are
thought to have named Britain ―Albion.‖
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Romano Britain
• 55-54 BCE: Julius Caesar invades.
Caesar takes12,000 infantry and 2,000
cavalry. The invasion is unsuccessful due
to weather.
• Cassivelaunnus (king of the Catuvellanni)
remained undefeated and Caesar found
an honorable way out by exacting tribute,
a face-saving deal (for Caesar).
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Romano Britain
• 43 CE- 409: Claudius invades with around 50,000 troops and conquers all of the Britain up to the Scottish border—where the Picts and others (especially the Caledonians) resist.
• Establishment of settlements around a permanent wooden bridge across the Thames. The Romans call the settlement on the northern side of the bridge ―Londinium.‖
• Over the next 400 years, most of the kingdoms south of Scotland merge culturally (but not linguistically) with the Romans and become Roman culturally as well as legally.
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Romano Britain
• 78-142 CE: Roman conquests in the north
begin under Agricola; results north of the
Clyde-Forth line were not decisive.
• Emperor Hadrian completes the conquest
of Britain in person and constructs
Hadrian's Wall (C.E. 123) from Solway
Firth to the Tyne mouth.
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Hadrian’s Wall,
built in 123
C.E.
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Roman baths at Bath, England
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The Anglo-Saxon Invasions
• 367: Anglo-Saxons (from northern
Germany and the Scandinavian
Peninsula), Picts (Scotland), and Gaelic
Dal Riata (from Ireland) begin harassing
Roman fortresses.
• Inland peasant population, which supplies
the cities with food, doesn’t much care
who is in charge.
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Anglo-Saxon
Invasions,
circa 370-400
C.E.
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The Anglo-Saxon Invasions
• 410: Roman Emperor Honorius refuses an
appeal from Britain for help because he is
too busy fighting off the Goths. British King
Vortigern makes a deal with Saxon
leaders Hengest and Horsa (brothers),
offering them a patch of land on the island
of Thanet, if they’ll help beat back the
Picts and Dal Riata. He then reneges.
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Anglo-Saxon Britain
• Circa 615: the Angles and Jutes reach the
Irish channel, having subjugated the
Eastern and Southern parts of the island
entirely.
• Many ―Celts‖ concentrate in the west,
southwest, and Wales.
• Roman infrastructure falls into disrepair.
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Anglo-Saxon Britain
• An Anglo-Saxon ―Heptarchy‖ emerges,
consisting of seven ―kinglets‖:
Essex, Wessex, Sussex are
Saxon
East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria
(Angles)
Kent (Jutes)
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Anglo-Saxon Britain• 560-616: The supremacy of Ethelbert of
Kent in the Heptarchy.
– Kent converts to Christianity: Queen Bertha, Ethelbert’s wife, was a Frankish Christian.
– Pope Gregory sends Augustine to build her a chapel at Canterbury, where Augustine becomes the first Archbishop
– Pope Gregory refers to Ethelbert as Rex Anglorum.
– Latin orthography adopted because of the Catholic influence; it replaces the runic fuþorc alphabet.
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Old English, 450-1150 C.E.
• English belongs to Low West German
branch of the Indo-European family.
• A synthetic language because word
endings change to indicate grammatical
function. (Modern English, by contrast, is
analytic because word order indicates
grammatical function.)
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Old English, 450-1150 C.E.
The Noun has four
cases, and nouns are
strong if their Germanic
stem ends in a
consonant and are
inflected with vowels; or
weak if their stem ends
in a vowel and is
inflected with a
consonant.
Case Strong (vowel declension)
Sing Nominative Stān
Genitive Stān-es
Dative Stān-e
Accusative Stān
Plu Nominative Stān-as
Genitive Stān-a
Dative Stān-um
Accusative Stān-as
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Old English, 450-1150 C.E.
• The Verb:
– Two simple tenses: past and present and
except for one word, no inflected forms for
the passive. Has indicative, imperative, and
subjunctive moods.
– Has strong (irregular) and weak (regular)
verbs.
• Strong show tense through changing root: sing,
sang, sung.
• Weak show tense through addition of suffix:
walk, walked, walked.
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Old English, 450-1150 C.E.
Orthography
• æ—the ash (æsc), which represents the vowel in Modern English 'hat'
• þ—the thorn, which represents Modern English 'th'
• ð—the eth (or ðæt), which also represents Modern English 'th'. Capital ð is written Ð.
• sc = sh (scēap [sheep])
• c= k (cynn [kin], nacod [can you guess?])
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Self-explaining compounds (as in
German, e.g., Fernsehen for
television)
• Lamp = lēhtfæt (light + vessel)
• Dawn = Dægred (day + red)
• Geometry = eorþcræft (earth + craft)
• Creation = frumweorc (beginning + work)
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