Language Change - History and Future of the English Language (Sociolinguistics Part 2)

Key terms: living languages, linguistic change, Old English, Middle English, Modern English, British islands, Indo-European, Celtic, Latin, Post Proto Germanic, Germanic, West Germanic, Proto-Indo-European, Old Norse, North Germanic, French, Anglo-Frisian, King William, Normandy, Renaissance, British Empire, Shakespeare, King James Bible, English colonization, Native American, Dutch, German, Italian, Greek, eponyms.

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Covers sections 1.2 from "Linguistics for Pre-Service Educators" (Shappeck & Welch, 2012).

Special thanks to my colleagues, Drs. Katie Welch and Marco Shappeck, for giving me permission to use and adapt their materials in order to produce this video.