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800 – 1000 Viking Invasions Scandinavian borrowings
1100 A.D. –
1500 A.D. Middle English
1066 Norman Conquest French borrowings
1500 A.D. – Present Day English
Present
1400 – 1500 Great Vowel Shift
1476 First printing press
in London
13th – 16th Renaissance and Greek borrowings
century Scientific innovation Latin borrowings
16th – 19th C English colonialism borrowings from many
languages
FOR GREATER UNDERSTANDING
Questions
1. What was the Great Vowel Shift?
2. What are some of the theories for why the Great Vowel Shift
occurred?
Suggested Reading
1. Аракин В. Д. История английского языка: Уч.
пособие. – 2-е изд. – М.: ФИЗМАТЛИТ, 2003. – 272
с . – C. 132-216.
2. Расторгуева Т.А. История английского языка: учебник /
Т.А. Растргуева. – 2-е изд., стер. – М.: Астрель: АСТ,
2007. – 275, [4] с.: ил. – На англ.яз. – С. 149-163.
3. Michael D.C. Drout. A History of the English Language
(Modern Scholar). – Wheaton College: Recorded Books
LLC, 2006. – P. 87-93.
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