quiz mardi 8/16 Flashcards
The meaning behind “Hiberno-English” in reference to Newfoundland English.
Irish English
The rationale behind Samuel Johnson’s rejection of an English language academy and the restriction that he placed on his dictionary and all future dictionaries.
He thought It was ridiculous to force people to speak a certain way. They have to evolve with time,so the dictionaires.
Ostler’s history-based prediction for English in the near future.
English will become a family of languages. (grammar,etc)
John Oldmixons contrary position to the third percept of “ascertainment” and the example/proof that he provided for refuting it.
He says that fixing a language permanently in the desired form is ridiculous. Latin became French/Spanish/Italian. how English could stay
The two competing hypotheses of the origins of African-American Vernacular English.
Anglicist hypothesis: it comes from an old English spoken by slave possessors
Creolist hypothesis: it comes from African languages
The sociological phenomenon behind “the raising of vowels” in New-York English. according to Joseph Labov.
Children of different ethnicities didn’t want to sound like their parents.
The Hiberno-English “after perfect” and its equivalent in “standard English” grammar
Present perfect is the equivalence of “after perfect”
The benefit of Indian politics and society of the gradual adoption of English as an official language
It continues to prevent them to kill each other
The “root” of the weaknesses of the desire (expressed by early 18th-century English intellectuals such as Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe) to regulate the English language in the same way as Italian, French, and Spanish… grasped by mid 18th-century English intellectuals such as Sheridan, Chesterfield, and Johnson
IGNORANCE
The ignorance of the process of linguistic change.
. Languages change overtime and they evolve
