A History of English |
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3 Clipping and minor patterns of formation | 3 |
Vowels | 5 |
Individual and social factors in language use and change | 12 |
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adjectives already American English areas beginning borrowing British British English calques centuries clauses common compounds consonant contrast corresponding dative declension dependent clauses derived dialects diphthong distinction earlier early elements England established evidence examples extent formation French front vowel function genitive Germanic Germanic languages grammatical grammatical gender graphemes homophones important inflections Jespersen kind language late 14c later Latin lengthening lexical linguistic loans loanwords long vowel loss meaning modern native normal Northumbria nouns origin participle past pattern period periphrastic phoneme phonological place-names plural position prefix prepositions present pronoun pronunciation realisation recent recorded relative Scandinavian scho sense sentences sequence settlement singular sound speakers speech spelling standard stress strong verbs structure suffixes survived syllables tendency tradition unstressed syllables variation varieties of English vocabulary weak form weak verbs words