An Elementary Middle English Grammar |
Contents
ORTHOGRAPHY AND PRONUNCIATION | 5 |
sonants 2867 2 the unvoicing of consonants 2389 | 111 |
CHAPTER VII | 133 |
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accented Anglian Anglo-Norman assibilated beside OE beside older beside weak Chaucer closed syllables dative declension dialects south disappeared dissyllabic double forms early OE English feminine fifteenth century final formations fourteenth century French genitive Germanic grammatical gender guttural i-stems i-umlaut inflected forms inflexional initial Kentish language large number late OE later lengthening loan-words long vowels masc masculine medial Middle English Midland and southern Midland dialects modern dialects monophthongized nasals neut neuter north Midland dialects O.Fr O.Icel open syllables origin Ormulum orthography past participle person singular preserved pret preterite preterite and past pronouns regularly remained Scandinavian short vowels shortened similarly sing southern dialects spirant stem-syllable strong nouns strong verbs syncopated thirteenth century took place twelfth century unaccented forms uninflected voiced voiceless weak declension weak verbs west Midland west Midland dialects words written