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The Norman Invasion

Grimm's Law: The Germanic Sound Shift

Here's an overview of the changing political and cultural landscape of England during the Old English period. Key points: conversion brings literacy (in Latin), literacy is disrupted by Vikings, King Alfred pushes to develop literacy in English, and the West-Saxon dialect of Winchester becomes the de facto literary standard. Also, the traditional English accounts of this era tend to exclude the...

Corrigenda: 1. Linear B, the written form of Mycenaean (which was Ancient Greek to the Ancient Greeks) ought to be included in this video. The oldest records survive on clay tablets that were baked by structure fires c. 1200 BC. Here's a link to an image of a catalogue of vessels from the palace at Pylos: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Tabrina_micénica.jpg 2. At 2:29, I should have...

Spread and Divergence of Indo-European Languages

How we build words in English

This brief overview of PIE grammar is intended for students in an introductory History of the English language course who may need refreshing on grammatical terminology at the same time. Some errors appear in the declensions of Lithuanian words: I owe thanks to native speakers in the comments, and I also owe thanks to native Spanish speakers who have identified a couple of mistakes in my use of...

Where did English Come From?

Follow the English Language from its earliest attested forms to the present day: here is a rough outline. Links to music I would like to have used in the video if I could afford to pay the artists: Check out Blackswan's track "Karma" here: English lyrics from a KPop band fronted by Indian-born Sriya and Brazilian-born Gabi. ruclips.net/video/ACZtD YK90/видео.html ABBA, Take a Chance on Me: rucl...

Morphology and Syntax: Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes, Synthetic and Analytic Grammar

Relative Clauses

This is the introductory video to the historical part of our class.

Transitive verbs in English have the quality of "voice" as well as tense and aspect: They can be used in an active form with the thing experiencing the action serving the grammatical function of direct object, or they can be used in the passive voice with the recipient of the action serving as the grammatical subject of the clause.

Old English Pronunciation and Spelling

Early Modern English Auxiliaries and Modals

English Phonology and Phonetics Part 2: Consonants

English Phonology and Phonetics Part 3: Vowels

English Phonology and Phonetics, Part 1: Phonotactic Constraints, Phonemes, Allophones