Handouts, etc.
Today we talked about “grammar” from the point of view of linguistics. We observed that grammars, and more specifically the languages that instantiate those grammars, all share certain properties. We also had some interesting discussion about whether certain things are okay to pre-/proscribe, even though linguists typically view language as something to be described.
The audio of Caedmon’s Hymn that I played in class today comes from this website, which also has some other specimens of Old and Middle English available for your perusal.