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14 History of English 2 - Coggle Diagram
14 History of English 2
1500-1700 Early Modern English
The Great Vowel Shift
Printing press, Humanism, Scientific Revolution, Reformation
Flourishing of vernacular literature: translations from Latin and Greek, poetry, drama; King James Bible (1611)
Colonal expansion to America (Jamestown, 1607), India (East India Company, 1600), Africa (Royal African Company,1660)
Thousands of loanwords from Latin and Greek; contact with Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, as well as American, Asian and African languages
Increasing linguistic awareness, controversies about spelling reform and borrowing
Advancing grammaticalisation of do-support, aspect and modality in the verb phrase and SVO constituent order
Shakespeare words
Neece = "young falcon" (eyas)
wantons = "spoiled child"
giues = "shackles" (gyves)
20th Century English as a global language
Official (or de facto official) language in 60 states
Widely used as a second language and lingua franca
Pluricentric language (New Englishes)
1476 Introduction of the printing press
William Caxton sets up his print shop at Westminster
20,000 titles in English by 1640
progress of popular education
spread of the London standard
1700 Modern English
Standardisation and new diversity
1755 Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English language
1766 Independence of the United States of America
1788 Establishment of British penal Colony in Australia
