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What are the 6 language change features you look out for in your coursework

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Lexis ,semantics,syntax x grammar, orthography, spelling

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What is your first paragraph in your coursework

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lexical change

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what does lexical change mean

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words that are changing

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What do we mean by archaisms

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words that are dead; they are no longer in use e.g zwoonds -means god’s wounds 9swear words)

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what is dated lexis

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words that are not dead, they are just falling out of use e.g twin tub

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What are neoligisms

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new words created (polyamerous )

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What is coining

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words forming out of nothing

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what is compounding

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words that are made out of 2 or more exisiting words

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what is blending

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new words that are made from PARTS of two or more existing words

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What is clipping

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new words that are formed from PARTS of existing words

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What are acronyms and initialisms

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new words that have formed through the initials of other words.

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what is affixation

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new words that are formed by adding prefix, suffix to an existing words

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what is borrowing

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when words from foreign languages are used in english

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what is eponym

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proper nouns that are used to name discoveries or inventions or brand names that are becoming generic

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What is semantic change

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changing in the meaning of words

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what is semantic drift

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when words change meaning from one to another.
For example, gay =happy-> colourful-> deliberately delf-adopted by gay people to mean a homosexual.

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What does amelioration mean

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word changes meaning to become more pleasant/ les s unpleasant e.g naughter- evil-midely disobedient/sexual connotations

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What is a pejoration

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word meaning changes to become more less pleasant or more unpleasant e.g notorious means bad, but it use to mean worth paying attention to, used for the highest praise.

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What is narrowing

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words that have become more specific or restricted e.g meat use to mean anything you could eat now it means muscle skin

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What is broadening

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words become less specific and less restictive e.g troll- creature now means bully

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What is a prepositional drift

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changing in the meaning of prepositions.
e.g a game at chess-> a game of chess

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What is syntax change

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order of words have changed. order of words didnt matter, the endings did

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Syntax rules are strict . True/ false

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true

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when should you talk about syntactical change

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in older texts.

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What does modern syntax tend to be
svoca main clause -subordinate clause adjective-noun negator -verb
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What is displacement
what has been moved in a sentence, we would call this a displaced X
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Give an example of displacement
'i saw the leaders great and good' 'great and good' are displaced adjectives.
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Describe displaced negators
negators tend to become before the the vern, but in older englishes they don't
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Give an example of a displaced negator
'She's like it not'-> 'she does not like it' does acts as a ellided dummy auxillary verb (grammar).
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What is inversion
where two words have been swapped over 'said he' instead of 'he said' we say the x and Y are inverted.
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What are median adverbials
found in the middle of a sentence. in contemporary english they come at the start of the clause or the end.
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what are explanations of syntax
-english used to be a highly infelcted lang -use to be more flexible than it is now -after norman invasion english became a conquered peasant lang- simplified by losing word endings -rely on order not endings -now:svoca
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What is a solecism
an old fashioned grammatical rule that is rarely obyed in contemporary englishapart from formal occasions
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what are the two types of solecisms
- split infinitives prepositions at the start of the sentence.
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describe split infitives
solecism says you can't put a particle between to and the verb 'to_ describe' 'to_ run' in older texts writers go to great extents to not break this.
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describe prepositions at the end of sentence
-cant put a preposition at end of clause cause it is called ''pre''position so it has to go before something
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What did winston churchil stay to refute preposions at the end of the sentence
-'that is something up with which I will not put'
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what is a grammar change
change in word endings and pronouns.
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Describe anglo-saxon verbs
there where highly inflected, use to have around 17 different inflections, they all died slowly at different rates,but some survived in regional dialects
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What are type of archaic inflection are 'est' and 'eth'
'est'- archaic second person singular present tense inflections (1700) 'eth' archaic third person singular present tense
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By 1600, 'est' ellided into whT
THE ARCHAIC second person singular present tense ''walk'st'' and 'shalt''
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Some archaic forms as still seen for example
the inflection 'sungen' for 'sang' any weird ending say archaic
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What is the strongest verb in english
to be
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If there is a weird inflection of 'to be' what do we say
it is in the subjunctive
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describe grammar change
english use to be a highly infelcted language , where the inflections died gradullay overtime at different rates. Contempory english has fewer inflections. English language changed from synthetic to analytic.
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What is perpihrastic do
using the verb 'to do' where we would not use it today in contempory english.
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What is an example of periphrastic do
'i do love thee' 'she did marry him'' was used to show coninuousness
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Describe 'for' being used as a conjunction
it is common in older texts to do 'for' as a conjunction meaning the same thing as 'because'. for example, she did marry him for she loved him.
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In contempory english what do we call for
a preposition
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What is thou/ thee and their connotations
they show friendliness
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Describe features of middle english
no right or wrong spelling. spelling changed into french spelling patterns from old english no standardised spelling;they spelt the way they thought. pronunciation has changed since, spelling tried to replicate this.
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William shakespear was spelt in three ways what were these spellings?
Willism Shakspere willm shackspere william shakspeare
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What did William Caxton's advance of printing do in the 15th century
printing ontributed to standardisation of spelling. This is as he printing was done in the east middleands dialect. Was thought to be correct
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what were some spelling differences during the advance of printing
i an y interchangeable j and i interchangeable v and u interchanfeable
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'TH' sound describe this change
as the letters thorn and eth died out the letter 'y' was sometimes used to replace the sound. around the 1600's 'y' was regularly used in abreviated words that started with the sound 'th'
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what is y^s
abrieviated of the word this
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what is y^e
abrieviation of the word the
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what is y^t
abreviation of the word that
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Why may spelling vary
English spelling was not standardised up until 1800's and due to lack of education( posh people were educated more than us.)
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What happeened in 1755 and provide examples
Samuel Johnson published the 'dictionary' this was the start of standardisation, but took another century to take full effect -ironick(ol)
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What is affecting British spelling
American spelling (it is taking over) for example, color and realize.
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What is orthograohic change
change in the appearance of letters on a page
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Describe long S
it was the little and last thing to survive (looks like an F) long s came at start and middle of sentence. normal s at end.
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Describle letter ash
anglo-saxon (AT ) went in the 20th century
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On two-word place names or street names tended to be written with...
one capital and a dash
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in old english what was capitalised
the important words
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what is proclitic elison
start of words that have elided it is - tis
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what is enclitic elision
start of words elide it is - it's
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By the early modern period the printing industry had become...
more widespread and so books were no longer available to just the rich
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what did printers rationalise
orthography in order to make it simpler and quicker.
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Name the abandoned letters
d with line on tail ae (merged)
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The printing industry established the ______________
the conventions of punctuations on capital letters on proper nouns not elsewhere.
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the stressed syllable 'ed' became?
unstressed
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how would a writer be self-conciously modern
echo'd ( 2 syllables)
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what does electronic communication encourage and what do they convey
emojies,emoticons, smilies, sincerity voice, facial expression. They are paralingusitic aspects in speech
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What does phonology refer to
sounds
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in phonology what causes the inconsistency of spelling and pronunciation
the fact that english phonology is fluid as spelling has changed but pronunciation hasnt e.g aigburth-> egg birth
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Describe contempory phonology change
-spread of glottal stop -spread of uptalk or the austrailian question inotation -simplified in mue -increase in vocal fry
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political correctness: why have words died out
they are pejorative/ offensive
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words for african heritage in 1786 , mid 1800, late 1800, mid 1900 and late 1900?
1) n-word came from portugese 2)'negro' intended to be nicer (anti-rasist 3) coloured - deliberate intention to not be rasict 4)Black 5) black / afro-carribbean
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words for homosexual men in 1200'a, 1700's 1892 AND 1960's
1) sodomite ( bible connotations of sin 2) maly- brothel for men, connotes crime 3)homosexual 4) gay- slang word from san francisco to celebrate
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where does homosexual come from
Kreft -ebbing's book. German medical diagnosis called Psychoathia sexualis ( SICKENESS AS CONNOTATION).
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what is reclaiming
process whereby previous pejorative terms was self adopted and sel-applied by the groups in question e.g LGBT =Queer=umbrella term for lgbt
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