FINALS chptr 5
he was born in macedonia particularly in Istagira. he is a student of plato and become his successor. he was also invited to teach philip ii of macedonia's 14 years old son alexander. and establishes school of philosophy.
aristotle
aristotle's huge contribution to the development of language started when he ___
demythologized language
he interpret s the meaning of language as an object of rational inquiry, a medium of communicating and expressing thoughts about anything under the sun.
aristotle
he was a clergyman after he served as archdeacon of winchester. he worked as a professor of poetry at the university of oxford.
robert lowth
he earned a reputation as a prescriptivist and that period gave rides to prescriptivism. prescriptivism refers to beliefs and practices where one's language thought to be superior and correct and should be promoted.
robert lowth
he published his book titled "short introduction to english grammar" which became a standard book
robert Lowth
at the age of 15 he learned french greek english and latin and he also wrote essays on languages at that age. he has been influenced by a family of scientists. he had convinced his parents to permit him to study linguistics in leipzig and luckily received his doctorate
ferdinand de Saussure
he is considered as the father of semiotics and known as a co-founder of structuralism
ferdinand is Saussure
what is ferdinand de Saussure's
contribution that theorizes that things could not be understood without analyzing the context where they appear.
structuralism
he also introduced the signified and signifier meaning
ferdinand de Saussure
for ferdinand it is the mental concept or idea or intended meaning of a person
signified
for ferdinand it is the physical existence including sounds and image or the literal meaning of things
signifier
is regarded as the father of modern linguistics, a philosopher, a social critic, a cognitive scientist and a political activist.
at the age of 13 he began traveling to new york by himself where he discovered interesting reading materials for his extreme reading hobby and befriended some jewish intellectuals.
avram noam chomsky
he introduced the concept of universal grammar and suggested that human has an ability to learn grammar because the brain has a language acquisition device LAD that automatically works in language acquisition.
Avram noam chomsky
it is a socio-biological method in scrutinizing a language.
darwinian or evolutionary linguistics
he observed the proximity and sameness between sounds of animals and the different natural utterances and gestures that human beings produce when venting out strong feelings such as fear joy and surprise.
charles darwin
it is the common ancestor of modern english and western english according to (grey 2019)
indo-european language
during old english period the _, _, _ who composed the west germanic settlers arrived in southern britain where in they carried with them some dialects like the language varieties that produce the dutch, frisian and german.
eald - old. cuman - come
angles, saxons and jutes
old english is popularly called
anglo-saxons period
during this period development in terms of the pronunciation of unstressed syllables found at the ends of words caused the merging of most inflections.
middle english
one example of this period is the anglo-saxons epic beowulf
old english
one example of this period is the chaucer's canterbury tales
middle english
at this period the printing is introduced, the prescribed english (standardized english) the johnson's dictionary
modern English
one example of this period text can be read at the onset of shakespeare's hamlet
modern english