语言学课件.ppt

1、Chapter7:Chapter7:Language ChangeLanguage Change 主讲人：汪冰进Your site hereLOGOWhat is language change?Language change is the manner in which the phonetic,morphological,semantic,syntactic,and other features of a language are modified over time.Your site hereLOGOclassification 1.1.Sound Change 2.2.Morphol

2、ogical and Syntactic Change 3 3.Vocabulary Change Your site hereLOGOSound changevThe most dramatic change is the vowels OEbefore 1150ME 1150-1500Early ME1500-1650Modern EnglishGreatVowelShiftYour site hereLOGOvIt is worth mentioning that all aspects of languages phonology such as tone,stress，and syl

3、lable structure are subject to change over time.Your site hereLOGOMorphological ChangevMorphological Change are discussed mainly from the addition and loss of affixes.Your site hereLOGOnTwo types of affixesvborrowed affixes;such as mentv derived from earlier words by means of fusion such as hood -Ad

4、dition of affixes Your site hereLOGO-Addition of affixesBase+affixBase+affixAffix+baseAffix+baseFusionYour site hereLOGO-loss of affixes as affixes can be added to the grammar,they can aslo get lost.some of them has no apparent reason,others can be explained via sound change.Changes reflected in case and gender.Old English Middle English Modern English ure/urum oure ourThe difference between whowhom is gradully disappearedYour site hereLOGOvThanks for your attention