Language and Time: A Historian's View : Inaugural Lecture, 7 March, 1984

16th century 19th century 90 Inaugural Lecture African Languages Afrikaans Beethoven CAPE TOWN Language certaynly change without language Chaucer Chomsky's Chomskyan Cratylus crope cultural artefact decay descriptivist DIACHRONIC dialect of English dink Dr Johnson Dutch Ek het gesing ek was gewees englysshe forms ALTERNATE future gedink gesing Ek grammatical distinction historian Historian's View ROGER historical linguistics internal psychological representation language change language London Lecture 7 March linguist's and speaker's linguistic description MEANING MICHIGAN Mozart and Haydn musicologist NASOU panchronic particular past and perfect past participle past/perfect periphery perspective Phonological theory Professor of Linguistics reason for languages reductionism ROGER LASS Professor sang already sang yesterday sang/I have sung Saussure sense simple past form simply slow introduction sondry speakers happen SPES BONA UNIVERSITY structuralist structure symphonies synchronic thing tradition UNIVERSITY OF CAPE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN varyeth verb View ROGER LASS vsed Weinreich William Caxton Yiddish Zulu