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pptThe history of English
The fact that close similarities occur is good evidence for proposing a family connection
To establish family connections between different languages, it will be seen two important pocesses
: “cognates” and “comparative reconstruction”
A cognate of a word in one language is a word in other that has a similar form and is or was used with a similar meaning
into four periods.
Old English: before 1100
Middle English: 1100 to 1500
Early Modern English: 1500 to 1700
Modern English: after 1700
