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When was the Middle English period?
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From the early 12th century to late 15th century
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A synthetic language vs. an analytic language
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In synthetic language, greater flexibility in word order is possible. In analytic language, word order is more fixed.
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Inflections are..
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usually endings attached to words (sometimes they can change the form of a word in other ways) and they signal different functions of word within sentences
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Why did English become more SVO-like, why did it move towards analytic languages?
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It is because of massive loss of inflections.
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The simplification of Old English grammar was already under way before 1066. Why?
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1) an inflectional system dependent on sound-distinctions between vowels in unstressed syllables is inherently vulnerable.
2) Contact between English and Norse! Not English and French, as one I might assume. |
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When did the Vikings first attack England?
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Late in the 8th century
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By ___ most of east and northern England was under the control of the 'Danes'
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AD 870
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What what the eastern half of the country called after the Vikings were confined there?
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Danelaw
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The Middle English ushered in ____ and ______
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lexical changes and new spelling conventions
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A significant number of new words were drawn from three sources:
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1) Norse (Also significant changes in grammar)
2) Latin (The British Celts, Norman Scribes) 3) French (Over 10,000 French words were adopted) |