This course offers a one-semester overview of the principal way in which the English language has changed from its beginning in pre-history to the present day. The focus of the course is on internal (linguistic) change, i.e., change in the lexicon, phonology, morphology, and syntax.The main questions are: what has changed? how has it changed? why has it changed?



*참고자료: Milward, C.M. 1996. A Biography of the English Language. 2nd ed. Boston: Thomson. /김석산. 1989. 영어발달사. 서울: 을유문화사./박영배. 1998. 영어사. 서울: 한국문화사.