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exploring the history of a language in stages the student of the group 328, boysunov bahrom outline: 1. the initial period or stage 2. medieval time 3. up-to-date history english was originally a group of west-germanic dialects (or ‘anglo-frisian’) spoken by the anglo-saxons, who had invaded britain in around 5ad. their language (‘old english’) is the earliest form of the language we call english today. literature was written during this period, including the well-known poems ‘beowulf’ (a story of a monster-slaying hero) and the exeter book (a collection of riddles). these have allowed linguists to develop an understanding of how old english looked and how it was used. features of old english include the use of grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, and neuter genders, as in german) and the use of four cases (nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative. again, like modern-day german!). there were also a lot more inflectional endings, meaning …
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this period is ‘the canterbury tales’, written by chaucer in the 1390s. chaucer’s writing was mostly based on the east-midlands dialect, a dialect which was also used in the chancery standard. it was this chancery standard that william caxton used when he introduced the printing press to britain in 1476. this helped to stabilise the english language and drive standardisation. late modern english (ca. 18th-present) the late modern english period saw the rise of the british empire, as well as the industrial revolution. modern english remained pretty much the same in terms of pronunciation, grammar, and spelling; however, a lot of new vocabulary was introduced. the industrial revolution was a time of innovation, and new words were needed to name the inventions. new means of transportation, machinery, materials, and techniques were all being developed and many of these were of british origin. english became the common language of science and …
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exploring the history of a language in stages the student of the group 328, boysunov bahrom outline: 1. the initial period or stage 2. medieval time 3. up-to-date history english was originally a group of west-germanic dialects (or ‘anglo-frisian’) spoken by the anglo-saxons, who had invaded britain in around 5ad. their language (‘old english’) is the earliest form of the language we call english today. literature was written during this period, including the well-known poems ‘beowulf’ (a story of a monster-slaying hero) and the exeter book (a collection of riddles). these have allowed linguists to develop an understanding of how old english looked and how it was used. features of old english include the use of grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, …

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