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  【WhenonelooksbackuponthefifteenhundredyearsthatarethelifespanoftheEnglishlanguageheshouldbeabletonoticeanumberofsignificanttruths.Thehistoryofourlanguagehasalwaysbeenahistoryofconstantchange—att】

  WhenonelooksbackuponthefifteenhundredyearsthatarethelifespanoftheEnglishlanguageheshouldbeabletonoticeanumberofsignificanttruths.Thehistoryofourlanguagehasalwaysbeenahistoryofconstantchange—attimesaslowalmostimperceptiblechangeatothertimesaviolentcollisionbetweentwolanguages.Ourlanguagehasalwaysbeenalivinggrowingorganismithasneverbeenstatic.Anothersignificanttruththatemergesfromsuchastudyisthatlanguageatalltimeshasbeenthepossessionnotofoneclassorgroupbutofmany.Atoneextremeithasbeenthepropertyofthecommonignorantfolkwhohaveuseditinthedailybusinessoftheirlivingmuchastheyhaveusedtheiranimalsorthekitchenpotsandpans. Attheotherextremeithasbeenthetreasureofthosewhohaverespecteditasaninstrumentandasignofcivilizationandwhohavestruggledbywritingitdowntogiveitsomepermanenceorderdignityandifpossiblealittlebeauty.

  Asweconsiderourchanginglanguageweshouldnoteheretwodevelopmentsthatareofspecialandimmediateimportancetous.OneisthatsincethetimeoftheAnglo-Saxonstherehasbeenanalmostcompletereversalofthedifferentdevicesforshowingtherelationshipofwordsinasentence.Anglo-Saxon(oldEnglish)wasalanguageofmanyinflections.ModernEnglishhasfewinflections.Wemustnowdependlargelyonwordorderandfunctionwordstoconveythemeaningsthattheolderlanguagedidbymeansofchangesintheformsofwords.Functionwordsyoushouldunderstandarewordssuchasprepositionsconjunctionsandafewothersthatareusedprimarilytoshowrelationshipsamongotherwords.Afewinflectionshoweverhavesurvived.AndwhensomewordinflectionscomeintoconflictwithwordordertheremaybetroublefortheusersofthelanguageasweshallseelaterwhenweturnourattentiontosuchmatersasWHOorWHOMandMEorI.Thesecondfactwemustconsideristhataslanguageitselfchangesourattitudestowardlanguageformschangealso.Theeighteenthcenturyforexampleproducedfromvarioussourcesatendencytofixthelanguageintopatternsnotalwayssetinandgrewuntilatthepresenttimethereisastrongtendencytorestudyandre-evaluatelanguagepracticesintermsofthewaysinwhichpeoplespeakandwrite.

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