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History of English Revision Flashcards

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Old English

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500-1100

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An example of Old English

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Beowulf

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Middle English

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1100-1500

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An example of Middle English

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Canterbury Tales

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Early Modern English

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1500-1800

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An example of Early Modern English

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Shakespeare

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Modern English

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1800-present

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An example of Modern English

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Londonstani

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Etymology

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The study of language - how words came to be

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Anglo-Saxon

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Brought to Britain by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes

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400AD

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Romans invade Britain but don’t leave much Latin behind

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865

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The Vikings bring Old Norse from Norway, Iceland and Sweden

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1066

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The Norman Invasion

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1100

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Middle English is spoken after the Norman invasion brings french words spoken by the upper class

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When was the printing press invented

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1476

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What did the printing press do

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It stopped the language from changing so fast, and spelling became standardized

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1601

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Age of Enlightenment, scientists start moving from Latin to English

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What did colonisation do

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Spread the English language and brought new words back to Britain

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1611

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King James Bible - people could understand their religon

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What did Shakespeare do

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Introduced about 2,000 new words and phrases, made English a literary language

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4 Roots of English

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Germanic (Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse), French/Norman (spoken by the upper class, words were more academic and fancy), Latinate (medical/scientific words) Greek (educated or academic words)

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What did William Caxton do

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He printed the dialects of the south-east midlands, which became a national norm

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What happened in the 15th century

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The Great Vowel Shift - change in pronunciation - weef -> wife

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Morpheme

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The smallest unit of linguistic meaning it is either a root word, prefix or suffix

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Syntax

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The order of words

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Morphology

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How a word was created

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Bound Morpheme

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Can’t stand alone in a sentence

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Free Morpheme

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Can stand alone in a sentence

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Vikings

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Scandinavian Pirates

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Nouns

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Naming word

  • proper noun
  • Common noun
  • concrete noun
  • abstract noun
  • collective noun
  • compound noun
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Verbs

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Words that indicate action or state

  • auxiliary (indicate tense)
  • modal (expresses necessity)
  • common (occurs often)
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Suffix

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Letters are added to the end of a word to alter the meaning

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Prefix

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Letters are added to the start of a word to alter the meaning

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Root Word

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A basic word where affixes are added

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Comparative linguistics

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The study of similarities and differences between two languages

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