My latest article for TheWeek.com is on the changes that happen to English words when they are “borrowed” into other languages:
It comes complete with about three dozen examples – though of course there are many, many more out there…
Posted in The Week
Tagged borrowing, English words, lexical change, loanwords, semantic change, sound change, The Week, words
This is the text of a presentation I made at the Editors’ Association of Canada Conference in Vancouver, June 10, 2006. It came with a handout, “A brief history of English,” which is available as a PDF. It traces the history and development of the English language and the nature and function of language change.
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Posted in language and linguistics
Tagged class, English history, English language history, English vowels, great vowel shift, language change, language deterioration, lexical change, long vowels, morphological change, morphology, Old English, phonetic profiling, proper English, reanalysis, Robert Lowth, semantic change, semantics, short vowels, sociolinguistics, sound change, standard English, syntactic change, syntax, word change
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