The English Language

by Camila Cuevas Araneda

Celts

VikingsGermanic Tribes

Romans

Normands

Influences

Loanwords

Old English vs Modern English

Differences

Sound WordsSentences

Styles of English

Standard

Colloquial

Varieties of English

Sociolect

Jargon

Dialect

External

• Reasons:• Social, political,

economical, geographical, historical issues.

• Changes: grammar and sound systems.

Internal

• Reasons:• Linguistics

matters.

• Changes: speakers stopped using inflections, frequent use of ‘like’.

External and Internal changes of the English language

‘don’t split infinitives’

‘don’t end sentences with a preposition’

Prescriptive Rules