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Reading for this week:
Contemporary Linguistics, p. 260 – 272

Things to know:

• The following types of historical changes (esp. in relation to the history and development of the English language) and how to identify their effects:
•  Morphological
• Reanalysis
• Syntactic
• Word Order Changes
• Lexical and Semantic
• Borrowing
• The dates relating to the three general stages of English linguistic development (Sakai notes)
• Some key events in the history of the English people that affected the use (or non-use) of English in England.
• Also, the difference between sound changes and spelling changes.

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