Lecture I theme I: Subject and aims of the History of English

Questions:

1. 
   The historical conditions account increased dialectal divergence in Early ME?
   

1. 
   Compare the position of the Old Scandinavian and Anglo-Norman (French) in Early ME (comment on the geographical, social and linguistic differences).
   

2. 
   Account for the shift of the dialect type of the speech of London in the 14th c. Why is the name ‘English’ language more justified than ‘Anglo-Saxon’ or ‘Saxon’ those in the OE period on of the Saxon dialects, West Saxon was main from of language used in writing?
   
3. 
   Describe the events of external history which favoured the growth of the national literary language.
   
4. 
   Can the evolution of language be controlled by man? Recall efforts made by man-of-letters in the ‘Normalization period’ to stop the changes and improve the language.
   

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