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K Ohashi
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Disclaimer: Despite its course title, European languages will
be more often cited than Asian languages throughout the
quarter.
Part I: Historical linguistics
(A History of English)
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1. OE chapter 1.1 General features of OE
1.2 Inflection
1.3 Tenses
2. ME chapter 2.1 French genitive
2.2 French comparison
2.3 From synthetic to analytic
3. EModE chapter 3.1 Use of expletive do
3.2 Loss of thouing
4. ModE Prescriptive grammar
Part 1: A History of English
0. Introductory
An Overview of the History of English
An overview of the history of English
Present-day English 現代英語 : 1900-2018
-nouns -articles
-verbs -pronouns
-adjectives -auxiliaries
-(most) adverbs -prepositions
-conjunctions
Ex. Ex.
exist ‘be’: copula (=connector) ‘be’:
‘I think. Therefore, I am.’ She is a vegetarian.
2) One consequence of Viking Raids (AD 787-1016):
“From about the year 1000, Englaland (land of the
Angles) begins to be adopted as a national name.”
-A. C. Baugh and Th. Cable, A History of the English Language, 2002, p. 47
唯一 ゆいいつ ゆいつ
Engla + land > Englaland England
( Q1 ) + land > Q2 Q3
February [fɛbrəwɛri] [fɛbri]
temporary [tɛmpərəri] [tɛmpri]
library [lʌɪbrəri] [lʌɪbri]
probably [prɑbəbli] [prɑbli]
haplology: a process of contraction whereby a succession
of two syllables (e.g. いい ) is reduced to a single syllable
(e.g. い ), esp. in speech
ride-rode-ridden
staying
(a) book - books
曲用
Declension
simple-simpler-simplest
(study) hard-harder-hardest
No longer can our English (ModE) be called
an inflectional language par excellence
Names of letters
Quiz. Tell the letter names.
LETTER NAME
1. ə ( ) yogh [jóuk]
2. æ ( ) eng [έŋ]
3. ŋ ( ) thorn
4. þ ( ) theta [Ɵí:tə]
5. Ɵ ( ) schwa [ʃwá:]
6. ð ( ) ash
7. ʒ ( ) eth, edh [έð]
[Ɵ, ð ]: represented by þ = ð = th
(since 11th c.)
Names of letters
#2. OE Noun inflections:
4 (out of the total 6) classes are tabled
1.1 ‘HUND’ 1.2 ‘DEOR’ 3 ‘OXA’ 4 ‘FOOT’
(hound) (deer) (ox) (foot)
Singular
Nom. hund deor oxa foot
Acc. hund deor oxan foot
Gen. hundes1) deores1) oxan footes
Dat. hunde deore oxan feet
Plural
Nom./Acc. hundas2) deor3) oxan4) feet5)
Gen. hunda deora oxena foota
Dat. hundum deorum oxum footum
1) Class 1 (=1.1 + 1.2) accounted for
more than half of the OE nouns
OE ME ModE
-es > -es > -’s
Ex.
hundes dogges Gulliver’s Travels
(1726)
2) The s-plural
Subclass 1.1 (‘HUND’) was so predominant that …
OE Survivals in ModE
(a, two) deor (a, two) deer
(a, two) sceap (a, two) sheep
(a, two) swine (a, two) swine
(a, two) niht fortnight
sennight
Q1. What does fortnight (chiefly Brit.) mean?
OE ME
mann > mann-i > menn-i > menn > men
sg. 1st pl. 2nd pl. 3rd pl. 4th pl.
(mutation)
The mutation plural:
Jacob Grimm called ‘mutation’ Umlaut
mutation (or Umlaut): Singular Mutation plural s-plural
vowel change (OE) (OE) (in and after
Ex. ME)
(foot >) feet, teeth, booc beec ( books )
geese, men, women, mice,
gaat geet ( goats )
lice, geet, beec, hend,
frind, breec, etc.
hand hend [Northern] hands
The highlighted are still friand frind [Southern] ( friends )
in use today.
brooc breec breeches
Q1
a mouse two ( )
Both mice and mouses are usable
[-siz] [-ziz]
“In the computing sense, the ordinary mice is more common than
mouses.” (NOAD)
“Pl. mice. In sense 4 (i.e. computing), also mouses.” (Shorter OED)
A1
Ex.
NEW NORMS FOSSILS (fulfilling peripheral functions)
brothers (‘siblings’) brethren (‘comrades’)
old-older village elders
[< old-elder]
shape-shaped-shaped a well-shapen face Older
norms
[< shape-shope-shapen]
first, second, third, etc. every other day
[< ærest, oðer, thridda, etc.]
learn-learned-learned a learned society
[-d] [-d] [- ɪd]
#3. Conjugation
(as the 3rd part of 1.2 ‘Inflection’)
Strong conjugation
Weak conjugation
Cf. Suppletive conjugation (Only two ModE verbs belong here)
Weak and Strong Conjugations
弱変化活用と強変化活用
Strong conjugation
Weak conjugation
☞Cf. Suppletive conjugation
(ModE has only two examples. -See next slides)
(OE) wendan – went – ġewend
=move, proceed
supplied
Ex. Ex.
drive-drove-driven learn-learned-learned
Whitney (1867), Lehmann (1987), Lass (1997), etc. maintain…
c1700
① ② ③ ④
learn + DID > learnDID > learnED learned
/ɪd/ /d/
(Pre-English: Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians live on the Continent )
❶I learn did ❷I learndid ❸I learned
/dɪd/ /-dɪd/ /-ɪd/
(c1700)
Jonathan Swift (1712) wrote:
“By leaving out a Vowel to save a Syllable, we form
so jarring a Sound, and so difficult to utter, that
I have often wondered how it could ever obtain.”
母音一つを省いて音節を一つ節約することによりわれわれは非常に耳ざわりで、発し
づらい音を作っているのであり、どうしてそのような発音が行われるのか理解に苦し
む。
EModE (c1700) ModE
lovèd lov’d
[lʌvɪd] [lʌvd]
pa pple pa pple
learn – learned – learned *wick – *wicked – *wicked
[ɪd] [ɪd]
The asterisks (*) indicate
Adjectivalization of the above non-existent forms
pa pple :
a learned society
a learned man
[ɪd]
wicked (OE, wicca ‘sorcerer’ + -ed):
created in the 13th century (ME)
English
OE ME EModE ModE [ PDE (Present-day English)]
[OE] [PDE]
loss
Strong verbs 66-68 strong verbs
(25% of OE verbs) shift
Shift of strong verbs to weak verbs
強変化動詞弱変化動詞
Q.
How do PDE speakers conjugate dive?
A: In PDE,
dive-dived-dived > dive-dove-dived
(weak conj.) (strong conj.)
“The form snuck is also used in American English for the past tense
and past participle.” -COBUILD
Start of an insight
Ex.
I googled for a cheap hotel.
I just Facebooked the link to this video.
One of them was cc’d to his boss.
They speedily faxed me the new page layout.
These systems have come to be known as formatted file systems.
input-input-input (OK) /input-inputted-inputted (OK)
Status Quo Theory 原状維持説
A witty short definition:
‘Regularization works where memory fails.’
A fuller definition:
‘Forms (i.e. words and pronunciations) of high frequency
tend to resist regularization even at the risk of
being left behind the general development of the
language of which they are members.’
(Ex. oxen, feet, men, women)
PDE possesses only 68 strong verbs.
They are generally of high
frequency.
drink come
eat begin
take do
give see
sing drive
swim ride
W. Lehmann (1992, p. 104) says that bon(ne), jeune, haut(e)
and other adjectives of high frequency maintain the
historically older structure of noun phrases.
1. OE as a two-tense language
1.1 Non-technical approach to OE tense system 非専門的
1.2 Technical approach to OE tense system 専門的
2. Adverbial tense
3. Preterite-presents 過去現在詞
1. OE as a two-tense language
1.1 Non-technical approach to OE tense system
- If you come with me, I will1) (=main verb in OE) show you something.
-As soon as I arrive home, I will tell you more.
-When I come home I shall tell you my news. (R. Quirk and C. L.
Wrenn, An Old English Grammar, 1994, p. 3)
Start of footnotes
1) In OE, will is a main verb (present tense)
OE (main verbs 本動詞 ) ME (auxiliary verbs 助動詞 )
-will (wish, intend) -will (futurity)
-shall (owe) -shall (futurity)
-may (be able to) -may (permission)
-must (be able to) -must (obligation)
-ought (owe) -ought (obligation)
-can (know) -can (ability, possibility)
Ex.
I can a noble tale. (=know) Cf. cunning (=shrewd), uncouth (=rude)2)
He could the Bible. (=knew)
We will it. (=wish)
Cf. (ModE) ‘unwilling,’ ‘as you will’
同族語
2) can, cunning, and uncouth: cognates (i.e. etymological brothers)
know knowing unknown 語源的
More examples
deer (Eng) [means ‘animal’ in OE] Tier3) (Ger) [means ‘animal’]
Q1 (Eng) Wagen3) (Ger)
Q2 (Eng) Laut3) (Ger) [in Umlaut, Ablaut]
knife (Eng) canif (Fr)
hot (Eng) caldo (It) [means ‘hot’! ]
同族語
2) can, cunning, and uncouth: cognates (i.e. etymological brothers)
know knowing unknown 語源的
More examples
deer (Eng) [means ‘beast’ in OE] Tier3) (Ger) [means ‘animal’]
wag(g)on (Eng) Wagen3) (Ger)
loud (Eng) Laut3) (Ger) [in Umlaut, Ablaut]
knife (Eng) canif (Fr)
hot (Eng) caldo (It) [means ‘hot’! ]
Cognate objects
同族目的語
He thought great ( Q ).
Cognate objects
同族目的語
Verbal tense
動詞による時制
Historically 2nd: ??
(Ex. come, eat, sing, know, belong, resemble)
actional verbs stative verbs
Verb #2 どうし (Ex. eat, see, know) is expressed as
‘time-word’ in the following languages
Literally 直訳
Latin verbum temporale ‘time-word’
ウェルブム・テンポラーレ
German Zeitword ‘time-word’
ツァイトヴォアト
tijd-woord ‘time-word’
Dutch
テイトウォーアト
English verb #2 ( < verbum temporale) ‘time-word’
Q: Why is verb #2 どうし (Ex. see, eat, die, live)
expressed as ‘time-word’?
A: It is because in the mind of those Europeans,
verb and time (i.e. tense ) are inseparably linked.
Latin
German verbal-tense
Dutch languages
English
ME, EModE and ModE are
verbal-tense languages
In OE In and after ME
The verbal-tense system was I will teach you English.
underdeveloped. (Future)
The adverbial tense made up I read the newspaper.
for the underdevelopment of (Present/Non-past)
the verbal tense. She went home alone.
(Past)
I have walked a long distance.
(Perfect)
He repeated what he said before. = He repeated what he had said.
(Pluperfect)
OE speakers expressed futurity by means of
adverbials (=adverbs, adverbial phrases and
adverbial clauses)
Formerly: Currently:
Markers of tense- Markers of differing
distinction degrees of politeness. (Both
are present-tense forms.)