Language Change & Theory

Implementation

Diffusion

Codification

Hapax

Lingua Franca

Further Old English Grammar; suffixes, grammatical, syntax

Roman and Arabic Influences on Old English

Middle English & William The Conquerer

Grammar of Middle English; withered, borrowings

Middle English and Standardisation

Synchronic Approach

Diachronic Approach

Early Modern English - Context (1); rise, 15th-18th century; 1476 - direction

Early Modern English & Standardisation; capitalise

John Hart - The Opening Of The Unreasonable Writing Of Our Inglish Tongue

Early Modern English and Latin

Early Modern English - The Problem Of The Printing Press

Set Phrases/Periphrasis

Suspended Sentences

Early Modern English & Idioms

Bishop Robert Lowth - An Introduction To English Language, 1772

Early Modern English - Ligature

Early Modern English - Shakespeare & His Lexical Expansion

Early Modern English - Dictionaries; Cawden's letters, error

Early Modern English - The Great Vowel Shift

Early Modern English & Travel; thinking, prefixes

Tudors & Nationalism

Early Modern English and The Inkhorn Controversy

Early Modern English & Style; style, lit, diction, abstract

Prepositional Phrases

Late Modern English - Context (1); religion, GVS, time

Late Modern English and the Auxiliary 'Do'

Late Modern English & Pronouns

Late Modern English and Standardisation; dictionary, paradigms, 1772

Style in Late Modern English; simple

Interests in Late Modern English; variety, reason

1870 - A rise in literacy levels

Late Modern English, 19th Century - Travel & Empire; loanwords, lexical growth

Late Modern English - 19th Century Interests; past

20th Century - An Uninflected System

Recuperative

Telescoped Form

Loss of Inflections

20th Century & Interests; global languages

Mutated Plurals

Phonological Changes

Random Fluctuation - Charles Hockett, 1958

Functional Theory

Substratum Theory

Howard Giles- Accommodation Theory

Howard Giles- Convergence

Howard Giles - Divergence

Coinage

Neologisms

Borrowings

Portmanteau

Eponyms

Anglo-Saxon/Old English Grammar:
Kennings

Anglo-Saxon/Old English Grammar:
Declensions - nouns and adjectives

Anglo-Saxon/Old English Grammar:
Preterite - 'swam'

Four Cases of Anglo-Saxon/Old English:
Accusative - direct object

Four Cases of Anglo-Saxon/Old English:
Nominative - 'I danced'

The Four Cases of Anglo-Saxon/Old English:
Dative 'to call Jodie', 'help'

The Four Cases of Anglo-Saxon/Old English:
Genitive - 'mine'

Old English Invasions

Anglo-Saxons and Old English Languages

Word Jail

Rebuttal of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Creation

Rachel Adelson - Language & Colour Perception, 2005

Wittgenstein

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Weak Form

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Strong Form

Language & Reality

Perforation

Order of Precedence

Semantic Derogation

Disjunctive Pronoun

S-Curve Model - Chen

Wave Model - Bailey

Cultural Transmission - Charles Hockett, 1958