HIS130 - The ME Period

[@MANNAHPOLISTITS]

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[@meta2006]

I cannot stress enough how I enjoy these lectures.

[@SL-bn8qb]

As a student of French linguistics, there is a wrinkle in the Norman influence on English. The Normans were descendants of Scandinavian-Viking invaders who had been granted the lands of Normandy (Norman = North Man), with a view to fending off futher incursion by other Vikings. They assimilated linguistically and thus their invasion of England was simply a continuation of repeated Viking invasions. The official court language of the Anglo-Normans was not Old French but Old Norman, a related dialect, that the Queen uses today in opening Parliament. For two to three hundred years, the Anglo-Normans straddled the Channel but eventually focused on England as their Continental lands were lost. The result was the synthesis of Old Norman and Old English, where the two sets of vocabularies coexisted but the Latin- Norman- origin vocabulary today has an elegant or superior connotation to the Germanic-Old English vocabulary. She "climbed up into" the bus vs she "ascended" the bus. Even after the schism highlighted by Joan of Arc, the Anglo-Norman nobility used French as their primary lingua franca, only to have it officially discouraged well into the 18th Century.

[@88paparazi]

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[@milanFromCR]

Phenomenal! Thank you for sharing this video. Very helpful for my studies!

[@fe4n0r]

Thank you for this very helpful lecture on ME History, with your help I have just finished my assignement on the language-internal and language-external reasons for dating ME. I am sure I will utilise more of your lecture during this semester :)

[@withastone]

Thank you, immensely helpful for me to plan a class about the History of English. I only have a few days to go over the basics and reference books on the material are of epic size. Your voice is very clear too.

[@oer-vlc]

withastone I you wish, we can give you access to our class "History of English", currently reday to register on the Virtual Linguistics Campus.

[@withastone]

The Virtual Linguistics Campus um, ok!!! inbox me

[@oer-vlc]

Ok, create your account on www.linguistics-online.com, when ready, let us know.

[@withastone]

I signed up, nickname "withastone"

[@Bjowolf2]

+withastone So did it save you? ;-)

[@omerkaragoz6738]

Easy to follow, yet well enough detailed. Thank you for this, it was really helpful ^^

[@louisemallard2132]

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[@ParodieNaCloveka]

Thank you for this very nice and structured lecture..

[@IntikhabAlamOfficial_97]

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[@godwinpesambili6654]

its actually good lecture i enjoyed a lot xanks very much

[@thenorthumbrian9093]

English was always used in Northumberland even during the Norman conquest which is why a lot of the original English words survive in the local dialect so It's not really a miracle you just need to know the geography of England Itself to why English survived.

[@missyuu9348]

I wish you were my lecturer :(

[@jameslarsson4906]

4:00 Well, English isn't the official language in America. It's the majority language, but, most government documents are written in multiple languages.

[@UpWithTheIrons666]

All federal documents are in English and, if I remember correctly 5 states have French official documents, and 7 in Spanish, and all of those are also in English.