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The History of English

A Linguistic Introduction
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Basic concepts in theoretical (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax) and historical linguistics
All about the history of the English language over thousands of years
About Proto-Indo-European, its structure and its daughter languages
About Proto-Germanic, its structure (e.g., phonetics, phonology, morphology)
About Gothic, Old Saxon, Old High German, and other Proto-Germanic daughter languages (including Old English)
About Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English, including their historic context, sounds, grammar, and literature, as well as hear texts from the period
How linguists use the Comparative Method to reconstruct dead languages
Enough to strike out on your own in learning to read Old, Middle, and Early Modern English texts in the original!

This course is for people interested in the history of the English language, from its humble beginnings to the international language it is today. The course teaches you basic concepts in theoretical and historical linguistics as it traces the history of the language over thousands of years. You do not need to have any prior knowledge of linguistics to take this course, or knowledge of any language other than English. Do you want to learn about where English came from? And see (and hear!) how it has changed over millennia? Then this course is for you!

The History of English
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