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By Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yan Chen
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Contents
The Indo-European Family of languages (印欧语系)
A historical overview of the English language
The Period of Old English (. 450-1100)
The Period of Middle English (1100-1500)
The Period of Modern English (after 1500)
English as a world language
The Indo-European Family of languages (印欧语系)
Languages that are genetically related are grouped into one language family, according to phonological, morphological, and lexical correspondences that stem from the proto-language.
Indo-European must have been generated in the Near East and spoken as far north as north-central Europe as long as 5,000 years ago.
A historical overview of the English language
The Period of Old English (. 450-1100) (古英语时期)
The Period of Middle English (1100-1500)(中古英语时期)
The Period of Modern English (after 1500) (现代英语时期)
The Period of Old English (古英语时期)
. 450-1100
A. D. 450, three Germanic tribes—the Jutes, the Angles, and the Saxons—began to press across the Channel.
1066, Norman Conquest
with the dialect of Wessex as the “standard language”
The Celts
The Celts: the first Britons
Some people have designated the Celts the Indians of Europe, and the comparison is perhaps not so far fetched. Through the centuries they have been exposed to reckless subjugations, persecutions and regular political homicides, for instance by the ill-famed eradications of natives in the Scottish Highlands. It all started off with Julius Cesar’s massacres of the Gauls on the Mainland in the mid 50s BC.
Their language was, until quite recently, forbidden by law, and during the Victorian age their mother tongue literally was beaten out of their children. By various efforts of assimilation, politicians have done their very best to eradicate their cultural identity.
Roman subjugation of most of the Celts
In 55 B. C. Julius Caesar led the first Roman invasion of the island.
Rome occupied Britain militarily for roughly 400 years, until A. D. 409-410, when Rome called her legions home to fight.
Julius Caesar (100 BC-44 BC)
What did the Romans leave behind?
five superb highways
Roman baths complete with heating equipment and piped water supplies
houses built in the Roman style
little of their Latin language, . castra (“camp”) as in Winchester, Chester, Lancaster
The Angle, Saxon, and Jute tribes who invaded Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries are known as the Anglo-Saxons. They left their homelands in northern Germany, Denmark and northern Holland and rowed across the North Sea in wooden boats.
Anglo-Saxon Invasion