BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE

PUEBLA

FACULTAD DE LENGUAS

LIC. ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS

LANGUAGE EVOLUTION

JOSÉ CÉSAR AQUINO GARCÍA

JIMÉNEZ CERÓN EDGAR OMAR

201938627

SPRING 2022
The time
Periods of
English

• Diachronic studies
examine the historical
development of a
language, taking into
consideration changes
it has undergone over
time.
The Norman Conquest of England in 1066
•English is thought to have had its origins around AD 400,
when the Romans ended their occupation of England.
 Old English
• The prayer illustrates some
notable differences between Old
English and subsequent periods
of English. For instance, many
of the nouns contain inflections
marking case, number and
gender.

• It is important to note that

during this period, English was
purely a spoken language: the
only literate people of the era
were monks in monasteries, a
consequence of St. Augustine’s
conversion of England to
Christianity in the sixth century
AD.
Middle
English
•There were two significant
changes to English during this
period that have led to debates
about the extent to which the
Norman Conquest affected the
English language: the addition of
many words of French origin to
the English lexicon, and the
continuing decline in the
number of inflections found in
Old English.
Early Modern
English
• The transition from Middle
to Modern English is not
marked by any specific
cultural event but rather by a
linguistic event: the Great
Vowel Shift.
Modern English

• The Early Modern English period

ends with the Independence of
the American colonies.

• This event marks the end of the

British monoly on the English
language and the beginning of the
Modern English period.